July 12, 2023 • 24 mins
No. 2 overall pick Brandon Miller and No. 27 overall pick Nick Smith Jr. combined for 59 points despite Charlotte dropping a 97-93 decision to Portland in Summer League action. Sam Farber and Rob Longo break down the game, discuss the latest rule changes for this upcoming season, as well as preview Buzz City's next game in Vegas against the Pelicans.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Hornets Highcast, presented by Charlotte I ear
Nose and Throat Associates, the official I ear Nose and
Throat Care provider of the Charlotte Hornets. Here's your host,
Sam Farber.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome to another edition of the Hornets Time Cast, your
Hornets podcast with all the notes, quotes, and daily buzz
around your favorite NBA team. I'm Sam Farber, and it
is a pleasure and a privileged to have you with
us here once again on the Hornets Time Cast, brought
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Charlotte Hornets. Another silver linings edition of the HHC, but
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quite frankly the best performance of Summer League so far
for your Charlotte Hornets, in particular for number two overall pick.
Brandon Miller will break that down for you momentarily. Also
want to talk about some new rules that have been
approved for the upcoming twenty three to twenty four regular season,
and we've got another Summer League contest to preview for
you Hornets, head to head with the New Orleans Pelicans.
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He he me on all of these topics. He's my
producer on the Hornets Radio network as well, was the
producer of this fine podcast, Rob Longo here with us
once again, and Rob, I want to accentuate the positive.
This was easily the best performance of the summer season
for both the team and in particular for first round
picks Brandon Miller and Nick Smith Junior. And the fact
that those two things go hand in hand should not
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be taken for granted, because, as you well know, and
as most fans well know, it is not common for
rookies to rule these types of games. Far more often
it's second or third year guys. The fact that these
two put the team on their back and almost led
them to a victory was very telling about their potential
for their rookie seasons by far.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Definitely the best game for the Hornets in this Summer
League California Classic sequence here over the last couple of weeks.
I mean, this team just looked really, really good. One
or two possessions here or there certainly could have gone
the other way. Ended up being a ninety seven to
ninety three final. Portland defeats the Hornets, but at the
end of the day, again there were some lapses in
there that Try had, which we've seen in previous games.
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There was a very lengthy run between the first end
of the first quarter in the beginning of the second
quarter that really put things out of reach, I thought,
or at least at the time I thought for Charlotte,
considering that Portland was up by as many as fifteen.
But give the Hornets credit. They battled back there in
the second quarter. They still lost the second quarter, but
only by two points. They trailed by five going into
the locker room. Then in a third quarter outscored the
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Trailblazers twenty to fifteen. Tie ball game going into the
fourth quarter, and then just a couple of opportunities slipping away.
And give credit where credits due, Portland did a really
good job there in the fourth quarter, specifically Shade and
Sharpen again. Second year player, guy that already has some
NBA experience under his belt, like you talked about when
it comes to guys dominating the game in Summer League.
So definitely nothing to shake your head out if you're
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a Hornets fan or a Hornets player. Nick Smith Junior
was phenomenal, Brandon Miller phenomenal this draft class already looks really,
really good, and there were some other positives elsewhere, sprinkling
and air. Kai Jones had thirteen points. He was six
to seven shooting. That was a big positive as well.
So a lot to like from this Hornets team, even
though it was a loss last night.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Six of seven shooting for kai Jones and the only
miss was the only three attempt at six for six
from inside the arc helps if you're looking down at
it from high above. As kai Jones says, the ability
to do Hornets do fall ninety seven to ninety three.
I think you're right to point out the turnovers as
an issue. They are for every team in summerly, but
for the Horns they stung a little bit extra. I
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thought in this one, in particular, into the first quarter,
between a foul, a turnover and giving up a three,
it was kind of a Reggie Miller type of sequence
from back in his days as a player at the Garden,
and that turned into five points, which, as it turns out,
ends up really being the difference between winning and losing.
You put those five points, or I should say, take
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those five points off the board for the Blazers. Hornets
come away with the victory. Nevertheless, it's a silver Linings edition.
A lot to be excited though with the rookie, so
I would assume they'll make our silver linings. Rob Longo,
you get to choose first.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, I thought for the longest time it was going
to be a head and shoulders. Brandon Miller looked great
in that first half. Nick Smith Junior had a really
good first half as well, but he exploded in the
second half. He finishes the game with thirty three points,
twenty of his thirty three coming there in the second
half alone. He was thirteen to twenty from the field,
four to five beyond. Yorkie said four rebounds and three assists.
The only problem, and he talked about it after the game,
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were the turnovers. That was certainly an issue by Nick
Smith Junior. He had six of them. That certainly hurts
the cause points off turnovers, just creating extra opportunities, extra
possessions the other side for Portland is going to be
very critical in a game that ends up only being
a four point spread. But he said he needs to
be better. And he also said after the game too
that he hasn't run point guard since high school, so
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I know that he's only nineteen years old, so it's
not that far removed. But at the end of the day,
anytime you have a position where you're trying to relearn
it after a couple of years, especially at an elite
level like the NBA, it's going to be a little
bit of a challenge. But I thought he was phenomenal yesterday,
just some of the moves he had there. He was
in his bag left and right. I mean, he was
making guys silly out there. And I know it's summer league,
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but he has the potential to do that at the
NBA level here of course, in a couple of months
when the regular season starts, But man, he just looked really,
really good out there. I don't even have to look
at anybody else's film or anybody else's summarly performance. Just
shut it down right now. Nick Smith Junior is to
steal the draft. I mean, I don't know who else
can even compete with that. I know he's slipped and
a lot of people had him a lot higher, and
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maybe even had him at a lottery, but man, getting
him at twenty seven just continues to look like a
steal here from Mitch Cup checking the Hornets.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I like the confidence thirty three points, thirteen of twenty
from the floor, four for five from three. As you mentioned,
he did have six turnovers which he touched on, but
twenty points in the second half alone, and a lot
of the NBA, in terms of being a score is
about creating your own shot in one on one opportunities,
and we saw that from Nick Smith, both going over
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screens and firing from three when the defender goes under,
just beating guys one on one, spin moves, crossover dribbles.
