Edmond Sumner and the Semaj Jumpshot Conundrum

Edmond Sumner is an unholy kind of fast. He’s the kind of fast that kind of makes you want to try to guard him once just so you could, briefly, see it up close. In the open court, or anywhere where he can get an uncontested first step, he’s simply impossible to stay in front of for any length of time. Semaj Christon, now with the OKC Thunder, was also fast. Christon never had the speed that Sumner has been blessed with, but no Xavier player ever has. What the players do share in common is a real difficuly knocking down jumpers.

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Neither Christon nor Sumner is much of a jump shooter. (It’s worth noting here that Ed goes left far, far better than Semaj did, though that’s not the…