that we will all dislike Jerryd Bayless for the foreseeable future.

Potentially.

And I screwed up the quote box in my first post, it should have read:

All in all, the front office folks seemed very pleased with the overall play of the youngsters. As Petrie had said going in, there were "potentially six roster players" at the session. Aside from the thigh injury to Patrick Ewing Jr. that kept him out of two games and hobbling throughout, every player in that bunch drew mostly-positive reviews. And in the case of Jason Thompson, he showed much more than that.

Near the end of the fifth and final Kings game on Sunday night, my colleague Ailene Voisin asked longtime media man David Aldridge what he thought of the Kings’ first round draft pick. Like so many others during the week, Aldridge said he was very impressed.

* For those keeping track, I’m told Thompson was given the full 120 percent of his rookie scale deal by the Kings.

To clarify: I’m mostly happy with what Thompson, Hawes, Douby, Williams, Singletary, JT, Ewing Jr. showed in Summer League play…but I’m not over the moon on any of them. JT showed more than I expected, as did Singletary and Williams. Douby and Hawes showed progress, PE, Jr., not so much but I’ll accept the reports that he was injured from the first play of SL.

No, it’s not regulation play and we won’t know anything “real” until they get playing time there. But, I am fairly pleased with how well they did. Congrats to them and thanks for some entertaining play during the off-season. We’ll just have to wait and see how they all develop and how the coaches play them come November.

I’m a little tingly though for the first time in a couple of years, but that’s just me.