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San Diego State\u2019s Latrell Davis has been scoring at will in the Swish League. (Meg McLaughlin \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\nLatrell Davis had 57 points in a Swish Pro-Am summer league game last month. It should have been 60, except a 3-pointer with 1.3 seconds left wasn\u2019t counted because the officials had mercifully ended the 113-88 game early.<\/p>\n
Davis shrugged. It wasn\u2019t his career high.<\/p>\n
He also had some 50-point games as a kid back in Leeds, England. He once had 65. He typically played in older age groups but dropped down one day \u2014 \u201cI think I was 11 or 12,\u201d he said \u2014 and dropped 85.<\/p>\n
There are some qualifiers to his prodigious output at Lincoln High School in the Swish league, which starts the playoffs this week ahead of an Aug. 9 championship game. The running joke is there\u2019s no \u201cD\u201d in summer league, and the talent level on the Lincoln floor can fluctuate dramatically depending on which college or overseas pro players happen to be in town.<\/p>\n
The Swish League MVP last summer was Taj DeGourville, who would average 5.5 points per game for SDSU while shooting 37.1% in a largely disappointing season.<\/p>\n
But still \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t care where you\u2019re playing, 57 is a lot of points,\u201d Aztecs coach Brian Dutcher said. \u201cYou go to an open gym anywhere and a guy puts up 57, that\u2019s pretty impressive. I think he made nine 3s. You can\u2019t fake that.<\/p>\n
\u201cLatrell is a very good player, so I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davis hasn\u2019t hit 57 again, but it\u2019s not like he hasn\u2019t been scoring. Through six Swish appearances this summer heading into Thursday, he\u2019s averaging 38.3 points per game and has been held under 30 just once. He\u2019s shooting close to 40% behind the arc.<\/p>\n
That includes 35 last Sunday when he forgot his sneakers were in the JAM Center locker room and didn\u2019t arrive at Lincoln until tip-off, delaying his entry into the game without having taken a warm-up shot. He had 10 points in the first half, then 25 in the second while routinely facing double teams on the perimeter.<\/p>\n
In a matter of minutes, he drove and finished at the rim in traffic with his left hand; made a pull-up 3 off the dribble from well behind the NBA arc; drove and finished at the rim in traffic with his right hand; crossed over, drove down the middle and dunked with two hands; made a step-back 3.<\/p>\n
San Diego State\u2019s Latrell Davis has been scoring at will in the Swish League. (Meg McLaughlin \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the kind of stuff the Aztecs saw in practice on a daily basis last season and compelled Dutcher to predict \u201che\u2019ll have a chance to be a first-team all-conference-type player\u201d in 2026-27.<\/p>\n
\u201cI redshirted last year,\u201d said Davis, who transferred from San Jose State and has two years of eligibility remaining, \u201cso I\u2019m just trying to get back into the mode of playing games and playing against other competition on the live floor. That\u2019s been my focus. I\u2019m the leading scorer on my (Swish) team, so I have to provide.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davis returned to England last May and put up similar numbers in a training camp for the national team ahead of World Championships qualifying. He opted against playing in Worlds this summer, knowing he is the most veteran returnee on a largely new SDSU roster and his leadership would be needed during summer-session workouts.<\/p>\n
The Aztecs have been together about a month, and they consider Davis bullish on their prospects even if Elzie Harrington is still rehabbing offseason leg surgery and the three European pros haven\u2019t yet received NCAA clearance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been great,\u201d Davis said. \u201cEveryone is coachable, everyone listens. When we\u2019ve got to run, no one is arguing with the coaches. They just get on the line and do it and hop back in the rest of the drill. We\u2019re all gelling together well, all working hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like last year, people weren\u2019t as coachable. This year, people are coachable and willing to learn and accept tough coaching. I feel like that\u2019s the biggest difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a departure from past Aztecs rosters, half the players were born overseas \u2014 five are from Europe and 7-foot center Thokor Majak is from South Sudan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t feel like it\u2019s a different kind of game,\u201d Davis said. \u201cI feel like we might work harder. We don\u2019t take it for granted, because everybody from Europe\u2019s dream was to play in America, play Division I college basketball. They\u2019re not going to do anything to mess it up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re going to work their hardest every time possible down the floor. I feel like that\u2019s going to be good for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boyd\u2019s back<\/p>\n
A practice visitor this week was Nick Boyd, SDSU\u2019s leading scorer in 2024-25 before transferring to Wisconsin for his final season of college eligibility.<\/p>\n
Boyd averaged 20.7 points and 4.3 assists per game for the Badgers and was named second-team All-Big Ten. He went undrafted and, after interviews with more than a dozen NBA teams, played with the Golden State Warriors in the Las Vegas Summer League.<\/p>\n
Boytd signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Warriors that includes an invitation to training camp but no guarantees beyond that. The Warriors have one two-way contract still open, which allows players to move between the NBA team and its G League affiliate without being plucked by another franchise.<\/p>\n
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