What We Learned From Vegas Summer League

1) Jeff Green is NBA-ready.
The draft's #5 pick averaged 14.6 ppg, 5.6 rpg, shot 45% from the field, and had a monster 32/13 line in the last game.

2) Kevin Durant will not immediately lead the Sonics to the NBA championship.
The savior shot only 33%, and seemed to have trouble getting his shot off against the types of tall, speedy defenders he'll see plenty of in the NBA. He did get to the foul line a lot, though, drawing 46 foul shots in 5 games. (By comparison, it took Ray Allen 10 games to get 46 foul shots in 06-07).

3) Petro and Sene are atrocious.
The two combined to shoot 16-53--that's 30% folks--from your centers. Neither averaged more than five rebounds per game. Petro managed 1.4 blocks per game, which is ok, but consider the competition--here are some of the guys who averaged more than Petro: Wilson Chandler, Louis Amundson (the explorer?), Justin Williams, James Hughes. I could go on all day. Seriously, cut these guys.

4) Brandon Heath, Kenny Adeleke and Julius Hodge have a shot at making the team.
So says the News-Tribune's Eric Williams. Both Hodge and Heath had trouble with turnovers, but you figure that's a summer league thing. Adeleke averaged six points and seven rebounds in only 13 minutes per game. Zabian Dowdell, a guard who people were following because there were pre-draft stories about him in the blog True Hoop, shot 6-21 and had 3 assists in 5 games.

5) The Seattle Times is cheap.
The largest paper in the Northwest can't afford to lodge a reporter at, like, Circus Circus for a week? Really? The P-I, News Tribune, hell, even the blog Blazers' Edge had guys filing real-time reports and game wrap-ups. The Times covered game one, but after that had only wire reports. Pick it up, Times!

(full partial disclosure: I sometimes write freelance pieces for the P-I, for which I am paid the monetary equivalent of about three tanks of gas)