After every day of games here at the Vegas Summer League, “Unsigned Hype” is going to be looking at the best performances from players who don’t have contracts with NBA teams or who were drafted by a team in the past year’s draft.  Guys who with great performances in the Summer League, may be able to play themselves into a training camp invite and maybe even a NBA contract.

Shane Edwards

When asked what he was hoping to showcase at the Las Vegas Summer League, Shane Edwards was quoted in Fanhouse as saying:

“I’d like to showcase my ability to finish strong around the basket with contact and my athletic ability to get up and down the court.”

Boy did he ever.  It helped that he was playing on the run and gun Nuggets team that were unselfishly passing the ball, but Edwards showed an ability to run the floor, fill lanes, and being able to finish with contact.  Basically, he did everything he wanted to do out there.  Edwards scored an efficient 15 points on 5-6 shooting and was able to get to the line 7 times, where he converted 5 of the attempts.  He also rounded out his numbers with 3 assists and 3 steals:

Richard Roby

Richard Roby had the same type of game as Shane Edwards, albeit a little less efficiently.  Roby did a good job of filling in wings on the break and knocking down a few outside shots on his way to 16 points on 6-10 shooting:

Coby Karl

Coby Karl didn’t have the best shooting performance of his career yesterday (just 3-8 shooting), but he did have a really solid all around game.  Anytime he was with the ball in transition, Karl had his head up looking to hit teammates filling the lane (Karl had assisted on the two dunks you see above).  This Nuggets summer league team was one of the most unselfish summer league teams I have seen in a long while, and Karl was the catalyst.  Karl was also able to get himself to to the line 10 times (while hitting 9) and added 5 assists and 7 rebounds to his 16 points:

Jeremy Lin

Many people had Lin, out of Harvard, going in the second round of last month’s NBA Draft, but instead he went undrafted and is looking to get himself a camp invite.  Lin worked off the ball mostly with Rodrigue Beaubois handling the point guard duties.  Lin looked comfortable and was able to get himself into the lane on more than one occasion.  That’s impressive because Lin isn’t the fastest guy around but he is crafty enough to find the lane (using crossovers and a decent hesitation dribble).  Jeremy Lin finished with 12 points and just 2 assists (though if his team hit a few more shots this number could have been higher), but he looked comfortable out there:

Zabian Dowdell

I was more focused on watching Earl Clark and Patrick Patterson to get a good look at Dowdell, but he did impress.  Here is what Jon L from Ridiculous Upside thought:

Dowdell showed a bit of the strict scorer’s mentality that he’s been working to shed, but overall he did a good job running the Suns offense, finishing with 16 points, four assists and three rebounds.  He was able to get into the lane and to the rim fairly easily, and in all likelihood would’ve finished with a lot more assists if the other starters didn’t miss 30 shots combined.  Dowdell has a pretty good shot at a training camp invitation somewhere.

Honorable Mention

D.J. Strawberry

Strawberry did a good job of using his athletic ability to get him up and down the court.  However, while his 14 points on 8 shots and all around activity were pretty impressive, his 5 turnovers, 0 assists, and 1 rebound was not.  The lack of production elsewhere and all the turnovers kept him off the list.