The Warriors’ 2009-’10 season officially started today, with a game against the Houston Rockets in the Las Vegas summer league. Summer league is nothing if not exquisitely-played basketball so I was pretty excited to sit down and watch two rosters filled with guys who will be working at Home Depot in eighteen months play a ballgame.

First things first: the Houston Rockets are in trouble. The best prospect on their summer league team is either Chase Budinger or Joey Dorsey. Enough said there. And when you combine that with the fact that there’s a real possibility that Shane Battier is going to be their best player during the season, I’d say it’s going to be a long season for the Rockets and their fans.

The Warriors’ outlook is a little brighter. Their summer league team has three legitimate prospects—Anthony Randolph, Stephen Curry and Anthony Morrow—and they have at least one player on their team who is better than Shane Battier.

But on to the game.

Morrow was out with a sprained ankle so you had to figure Randolph and Curry would do the bulk of the heavy lifting. And they did. Both players came out extremely aggressive in the first quarter.

It didn’t take long for Randolph to show why people are so high on him. He had twelve points in the first quarter, with the points coming on a variety of post moves on the block and jumpers. He waited until the second quarter to put someone on a poster. It also didn’t take long for the announcers to start saying that spectators were watching a “a future star” who can “pretty much do anything he wants if his mind is in the right place.”

That said, Randolph also showed why he’s nowhere near a finished product and why he caused Nellie to drink six post-game scotches instead of four last year. He was out of control with the ball every other time down the floor, he turned the ball over and he bit on average pump fakes from average basketball players while trying to block every shot someone threw up (you can get ten fouls in summer league and he picked up 9.)