LAS VEGAS – When you spend a week watching summer league basketball, you are surrounded by evaluators. Head coaches sit in the stands, watching their assistant coaches oversee the high draft picks, but also the plethora of hopefuls who are there trying to make names for themselves. The assistant coaches also are being evaluated by the head coaches, while scouts and executives fill the stands, trying to find that diamond in the rough who may be able to help their teams in some capacity.
The week is a blur when it comes to the basketball games — as players are expected to perform at warp speed every second of every minute — and labels are quickly assigned to players.