Speaker 1: What's up everybody? This is Trista.
Speaker 2: Please subscribe to this league, tap the bell, comment below
Speaker 2: and give us a light. How do you get people
Speaker 2: to watch basketball in August? It is a tough sell.
Speaker 2: Not gonna lie. I mean people are burnt out. One,
Speaker 2: I would say gambling. Gambling on summer League is now
Speaker 2: huge comparatively to how it was in the last couple
Speaker 2: of years.
Speaker 1: And two, what's happening right now?
Speaker 2: Get the players on the court as soon as they
Speaker 2: step off the stage with Adam Silver, essentially like we
Speaker 2: have momentum. I don't even remember. You don't allow people
Speaker 2: to forget who Kai Jones is. Basically like, don't allow
Speaker 2: people to enjoy their summer. Don't get them excited in
Speaker 2: for the NBA and Halloween. And I think that's what's happening.
Speaker 2: That's the blessing of COVID. COVID is allowing us to
Speaker 2: have no break between the NBA Draft and the Summer League.
Speaker 2: We went from spending digging in the weeds. I was
Speaker 2: looking at YouTube. You are two comparables talking about prospects.
Speaker 2: We were like finding their upside, their ceilings, what their
Speaker 2: floor is, what's the fit on the potential teams and
Speaker 2: then boom, all of a sudden, you're watching Cam Thomas
Speaker 2: hit game winners.
Speaker 3: At thirty six, last nek thirty six.
Speaker 2: Last beautiful, or in the case of Evan Mobley, like
Speaker 2: not bawling out. And so I love to me the
Speaker 2: fact that we have condensed the draft to the Summer
Speaker 2: League so that we are all still because I'm more
Speaker 2: excited about the Summer League than ever before, and I.
Speaker 1: Think a lot of people are.
Speaker 3: I love it. I've always loved the Summer League just
Speaker 3: because I just I love the draft so much. The
Speaker 3: NBA Draft's always one of my favorite days of the year.
Speaker 3: There's just so much can change on that day. And
Speaker 3: then yeah, and then like not even a week later,
Speaker 3: we get to go in and watch these guys actually
Speaker 3: play and sometimes play with like second year player that's
Speaker 3: promising is so yeah, No, the Summer league's awesome or.
Speaker 2: NBA caliber talent like Kenneth f Reid or Michael Beasley.
Speaker 1: You see.
Speaker 2: So Also, the thing that people don't really realize unless
Speaker 2: you're deep in the Summer league weeds are some of
Speaker 2: the wild ass Summer league rules. First of all, love
Speaker 2: the ten minute quarters like FIBA teams are still putting
Speaker 2: up one hundred and twenty points. Second teams are in
Speaker 2: the penalty the best after the tenth foul. You're not
Speaker 2: in the penalty until the tenth team foul or the
Speaker 2: second in the last.
Speaker 1: Two minutes, so no more free throws, like guys are
Speaker 1: just balling out.
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons would like that rule.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons would love that rule.
Speaker 2: First OT is uh and the overtime rules are wild.
Speaker 2: The first OT is two minutes making in an all
Speaker 2: out sprint, and then the second OT is sudden death,
Speaker 2: which I think needs to just be implemented.
Speaker 3: It'd be wild.
Speaker 1: But no, I would love that.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine like a double OT in the finals
Speaker 2: and it's like like the NFL first first bucket wins.
Speaker 3: If that was it, then every team would have like
Speaker 3: a seven foot eight guy that just that he's like
Speaker 3: the thirteenth guy.
Speaker 1: Isn't it like penalty kicks though?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: Isn't that like penalty kicks?
Speaker 3: Though not quite?
Speaker 1: But or or one on like.
Speaker 2: My favorite thing would be one on one, like literally
Speaker 2: a game of one on one bucket aut like you
Speaker 2: get five five tries, just like penalty kicks on both sides.
Speaker 1: Ball on one side of the court, ball on the
Speaker 1: other side of the court.
Speaker 2: You get your best ISO guy, get your best defender.
