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Johnson showing summer league growth spurt

Orlando, Fla. — Summer league isn’t quite the same as last year for Stanley Johnson.

It’s not about getting comfortable with the NBA or scoring or even winning.

It’s Bizarro World.

The second-year Pistons wing has a mandate from coach Stan Van Gundy and associate coach Bob Beyer — who has the reins for the summer league team — to work on his weaknesses.

And it isn’t easy.

Johnson has been working all offseason on fixing some of his foibles, and on one play he made a nice drive to his left hand and tried to finish with that hand.