He looked really really strong out there and talked about
after the game just feeling more and more comfortable both
with the pace of play for the NBA and with
the position he's being asked to play here in Summer
League point guard.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I feel like it wasn't just a game. I'm just
getting more comfortable just being out there period. You know,
this is my first time actually playing points is like
high school, so you know, just to get an opportunity
to just get a chance to play point you know,
to see different things, see things go through, and it's
definitely definitely a good day for me. But you know,
I just got to come with the same mindset as year.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I kind of doubt he's gonna be asked to play
a ton of point guard at least now with the
starting group. LaMelo's kind of got that position locked down,
as he should. But Nick Smith Junior looked really, really strong,
really one of the more comfortable games he had scoring
the ball overall for the Hornets. Do want to give
some credit where credits due. You mentioned Kay Jones, I'll
mention him to thirteen points, six of seven shooting. Only
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miss was a three, six for six inside of the arc.
Most of those were dunks. He looked pretty good in
that facet of the game. Even though I thought where
this game really was won and lost wasn't so much
the turnovers, it was rebounding. The Blazer ended up taking
seven extra shots than the Hornets did. Charlotte shot better
from the floor, better from three, better from the free
throw line, but the extra volume of shots reason for it.
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Six more offensive rebounds for Portland. To me, that made
the difference in this very close contest. But in my eyes,
I think there's only one good answer here for Silver Linings,
and that's Brandon Miller, and that's with Nick Smith Junior's
thirty three points, I was just so impressed with Miller's game,
he played above the rim. He shot the three very
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very comfortably, twenty six points, six rebounds using that size,
those god given abilities, and that's what you want to
find it. And I mentioned it earlier. If you want
to see how a guy is actually going to play
in the NBA, you have to look at their ability
to make those catch and shoot plays.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Brandon Miller did that. To use your athleticism to gain advantages.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
He did that with some above the rim finishes, both
on alley oops and just individually taking it to the hole.
And then the creativity to play through contact. Brandon Miller
did that as well, So I think he checked all
the boxes. I have no idea if this will be
his last game or if he'll continue to play in
Summer League, but if this is the last showing, he
certainly saved the best for last. Twenty six points, made
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it look easy out there. That's what a number two
pick is supposed to look like if you're lucky. As
we mentioned before, rookies tend not to dominate games this way.
You look over on the Portland side and you know
you've got some guys who had a lot of experience
that showed out in this one and ultimately made the difference.
Shaden Sharp made a lot of those winning plays in
the fourth quarter for Portland. I think he had fourteen
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points in that fourth quarter. But Brandon Miller, Nick Smith Junior,
they were the stars of the show. A very impressive
performance here for this young Hornets group. All right, Coming
up next, there's some new rule changes as well as
some new players coming for the twenty three to twenty
four season. In addition to Nick Smith Junior and Brandon
Miller hopefully heading towards an immediate impact, we've got some
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new rules that could have an impact on gameplay as well.
We'll talk to you about him next. Here on the Hornets,
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All right, Rob, the NBA had some news break yesterday
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or in the last forty eight hours, depending on when
you're listening to this podcast. NBA Board of Governor is
approving an in game flopping penalty and expanded use of
the coach's challenge. Because it's new, I've heard more people
talking about the flopping penalty, but really I think the
big impact here on the game is going to be
on expanded use of coaches challenge. So that's where we're
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going to start this one.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
It's been a.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Very successful start here with this new implementation of the rule,
I think since it's come into being really kind of
one of the items that came from the pandemic as
they tinkered with some of the rules and some of
what was possible and it's.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Now normal league wide.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Basically, it's been expanded to award teams a second challenge
if their first challenge is successful, and teams have gotten
very very good at determining when.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And why to challenge plays.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It's not just because the ref got it wrong, but
it has to be a certain level of advantage for
coaches to want to use it. Sometimes they like to
save it for the last minute or two of the game.
They'll have rules like, unless it's egregious and it's going
to make a two to four point swing, we're only
going to save our challenge for the fourth quarter. Well, now,
if you know you're right, you can use it a
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little earlier. I think this is a potential game changer.
I think it's the right thing to do. There was
no reason to penalize a team for the referee being
egregiously wrong on a particular play early. Let them earn
that second challenge. If they're wrong, they won't get it,
but if they're right, they should be able to retain
a second one. Rob your thoughts on this new rule.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Change, I think you summed it up pretty perfectly there.
I'm kind of in the same boat as you. I mean,
how many times did we see last year where head
coach Steve Clifford really wanted to challenge something very early
on a game that was very obvious, but he wanted
to wait, and that challenge became more valuable there later
in the third and the fourth quarter. So I think
this is a great opportunity for again to get everything
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right because at the end of the day, that's what
we want. We want the call to be right on
the floor. Now, there is the game flow and the
pace of play and that sort of stuff that has
kind of taken a step back over the last couple
years of the NBA because we don't have those last
two minutes that take maybe a half hour of real
time because they keep going to the monitor to check
inbounds plays or who touched the ball lass or or
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those sort of things. So this is an opportunity for
the league and the teams to continue the pace of play,
to continue that game flow, and still get the calls right.
So I think this is kind of a no brainer.
