Who is the most important Indiana Pacers player in summer league? Furphy, Peter, Jackson, more keys

Who is the most important Indiana Pacers player in summer league? Furphy, Peter, Jackson, more keys

Summer League is here. There are games today. The Pacers are practicing. We got to hear from Tayen Peter. The roster is out. What is interesting? Who is the most interesting player on the team? What could it mean for the Pacers roster this season? We’ll talk about it all today on the Locked On Pacers podcast. You are Locked on Pacers, your daily Indiana Pacers podcast. part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day.
What’s up everybody? Happy Saturday weekend and welcome in to another edition of the Locked On Pacers podcast where we of course talk about the Indiana Pacers as always. My name’s Tony East. I cover the team for Forbes and today let’s talk some summer league, some of my favorite basketball of the year. No expectations, all hoops, all young guys trying to prove themselves. And the Pacers are getting going. Their first two practices have wrapped up their first official one with media on Friday. We got to hear from summer league head coach Isaac Jacob. We got to hear from second round pick. Uh and we got to see the squad all together and see the roster announced who is and isn’t there from the Pacers and what it could mean heading into the season. I want to talk about more so the bigger picture guys and their roster implications a little bit today. No deep dives into anybody. go deep anything today, but there is a lot of ripple effects from summer league into uh the Pacers like planning and offseason and of course you want to see improvement from the young guys as the Pacers and we’ll talk about the rookies and a few other players that are noteworthy that you need to keep your eye on when the games get rolling. It is this episode will come out on July 5th. They’re actually summer league games on that day. The Spurs and Heat play at like 4:30 Eastern. This is Utah summer league getting going. Uh, man, Pacers don’t play till Vegas, so they’re still a little bit off, but it is crazy how fast this off season went for the Pacers with how late they were playing. Okay, the summer league roster is out. I’m not going to read you the whole thing. The Pacers put it on their website. What I am going to say is to me among all these guys, there are rookies, there are two-way guys, there’s guys fighting for spots potentially on the Pacers, which we’ll get to later, but the most interesting player on this team to me undeniably is Johnny Fury. uh because he is the most I guess marquee is maybe the best way to put it returning Pacer from last year. Quinton Jackson probably had more of an impact on the season and he’ll be heavily featured here in just a second. But Fury given where they drafted him, they actually traded resources to get him last year to move up to get him. They clearly liked him. We’ve heard a lot of good things about him. They like him. like he is the most interesting guy to me in this setting because he could kind of have a launching point for his career. Remember like let’s look back in time. Remember Chris Dart’s second summer league? I don’t think many people do. Uh he played one game. He had a toe injury going in and he balled out. He had 16 points on seven shots. Defended pretty well. Lived at the line in a way he had never showed before. didn’t play again. Of course, summer league success does not mean NBA success. In fact, he was much worse in year two and has never really been an impactful NBA player ever again. But that’s the kind of what you hope secondyear summer league looks like for NBA players who are growing, right? What Jerus did last year show new stuff. What Andrew Nehard did the year before that shows new stuff. Looks like way better than everybody else, right? That’s what you hope to see. And the thing about summer league that’s fascinating to me is if you’re good, that doesn’t mean you’re going to be a good NBA player, but that means you have a chance. If you’re bad, it means you probably have no chance like at all. And so you want if you’re a team to see your players be good and you really want to see them be getting better from the previous year and we’ve seen that from the likes of guys on this team before. Um, and Jar Jar was like a little overrated I think at summer league last year. He played well. He played better. Nemar was the same. Like I thought he was awesome two years ago, but obviously had like eight or nine turnovers in that first game. But that’s what you want to see, skill growth. And so Fury last year was very interesting, right? Played in 50 games, but most of that was like garbage time appearances. And everybody who watched him in NBA settings only could see that there was something there, right? The nose for the ball was impressive. His rebounding numbers shook out really well. His steal and block numbers were good. He barely turned it over, right? That’s all great. He like everybody would say the same thing. He knows how to play, right? And that’s a good thing. you know, he didn’t have embarrassing stats. He was never like, “What is this guy doing? What’s he trying to do?” Uh, but the ball in the basket part of the game was not there for him. He shot 38% from the field last season. And even in summer league last year, I think a lot of people walked away from summer league with the same feeling, right? He played four games. He was like dunking. No one saw that coming. He got six boards a game. He almost had two steals, right? A lot of stuff that’s like, okay, Furfy knows what he’s doing. He knows how to play. And he shot 37% and he made less than 30% of his threes. And so that is what I’ll be fascinated by with Johnny Fury. It’s very clear that he is an