Legal issues aside … if I’m a coach and the police inform me that 3 of my players have been at the scene of a murder under investigation, I am not playing them in the next game. They would be “suspended pending further information.” At a bare minimum, these guys were in a situation they never should have been in, which alone should be a violation of team rules.
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Any way it plays out, it’s all super icky and I’d take a hard pass on Oats forever after this.
That ‘Wrong place, wrong time’ and ‘boys will be boys and we cannot follow them home after practice’ type of first answer will, and should, follow him around forever. I’ve never been a fan of internet frontier justice, but after that presser and the lame up follow up “apology” statement, I was like have at it.
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yep, definitely. and i felt mazi smith should’ve been suspended for a game, too!
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Agreed with these - the best case scenario is Millers Attorney’s story is 100% true and in that case Oats is crazy for not suspending Miller (and others) multiple games. There are some things in the story that make Miller look a little better such as having dashcam footage of the whole thing and fully cooperating, and I can understand how these may legally absolve him regardless of his status as an athlete (not to say I trust everyone would be handled the same way). However, I don’t buy the total negligence painted by the story as to understanding the details of the gun, potentially not even seeing the text about bringing it, and just going for a planned pickup at the bars. But it doesn’t matter, coach Oats can buy that whole story and still say that was some dumb stuff to do against team policies and you’re suspended.
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That’s fair. I was a little surprised he wasn’t.
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Who do you think will win the National Championship?
- Houston
- UCLA
- Alabama
- Purdue
- UConn
- Tennessee
- Kansas
- the field
0 voters
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I think I’d have to get at least ten teams to not take the field this year. So wide open
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FWIW these are the current top 7 teams on KenPom
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MSU backcourt play is huge Walker AJ Akins thats at least the talk on twitter. Buy MSU stock.
Great example of why I always say to look at volume first when assessing a 3 point shooter.
Referencing someone as a 40% shooter on less than 20 attempts!
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is your thought basically that he’s probably topping (lol) out on efficiency because he only takes the easiest shots available (illustrated by the low volume), so it’s unlikely he’d maintain that as much as a guy like Jett who shoots well on contested shots? or is it more that we should read something into the fact that he only takes 1 a game - namely, the fact that his coach sees him shoot in practice every day and doesn’t scheme anything up for him means he’s probably not a “true talent” 40% guy?
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This tourney is setting up to be an all timer in terms of chaos.
I like SDSU, Texas A&M, Gonzaga, Arizona and Arkansas over a lot of the teams on that list.
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All of the above really.
The best sign that a guy can’t shoot threes is that he doesn’t shoot threes. If he as good at shooting threes in practice, his coaches and teammates would push him to shoot threes.
In this case only 14 % of his attempts are threes. That’s almost nothing.
And then there’s pretending that there’s some huge difference between 6/20 and 8/20. That’s just not a large enough sample to gauge what someone’s shooting percentage is.
I’m sure I’ve said the same thing in past about TWill or Brandon Johns when people would reference their high 30s 3p percentage despite <50 attempts.
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I’m absolutely rolling at 3-for-7 being used as a season-long data point.
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Guy runs a basketball analytics newsletter! I hope people aren’t shaming me on MSU Hoops.com or something like that for all of my terrible takes.
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So you could be 2-6 on the year and make a halfcourt heave at the buzzer, and he’d be like, “Great outside shooter!”
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Seriously, 3/7 and 4/10 for entire SEC seasons is “dead eye.”
Ahahahahahahahahaha
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I mean, we had the same discussions here w/r/t Kobe and RJ Melendez for example.
When Melendez portals though, he’ll be a buy low shooting candidate (good FT% and good 3PA/FGA despite the ugly bottom line).