A couple days ago, ESPN.com analyst David Thorpe did his mid-Vegas Summer League report card and Wolves first-round pick Jonny Flynn wasn’t anywhere among 14 players — Thorpe’s top 10, plus four honorable mentions — singled out.

That all changed in Friday’s 89-82 victory over Washington.

Flynn, with the Wolves playing just their third game and their first since Monday after three full days of practice,  showed why he was selected sixth overall in last month’s draft, and immediately after the Wolves already took another point guard, Ricky Rubio.

Flynn scored 21 points on 7-for-11 shooting, had five assists, three turnovers and impressed with his ability to get to the rim almost any time he wanted with an assortment of power stop-and-start moves with his dribble.

He made a gorgeous, long bounce pass to Garrett Siler for a lay-in earlier in the game, then delivered a startling no-look pass later that went right through a surprised Rob Kurz’s hands.

Flynn, who didn’t start the game while the Wolves took a look at Bobby Brown in that role, penetrated and wished to Oleksiy Pecherov and Devin Green for a pair of three-pointers late in the game, the Wolves’ summer-league victory after two opening losses.

“Flynn is like a tailback hitting the hole,” Thorpe tweeted during the game. “Explodes through and gets low in the process.”

Wayne Ellington had 19 on 6-for-14 shooting. Pecherov continues to look like he could be interesting with his outside shooting complementing Al Jefferson’s inside game with a 12-point, 8-reboung game and Siler, a big, raw rookie from Augusta State, looks like he’s starting to intrigue the Wolves as a center project with his combination of size and skills after he lost 30 pounds since the April  Portsmouth camp.

Corey Brewer’s summer-league play looks like it’s done after he played the first two games in his first action back since tearing his ACL in a game against Denver in November.

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