Heat center Omer Yurtseven has gone through his fair share of highs and lows during the team’s summer league in Las Vegas this month, Ira Winderman of the Sun Sentinel writes.
Yurtseven, a promising 23-year-old from Turkey, recently signed a two-year contract with the Heat. Miami envisions him as part of its future, featuring him heavily throughout summer league to this point.
“I think it’s been a lot of learning, like watching the film and taking it all in,” Yurtseven said. “I’m still making those adjustments inside the game. All the coaches have been in my ear and also, OG, Udonis Haslem has been with us like for the last two, three games just giving advice.
“More reps and more reps, it’s just going to translate into the regular season.”
Here’s more from around the Southeast:
- Hornets rookie James Bouknight was recently inspired by a surprise phone call from team owner Michael Jordan, Jonathan Alexander of the Charlotte Observer writes. The 20-year-old had a poor game on Monday, spoke to Jordan and bounced back for Thursday’s game against San Antonio. Bouknight finished with 23 points and eight assists against the Spurs.
- In his latest “Ask Ira” mailbag for the Sun Sentinel, Ira Winderman explores whether Udonis Haslem could get more minutes with the Heat this season. The 41-year-old Haslem recently re-signed with Miami, committing to his 19th NBA season.
- The Magic‘s less proven players are looking to make their marks in summer league, Josh Cohen of NBA.com writes. “I think it’s a great opportunity,” said coach Jamahl Mosley. “We talked about it coming into summer league. Talking about guys learning the habits, getting the fundamentals down. Try to see the things that we are putting in place and how do they respond to it. With Jalen [Suggs] being out, how do other guys get their opportunity to do things that we’ve asked them to do.”
The Magic’s less proven players, that’s basically everyone on the team.
You should add Sengun to your screen name. Dude is going to eventually be a stud..He’s already got a more polished inside game than Mobley or any other big to come into the league in the past few drafts
I know the joke is Yurtseven’s Turk Nowitski nickname, but he low key reminds me a little of Vucevic
I watched him at Summer League. He nailed a three pointer or two so he has the range. Also looked good on the inside although he had trouble finishing.
He is a bit turnover prone in certain situations, with lazy passes, and lazy decision making in the post, and is a bit foul prone defensively, but getting him the way they did, and potentially developing him is obviously a pretty decent situation, especially considering they need a floor spacing big
Omer Turk-yurt is tall and can shoot some. K
Hoopsrumors writers – when you are using content in your articles from articles behind paywalls, please indicate it somehow if you are posting links to those articles, and do it consistently.
Something like (subscription required), after the link, which I’ve seen on here before, is good, but it’s a bit long. How about something like (sub) or (pay), or using a different color for the hypertext link, like red instead of the usual blue?)
It used to be just ESPN Insider and The Athletic that required subscriptions, but more and more media sites are. In this case, it’s the Miami Sun-Sentinel that’s added a paywall, apparently just in the past month or so.
It’s funny when these onlines make it cheap to sign up, but don’t say they want your creditcard#, with no paypal option. Gee what might they want and why?