Even the Summer League Has an MVP ‘Controversy’

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• Hursty Posted: Jul.20 at 9:05 am
  F*ck that. Joey Dorsey should’ve won it hands down. 5-0 record and double digit/double point rebound games with 3-5 assists per game and 3+ blocks too. GTFOH with that BS.
  BTW, I saw on nba.com that Johnny Flynn won rookie of the month. WHAT?!?

• Jukai Posted: Jul.20 at 9:06 am
  It’s all race related, like all MVPs.

• Hursty Posted: Jul.20 at 9:11 am
  LOL @ Jukai
  But anyways, Dorsey’s last game vs. the Lakers:
  20rebounds, 11pts, 5assists, 3steals, 2 blocks - in 32 minutes.

• WhaHos Posted: Jul.20 at 9:14 am
  0/10 Jukai

• Hursty Posted: Jul.20 at 9:15 am
  Anyways, for the 5-0 Summer League ‘campaign’ Dorsey averaged:
  9.8pts, 14.8rebounds, 3assists, 2.6blocks, 1steal, 62.1%shooting in 31 minutes.

• Yesse Posted: Jul.20 at 9:15 am
  Yeah i really agree with this.Did David Stern put his hands on this as well?

• zabba Posted: Jul.20 at 9:18 am
  You’re right, no one cares.

• Bryan Posted: Jul.20 at 9:18 am
  Nice story.

• Tuomas Posted: Jul.20 at 9:18 am
  Oh for the love of god and all that is holy.

• jay Posted: Jul.20 at 9:33 am
  this seems like the perfect time to mention Ricky Rubio…

• Hursty Posted: Jul.20 at 9:44 am
  Me Bryan?
  I’m just stating my pov, that’s all.

• riggs Posted: Jul.20 at 9:46 am
  hey so i ate some waffles this morning…

• j4zzm4n Posted: Jul.20 at 9:51 am
  this just in…the sky is blue.

• Hursty Posted: Jul.20 at 9:51 am
  Fine, I don’t care. I just want the Rockets to have something to be proud of, the way their season is shaping up as is, there isn’t going to be a whole lot.
  Hey riggs, I had toast - with vegemite. Was fairly good…

• Wdavid Posted: Jul.20 at 10:01 am
  Blake won’t be able to get off half the stuff he does in the league. Better work on that elbow jumper Big Red.

• niQ Posted: Jul.20 at 10:25 am
  Although the MVP was probably Randolph, I’m surprised and a bit confused as to why everyone says Blake will not produce in the L. It’s as if they’re saying he’ll be a bust before he even played a single regular season game. Dude was seen as the most NBA ready of this whole draft. If a player like this is seen as a bust, there is no hope for anyone else from the ‘09 draft.

• BETCATS Posted: Jul.20 at 11:03 am
  Anthony Randolph was robbed FTW

• Brad Long Posted: Jul.20 at 11:13 am
  I thought Ammo deserved it.

• Tenorca Posted: Jul.20 at 11:20 am
  Matt Bonner objects to you calling Griffin Big Red. Don’t steal the man’s nickname.
  Also, AR is a mammal. Kid averaged 15/10 the last month of the season with starter’s minutes—much easier to put stock into actual NBA PT than YMCA summer league. He’s supposedly starting this year too. Should average a double-double and be one of the only reasons to watch the Warriors scrambled their way into tenth place again. Watch out L-Wolves!

• riggs Posted: Jul.20 at 11:36 am
  HIM DONT CARE

• Prentice Posted: Jul.20 at 11:37 am
  @Tenorca I thought Bonner was the Red Rocket? Regardless, they have to be two of the least fear inducing nicknames in the L.

• J2daRed Posted: Jul.20 at 11:40 am
  What about Anthony Randolph? He averaged 26.8 pts, 8.5 rebounds, and 3.0 blks per game!! I mean griffin looked good but he’s supposed to, he was the number 1 pick! Randolph was out of his mind, 3 double-doubles in 4 games! Does everyone forget?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywYGZahfIaY Warriors might surprise you this year

• Bryan Posted: Jul.20 at 12:17 pm
  Hursty how in the world did you think that was directed at you?