And if you happen to compare this to another sport,
if you have happened to be at a Charlotte Knights
game on the weekends this year or in the last
year as well, you've noticed that there's been a challenge
system involved with balls and strikes in the minor leagues
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at a Triple A level, and it's kind of very
similar thing. You get three challenges and if you get
that one right, then you get to keep it and
so on and so forth. So you could have more
than three challenges. Now, obviously it's not going to go
to that level here in the NBA. You're gonna have
a max of two. But again, it doesn't really mess
up the game flow. It takes a pretty short amount
of time. So I think this is a good opportunity
for the NBA to get calls right and for the
game and a pace of play to continue with that
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natural rhythm of basketball.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The other rule change is there's gonna be a flopping
penalty now for players who are maybe exaggerating contact a
little bit. Referees will be required to stop live play
to call a flopping violation if necessarily they can wait
to the next natural break and not disadvantage and offensive
team that's off and running. Officials will then administer the
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flopping penalty. It is a free throw to the team
that was offended. I guess, so there's some extra points
to be had for teams there. And this is something
that's gonna have a financial penalty as well to players
who are repeat offenders find starting at two thousand dollars
according to the NBA's release, and then increasing incrementally. As
I mentioned for repeat offenders, that part of it's gonna
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get reviewed afterwards.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
It's in game in the moment.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
They'll call them as they see them, and they can
also add them on in the midst of a challenge,
although you can't challenge specifically for a flop, So if
you are, say challenging a block charge call, it's called
a block you think or sorry, it's called a charge.
The team challenges the call, you can have it flipped
not only in saying it's a blocking call, but that
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there was a flop as well.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
That is a possibility here.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
This one, to me, rob is a little bit more
like the take foul situation from a season ago. I
liked that rule change, I was unsure how it was going.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
To be adjudicated.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I thought there's a lot of gray area in what
is an honest attempt at the basketball. And there were
some times where I thought, Okay, they're being a little
overly aggressive or not aggressive enough on offenders. I thought
it was not always the same level of contact that
required a call last time. And I'll be curious if
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the variants exist for this one as well, if some
crews are gonna be a little bit more aggressive on
flop calls a little bit less for others.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
That's my only quibble with this one.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I do, in general think it's a good idea, but
these guys are so good at selling these calls. I'm
gonna be interested to see how this one is officiated.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
This one's definitely going to have a lot of gray
area involved, and I totally understand where you're coming from,
because there's a lot of players out there that have
reputations for being floppers or embellishing things a little bit
more than they should. And I'm not going to name
names that everybody can draw their own conclusions in that regard.
But yeah, this is gonna be something. It's gonna be
really interesting to watch moving forward how the league officiates this.
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I'm sure we'll get some clarity here in a couple
of weeks whenever we head to the annual broadcasters meeting
and Mantey McCutchen is there explaining to us the new
role changes and everybody's playing a thousand questions with him
and he's trying to simplify and dumb it down for us.
I'm sure we'll have a better explanation then. But I
like where this is heading. I think this is good.
It's going to deter those people from embellishing as much,
especially if they call it very very tight. Maybe in
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the preseason that might be a way to kind of
deter it for happening in the regular season, but we'll
just kind of have to see what happens. But definitely
a step in the red direction. I feel like, especially
when you're starting to impose not only the monetary fines,
but the point punishment as well, getting that free throw
getting extra points on the board as a possibility that
would ultimately hurt your team rather than just yourself financially.
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So I think it's a good move there in that regard.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, definitely worth penalizing the player if they're a repeat
offender for this one and you're just trying to clean
up the game. It's a very difficult game to officiate
in the first place, and so I think if it's
successful in getting this out of the game, much the
same way that take foul was able to get that
transition foul out of the game. For the most part,
are there gonna be gray areas where you think one
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should have been called or one shouldn't have been called.
Of course there are, but for the most part, I
think you and I both noticed it was out of
the game predominantly by the last twenty five games, even
the last half of the season, and I think in
this one as well, if we can get to that
similar point where there's always going to be gray areas,
guys are always going to try and fight for every advantage,
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but if they're not flopping so routinely. Then I think
we can see some movement forward in the quality of gameplay,
and I think that's the point at the end of
the day. All right, Hornets have another game scheduled here
for Summer League. They should have one more in addition,
but we know they're playing the Pelicans coming up on Thursday,
and we'll preview that one for you next Here on
the Hornets, I've cast.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Sam Farbar Rob Longo.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Here with you on the AGHC the Hornets Ide Cast,
brought to you by Santa All right, Rob, we've got
another game on the docket. Hornets are oh and three
now in Summer League. You know they're hungry for a
win in Las Vegas. They're oh and five overall going
back to Sacramento, but coming off of their best performance
against Portland, I think they've got something to build on,
and offensively, they just look like a different team out there.
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Brandon Miller, Nick Smith Junior were the focal points. This
is a time of Summer League where occasionally first round picks,
especially highly drafted ones like a Brandon Miller, start to
drop off. We have no confirmation one way or another,
just throwing that out there. As we preview this game
a couple of days early on our schedule. So if
we get it wrong, if you get the game, Dan,
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you listen bank and say, hey, Brandon Miller's not playing,
why are they talking about him? Well, we're throwing this
here as a disclaimer, so to speak. So rob rules
are in effect. Who do you want to start with first?
A member of the two to one New Orleans Pelicans
or a member of the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Let's begin with the opponent. That's the New Orleans Pelicans,
like you mentioned, are coming off in eighty two to
seventy three win against the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday. I'm
taking a look at this box score and I'm looking
at the Pelicans. There's not really a lot of names
that are notable that jump out to me. So the
biggest one is Tyson Daniels. Of course, eighth overall pick
in last year's draft lottery pick for the Pelicans, and
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he finished the game yesterday with just ten points, four
of eight shooting, so not a very impressive stat line.
