Not long ago, according to Lithuanian basketball media reports, Emanuel Mudie was expected to join Lithuanian basketball club Zalgiris Kaunas next season, and sources revealed that if there is an NBA team to do, then he will not travel to Lithuania.
To be honest, every year the NBA has a large number of such players, because they can't find a home, they have to go to overseas leagues to pan for gold, but what really surprises us is that this kind of thing actually happens to Mudiel, you know, Mudie is the seventh pick of the class of 2015, and he is only 25 years old now.
Starting from Mudiel's attention, the reason why Chinese fans have special feelings for Mudie, mainly because Mudie did not go to the NCAA after graduating from high school, but joined the Guangdong team of the CBA, although this year was not a success, but Mudie developed a love for China, on the night of the draft, he specially embroidered the Chinese flag inside the suit, and for this reason, Mudière received the nickname of "Chinese Boy".
In the 2015 draft, Mudiel was selected by the Nuggets with the seventh pick — lower than expected, but also a high pick, and behind him were Myrstener, Booker, Oubre, Rozier and others, the latter of whom had all already received big contracts.
As for Mudiel, his career development can be said to be very unsmooth, the Nuggets only trained him for two and a half years before sending him to the Knicks, after the rookie contract expired, and then briefly joined the Jazz, last season, Mudiay has been unattended, did not appear in the NBA for a whole year.
In other words, Mudiel has become a marginal figure in the NBA.
If you want to say the reason, it is nothing more than poor ability - Mudiay's scoring means are quite many, but not as proficient, the end of the basket is not good, three-point shooting is not enough, take the rookie season, he can average 12.8 points, 3.4 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game, it looks not bad at all, but behind this is 3.2 turnovers and a true shooting rate as low as 43.7%.
Offensive inefficiency and a high turnover rate have accompanied Mudiay almost his entire career, as did he during the Knicks — in a year and a half of playing for the Knicks, Mudiay averaged 13.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game, but his turnovers were as high as 2.2 times, and his true shooting percentage was only 50.9%.
In the 2020-21 season, Mudiel joined the Jazz with a base salary, when his true shooting percentage increased to 54.3%, but the sample was too limited, because he only played 15.7 minutes and scored only 7.3 points, which was not convincing.
It is worth mentioning that Mudiel also participated in the Las Vegas Summer League as a member of the Blazers this year, and the performance is not bad, in five games, Mudie can average 10.2 points, 2.8 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game, shooting 48.9% from the field, 33.3% from three-point range, and shooting 55.6% from the field.
Judging from the summer league and a season with the Jazz, Mudiel actually still has the strength to mix in the NBA, and the problem is that teams in the league don't seem to need a player like Mudiel now:
The strong teams have already completed the reinforcements, and the bench needs more stable scorers than players like Mudiel, who have a high ball holding rate, low scoring efficiency and many mistakes.
The rebuilding team almost has a rebuilding core, so many young players, the 25-year-old Mudiel has long passed the "scratch award" period, and the scratch is still that thank you.
Therefore, the situation belonging to Mudiel is a bit embarrassing, hoping that a team can see the excellent performance of the summer league to give him a chance, but more likely, the "Chinese boy" has to go overseas to pan for gold, and returning to the CBA in the future is also an option.