Second-year players are held to different standards in Summer League. Unlike rookies, whose jitters extrude from their bodies like freshmen on the first day of high school, the sophomore class must play with confidence, show off their experience and prove they are prepared for the adulthood that is the professional ranks.
Through his first five games of the summer, Max Christie has exhibited these exact attributes.
He knows where the water fountain that has the coldest stream is on campus, which teachers to avoid, and how to open a locker with a single backhanded fist like Fonzie.