But he's a guy that kind of needs a little
bit more work because you go back and you look
at his stats from this past season, for the Pelicans. Yeah,
he ended up playing in fifteen games, but he only
ended up taking a total of about two hundred and
eight shots, which I mean, I feel like isn't a ton.
He was averaging about one and a half shots per
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game when he was out there on average, and he
was playing eleven twelve minutes on average as well. So
it's interesting to see them have a lottery pick like
that and not particularly use them a whole lot. I
know that they were competing for a playoff spot and
a playing tournament birth for the majority of the season,
so they wanted to keep those veterans out there. But
I feel like, if you get the number eight overall guy,
you want to see him at some point. I know
that some league is a good opportunity to do that.
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Kind of similar in a sense to Brandon Miller a
little bit, where he just doesn't seem to be having
a huge shot volume. Now, Brandon has obviously turned that
around since the California Classic, But Dyson Daniels is my
guy to watch just to see if and maybe he
ends up taking a couple more shots here in a
couple of days against the Hornets, maybe he tries to
force the issue a little bit more so, I'm interested
to see what Dyson Daniels has on the table.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I like the pick.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He's a bigger guard and so he kind of fits
a piece of the puzzle there for New Orleans that
as he gets more experience, gets up to speed, maybe
he'll be able to have a bigger impact in upcoming contest.
He had a really big game against the Warriors earlier
in the week in Las Vegas, had a big double
double seventeen points and fifteen rebounds, really showing off some
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of that skill set that he learned mostly riding the
bench last year for the Pelicans. He also had eight
assists in that game, a win over Golden State. I'm
gonna go with their first round pick from this season,
that'd be Jordan Hawkins out of Yukon. Hawkins has not
shot the ball very well, quite frankly in Summer League,
which is a surprise because that's what he was known
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for coming out of Yukon. He was a thirty eight
percent three point shooter for their national championship winning team
this past season, really big time scorer. Averaged sixteen points
per game, knockdown almost three triples per contest as well.
But over his last two games from three, he's a
combined two for twelve. Last game in overall shooting three
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or from two, he was one for twelve from the field,
still able to get the Pelicans to a win over
the Suns eighty two to seventy three, but nonetheless he's
struggling with his shot. It's not uncommon for rookies as
they adjust to the new line and so on and
so forth. But he's someone certainly to watch here because
with his kind of shooting ability, he can definitely impact
a contest.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
All right, we need hornets to watch. Where would you
like to begin, Rob, Well.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Like you prefaced this segment of the podcast, it's kind
of tough to decide on who to take, just in
case that some of the guys may be said going
into Thursday's game. But I think a guy that's probably
going to play and a guy I want to see
more from him, and I think this is kind of
a common refrain we've seen through the first several games
of the California Classic in the Summer League is James Booknight.
James Booknight only had two points in that loss against
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the Trailblazers. He was oh two from the field, he
only took two shots. They were both three pointers. He
ended up getting fouled going to the basket, and he
made both of his free throws there. One rebound, one assist,
two fouls. You know, anytime you have the same amount
of fouls and points, it's not a good look. He
did have a steal out there. Ended up being a
minus seven in the plus minus played a little bit
under fifteen minutes, which I thought was interesting. But when
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you look at the box score and you see some
of the other guard rotation in there as well, with
Amari Bailey and Justin Robinson and of course Knick Smith
Junior had a great, great game in that contest against
the Trailblazer. So I understand why James Booknight might not
have gotten the line share the minutes and you're trying
to work some different guys in there to see what
they got. But I would like to see more from
James Boknight. I think a lot of people would like
that too going into this season, and it's an important
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one for a book, and we've talked about that several
times here on the podcast. But I'm looking at him
as my player to watch here tonight for Charlotte or
a Thursday. I guess we could say depending on when
you're listening to this podcast.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
That's right, whenever you're listener, we've got you covered. I
like the pick.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'll go with kind of one and a half here,
I'll go if the team does not choose to sit
anyone moving forward, I'll look at Nick Smith Junior.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Can he follow it up?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
He was not known as an elite three point SCHERI
known as an elite scorer at Arkansas, but not necessarily
an elite three point shies. So going four for five,
can you replicate that? Can you get the same quality
of shots? It was particularly impressive. They was able to
generate a lot of those off the dribble. Yeah, he'd
get the better side a screen for some of those,
but still his ability to knock that down coming off
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the dribble rather than the catch and shoot situation, that's impressive.
So I want to see him clean up the turnovers, certainly,
but can he stay as efficient? Doesn't that just score
thirty every time out? But can he maintain an above
five hundred shooting percentage from the floor from three back
to back games.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
That's what I would like to see.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But in anticipation that maybe they won't play the first
round picks as much. Let's go with the Marii Bailey.
He's had some really really good performances for the Hornets
over the entirety of Summer League.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
This last one it wasn't bad.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
He kind of faded into the background a little bit,
which is probably the right decision. When he got Brandon
Miller and Nick Smith Junior combining four fifty nine points
and shooting the ball they did, you want to see
him get more shots. But for Bailey, the one quibble
I think you can have with him is he hasn't
shot the three particularly well overall. Like to see him
knock down one or two in his next contest and
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then just continue to be a really good playmaker. I
think he's done a great job of that over the
course of Summer League. If some guys minutes come down,
Bailey is someone who could be a benefactor, and he
could be really explosive in that role. So a Mario
Bailey my pick for Hornets player to watch. That next
game is gonna come up on Thursday. They'll have you
covered between ESPN and NBA TV, and of course there
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should be one more game left on the docket for
the Charlotte Hornets. Once we get the schedule, then you'll
know when the next preview podcast is coming out. In
the meantime, we'll keep Rob Longo chain to the desk
and awaiting more Hornets action.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Whatever helps you sleep better at night, Sam.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Ah, thank you, Rob.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
All right, Rob Longo, great job. As always, thanks to
all of you for tuning in. For everyone here, I'm
Sam Farber saying it's been a pleasure and a privilege
having you along. We will talk to you next time
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Charlotte Hornets. Another silver linings edition of the HHC, but
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quite frankly the best performance of Summer League so far
for your Charlotte Hornets, in particular for number two overall pick.
