The-Power wrote:It's obvious that people will now overreact to a poor stretch of games (or those who never bought him as an elite prospect will see this as a good opportunity) but I'll just say that we have seen enough of him against legit competition to know what his strengths and weaknesses are. You can be high or low on him (all fair enough) but anyone who dramatically alters their big board after a couple of games is not doing genuine analysis and evaluation but knee-jerk punditry.
I'm not overreacting. I'm admitting that I've been fraudulently overhyping 4s forever and this type of player, who I think should be more impactful in the league, almost never ends up being that, and I'm coming to terms with this so need to start reevaluating how I project these guys. Even the better and more successful 4s that fit this description, the few that actually amount to anything, are at the end of the day role players. You either have the ball in your hands or you don't. If a player is dependent on others for creating for them, they shouldn't be ranked so high, so I no longer will.
Miller isn't an elite athlete. His handle is adequate but nothing special. He CAN pass but only against inferior competition where his size/length advantage comes into play. He CAN shoot but it's 3 or nothing else and as we've seen from others (Jabari) if that goes away you need to be able to create other looks and I'm sorry but Miller can't. It's not like he's being taken off my board, it just means he can't be in the top of the lottery. He'll still be a likely starter at the next level but he's not special. He's not even the prospect I think Smith was and still is because Smith can defend better and I trust his BBIQ and shot more than Miller.
I didn't know he was supposedly injured. He didn't look any different to me tonight than he has in any of the other dozen games I was able to watch him play this season so that excuse doesn't convince me.
