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When I turned on the Clippers game to check on X, I did not realize two things:

 

1. Jason Preston is on the Clips,

2. After missing most of his young professional career to injury, the Clips clearly want to take a good long look at him to see what they have.

 

Preston has been on the floor all night and no sign of X (other than buried on the bench) after 3 quarters.  Hoping for some garbage time to justify watching summer league ball.  

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5 hours ago, Zip JD said:

When I turned on the Clippers game to check on X, I did not realize two things:

 

1. Jason Preston is on the Clips,

2. After missing most of his young professional career to injury, the Clips clearly want to take a good long look at him to see what they have.

 

Preston has been on the floor all night and no sign of X (other than buried on the bench) after 3 quarters.  Hoping for some garbage time to justify watching summer league ball.  

 

I actually stayed up to watch thinking he'd at least get a few minutes. Guess not. Really don't understand the downside of letting all of your guys play in a Summer League game. The results are meaningless. 

 

I was shocked to see that Preston ended up with 15 points and 10 assists, since honestly he looked pretty terrible for parts of the game I watched. 

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Yeah, I watched it hoping to see him get some minutes. Planning on doing the same tonight. If he doesn't get any minutes again tonight, I might start disliking the Clippers again for cutting into my sleep for nothing.

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13 hours ago, mes102 said:

Yeah, I watched it hoping to see him get some minutes. Planning on doing the same tonight. If he doesn't get any minutes again tonight, I might start disliking the Clippers again for cutting into my sleep for nothing.

Welp no castaneda again and more lost sleep for all of us that watched😔

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8 hours ago, Jkobe03 said:

Welp no castaneda again and more lost sleep for all of us that watched😔

I watched thru the 3Q and gave up. He looked a little too comfortable sitting on the sideline with a towel draped over his legs to be getting into the game anytime.

 

It reminds me a bit of way back when Joe Jakubik was on the Cavs summer team and they played at The Coliseum. Despite a bunch of fans including myself in attendance, he hardly played at all. Seems like everybody should get to play 5-10 minutes. George Karl was sitting in the seats and as I passed him on my way out I told him I wouldn't be back for a while. I'm sure it haunts him to this day. 😉

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8 hours ago, Jkobe03 said:

Welp no castaneda again and more lost sleep for all of us that watched😔

 

Glad I didn't stay up again. I saved the game on Youtube TV just in case, but obviously it doesn't matter now. What's the point of having guys on the roster if they aren't going to play? Good thing they kept Preston in there so he could score 2 points the whole game. 

 

Surprisingly Bates has had two solid games in row for the Cavs. After a very selfish first game he seems to be learning that he can't just shoot a 3 every single time he touches the ball. Still needs a lot of work, especially on defense.

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On 7/11/2023 at 1:40 AM, Jkobe03 said:

Welp no castaneda again and more lost sleep for all of us that watched😔

I gave up at halftime. I have no clue why the Clippers coach wouldn't play everyone. Some of the box scores I've seen from the summer league, most are playing everyone unless they shut someone down for the rest of the summer league. Part of me wonders if the first couple games the coach was trying to win to rise his own stock to show the rest of the league that he deserves a full time NBA assistant position so he kept playing the same guys (most were 2nd year guys too so that checks out). 

I'm glad to see X get some minutes yesterday. Hope he gets even more minutes tomorrow!

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The 2023 edition of The Basketball Tournament is underway, and as best as I can tell, only one former Zip is taking part.  Remember B.J. Gladden?  Of all people. Started 9 games for the 14/15 Zips before transferring to Georgia Southern.  He's on the team JUCOPRODUCTS, #7-seed in the Wichita region and taking on the #2-seed, Heartfire.  It'll be on ESPN+ at noon ET tomorrow, hopefully we will have better luck than we did waiting for XC to enter summer league games for the Clippers.

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7 minutes ago, mrelegazna said:

The 2023 edition of The Basketball Tournament is underway, and as best as I can tell, only one former Zip is taking part.  Remember B.J. Gladden?  Of all people. Started 9 games for the 14/15 Zips before transferring to Georgia Southern.  He's on the team JUCOPRODUCTS, #7-seed in the Wichita region and taking on the #2-seed, Heartfire.  It'll be on ESPN+ at noon ET tomorrow, hopefully we will have better luck than we did waiting for XC to enter summer league games for the Clippers.

Too bad Mid American Unity doesn't have a team this year, Nick Harney and Tree played for them last year along with other former MAC players... same for the Mental Tougness team, they had Aaron Jackson, Quincy Diggs, and Isaiah big dog Johnson Missing out on a lot of zips this year

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