Brandon Miller will break that down for you momentarily. Also
want to talk about some new rules that have been
approved for the upcoming twenty three to twenty four regular season,
and we've got another Summer League contest to preview for
you Hornets, head to head with the New Orleans Pelicans.
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He he me on all of these topics. He's my
producer on the Hornets Radio network as well, was the
producer of this fine podcast, Rob Longo here with us
once again, and Rob, I want to accentuate the positive.
This was easily the best performance of the summer season
for both the team and in particular for first round
picks Brandon Miller and Nick Smith Junior. And the fact
that those two things go hand in hand should not
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be taken for granted, because, as you well know, and
as most fans well know, it is not common for
rookies to rule these types of games. Far more often
it's second or third year guys. The fact that these
two put the team on their back and almost led
them to a victory was very telling about their potential
for their rookie seasons by far.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Definitely the best game for the Hornets in this Summer
League California Classic sequence here over the last couple of weeks.
I mean, this team just looked really, really good. One
or two possessions here or there certainly could have gone
the other way. Ended up being a ninety seven to
ninety three final. Portland defeats the Hornets, but at the
end of the day, again there were some lapses in
there that Try had, which we've seen in previous games.
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There was a very lengthy run between the first end
of the first quarter in the beginning of the second
quarter that really put things out of reach, I thought,
or at least at the time I thought for Charlotte,
considering that Portland was up by as many as fifteen.
But give the Hornets credit. They battled back there in
the second quarter. They still lost the second quarter, but
only by two points. They trailed by five going into
the locker room. Then in a third quarter outscored the
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Trailblazers twenty to fifteen. Tie ball game going into the
fourth quarter, and then just a couple of opportunities slipping away.
And give credit where credits due, Portland did a really
good job there in the fourth quarter, specifically Shade and
Sharpen again. Second year player, guy that already has some
NBA experience under his belt, like you talked about when
it comes to guys dominating the game in Summer League.
So definitely nothing to shake your head out if you're
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a Hornets fan or a Hornets player. Nick Smith Junior
was phenomenal, Brandon Miller phenomenal this draft class already looks really,
really good, and there were some other positives elsewhere, sprinkling
and air. Kai Jones had thirteen points. He was six
to seven shooting. That was a big positive as well.
So a lot to like from this Hornets team, even
though it was a loss last night.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Six of seven shooting for kai Jones and the only
miss was the only three attempt at six for six
from inside the arc helps if you're looking down at
it from high above. As kai Jones says, the ability
to do Hornets do fall ninety seven to ninety three.
I think you're right to point out the turnovers as
an issue. They are for every team in summerly, but
for the Horns they stung a little bit extra. I
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thought in this one, in particular, into the first quarter,
between a foul, a turnover and giving up a three,
it was kind of a Reggie Miller type of sequence
from back in his days as a player at the Garden,
and that turned into five points, which, as it turns out,
ends up really being the difference between winning and losing.
You put those five points, or I should say, take
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those five points off the board for the Blazers. Hornets
come away with the victory. Nevertheless, it's a silver Linings edition.
A lot to be excited though with the rookie, so
I would assume they'll make our silver linings. Rob Longo,
you get to choose first.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, I thought for the longest time it was going
to be a head and shoulders. Brandon Miller looked great
in that first half. Nick Smith Junior had a really
good first half as well, but he exploded in the
second half. He finishes the game with thirty three points,
twenty of his thirty three coming there in the second
half alone. He was thirteen to twenty from the field,
four to five beyond. Yorkie said four rebounds and three assists.
The only problem, and he talked about it after the game,
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were the turnovers. That was certainly an issue by Nick
Smith Junior. He had six of them. That certainly hurts
the cause points off turnovers, just creating extra opportunities, extra
possessions the other side for Portland is going to be
very critical in a game that ends up only being
a four point spread. But he said he needs to
be better. And he also said after the game too
that he hasn't run point guard since high school, so
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I know that he's only nineteen years old, so it's
not that far removed. But at the end of the day,
anytime you have a position where you're trying to relearn
it after a couple of years, especially at an elite
level like the NBA, it's going to be a little
bit of a challenge. But I thought he was phenomenal yesterday,
just some of the moves he had there. He was
in his bag left and right. I mean, he was
making guys silly out there. And I know it's summer league,
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but he has the potential to do that at the
NBA level here of course, in a couple of months
when the regular season starts, But man, he just looked really,
really good out there. I don't even have to look
at anybody else's film or anybody else's summarly performance. Just
shut it down right now. Nick Smith Junior is to
steal the draft. I mean, I don't know who else
can even compete with that. I know he's slipped and
a lot of people had him a lot higher, and
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maybe even had him at a lottery, but man, getting
him at twenty seven just continues to look like a
steal here from Mitch Cup checking the Hornets.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I like the confidence thirty three points, thirteen of twenty
from the floor, four for five from three. As you mentioned,
he did have six turnovers which he touched on, but
twenty points in the second half alone, and a lot
of the NBA, in terms of being a score is
about creating your own shot in one on one opportunities,
and we saw that from Nick Smith, both going over
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screens and firing from three when the defender goes under,
just beating guys one on one, spin moves, crossover dribbles.
