Louis Amundson Stuffing the Stat Sheet

Rocky Mountain Review Final Stats

I think the fans will like this guy.

Frank, the story IS Utah

A few things to clean up from the second part of the summer league season:

- Nice article today on Jason Smith in today's Inquirer. For those of us old enough to work for a living, I'm sure at some point someone had the same type of chat with you that Coach Cheeks had with Jason a few weeks ago. My first boss told me never to read the paper at my desk. I can see this headline in a November notes column - "Smith still recovering from ankle injury".

-Interesting note from Maurice Brooks in Vegas regarding the Knicks and their talent level.

- Louis Amundson looks like he's going to play 15 minutes a night this year.


- One of 76BigShot's league wide spies mentioned speaking with a NBA GM in Vegas; this GM said that he thought the Sixers had a tremendous draft and that Thad Young and Jason Smith are both going to be good players. Take it FWIW.

- The teams in Utah were not as good as the teams in Vegas. With all the issues that have occured over the past few days, will the summer league still be in Vegas? You bet...the players love it there!

- Herb Hill is coming on a little. There's a fierce competition going on for the final 2-3 spots on the roster; it seems from afar that Hill is getting every chance to lose that spot and he's hanging on...there is really nothing better than free agents and second round draft picks that turn out to be servicable to good players is there? Hill played four years of college ball in a big time conference so playing in front of 7000 pissed off Philly fans shouldn't be that big of an adjustment.

Lou Williams Interview

Nice little interview with Lou Williams today on NBA.com.

I'd love to think this guy could play more than 20 minutes a night on a winning team right now but I just don't see it.

One day...no TO-day...but one day, could the Sixers look like this?

G: L. Williams
G: A. Iguodala
F: T. Young
F: J. Smith
C: S. Dalembert

Bench: Carney, Korver, Green, Hunter

Herb Hill

Nice article about Herbert Hill from Jessica Camerato at Hoopsworld.com

I don't know if HH will make the top 15 but he'll be with the Sixers for the season, probably in the D.

Welcome to the NBA Yi

Yi played nicely last night, but he was introduced to The Association last night.

We'll dig more into some of the developments from Sixers camp later today.

Off to a Good Start

The Summer Leaguers lost an OT decision to the Pistons. They probably had better players than we did but last nights star, Louis Admunson, sprained an ankle - he apparently was off to a good start (theme...)

So I'm not one to pay attention to silly things like summer league stats, but this one caught my eye...Maurice Brooks points out that only a few guys have put 30 up in this league...and most of them have turned out pretty good. LW is only 20...looks like a good draft pick.

Thad Young took 11 shots tonight but only went to the line once.