• Waylonakolipse Posted: Jul.20 at 12:32 pm
  Randolph is going to develope into a all-star caliber player along with Biedrins. If the Warriors stay healthy, no mopeds, and Maggette plays well as a 6th man, the Warriors are going to be a surprise in 2010 and make the playoffs.

• Tenorca Posted: Jul.20 at 12:39 pm
  Prentice: Mmm. Fair enough. I usually call him “Big Red.” But I’m usually drunk.

• DP Posted: Jul.20 at 12:44 pm
  Does Anthony ever smile? I’m scared of that guy. No denying the dude’s talent though, he is the future of the Warriors if Don plays him. Free Randolph! or send him to the lakers…much better idea. play wit it.

• Spaceship Jay Posted: Jul.20 at 12:48 pm
  MMmmmmmm… I don’t care either.

• Z Posted: Jul.20 at 12:49 pm
  Yawn.

• E. Posted: Jul.20 at 12:55 pm
  Randolph can have the MVP. Bet you Griffin doesn’t care. Randolph played with NBA players even if its only one season. Plus hes had NBA coaching. Randolphs good, but I think you guys are WAY over hyping him though.Blake Griffin will be ROY just by helping the Clipps become playoff contenders. They will make by next season.

• E. Posted: Jul.20 at 12:55 pm
  Randolph can have the MVP. Bet you Griffin doesn’t care. Randolph played with NBA players even if its only one season. Plus hes had NBA coaching. Randolphs good, but I think you guys are WAY over hyping him though.Blake Griffin will be ROY just by helping the Clipps become playoff contenders.

• Tenorca Posted: Jul.20 at 1:03 pm
  E.: You need to watch Randolph before you say “WAY overhyping.” He got much better through last year and is, already, one of the most exciting players in the league. Not “best” but “exciting.”
  “Play wit it.”

• DP Posted: Jul.20 at 1:04 pm
  Griffin winning the ROY is a no-brainer looking as how this draft is just weak as hell. Plus MVP’s really don’t matter in summer L because it’s basically players trying to get the 12th man slot on a team vs. the rookies. Only people I see messing with Griffin in the ROY is BJ and Flynn just because he is my favorite player period. play wit it.

• DP Posted: Jul.20 at 1:08 pm
  shoutout to tenorca. play wit it.

• E. Posted: Jul.20 at 1:10 pm
  Tenorca: I’ve watched him play in person. He’s good (especially being undrafted) but just doesn’t impress me as much.

• Tenorca Posted: Jul.20 at 1:13 pm
  E: You sound like you’re describing Anthony Morrow (who was indeed undrafted) not Anthony Randolph (who was stolen at 14).

• DP Posted: Jul.20 at 1:16 pm
  Morrow knows his calling…jack threes and be done with it. I enjoy players like that. play wit it.

• Young Lebron 23 Posted: Jul.20 at 1:25 pm
  Randolph shouldve been MVP! Plus he said he shouldve had more than 3 rebounds. At least he knows what he needs to work on

• E. Posted: Jul.20 at 2:12 pm
  Sorry for the mix up Tenorca. You should be proud of your boy Randolph. I just read he got invited to Team USA’s minicamp along with my boy Eric Gordon.

• Josh D Posted: Jul.20 at 2:14 pm
  Does this really matter?

• Josh D Posted: Jul.20 at 2:16 pm
  Although come to think of it neither of these teams have any player who looks like he’ll win any kind of MVP in the next few years

• Tenorca Posted: Jul.20 at 2:55 pm
  E: Nice. They’re both damn fine youngsters stuck with damn weak franchises. That division’s going to be such trash: Clips, Warriors, Kings, and crippled Suns all getting bludgeoned by the Lakers. Hideous.