He looked really really strong out there and talked about
after the game just feeling more and more comfortable both
with the pace of play for the NBA and with
the position he's being asked to play here in Summer
League point guard.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I feel like it wasn't just a game. I'm just
getting more comfortable just being out there period. You know,
this is my first time actually playing points is like
high school, so you know, just to get an opportunity
to just get a chance to play point you know,
to see different things, see things go through, and it's
definitely definitely a good day for me. But you know,
I just got to come with the same mindset as year.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I kind of doubt he's gonna be asked to play
a ton of point guard at least now with the
starting group. LaMelo's kind of got that position locked down,
as he should. But Nick Smith Junior looked really, really strong,
really one of the more comfortable games he had scoring
the ball overall for the Hornets. Do want to give
some credit where credits due. You mentioned Kay Jones, I'll
mention him to thirteen points, six of seven shooting. Only
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miss was a three, six for six inside of the arc.
Most of those were dunks. He looked pretty good in
that facet of the game. Even though I thought where
this game really was won and lost wasn't so much
the turnovers, it was rebounding. The Blazer ended up taking
seven extra shots than the Hornets did. Charlotte shot better
from the floor, better from three, better from the free
throw line, but the extra volume of shots reason for it.
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Six more offensive rebounds for Portland. To me, that made
the difference in this very close contest. But in my eyes,
I think there's only one good answer here for Silver Linings,
and that's Brandon Miller, and that's with Nick Smith Junior's
thirty three points, I was just so impressed with Miller's game,
he played above the rim. He shot the three very
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very comfortably, twenty six points, six rebounds using that size,
those god given abilities, and that's what you want to
find it. And I mentioned it earlier. If you want
to see how a guy is actually going to play
in the NBA, you have to look at their ability
to make those catch and shoot plays.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Brandon Miller did that. To use your athleticism to gain advantages.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
He did that with some above the rim finishes, both
on alley oops and just individually taking it to the hole.
And then the creativity to play through contact. Brandon Miller
did that as well, So I think he checked all
the boxes. I have no idea if this will be
his last game or if he'll continue to play in
Summer League, but if this is the last showing, he
certainly saved the best for last. Twenty six points, made
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it look easy out there. That's what a number two
pick is supposed to look like if you're lucky. As
we mentioned before, rookies tend not to dominate games this way.
You look over on the Portland side and you know
you've got some guys who had a lot of experience
that showed out in this one and ultimately made the difference.
Shaden Sharp made a lot of those winning plays in
the fourth quarter for Portland. I think he had fourteen
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points in that fourth quarter. But Brandon Miller, Nick Smith Junior,
they were the stars of the show. A very impressive
performance here for this young Hornets group. All right, Coming
up next, there's some new rule changes as well as
some new players coming for the twenty three to twenty
four season. In addition to Nick Smith Junior and Brandon
Miller hopefully heading towards an immediate impact, we've got some
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new rules that could have an impact on gameplay as well.
We'll talk to you about him next. Here on the Hornets,
I've cast Sam Farbara Rob Longo here with you on
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All right, Rob, the NBA had some news break yesterday
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or in the last forty eight hours, depending on when
you're listening to this podcast. NBA Board of Governor is
approving an in game flopping penalty and expanded use of
the coach's challenge. Because it's new, I've heard more people
talking about the flopping penalty, but really I think the
big impact here on the game is going to be
on expanded use of coaches challenge. So that's where we're
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going to start this one.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
It's been a.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Very successful start here with this new implementation of the rule,
I think since it's come into being really kind of
one of the items that came from the pandemic as
they tinkered with some of the rules and some of
what was possible and it's.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Now normal league wide.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Basically, it's been expanded to award teams a second challenge
if their first challenge is successful, and teams have gotten
very very good at determining when.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And why to challenge plays.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It's not just because the ref got it wrong, but
it has to be a certain level of advantage for
coaches to want to use it. Sometimes they like to
save it for the last minute or two of the game.
They'll have rules like, unless it's egregious and it's going
to make a two to four point swing, we're only
going to save our challenge for the fourth quarter. Well, now,
if you know you're right, you can use it a
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little earlier. I think this is a potential game changer.
I think it's the right thing to do. There was
no reason to penalize a team for the referee being
egregiously wrong on a particular play early. Let them earn
that second challenge. If they're wrong, they won't get it,
but if they're right, they should be able to retain
a second one. Rob your thoughts on this new rule.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Change, I think you summed it up pretty perfectly there.
I'm kind of in the same boat as you. I mean,
how many times did we see last year where head
coach Steve Clifford really wanted to challenge something very early
on a game that was very obvious, but he wanted
to wait, and that challenge became more valuable there later
in the third and the fourth quarter. So I think
this is a great opportunity for again to get everything
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right because at the end of the day, that's what
we want. We want the call to be right on
the floor. Now, there is the game flow and the
pace of play and that sort of stuff that has
kind of taken a step back over the last couple
years of the NBA because we don't have those last
two minutes that take maybe a half hour of real
time because they keep going to the monitor to check
inbounds plays or who touched the ball lass or or
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those sort of things. So this is an opportunity for
the league and the teams to continue the pace of play,
to continue that game flow, and still get the calls right.
So I think this is kind of a no brainer.
