EB's breakdown

I may be the only one who gets it, but thanks to our purchase of Fox Soccer Channel, I also get NBA TV at home as well. I was away last week, but thankfully my DVR caught me up on Ibrahim Jaaber's work for the Pistons' summer league team.

Watching him play against Memphis on Monday, Jaaber looked pretty good overall. He was not mistake-free, but I was certainly impressed. Here's the box score, though as Andrew pointed out earlier this week, it is not very trusty because it says three players played over the game's length of 40 minutes.

In just over 14 minutes, Jaaber scored four points on 2-for-4 shooting, and added two assists, two rebounds, three fouls, two turnovers and three steals.

He started off the game with a foul two seconds in on Kyle Lowry, and a turnover short after. He settled down after that, playing the aggressive, yet controlled game we're used to seeing him play at Penn.

On offense he looked pretty good, making solid passes into the post and taking a shot when he was open. He saw a long two rattle out, missed a short jumper while trying to draw a foul, but immediately after intercepted a pass (the camera was not on the play, no idea what happened) and drained a jumper to follow. Jaaber's highlight of the night came in the second quarter when he blew by Mike Conley Jr., jumped and pump-faked in the air while splitting two defenders, and layed it up for two.

His defense was sharp as well. Jaaber was guarding Conley, the fourth-overall pick in this year's draft about 75 percent of the time he was in, the other 25 percent of the time defending 2006 first-round pick Lowry, who he also got a chance to play against while the Grizzlies' point guard was at Villanova. Jaaber did well against these two young sensations, allowing what I roughly noted as six points the whole game, mostly off of free throws.

Jaaber posted three steals, all of which off of passes, not picking the pocket of opposing guards. His nicest steal was off of a careless pass from Rudy Gay that Jaaber turned into a transition layup to teammate Arron Afflalo. He did struggle on communication defense, though. When he was being screened he often lost track of his man, who would almost always get into the lane as a result. This was, however, not all Jaaber's fault -- the hedging was particularly bad by his teammates.

Other highlights:

Jaaber, in an Allen Iverson-like move, was the only Piston on the bench at the beginning of the game to be wearing a gray warm-up, everyone else had on their jersey or a different color.

He always sat next to the assistant coaches on the bench

Wore number 7

Was used in the end of the game as an offense-defense sub. Afflalo or Rodney Stuckey (who dropped 27) were the offensive portion, Jaaber the defensive equivalent.

(More of a lowlight than highlight) Had his name pronounced three different ways by announcers Joel Meyers and Mike Smith, none of which were correct. He was first called "Jay-ber" by Meyers, then Smith said "I prefer Ja-bar" (like Kareem Abdul Jabbar), and then the rest of the game was referred to as "Ja-bear". The announcers did redeem themselves by saying Jaaber "does not look like an Ivy League player here" and claimed that "he's looked very effective"