Speaker 1: Love that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, everyone would just have a tip off specialist,
Speaker 4: the best. The best rule, however, to me, is the
Speaker 4: funniest rule. Ten fouls like that to foul out. Also,
Speaker 4: Ben Simmons would love that too. That's wild.
Speaker 1: You have to do work to foul out of a
Speaker 1: Summer league game.
Speaker 2: Fouling out of a Summer League game pretty much assures
Speaker 2: that you are a bust.
Speaker 1: Let's go in, let's.
Speaker 2: Go into all of the guys in recent memory that
Speaker 2: a foul down the Summer League two thousand and six
Speaker 2: number one overall.
Speaker 1: Pick Andrew Bargnani.
Speaker 2: First person ever to foul out of a Summer League game.
Speaker 1: Bust two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: Greg Oden fouled out of his Summer League and Summer
Speaker 2: League debut.
Speaker 1: Bust.
Speaker 2: Jan Vesley did it in twenty ten. Bust for him
Speaker 2: two thousand and sixteen.
Speaker 1: Great, I mean like just an underrated comment by you.
Speaker 1: Two and sixty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Diamond Stone and Don Maker. Don Maker hit double digits
Speaker 2: and fouled out as well. Bust and Marquise Chris averaged
Speaker 2: at one point eight and a half fouls per game.
Speaker 2: I don't know why that's so funny to be what
Speaker 2: it is, eight and a half fouls a game in
Speaker 2: the Summer League. If that's not one of the most
Speaker 2: representative lists of busts in the last twenty years, I
Speaker 2: don't know what is. Like, give me ten bus off
Speaker 2: the top your list. One of those guys is on
Speaker 2: that list, for sure, mart Nanny, for sure. Ten fucking fouls, Jesus.
Speaker 2: And you can't even like keep under that.
Speaker 1: They're literally just trying.
Speaker 2: To get you as many minutes in the game as possible,
Speaker 2: and you can't.
Speaker 1: You just keep hacking. You don't even know, Like, listen,
Speaker 1: you got nine fouls. Maybe want to chill?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just get caught up in it.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it is great. I remember Chris falling out
Speaker 3: all those games. That was funny.
Speaker 2: And I love the announcers like Marquise Chris averaging eight
Speaker 2: and a half fouls.
Speaker 1: Per game you only get six normally. It's crazy, tremendous.
Speaker 2: I would like it if they just called their own
Speaker 2: foul like that would be fun. Like I just want
Speaker 2: like straight up street.
Speaker 1: Ball out there in the indoor court.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's tremendous, tremendous. NBA Summer League ends Tuesday
Speaker 2: with the late night finals between Boston and Sacramento. What
Speaker 2: did I say about these dogshit teams going far into
Speaker 2: the into the Summer League play in the Summer League championship.
Speaker 1: Literally, no one thinks either of these teams are gonna
Speaker 1: do shit.
Speaker 3: No, it means nothing, nothing.
Speaker 2: I mean, they made Peyton Pritchard leave Summer League because
Speaker 2: he was scoring too many points so that he could
Speaker 2: go to a pro am where he put up ninety
Speaker 2: two points. Boston had five roster guys playing Nessmith Langford,
Speaker 2: and I think Sacramento may have run out their entire team.
Speaker 2: They may have to run out their entire team just
Speaker 2: to even get a little bit of shine, Like this
Speaker 2: is the Sacramento Kings, like one shining moment, This is
Speaker 2: the this is the peak for them. Both teams undefeated
Speaker 2: and again another little funny Summer League rule, It's not
Speaker 2: about what your record.
Speaker 1: Is, it's the margin of victory and your record.
Speaker 2: So New Orleans yesterday was gonna have to win by
Speaker 2: eleven in order to make it to the championship game,
Speaker 2: and they only won by one, so they don't get
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's the deal.
Speaker 2: No rest for the weir And now that the Summer League
Speaker 2: is over, we enter the NBA offseason, which lasts until
Speaker 2: September twenty eighth, and that is the official start date
Speaker 2: of training camp. Six weeks of no basketball. That's it,
Speaker 2: literally only six weeks. To me, that's the best case
Speaker 2: scenario for an NBA fan.