MirORich
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This guy is garbage. I don't care if it's only one game. Some guys you can just tell whether they have it or not. He put up 6 points (1-9 FG), 1 rebound, and 1 block in 17 minutes. Plus, you have to keep in mind he's one of the oldest guys out there at 23.
Actually the summer league has tons of guys his age and older. MOst of the guys are 4 year players at college. Then you have the guys who have already been in the NBA 1-2 years. Then you have the invites like DJ White/Shurna who have been playing pro overseas for years. The stars of summer league are the young first round rookies, but Christmas is not "old" in comparison to the majority of the players there.
Additionally, Christmas's last real game was on March 7th. Syracuse didn't play in the conference Tourney or the NCAA Tourney due to sanctions.
On top of that, he's playing man to man for the first time in games since probably HS/AAU after four years at Cuse.
He looked pretty horrible tonight and he may very well never be a good player, but I don't think you can judge that solely on what you saw tonight.