The Brooklyn Nets go into Sunday’s final game of the Summer League vs. the Charlotte Hornets with a bit of a mix of positives and negatives from their first round games, three of them wins. The game, which starts as 6:30 p.m. ET, will be broadcast on YES and ESPN U.

At one end of the spectrum is Jalen Wilson who in addition to being the fourth best scorer in Las Vegas at 24.3 points a game, leads the league by a wide margin, 20 to 13, in 3-pointers made while hitting 55.6% of his attempts a doubling of what he shot last summer. He also won two games in overtime after twice putting up double digits in the fourth quarter to get them there. He’s also shown leadership throughout.

“It just shows the grit, it shows the heart that we have,” Wilson said after Thursday’s win over the Magic. “We kept our composure through games that we have been down. Or like this game, we were up this game and kind of let the lead go away. So, we just showed our composure and showed our will to win.”

As Brian Lewis reports Saturday, the 6’8” wing is “a legitimate contender for Summer League MVP. He’s been as good as any player in Las Vegas.”

Meanwhile, Noah Clowney has picked up where he left off at the end of last season in Brooklyn, shooting 38.1% from deep and playing solid defense, averaging 1.5 blocks and 1.3 steals per game. Overall, he’s averaging 14.3 points, about 10 better than last season.

On Friday, Tim Legler of ESPN had this to say about Clowney’s game, calling him one of seven Summer League players he’s been impressed with.

“His defensive presence and ground coverage was super impressive... I was very impressed that a guy that is that long has that much awareness to be there early,: said Legler.

“I was watching him before the game shoot the basketball, he definitely has a stroke that is going to translate out to perimeter shot-making regardless of his percentages in Vegas or whatever they were last year. I think he’s going to eventually be a guy that can stretch it out to the three-point line because his mechanics say that that’s possible for him... I think it’ll happen for him.”

Keon Johnson, who was signed to a non-guaranteed deal Saturday, has shown some defensive chops as well as his often spectacular athleticism, more under control than he’d shown in his previous 82 games with the Los Angeles Clippers and Portland Trailblazers.

That’s all good but there is the worrisome element in Dariq Whitehead’s time on the court. He rested vs. the Magic and he probably needed a breather at least mentally. After coming back from his latest leg surgery in January, his third in an 18-month span, there’s was some hope that fans — and Nets staff — would see the 6’7”, 220-pound wing that dominated high school basketball at Montverde Academy and was Duke’s top recruit before being laid low by the scapel.

Whitehead has shot just 4-of-34 from the floor and 2-of-21 from behind the arc in the three games he played. He has shown some spark, particularly on the defensive end, but his first step is not yet what it was.

Wilson says he’s encouraged his teammate.

“That’s all it is: Just keep shooting. When you miss, shoot again, and have the confidence that it’s gonna go in,” Wilson said. “Summer League, there’s ups and downs that we all know, there’s adversity. But his mindset is straight, his confidence is straight, and that’s all you can ask out of a basketball player.

“There’s times where it’s not gonna go in, but he picks it up defensively, he picks it up being a great teammate. That’s what makes him a good basketball player. It’s not all about shots going in. At the end of the day, there’s a million other ways to impact winning. So he understands that.”

Indeed as Lewis wrote, “He put the clamps on Knicks rookie point guard Tyler Kolek, and came up with a big steal during the rally to win that game as well.”

Meanwhile, Jacob Gilyard has left the Nets summer league team. No word yet on whether the 5’9” 26-year-old will sign with another NBA team of head overseas.

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