{"id":803052,"date":"2026-07-16T02:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803052\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:32:22","slug":"pistons-vs-suns-does-shot-selection-matter-in-summer-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803052\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons vs. Suns: Does shot selection matter in Summer League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ebuka Okorie is obviously a talented basketball player with the kind of speed and intuition on how to deploy it that could be a difference-maker in the NBA. We have seen that throughout three games of Summer League so far. We\u2019ve also see him struggle for a healthy dose of minutes. He\u2019s taking a lot shots, and a lot of those shots are ill-advised. Does that even matter? It\u2019s inarguable that he\u2019ll have much better teammates on the real Detroit Pistons than he does on this Summer League team. It\u2019s also true that he simply cannot afford to take these shots in a congested lane surrounded by three players. It\u2019s simply unacceptable. And if it was a real game, I\u2019d like to think it would be easy for him to defer and pass out of trouble. I guess, we will find out when the games really start to matter. Tonight\u2019s game definitely does not matter. But it\u2019s another chance to see Okorie at work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When: 6 p.m. ET<br \/>Where: Thomas &amp; Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada<br \/>Watch: ESPNU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ebuka Okorie is obviously a talented basketball player with the kind of speed and intuition on how to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,376260,590,319372,85],"class_list":["post-803052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-detroit-pistons-summer-league","tag-nba","tag-pistons-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}