Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vesini, we're presented by The Athletic.

Today on the show, Matthew Penny is in the building, and we have an important public service

announcement for everyone.

Max Struce is loose, folks.

He's flying around Las Vegas, flying off of screens, making threes. Everything is happening right now in the Las Vegas Summer League. Matt Penny is here. We're going to break down what we've seen so far look like. I'm in Australia. This is the first time I haven't been at Summer League in probably like seven years, six years. Penny is certainly not in Las Vegas. He's in Massachusetts. And we haven't seen every game. We haven't paid attention to every single thing that's happening. If we're going to be honest, like, and this says more about the amount of Castle that I've watched than about Summer League.

I've probably watched more episodes of Castle in the last week than I have Summer League games.

If only because Castle's like the best TV show to play video games too.

It's just so dumb and silly.

And it has the same beats every episode.

But I digress. Penny is here. we're going to talk a little bit about the las vegas summer league matt penny how you doing uh you called this at

the right time because i think your normal NBA crew is all out at Vegas and i have watched and I kind of feel like it's a little

bit of our watching these rookies. It's like driver's ed and they have like their learners

permits. We're making sure like before they get on the real road that they know what they're doing.

And then when the season starts, we'll let it run a little bit and we'll circle back. But for now,

my brain is is sort of stuffed and ready to unload the clip of what I've

seen and kind of my takeaways because, oh boy, the hot takes on the Twitter machine are coming

out fast and furious, if you will. So it changes by the day. It changes by the game. I wrote up a

bunch of stuff and then in the background. I wrote up a bunch of stuff.

And then in the background, I watched two games waiting to kind of start this and

you can kind of throw out your stuff out the window because so much really just shifts

between what we're doing here.

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