• Chris Posted: Jul.20 at 3:25 pm
  The really issue here is how does the summer league MVP get chosen? If it’s by sports writers, you can bet that many more of them saw the Griffin (#1 pick, bigger story) play than saw Randolph play. The voting should go to coaches and scouts. But then again, nobody really cares.

• Moose Posted: Jul.20 at 3:56 pm
  Summer League means nothing. Because, well, Anthony Randolph is in the MVP talks. A sure sign that nobody cares. No disrespect to Randolph, but the fact that he averaged what he did shows that it doesn’t matter.

• tavoris Posted: Jul.20 at 4:16 pm
  dp…my ROY money is still on James Harden. He’s gonna have a field day with Durant, Westbrook, and Green taking up all the defensive attention.

• nick Posted: Jul.20 at 4:19 pm
  Hursty: Dorsey and Buddinger, Co-MVP

• BETCATS Posted: Jul.20 at 4:20 pm
  Westbrook-Harden-Durant-Green-Kristic = OKC ftw. Plus they own Phoneix’s unprotected 1st round pick for this season as well as a crapload of other draft picks, they are going to be in bussines for a long time.

• nick Posted: Jul.20 at 4:24 pm
  In a similar news I was robbed of the MVP of the Emory University Summer 3 on 3 Tournament-and-4th- of-July-Charity-Cookout-Jamboree, which matters at least as much as this story.

• Moose Posted: Jul.20 at 4:26 pm
  Well nick, since you attend(ed) Emory University, at least it means that you’re smarter than Randolph AND Griffin.

• nick Posted: Jul.20 at 4:35 pm
  Moose: I would rather be dunking on Hamed Haddadi.

• rob stewart Posted: Jul.20 at 5:17 pm
  Wasn’t it Randolph and Mortimer who starred in the movie TRADING PLACES? In this case Randolph and Griffin need to trade places

• nate the great Posted: Jul.20 at 5:18 pm
  yeah im a eric gordon fan, and randolph, but my team is the blazers. i cant wait for the blazers to go deep in the playoffs.

• Blaze Posted: Jul.20 at 8:42 pm
  were the games even televised? From what I saw on the news Curry lit it up, Blake had a huge game, and Thabeet stunk.

• Blaze Posted: Jul.20 at 8:45 pm
  @Nate the great- nice to see a fellow blazer fan here. Been going to games since Clyde,Kersey,uncle Cliffy,Porter, and 00Duck.

• Witness Posted: Jul.20 at 9:18 pm
  Can we safely say that while the Lake show is runnin Cali we’re goin to start the B-Griff/A-Rand debate?

• Hursty Posted: Jul.20 at 9:48 pm
  Bryan- I just guessed that you were being sarcastic. Sorry.
  nick- I have to disagree. Buddinger put a lot of points on the board (and he did it very effectively), but he didn’t guard anyone. Dorsey also had a lot of hockey assists - the pass that led to the assist. I guess if you had an offense MVP and defense MVP it’d be those guys though for the Rockets.

• Dacre Posted: Jul.20 at 9:54 pm
  I completely not related fashion. The Rockets wont be that bad this season. They will be hungry to compete. Unlike the Clippers.

• Moose Posted: Jul.20 at 10:08 pm
  @ nick: I think you won’t regret it, haha. Just out of curiosity, what do you study? Prestigious school like that, you’ll probably get a job fairly easily in your field, whatever that is, after graduation.

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Jul.20 at 10:13 pm
  What really concerns me is how Anthony Randolph is going to be robbed of minutes and development by the one and only Nellie.

• nick Posted: Jul.21 at 12:54 am
  @moose–My “field” is creative writing, so sadly, I will in fact not get a job easily. I just graduated and i’m currently applying to grad schools while working for peanuts as an assistant coach for the emory debate team which actually is a pretty decent gig.

