How did Syracuse players do in NBA Summer League?

What's up Orange Fizz Nation? Alex Burstein here. It's one of the quietest

parts of the year for sports between all-star breaks and Olympic breaks. Not

a lot going on. One thing that has been heating up recently is the NBA Summer

League and plenty of former Syracuse men's basketball players competing for either G League or NBA roster spots for this upcoming season. We'll look today at

who's been doing really good and who needs to pick it up a little bit in the last few games of the NBA Summer League. One guy who's looked really good and he

just finished his time up at Syracuse is Judah Mintz. The guard just finished up

his time at Syracuse this past spring, tested the NBA draft while theirs went

undrafted, but was able to sign a Summer League contract with the Philadelphia

76ers and he has made the most of his time averaging 10 points per game across

three games so far, had a 16-point performance against the Trail Blazers. So

Judah Mintz, we've seen him look really good for the Orange. Now he's trying to take that skill set into the next level and these type performances are what

gets you to the next level in the NBA. A couple of guys who need to pick it up a

little bit the last few games of the Summer League. We have someone like Cole Swither who's been back and forth between the NBA and the G League, had a

Miami Heat contract but got that drop so he's looking for a contract for this

upcoming season. He's averaging nine points per game, had one big performance

21 points earlier this summer, but he might need one more big performance to

really convince another team to take a chance or have the Heat pick up another

contract for him. Swither fighting for more NBA minutes and then you have

someone like Buddy Boeheim who's been a star at the G League level for the

Pistons, struggled when he's been called up to the NBA squad and then this summer

he got moved to the Oklahoma City Thunder on an Exhibit 10 contract. He's

been underwhelming this summer, 6.7 points per game. He's a sharpshooter, so you'd like to see that number a little bit higher for Boeheim. He'll try

to clean that up in the last couple games of the summer. A couple of players

who started with Syracuse and then moved on. Jesse Edwards has looked really

strong. He moved from Syracuse to West Virginia and then Quincy Guerrier and Joe

Gerrard have both been playing for the Toronto Raptors. Not many minutes for

them. We'll see who can make the jump to the big leagues for Syracuse