Comments on: Brandon Knight won’t play in summer league

By: Huddy

Huddy — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:08:51 +0000

And the team that drafted them can match offers generally. What does not tanking get us? A worse draft pick that would require a considerable amount of luck to be useful and still no shot at the playoffs.

By: Domnick

Domnick — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:25:45 +0000

third year guard to have a summer league? thats for rookies right?

knight needs to polish his point guard and scoring skills.. but not in the summer league… he needs a guy like Gary Payton to work with

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:31:46 +0000

Wins tonight by New Orleans and Washington. Hooray.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:31:19 +0000

How many really good players have left at the end of their rookie deals? Very, very few. I think Shaq and Grant Hill did. Those are the most recent examples I can come up with.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:38:38 +0000

I really want the pistons to get the best player possible, but I HATE tanking. What does it get you most of the time? A really good player that will leave at the end of his rookie contract, or an overrated bust. TOR and CLE are gutter trash franchises. Especially TOR their GM has to be a complete dumbass. Almost anyone could do his job better. So all you people that hate on Joe D, it could be way worse.

By: D_S_V

D_S_V — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:41:09 +0000

Toronto has the gall to lose to Charlotte and Cleveland is about to choke on a near 30 point lead? In the words of the great YouTube commenters of the present, TO and CLE, please “kill yoself”.

By: hoophabit

hoophabit — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:24:05 +0000

Well said, Knight in the SL is not essential.

By: DasMark

DasMark — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:42:52 +0000

The summer league team’s turnovers just decreased by about six per game!

Knight’s just dodging Austin Daye, summer league MVP and super beast.

By: CNA5

CNA5 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:09:48 +0000

I think summer league is more of an evaluation tool than a development tool. I think it’s a good outlet for seeing if a guy’s physical tools are something that can help a team and what needs to be worked on heading into training camp.

With that being said, I don’t think Knight or the Pistons would gain anything from him joining. Knight’s physical tools and individual game are good enough to know that he can help. He needs to become better at running NBA offenses- something that’s not happening during the 10 days of summer league.