To be fair, they are/were both Finnish products (see what I did there :P)
Seriously though, I’m disappointed that neither Mike nor Miro ever really got a solid shot. Like everything else with Craig, it just seemed like another revolving door. So I don’t know that we really know how Miro would have finished up the season if he had been getting 25 to 30 min per game through the whole season.
That said, I also remember looking at the highlights from Miro’s international play and don’t remember him having this lengthy of a tape showing this much aggressive play. Granted, as you say, it’s against presumably inferior competition, but I would not be surprised in the least if it translates.
More over, it kind of has to translate, because if he comes here and doesn’t play, the likelihood is he’ll enter the portal next year and be gone. Unfortunately in this day and age, there is virtually no ROI you can assign to investing in a future player (certainly not a guaranteed one). So if they aren’t productive from the hop, then you really don’t know what their are worth to the program will be and you kind of have to assume it to be zero.
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