interesting prospect. Carile said, I don’t remember the exact quote, but something to the effect of like Johnny Fury is going to be a player for us, like rotation player for us in the future. He doesn’t he did not mean this coming season. He meant at some point, but like they clearly like him. They clearly like him. The the physicality for someone of his size is very impressive. The nose for the ball stuff is like an innate thing for him. It just comes so naturally to him to to hunt that stuff down. And in the GLeague last year, ride the chance of I I like was his curse for a while. I saw him in person in the G- League, I think six or seven times and I basically just sitting courtside for those and he kind of stunk every time I’d go and then every time I wouldn’t be at the Mads game, he would be like awesome, like put up huge numbers. But in the G, he got like on ball reps and attacked the basket and do all this stuff. And he finished that season at 14 points a game, but he shot 45% and was more effective from deep than he was in the NBA in his 10 games. Um, and so he was up and down certainly, but that setting he looked good. He looked like the best player on the floor. And so he’s got some juice. He’s got more athleticism than I anticipated when he came to the NBA. But I think all of this is exciting, but it boils down to the efficiency, right? He has just got to make shots. He absolutely just has to put the ball in the basket. This is a guard heavy Pacers summer league roster in general, right? This Kraton kid, Steven Ashworth’s going to handle it sometimes. Ray J Dennis, RJ Felton, Quinton Jackson, uh, we’ll talk about why Tayen Peter’s going to be in this category. Like they have Tommy Naga even, like they have guys who are going to handle the ball. Not all of them are like high level creators for others, but they have guys who are going to handle the ball for if he can have some offball time. He should have some on ball time, too. I think a lot of summer leagues about exploring studio space with guys skills. Um, but I think he’s just got to make shots like 45 plus percent from the field and at least like credibly good three-point shooting because that’s the swing skill for him right now to me, which is interesting because it’s not what I thought it would be. But he’s just if he makes shots, I think it’s very clear what his path to minutes in the pros is is just consistency because that would prove that he’s got a baseish of a lot of skills, right? That’s what he showed last year. So, he is by far the most interesting guy to me because he could be the most meaningful pacer in the short term and maybe even the long term, too. But this guy could also make a case for that. And the second most interesting guy to me, uh, we’ll talk about the rookies as well at some point. That’s Quinton Jackson, right? Quinton Jackson was legitimately good in NBA games for the Pacers last year. He started seven times, played in 28 games on a 2-way. Like very impressive. Shot it well from the field, made threes, had some pop, and is like so fast with the ball, right? Such a unique skill. Last year in summer league, those will remember the Quinton Jackson experience of just a dreadful, dreadful, awful what is going on level first game and then was very good the rest of the games, but his first impression was very poor. Like he shot 63%, he made 46% of his threes, 11 points a game, good assist numbers, right? He played all five and he was by the end thought of differently, but he is the second most interesting guy to me because not only was he decent for the Pacers the last last year and they liked him enough to bring him back after year before that. I talked about veteran point guards yesterday and to be clear since I got comments about this from people like you forgot about Quinton Jackson. One, no, I talked about him earlier in the offseason already and two we were talking about table setting veteran free agents. He is not a table setter. He’s a good player. He’s a combo guard. Obviously, I think that it’s possible Quinton Jackson could be fighting for a standard roster spot with the Pacers with Hallebertton out for the year and they need a guardball handler pointguard, whatever you want to say. Why not Quinton Jackson who is proved that he fits well with the Pacers style at least, you know, faster with the ball. You never know with guys of his experience level, what the consistency will be. He’s only played 40 NBA games in his life, but 28 of them were last year with the Pacers and many of those went quite well. He won them games in a season where every single win mattered. He was legitimately good in wins. He had that awesome game in Houston. That was the peak of it with 24 points, but was really good and went over the Pelicans. Played well against Portland while starting. Like he was good, a good player. And that carried from summer league. And so he I think he has a chance like if he just absolutely dominates to certainly be in the mix to be the Pacers like fifth or sixth guard, whatever you want to say next year on a standard contract, right? He has an outstanding qualifying offer right now that was uh submitted to him. So he’s a restricted free agent because he’s coming off of two years on a 2A with the Pacers. His qualifying offer is actually a standard contract right now. It’s barely guaranteed like less than 100,000. So there’s no real reason for him to sign it. They would just cut him immediately if they weren’t ready for him to do that. But he he is battling for something. I think there’s a reason they brought him back. And so I wonder what he actually before talking about his specific skills. I wonder what he’s playing for contractually. We’ll talk about the two-way battle in a second. But, you know, last year they had that