Las Vegas Summer League is not the most predicate stage for a young player’s career. Brooklyn Nets fans enticed by Egor Dëmin’s 3-point shooting exhibition in Vegas, where he went 10-of-23 in just three games and made some deep ones off the catch, should probably avoid this graphic courtesy Owen Philips and his wonderfully analytical Substack, F5...
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As you can see, how well players — rookies specifically — shoot the ball in Vegas and how well they shoot it on the big stage just don’t have a strong correlation.