And if you happen to compare this to another sport,
if you have happened to be at a Charlotte Knights
game on the weekends this year or in the last
year as well, you've noticed that there's been a challenge
system involved with balls and strikes in the minor leagues
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at a Triple A level, and it's kind of very
similar thing. You get three challenges and if you get
that one right, then you get to keep it and
so on and so forth. So you could have more
than three challenges. Now, obviously it's not going to go
to that level here in the NBA. You're gonna have
a max of two. But again, it doesn't really mess
up the game flow. It takes a pretty short amount
of time. So I think this is a good opportunity
for the NBA to get calls right and for the
game and a pace of play to continue with that
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natural rhythm of basketball.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The other rule change is there's gonna be a flopping
penalty now for players who are maybe exaggerating contact a
little bit. Referees will be required to stop live play
to call a flopping violation if necessarily they can wait
to the next natural break and not disadvantage and offensive
team that's off and running. Officials will then administer the
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flopping penalty. It is a free throw to the team
that was offended. I guess, so there's some extra points
to be had for teams there. And this is something
that's gonna have a financial penalty as well to players
who are repeat offenders find starting at two thousand dollars
according to the NBA's release, and then increasing incrementally. As
I mentioned for repeat offenders, that part of it's gonna
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get reviewed afterwards.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
It's in game in the moment.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
They'll call them as they see them, and they can
also add them on in the midst of a challenge,
although you can't challenge specifically for a flop, So if
you are, say challenging a block charge call, it's called
a block you think or sorry, it's called a charge.
The team challenges the call, you can have it flipped
not only in saying it's a blocking call, but that
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there was a flop as well.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
That is a possibility here.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
This one, to me, rob is a little bit more
like the take foul situation from a season ago. I
liked that rule change, I was unsure how it was going.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
To be adjudicated.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I thought there's a lot of gray area in what
is an honest attempt at the basketball. And there were
some times where I thought, Okay, they're being a little
overly aggressive or not aggressive enough on offenders. I thought
it was not always the same level of contact that
required a call last time. And I'll be curious if
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the variants exist for this one as well, if some
crews are gonna be a little bit more aggressive on
flop calls a little bit less for others.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
That's my only quibble with this one.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I do, in general think it's a good idea, but
these guys are so good at selling these calls. I'm
gonna be interested to see how this one is officiated.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
This one's definitely going to have a lot of gray
area involved, and I totally understand where you're coming from,
because there's a lot of players out there that have
reputations for being floppers or embellishing things a little bit
more than they should. And I'm not going to name
names that everybody can draw their own conclusions in that regard.
But yeah, this is gonna be something. It's gonna be
really interesting to watch moving forward how the league officiates this.
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I'm sure we'll get some clarity here in a couple
of weeks whenever we head to the annual broadcasters meeting
and Mantey McCutchen is there explaining to us the new
role changes and everybody's playing a thousand questions with him
and he's trying to simplify and dumb it down for us.
I'm sure we'll have a better explanation then. But I
like where this is heading. I think this is good.
It's going to deter those people from embellishing as much,
especially if they call it very very tight. Maybe in
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the preseason that might be a way to kind of
deter it for happening in the regular season, but we'll
just kind of have to see what happens. But definitely
a step in the red direction. I feel like, especially
when you're starting to impose not only the monetary fines,
but the point punishment as well, getting that free throw
getting extra points on the board as a possibility that
would ultimately hurt your team rather than just yourself financially.
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So I think it's a good move there in that regard.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, definitely worth penalizing the player if they're a repeat
offender for this one and you're just trying to clean
up the game. It's a very difficult game to officiate
in the first place, and so I think if it's
successful in getting this out of the game, much the
same way that take foul was able to get that
transition foul out of the game. For the most part,
are there gonna be gray areas where you think one
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should have been called or one shouldn't have been called.
Of course there are, but for the most part, I
think you and I both noticed it was out of
the game predominantly by the last twenty five games, even
the last half of the season, and I think in
this one as well, if we can get to that
similar point where there's always going to be gray areas,
guys are always going to try and fight for every advantage,
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but if they're not flopping so routinely. Then I think
we can see some movement forward in the quality of gameplay,
and I think that's the point at the end of
the day. All right, Hornets have another game scheduled here
for Summer League. They should have one more in addition,
but we know they're playing the Pelicans coming up on Thursday,
and we'll preview that one for you next Here on
the Hornets, I've cast.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Sam Farbar Rob Longo.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Here with you on the AGHC the Hornets Ide Cast,
brought to you by Santa All right, Rob, we've got
another game on the docket. Hornets are oh and three
now in Summer League. You know they're hungry for a
win in Las Vegas. They're oh and five overall going
back to Sacramento, but coming off of their best performance
against Portland, I think they've got something to build on,
and offensively, they just look like a different team out there.
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Brandon Miller, Nick Smith Junior were the focal points. This
is a time of Summer League where occasionally first round picks,
especially highly drafted ones like a Brandon Miller, start to
drop off. We have no confirmation one way or another,
just throwing that out there. As we preview this game
a couple of days early on our schedule. So if
we get it wrong, if you get the game, Dan,
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you listen bank and say, hey, Brandon Miller's not playing,
why are they talking about him? Well, we're throwing this
here as a disclaimer, so to speak. So rob rules
are in effect. Who do you want to start with first?
A member of the two to one New Orleans Pelicans
or a member of the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Let's begin with the opponent. That's the New Orleans Pelicans,
like you mentioned, are coming off in eighty two to
seventy three win against the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday. I'm
taking a look at this box score and I'm looking
at the Pelicans. There's not really a lot of names
that are notable that jump out to me. So the
biggest one is Tyson Daniels. Of course, eighth overall pick
in last year's draft lottery pick for the Pelicans, and
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he finished the game yesterday with just ten points, four
of eight shooting, so not a very impressive stat line.
But he's a guy that kind of needs a little
bit more work because you go back and you look
at his stats from this past season, for the Pelicans. Yeah,
he ended up playing in fifteen games, but he only
ended up taking a total of about two hundred and
eight shots, which I mean, I feel like isn't a ton.