that two-way mix with the battle of Quinton Jackson, Enrique Freeman, Tristan Newton, and Oscar Sheway, and then ended up going to obviously the first three names with Sheway heading to Utah. Uh, I wonder if there’s going to be a battle this year as well if Jackson could be in the two-way mix again. He is technically still eligible for another season, but he did play well last year, including in summer league. The Pacers do need a point guard right now. I don’t know what type of point guard they want. Quinton Jackson’s more comboey, but how he looks in summerly will be telling if he looks awesome. And I think particularly the thing I’ll be watching with him is as a distributor, a passer, because for all the great things he did as a starter last year for the Pacers, you know, he wasn’t this highle assist guy. He didn’t turn it over very much either, though. I’m not saying he can’t pass or wasn’t asked to pass or anything. Like five assists per 36 is fine. Um, I’ll be very curious if his creation for others looks any more evolved or any more of a step forward because if he looks awesome and he’s starts with a good first impression, which was his biggest miss last year, that could be great for him, right? He could be be coming out of summerly going, man, he’s got a chance uh to make the team. And I think, you know, they have to give him that chance. He played well again. Otherwise, for him, it’s kind of boiled down to the rest of the two-way clan, right? There is him. Enrique Freeman got a qualifying offer. He’s a restricted free agent. Ray J Dennis signed a two-year two-way last year and when he signed in January, so he’s on a two-way contract right this second. There’s no money guaranteed with that. They could just cut him if they don’t want him. And then Tayen Peter was drafted 54th. Every 54th pick since the installment of two-way contracts into the NBA has been on a two-way in their first year. Like that should be the the expectation for Peter. They drafted him because they like him. So, I I would assume he’s the leader in the clubhouse odds-wise just because of that. But who of that group can do the best? Like, if Peter’s awesome, do they just give him a standard deal? What’s this going to look like? Right. And so, here’s the thing. Like, it’s so easy to say, “Well, they need a point guard, they need a center, keep one a freeman, keep one of the guards.” Yeah, that’s right now. Like, I think it’s too early in free agency to say what they actually should want positionally from their 2A right this second. Once their roster is done, I think it’ll be a little more clear that oh man, like they desperately still need point guard depth. They should keep two guys on two or something like that. So, it’s hard to say if anyone has an edge in that way, but I think it’ll just come down to like who plays the best, right? Freeman played well in summer league last year to me earned it earned the 2A that he got. Um, I thought Q played better than most people did and Newton was the highest draft pick. Bada bing, bada boom, there they go. You know, you wonder how that will look this year. If there’s actually a battle for those four guys for three spots, if the standard roster spot is a carrot to dangle in front of them that one of them could actually get it, if they play really well, how’s that going to look? Because, you know, for Ray Dennis, his passing is there. He’s been he he is a guy that makes his teammates better. Like, can he show some efficiency pop? How does his defense look out there? Freeman is very clearly this Energizer Bunny type, good, you know, good around the rim player. Like, does he add anything in terms of shot creation or jump shooting or defense? I think would be a big step for him as well. Right. Tayen Peter, we we haven’t seen it all. We’ll talk about him in this second segment here, but all those guys, the returnees from last year have something to prove and in many cases, Don Fury cases have potentially a like spot open for them on the team if they play well or prove that they can add value. And so that’s why all the NBA guys from the Pacers last year are so so so interesting to me. And Talon Peter also sneaks into that 2-way discussion. He should get something. They draft him because they see something in him. Draft picks usually get a deal of some kind. What should it be? What did we hear from him at practice on Friday? And so much more coming here on Lockdown Pacers. Before we talk about any of that, let’s talk about game time. Have you ever decided at the last minute to head to a ball game with friends or family? Maybe it’s game day and you suddenly realize you want to be in the stands. That’s exactly where game time comes in. It’s the easiest way to grab last minute tickets without the stress. 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First listen today and every single day. Your second lesson locked on women’s basketball for the weekly Fever Fridays yesterday talking about the Fever’s development on defense. They’re winning games. Tyrese Halbertton is there as they beat the Aces tweeting about buying an AR McDonald jersey or any NBA team that made an interesting transaction to you. I’m going to be tuning in to lock on Hornets pretty soon because why did a team with the Melo Ball signed Trey Man trade for Colin Saxton and signed Spencer Denwy? What’s what’s going on in Charlotte? Clock on Hornets will let me know. Um, Halleurn was there at summer league practice today in a boot. Very cool to see. He’s got his little scooter thing going on. His So, Isaac Jacob is the head coach of this team. He was with the Lakers before and then he was with the Kings with Hallebertton. They are very close. Uh, I asked Isaac Jacob about Hallebertton’s reaction to him being named the summer league