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Ryllini
www.espn.com

NBA unveils format, groups for in-season tourney

The NBA officially unveiled its newly formed in-season tournament and the NBA Cup that teams will claim for winning it at summer league on Saturday afternoon.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

I like this. The NBA just gets it in relation to marketing around the world. Why not follow along a similar path that the most popular sport in the world and I'm not talking SEC football. 🤣
 
#52      
Chukwuwumba
Ryllini said:
www.espn.com

NBA unveils format, groups for in-season tourney

The NBA officially unveiled its newly formed in-season tournament and the NBA Cup that teams will claim for winning it at summer league on Saturday afternoon.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

I like this. The NBA just gets it in relation to marketing around the world. Why not follow along a similar path that the most popular sport in the world and I'm not talking SEC football. 🤣
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Makes sense. It’s a long season….for many sports. Keeps the interest and rewards teams at different points of the season.
 
#53      
iillini67
Watching Tevian Jones EJ Liddel and Podz Struggling to shoot he is like 1-9.
 
#55      
Brookslyn
Matthew Monster'd Mayer had a great performance tonight (19pts 10 reb, 2 blks in 28min of play)! Hope he earns an invite to training camp and a spot somewhere. Tevian Jones also performed well (16 pts, 5 reb in 20 min of play)... and Alan Griffin contributed too in a short 3min stint.
 
#56      
swa_ticket
Former Illini Mark “Charmin Soft” Smith getting his chance to play NBA Summer League. Maybe he will turn into the next D-Will like Underwood said freshman year….
 

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#57      
Joel Goodson
swa_ticket said:
Former Illini Mark “Charmin Soft” Smith getting his chance to play NBA Summer League. Maybe he will turn into the next D-Will like Underwood said freshman year….
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you ever been wrong about something?
 
#58      
RockfordIllini
Podz can really shoot it and is a good playmaker but he can’t stay in front of anybody. Will be interesting if he can carve out a role.
 
#60      
Bleedorangeandblue44
Anyone have a feel for Ayo's future? Reading a few Bulls message boards and they don't seem that excited about making it a priority to have him back. Guess he needs to be a more reliable 3-point threat.
 
#62      
IlliniKat91
illiniguy said:
Apparently some Podz draft regrets are coming to light:

bluemanhoop.com

Summer League showdown yields disastrous early draft result for Golden State Warriors

Cam Whitmore has blew away the Golden State Warriors in a blistering inviting more question marks on the franchise's decision to take Brandin Podziemski.
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I'm not someone who's ever been a fan of screaming we should have kept Podz, but posting how he's struggling doesn't feel great either.

It's the NBA. Even if you say it's just summer league, the competition has improved. Stuff like this is bound to happen. It's just the nature of the game
 
#63      
EyeoftheIllini
IlliniKat91 said:
I'm not someone who's ever been a fan of screaming we should have kept Podz, but posting how he's struggling doesn't feel great either.

It's the NBA. Even if you say it's just summer league, the competition has improved. Stuff like this is bound to happen. It's just the nature of the game
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Yeah, I hope the board is over the BU f’ed up/Podz wouldn’t have played here argument and can just root for and enjoy the kid’s success. I did catch a few minutes of his game yesterday and he had two very nifty assists.
 
#65      
DeonThomas
illiniguy said:
Apparently some Podz draft regrets are coming to light:

bluemanhoop.com

Summer League showdown yields disastrous early draft result for Golden State Warriors

Cam Whitmore has blew away the Golden State Warriors in a blistering inviting more question marks on the franchise's decision to take Brandin Podziemski.
bluemanhoop.com bluemanhoop.com
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Nice grammar, dude (referring to the Summer League article)............

"Cam Whitmore has blew away the Golden State Warriors......"​


And in the spirit of sounding off:
Perhaps another sign that basketball needs to be firmly relegated to the winter months, other than conditioning, closed-door practices, EYBL/college recruiting, the occasional European week-long scrimmages for college programs, and of course Illinois Loyalty. October - March is quite sufficient for me when it comes to competitive /televised, revenue-generating NBA basketball. The NBA needs to slot back into its allotted cold weather season. #Oversaturation
 
#66      
Oranges
illiniguy said:
Apparently some Podz draft regrets are coming to light:

bluemanhoop.com

Summer League showdown yields disastrous early draft result for Golden State Warriors

Cam Whitmore has blew away the Golden State Warriors in a blistering inviting more question marks on the franchise's decision to take Brandin Podziemski.
bluemanhoop.com bluemanhoop.com
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Wish I knew what teams saw in Whitmore’s medical info to make him drop to 20 because on talent alone the kid should have gone no lower than 6-7
 
#67      
CogDog
Oranges said:
Wish I knew what teams saw in Whitmore’s medical info to make him drop to 20 because on talent alone the kid should have gone no lower than 6-7
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Couldn’t agree more. Kid has top tier athleticism. I know our staff was very bummed to have lost out to Nova for him.
 
#68      
Roundball Sage
IlliniKat91 said:
I'm not someone who's ever been a fan of screaming we should have kept Podz, but posting how he's struggling doesn't feel great either.

It's the NBA. Even if you say it's just summer league, the competition has improved. Stuff like this is bound to happen. It's just the nature of the game
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There are a couple of energies in play here.

First, he’s a human being. Humans are forever and always unpredictable. No one knows what anybody is going to do from day to day. And in sports, that reality is in full public view and with the always heavy ruthless hand of Global scrutiny.

Second, he’s a young person. He is not a fully-developed player. He is learning and growing. He does not yet know what potential he has or what is true ceiling is. Nor do his coaches or anyone else.

Third, in Life – many people are inherently impatient. They want immediate results. Those who drafted him (and the team's fans) would love for him to be the Next Big Thing right away if he could. That’s not realistic. No one can take a small size sample and forecast a guys entire career with that. Time answers all questions. All one can hope is that any player gets sufficient time in game action to show what he or she is capable of and not have a possible great career shut down because they were not allowed a decent chance to show what they have.

We know that Podz did not show enough to the Illini coaches for them to reward him with more floor time. We also know how Podz moved on and blossomed as a player. And that’s the lesson here. Maybe he’ll be a great player or maybe he won’t. But he already has a history of being sold short and then breaking that ceiling and reaching higher. And he also proved that he needs to be in the right environment for him.

It’s a matter of talent and heart and being in the right place at the right time. And any player is going nowhere if they don’t have enough of those essentials.
 
#69      
Oranges
Mayer is having himself a nice night so far for Houston. 8pts 4reb and 2-2 from 3
 
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