• nick Posted: Jul.21 at 1:16 am
  Hursty: You’re right that Buddinger played no defense, but I think he showed himself to be the most game-ready of Rockets rookies as a plug-and-play system cog. Dorsey was a monster on the boards, but I can’t let go of the fact that he averaged 5 fouls…If this were the regular season, he might have taken himself out of a couple of those games. Of course, he wouldn’t be playing 30 mins per if this were the regular season, so that may not be an issue. I was very, very, very, VERY surprised with Dorsey’s passing, which was consistently excellent, not only kicking out of the post but also finding cutters. He showed a touch on some of those passes that I didn’t know he possessed in any phase of the game. I’m thinking of one pass he threw against the lakers in particular, a little touch-floater to a cutter coming down the lane (i forget who…taylor, I think). I think with consistent minutes, he could turn into a very, very effective bench big, especially if he picks up a little bit of offensive footwork from banging against Scola and Anderson every day in practice.

• kevin Posted: Jul.21 at 1:21 am
  Randolph will probably be the top fantasy sleeper this year i think if he starts he will get 10-15 PPG, 2 BPG, 1 SPG, 8-10 RPG
  but the summer league is basicly practice

• ab_40 Posted: Jul.21 at 3:11 am
  blake griffin 0.4 blocks per game? they better hope camby stays around because this looks shamefull. so at first he was K Mart and now he’s K Mart without the shot blocking… bummer

• Hursty Posted: Jul.21 at 3:39 am
  Yeh, Buddinger looks ready to go. Stick him in for 10-12 minutes a night, he looks set right now. More polished than I expected actually. So, regarding those early Ben Wallace/Joey Dorsey comparisons… BRRT haha. Dorsey can come in, play 10-15 give a hard foul here or there etc. Imagine him and Hayes on together, defense, rebounding, great passing. I hope a little of Scola and Andersen rubs off on him. I guess that guarding guys like Yao and Scola last year improved his offense, and being defended/watching Hayes has taken his D to another level. Speculation, but he looks sooo much better.
  Rockets coaching is brilliant, so is management, but DAMN the physical conditioning and health staff needs an upgrade.

• gay allah Posted: Jul.21 at 6:03 am
  ok, scrap that. Grif is the goods peoples. ZR was better but as been stated is NBA coached etc. Put my money on the Clips for their offseason aquisitions and an incredible juggling act that obviously gives them a roster worthy if not better than A few already established teams ( Oklahoma T`s, SacK, Wash etc etc) So get sick wit it people, aaaight

• Rob Wells Jr. Posted: Jul.21 at 9:40 am
  Anthony Randolph is an athletic freak! More than Griffin i believe.

• Jukai Posted: Jul.21 at 12:05 pm
  I hate to say “I told you so” but what did I say about Buddinger? Kids mint. I couldn’t believe he didn’t get guarenteed money.

• weezy f. leezy Posted: Jul.21 at 9:16 pm
  was it griffin..was it randolph…..even harden soulda got a mention. all i know is……IT SURE WAST RICKY FU\CKIN RUBIO!

• Dark Knight Posted: Jul.21 at 10:46 pm
  Why wasn’t Kobe considered? Lebron?

• ngoiekafita Posted: Jul.22 at 6:10 am
  First on the Anthony Randolph bandwagon!!!!
  (I either take him or Wilson ‘pony’ Chandler as my starting SF on NBA 2K)

• ngoiekafita Posted: Jul.22 at 6:13 am
  Mmm, i’ma start charging whoever wants to ride on AR bandwagon!

• donlaker Posted: Jul.24 at 1:41 pm
  dude how is nobody talking about adam morrison hitting turnaround fadeaways in vegas
  he clearly is the mvp of summer
  and a randolph is nice hope he gets better quickly

• zyup Posted: Jul.24 at 2:33 pm
  umm is it because griffin is an actual rookie like bayless and randolph is a 2nd year summer league visitor other known as a veteran lol in summer league years!