coach. Obviously, he was very excited and it’s something he’s wanted to do before, right? And so, uh, he’ll it’ll be very new summer league coach after it was General Park the last two years. It’ll be interesting to see how he does, how players respond to him, things like that. Uh, but it’s always a good way to develop your your development coaches, your young assistants by giving them these kind of chances on this stage. So, congrats to Isaac Jacob. Good dude. A+ dude by all accounts. I don’t know him particularly well myself, but I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do. And it was cool to see Hallebertton around. Right. for these guys who haven’t been around like the first segment guys we just talked about. They obviously were Tyrus Halburn’s teammate last year but all these new guys popping in for summer league and they see the allNBA dude on their team is sitting there watching. It’s got to be a pretty good experience for them to see that and it’s a good first impression of the organization. So the other guys that matter obviously obviously everybody matters to some extent but the other guys that will be with a watchful eye going their way are the rookies, right? The rooks how do they look? Uh, the thing about Cam Jones is we don’t get to talk to him yet. He’s not technically a pacer right today. When this comes out, it’ll be July 5th. That trade cannot be legally executed until July 6th. So Cam Jones is technically This is so silly. It’s all I It’s not silly. It like needs to happen for the way the NBA’s order of operations works. But he’s technically on the Spurs, so we can’t talk to him. We I didn’t even see him uh on Friday myself. Perhaps on Sunday we can catch up with him. So, we’ll talk about Tayen Peter here first. We did get to talk to him. He was a Pacers draft pick uh on Friday. Really cool guy. Uh it was cool to hear him talk about where he watched the draft with at his grandma’s house and they all jumped in the pool when he got picked. Uh just a really cool story. This guy that coming out of high school thought track might be his sport in the future and then like mid-flight for a college visit, his track season gets canceled because of COVID. So, he goes to Tennessee Tech for basketball and now his career’s here. like it’s just been a really interesting journey for him. In fact, early next week, there’ll be a very special, let’s say, tailon Peter related episode of this very on this very podcast feed that I’m really looking forward to. Um, that’ll be cool. So, with him and Cam Jones, and I’ll I’ll say this again when we get to Cam, what translates will be telling, right? Can they show some of the stuff that they showed at the college level immediately in summer league? they come in and it’s very clear that oh Taylor Peter can make that kind of three or oh that athleticism pops in this way right what does he look like with new teammates because something interesting about Liberty is they’re very much a concepts team not a play calling team and that’s kind of what the Pacers are but some a little different right how does he kind of fit in and stand out with the skills that he clearly has but also the skills that he really needs to add and he talked about some of that stuff that he needs to add and he’s talked about it with the coaching staff that you know he’s probably got to add some ball handling if he’s going to be an NBA guard and the thing about the Pacers summer league team is between Jackson and Dennis and a guy we’ll talk to or talk about later and Buddy Beheim and plenty of others. Like they have lots of guys who can handle the ball or should be handling it. So it’s not like reps will be easy to come by at first, but you know if you’ve watched summer league before you know the best guys don’t play every game like as it keeps going and going. Especially if Fury starts good by the end there could be chances to be like hey Tayen Peter play a point guard for a little bit dribble it across the timeline. So, I’ll be looking forward to seeing what what is next for him from a skill development perspective, but also what pops like of the skills that got him drafted, the bounce, the shooting. Can those things be instant oncourt impact things for him? And if they do, great. Put him on a 2A. Uh, no-brainer. Don’t even think about it. Cam Jones is the same way, right? The way he played in college was such a hoot. Uh, especially that that last year at Marquette, you dribbles across half court. Here comes two ball screens. Cam Jones, get open, make a play. He could score. he could pass better once Kolk was gone. Uh what’s he going to look like in this setting, right? Are they going to give him the keys that often right between again Jackson and Dennis and him? That’s a lot of ball handling. You know, what role does he get? How much is he on the ball? How much is he off? And what do they want him to be in the pros? Like, do they want him to be a one? Do they want him to be initiating? Or they want him to have some of that offball pop that he showed as a junior when his efficiency was better, but his passing numbers were worse? That will be fascinating. And what can he show in both settings? You know, did he learn how to blend them much at Marquette? Where is he more comfortable? And then the other part is what translates. Same as it was for Tailon Peter, what does and doesn’t translate? Is this very natural craft as a finisher and scorer? Is that is that there right away for Cam Jones? Is there other stuff he’s going to need to show? And for both of these guys, you know, what’s your defense going to look like? It’s kind of harder to get for me to get a feel for for defense at the college level. I thought that Cam Jones was uh a was less attentive of an offball player but was a better onball defender, right? How