Overreacting To Summer League Play Is Not Advisable

Conventional wisdom is, by definition, conventional and frequently moronic. Take this article, which takes the pre-draft conventional wisdom and replaces it with post-summer league conventional wisdom, replaying the draft.

There are a couple of things to mention here.

First…it’s summer league! It’s not like it’s the regular season and a lot of the guys playing are going to be in the overseas smoking leagues shortly.

For instance, before the draft, Marvin Bagley was seen as a much better option than his Duke teammate Wendell Carter. After summer league, the author moved him down to…12th? In what world?

Bagley was outplaying NBA players in pro-am leagues in high school and it’s not like his game…