NBA Summer League Recap: Bronny James Shines Despite Criticism
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00:00Back-to-back games, Bronny with 12 and 13, he had 25 points in two nights and a bunch
00:08of rebounds and dimes.
00:10And it looks like they might actually turn this guy into a basketball player if he gets
00:17the right amount of burn in the South Bay with the Lakers in the G League.
00:21He is showing signs of talent all of a sudden, late stages of the summer league after I have
00:28crucified him and said that he sucks and shouldn't be in the NBA and isn't a pro talent.
00:36He obviously has shown that he can play.
00:39He played the last two nights, they won and he played well.
00:44First of all, I'm very surprised that he played both games.
00:46I thought on the second night of a back-to-back like last week that they would put him in
00:50the cupboard and that would be it.
00:52You wouldn't see him.
00:53I'll say this.
00:54I think that we probably all got a little too hard on him with the first few games.
01:02And I also don't think we should take anything too high off for the last two nights.
01:06I don't think because another, we've mentioned this a few times, like 95% of the guys out
01:12there aren't NBA players.
01:14They're just not in this summer league.
01:15So it probably was a little too much on him when he had the zeros and the twos and he
01:21wasn't doing anything.
01:23Scoring 12 and 13, all right, that's good.
01:26But I'm not going to get too crazy about it, Scotty.
01:28I think it still comes down to, as you said, he's a G League player this season, at minimum,
01:37I think the whole year.
01:38I'm sure they're going to do some kind of dog and pony show where he plays a game with
01:42LeBron just to say that they did it and then they'll go and move him down.
01:47I think that the kid needs time to go try to become a pro on his own, away from all
01:53the nonsense down at that G League and just work on his game.