does that kind of stuff for both those guys translate uh into the summer league setting and you just never know with defense uh like Jarus last year was stealing everything but had some inattentive moments. You know, you just want to see what everybody’s total packages and that’s why I like going to summer league. probably be at the first two, maybe three games because seeing them in person is so much easier to kind of identify their focus level, what they’re doing in timeouts, all that kind of stuff as it applies to that sort of defensive stuff. So, of the important and important, I keep saying, and that that makes it seem like the rest of the players aren’t important, they are. But of the guys with the most obvious tangible path to impact for the Pacers in the short and long term, that’s my overview of what summer will be like. You could get much more nitty-gritty on all these guys if you want and maybe I will before the games actually start. There are some other guys to at least like eyeball emoji watch this guy. One is buddy Beheim who played two seasons for the Pistons and I think last year was with the OKC blue in the G-League. Uh two years of pro experience is obviously something he’s on paper a good shooter in the NBA. He hasn’t shot it very well. I say that because like last year Dakota Matias who similarly had two years of NBA experience and on paper but not quite in practice in the NBA was a good shooter did shoot it well right for the Pacers in summer league last year and was like their sixth seventh player kind of their extra starter because guys who know how to play and can shoot and provide spacing make it easier on everybody else and in a summer league setting where everything’s kind of crazy and chaotic and it’s like oh these are half new teammates and a new coach and all that like there’s just a lot of clunky key play and so having guys who know what they’re doing and are out of the way and very helpful can be important. So I bet Buddy Beheim’s a guy who is rotation bound pretty early in this process. We’ll see what he actually looks like. Obviously the son of Syracuse legendary coach uh Jim Beheim. So can he show anything? Will he be Matias? Does he play well enough to like do the boom on him? Anything like that? Philip Wheeler’s on this team. Um he’s a bigger forward who played for the Sixers for five games last year. I don’t know much about him, but anybody who played in the NBA literally last season and then he went actually for a stint in Puerto Rico to play too. Um, what can they show? Can they be of note? Because if you’re 23 and you have NBA experience, yeah, give them a look, see how that goes. But I know very little about him. As for the Boom guys who are back, there’s only two. Uh, Kay Tommy Naga returns. Uh, he didn’t play much in the G-League last year for the then Mads. He was lower in the guard rotation, but has that crazy good shooting numbers from Nebraska, right? Does a year of offseason time at the pro level get him going a little bit more? How does he perform if when when he’s given chances? He’ll be interesting, but I think the more interesting boom player to me is Josiah Jordan James. I don’t know if people remember him from last year. He had a pre-draft workout for the Pacers and it was nowhere because Aaron Smith was there. Aaron Newmith actually delayed his flight out of India after the season to watch it because they were really good friends growing up. They played together a lot at in the high school and earlier levels and he played summer league for the Pacers last year was like just kind of a guy. He was okay and then he goes to the Mads and he starts the season it’s like this guy’s okay I guess. By the end of the year I mean he was playing every game and his stats weren’t like crazy but I think Josiah Jordan James was maybe the Madden’s most improved player from start to finish of the season last year. He got a lot better. His shot got more crisp. He got way more comfortable on both ends of the floor now being back for round two, right? Does that translate to summer league play? Does he actually look interesting and good? Because he’s a wing who’s kind of interesting at a lot of things. He is 25, but you know, if he can be good again and get a second chance to pop in that boom program, you never know. Like the Mads, excuse me, the Pacers have promoted a Mad Ant player like basically every year at some point. Um, so I’ll be interested in him. How much does his ascension continue? because he was he by the end of the year was a solid and well-earned rotation guy for the boom every single game. All the rest of the guys on the team, I’ve done like research on who they are, but I don’t know a ton about their game and what they will be providing to this team and obviously then when their roster gets updated once the Cam Jones trade comes through. More clarity there. But lots of guards, lots of ball handling. I’m looking forward to seeing it all. Tomorrow we’ll talk about who knows. I keep waiting to delay these to record during the day to see if any moves happen. The Pacers still haven’t signed anybody. So, if they do, that’s obviously topic number one. If not, h there’s plenty of things to talk about. It’s a big offseason for the Pacers. Uh, and some moves might become official on Sunday. So, then there’s obviously lots of stuff to talk about. Thank you guys so much for listening today. You can find me on Twitter and Blue Sky. This podcast is locked on Pacers on Twitter and Instagram. We will see you tomorrow.

The Indiana Pacers held their first summer league practice on Friday. Whe are the most important players on the team, and what does it all mean for the roster this season? Host Tony East breaks it all down.

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