NBA Summer League Play Begins

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lots of players, including Illinois Wolves' Evan Turner & Butler's Gordon Hayward begin play tonight at the Orlando Summer League..

http://www.insidehoops.com/summer-league-orlando.shtml

Here are the rosters...

http://www.nbadraft.net/orlando-summer-league-schedule-roster

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Game 1 of the Orlando Summer League:

--Charlotte beats Utah 85-83.
For Utah: Illinois' James Augustine has 20 pts, Gordon Hayward had 8 pts in 26 minutes on 2 shots and 4 FT.
For Charlotte: Sherron Collins had 7 pts on 4 shots, only 2 asst, and 6 fouls


Game 2 is currently underway, Indiana leads Orlando 43-29 just before halftime...
For Indiana: UNI's Adam Koch has logged 2 minutes and is scoreless
For Orlando: Kentucky's Daniel Orton is just 1-6

http://www.nba.com/summerleague/gameline/20100705/

There are 2 more games later...

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yesterday in ...

Game 2- Indiana beat Orlando 86-77
Adam Koch (Indiana) ended with only 1 pt, Orton (Orl) ended with only 3 pts

Game 3- OKC beat Boston 87-82
Luke Harangody (Bos) had 23 pts

Game 4- Philly beat NJ 84-74
Evan Turner (Phila) had 12 pts, 8 rebs, 4 asst, Tweety Carter (NJ - ex-teammate in HS of Eddren McCain) did OK with 5 pts, 3 rebs, 4 asst, 3 steals,
Duke's Brian Zoubek (NJ) had a rough game - only 3 pts, 3 rebs, 5 fouls

There are four more games today

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Utah 78 - Gordon Hayward 14 pts,
Orlando 73 - Daniel Orton still stinking it up with 0-2, 6 pts

OKC currently leading Charlotte 71-70 - Sherron Collins likewise struggling, 2 pts, no rebounds...

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In the final 3 games yesterday..
Charlotte beat OKC 86-85, Sherron Collins 2 pts, 2 asst, no reb

Philly beat Boston 86-69, Evan Turner (Phi) 13 pts, 3 reb, 4 asst, 2 steals
Harangody (Bos) 14 pts, 12 rebs

NJ 80 - Indiana 69, Adam Koch (Ind) did not play, Louisville's Terrence Williams (NJ) 24 pts, 7 reb!

I cannot find anywhere that Osiris Eldridge is on any summer roster...

[Da Coach]

I cannot find anywhere that Osiris Eldridge is on any summer roster...

Osiris Eldridge has signed on to the Portland Trailblazers summer league team-

http://www.goredbirds.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/070710aaa.html

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For the Pacers, Adam Koch played 10 minutes, missed his only shot, had one pt, (1-2 on FT), 2 reb, no asst, blocks, or steals

Orton also looked inept...started but went 1-8, 3 pts, 3 reb but 4 turnovers - the guy should have never been a 1st rounder, and he's gonna make John Calipari's "Greatest day in the history of Kentucky basketball" idi-otic comments look even worse.

By contrast, Luke Harangody - taken 23 spots below Orton - was 9-13, 23 pts, 4 rebs..he's gonna turn out to be the steal of the draft..

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2 1/2games already done on Thurs..

--UNI's Adam Koch was given a start and more than 17 minutes of play but only hit 1-6, had 3 pts, 2 rebs..

--Harangody had 16/7 and has been the most impressive player so far in some people's eyes..

--the least impressive thus far is Kentucky's Daniel Orton...for the 4th game in a row, he gets big minutes and produces nothing...4 pts/4 reb

--James Augustine is scoreless and Hayward has 5 pts/2 reb at halftime of their game

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games start today in Las Vegas..
OE's first game with Portland will be Sunday at 5PM Central

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The Orlando summer league is over and the Las Vegas league has begin.....

not a lot of surprises...many obscure players...

Iowa State's Craig Brackins played over 30 min, had 8 pts, 5 reb
Mac Koshwal was scoreless on 0-2 and six fouls in 12 minutes!! (hello Europe)
Eglseder was DNP
Central Florida's Jermaine Taylor making a bid to get onto someone's opening day roster with 25 pts, 7 rebs, 3 asst from a guard spot.

Blake Ahearn 4 pts on 1-3 in 14+ minutes

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Eglseder was booed by the Vegas fans in warmups. Staying classy in Vegas...

[Da Coach]

Eglseder was booed by the Vegas fans in warmups. Staying classy in Vegas...

For the sake of the non-UNI fans, UNLV lost to UNI in the first round of the NCAA tournament last March. Thus the boos from the Las Vegas crowd. The game was tied in the last 37 seconds, and Ali Farokhmanesh sank a long 3-pointer in the final seconds to win it.

http://www.unipanthers.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/031810aaa.html

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Eglseder was booed by the Vegas fans in warmups. Staying classy in Vegas...

The Vegas fans should boo the NCAA. There was no way those two teams should have met in the first round.

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probably just a lot of sore losers who also lost money when they bet on Kansas

btw-- Illinois' Shaun Pruitt had 10 pts, 7 rebs in just 13 minutes today

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Portland beat Houston 84-67 in summer league play...

Osiris Eldridge was said to be on the Portland roster, and King O even tweeted that he was in Las Vegas and ready to play...


BUT -- he was apparently not on the roster... his name does not appear in the box score...

http://www.nba.com/summerleague/games/20100711/PORHOU/gameinfo.html#nbaGIboxscore

Nevada's Luke Babbitt had 13 for Portland, Chase Budinger had 21 for Houston, while Blake Ahearn went scoreless (0-3).

Minnesota plays tomorrow nite with POB.