Preseason Game #2 is in the books and while they didn't pull out the victory, my statement about preseason games still stands. Scores don't matter. We saw some good performances and we saw some bad performances. Without reading too much into it and dubbing guys stars or not, this is strictly about today's game vs the Knicks. Pritchard, Banton and Svi shined. Hauser and Kornet looked bad. Everyone else was kind of right in the middle. Since everyone seems to be obsessed with Queta and Gabriel, I will say neither of those guys impressed me in the slightest but they looked marginally better than Kornet did. Queta is a big physical guy but might actually be too physical as he was fouling every second he was on the court. Gabriel also looked like he was playing at 1.5x speed and was completely out of control.

Pritchard had a tough start to the game but really pulled it together ending the night with another 20+ pt performance. Banton played really well and as a 6'7" PG adds a lot of versatility to the lineup. He certainly got to the rack a bunch in this one. While they were both great, it seemed like Svi Mykhailiuk surprised me the most. He ended the night with 15pts on 3-7 from 3 but it was the energy that was contagious with him. He caught a transition alley oop from Davison and then had a beautiful putback on a Lamar Stevens miss. He was running everyone and was effective all night. We didn't see any of our top 6 guys but this was certainly a fun tryout for guys 7-15 on the roster and I'm excited to see how this unfolds in the next two preseason games.