He was averaging about one and a half shots per
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game when he was out there on average, and he
was playing eleven twelve minutes on average as well. So
it's interesting to see them have a lottery pick like
that and not particularly use them a whole lot. I
know that they were competing for a playoff spot and
a playing tournament birth for the majority of the season,
so they wanted to keep those veterans out there. But
I feel like, if you get the number eight overall guy,
you want to see him at some point. I know
that some league is a good opportunity to do that.
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Kind of similar in a sense to Brandon Miller a
little bit, where he just doesn't seem to be having
a huge shot volume. Now, Brandon has obviously turned that
around since the California Classic, But Dyson Daniels is my
guy to watch just to see if and maybe he
ends up taking a couple more shots here in a
couple of days against the Hornets, maybe he tries to
force the issue a little bit more so, I'm interested
to see what Dyson Daniels has on the table.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I like the pick.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He's a bigger guard and so he kind of fits
a piece of the puzzle there for New Orleans that
as he gets more experience, gets up to speed, maybe
he'll be able to have a bigger impact in upcoming contest.
He had a really big game against the Warriors earlier
in the week in Las Vegas, had a big double
double seventeen points and fifteen rebounds, really showing off some
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of that skill set that he learned mostly riding the
bench last year for the Pelicans. He also had eight
assists in that game, a win over Golden State. I'm
gonna go with their first round pick from this season,
that'd be Jordan Hawkins out of Yukon. Hawkins has not
shot the ball very well, quite frankly in Summer League,
which is a surprise because that's what he was known
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for coming out of Yukon. He was a thirty eight
percent three point shooter for their national championship winning team
this past season, really big time scorer. Averaged sixteen points
per game, knockdown almost three triples per contest as well.
But over his last two games from three, he's a
combined two for twelve. Last game in overall shooting three
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or from two, he was one for twelve from the field,
still able to get the Pelicans to a win over
the Suns eighty two to seventy three, but nonetheless he's
struggling with his shot. It's not uncommon for rookies as
they adjust to the new line and so on and
so forth. But he's someone certainly to watch here because
with his kind of shooting ability, he can definitely impact
a contest.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
All right, we need hornets to watch. Where would you
like to begin, Rob, Well.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Like you prefaced this segment of the podcast, it's kind
of tough to decide on who to take, just in
case that some of the guys may be said going
into Thursday's game. But I think a guy that's probably
going to play and a guy I want to see
more from him, and I think this is kind of
a common refrain we've seen through the first several games
of the California Classic in the Summer League is James Booknight.
James Booknight only had two points in that loss against
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the Trailblazers. He was oh two from the field, he
only took two shots. They were both three pointers. He
ended up getting fouled going to the basket, and he
made both of his free throws there. One rebound, one assist,
two fouls. You know, anytime you have the same amount
of fouls and points, it's not a good look. He
did have a steal out there. Ended up being a
minus seven in the plus minus played a little bit
under fifteen minutes, which I thought was interesting. But when
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you look at the box score and you see some
of the other guard rotation in there as well, with
Amari Bailey and Justin Robinson and of course Knick Smith
Junior had a great, great game in that contest against
the Trailblazer. So I understand why James Booknight might not
have gotten the line share the minutes and you're trying
to work some different guys in there to see what
they got. But I would like to see more from
James Boknight. I think a lot of people would like
that too going into this season, and it's an important
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one for a book, and we've talked about that several
times here on the podcast. But I'm looking at him
as my player to watch here tonight for Charlotte or
a Thursday. I guess we could say depending on when
you're listening to this podcast.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
That's right, whenever you're listener, we've got you covered. I
like the pick.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'll go with kind of one and a half here,
I'll go if the team does not choose to sit
anyone moving forward, I'll look at Nick Smith Junior.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Can he follow it up?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
He was not known as an elite three point SCHERI
known as an elite scorer at Arkansas, but not necessarily
an elite three point shies. So going four for five,
can you replicate that? Can you get the same quality
of shots? It was particularly impressive. They was able to
generate a lot of those off the dribble. Yeah, he'd
get the better side a screen for some of those,
but still his ability to knock that down coming off
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the dribble rather than the catch and shoot situation, that's impressive.
So I want to see him clean up the turnovers, certainly,
but can he stay as efficient? Doesn't that just score
thirty every time out? But can he maintain an above
five hundred shooting percentage from the floor from three back
to back games.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
That's what I would like to see.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But in anticipation that maybe they won't play the first
round picks as much. Let's go with the Marii Bailey.
He's had some really really good performances for the Hornets
over the entirety of Summer League.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
This last one it wasn't bad.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
He kind of faded into the background a little bit,
which is probably the right decision. When he got Brandon
Miller and Nick Smith Junior combining four fifty nine points
and shooting the ball they did, you want to see
him get more shots. But for Bailey, the one quibble
I think you can have with him is he hasn't
shot the three particularly well overall. Like to see him
knock down one or two in his next contest and
(22:56):
then just continue to be a really good playmaker. I
think he's done a great job of that over the
course of Summer League. If some guys minutes come down,
Bailey is someone who could be a benefactor, and he
could be really explosive in that role. So a Mario
Bailey my pick for Hornets player to watch. That next
game is gonna come up on Thursday. They'll have you
covered between ESPN and NBA TV, and of course there
(23:18):
should be one more game left on the docket for
the Charlotte Hornets. Once we get the schedule, then you'll
know when the next preview podcast is coming out. In
the meantime, we'll keep Rob Longo chain to the desk
and awaiting more Hornets action.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Whatever helps you sleep better at night, Sam.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Ah, thank you, Rob.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
All right, Rob Longo, great job. As always, thanks to
all of you for tuning in. For everyone here, I'm
Sam Farber saying it's been a pleasure and a privilege
having you along. We will talk to you next time
right here on the Hornets ipecasts.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Thank you for listening to the Hornets Hypecast, brought to
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Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah
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