OT: Miles Bridges declares for NBA Draft
Per official MSU basketball Twitter:
A true #SpartanDawg through and through.
— Spartan Basketball (@MSU_Basketball) March 28, 2018
Thank you for everything, @MilesBridges01!#GoGreen pic.twitter.com/O7GgqNx4ox
It’s hard for me to respect a guy that calls the team he just lost to “soft” and then proceeds to get blown out by them again. Great player, but spoiled.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:33 AM ^
good for him
March 28th, 2018 at 10:31 AM ^
well...bye
March 28th, 2018 at 10:35 AM ^
Dagnabbit
March 28th, 2018 at 10:35 AM ^
Ha! Even had the same time stamp. +1 for the great mind you have.
March 28th, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
I can't even post one of these damned things and these guys are bragging how fast they can do it?!
I suck...
March 28th, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
That's too bad.
Fingers crossed nick ward doesn't go overseas and Charles Matthews and Mo Wagner both come back. Please.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:33 AM ^
will be a good pro. I hear the Carmelo comparison, but I think he is a more explosive athlete and a less polished scorer. The comparison that jumps out to me is Michael Beasley, but with his head screwed on straight.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
#nyknicksfan
fuck carmelo! #darko
March 28th, 2018 at 10:33 AM ^
Rename it the s.s. Sparty, and watch as people jump ship.
March 28th, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^
I am hoping for some transfers. Langford and Ward specifically. Not because I think they are especially good, but because I'd like to see Ward play for someone who can utilize him better. I think he is talent wasted at MSU. Langford because I think he is broken at MSU.
And I would like to see Tom scramble for recruits.
Was Langford ever good? I asked that honestly as I don't remember. Every time I see them play, it feels like he has 4pts and 4 fouls in 15 minutes
He was a 5-star McDonald’s All-American coming out of High School. Then he went to the university where 5-Stars go to ruin.
would be better for him if he found the right system and MSU would be better without him. I think it is better for Michigan if he stays.
I don't think Langford is going anywhere this year.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:35 AM ^
year. Jaren Jackson making rush for the exits too
March 28th, 2018 at 10:36 AM ^
Only one year too late. I think he has the potential to be the steal in this draft. So many players projected ahead of him that are still such raw talent. Miles is NBA ready imo. I would take him over Mo Bamba any day.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^
During the combine and workout season, and probably get picked in the 8-14 region. He’ll be a very good pro — probably never a lead dog, but a really good #3 player that all contenders need.
March 28th, 2018 at 11:33 AM ^
I can't imagine a team selecting 8-14 is hoping to get someone who will only amount to a 3rd best player on the team role.
March 28th, 2018 at 11:46 AM ^
That's the reality, though. I just quickly glanced at the drafts from 2011-2015 and the best outcome for draft positions 8-14 are players like Stephen Adams, Klay Thompson, Andre Drummond or CJ McCollum, players firmly in the "3rd best player on a winning team" role (maybe McCollum is the 2nd best).
The only possible lead guy in those 5 drafts is Devin Booker, and the Suns are so bad that it's hard to tell what his optimal role on a good team would be.
If you go back a couple more years, you get Gordon Heyward, Paul George, and DeMarr Derozan. So you get a couple lead guys on low playoff seeds and one legitimate best player on a good team (who took almost a decade in the NBA to become that).
March 28th, 2018 at 11:55 AM ^
It's common for people to have inflated expectations for draft picks, and teams do genuinely hit the jackpot in that range sometimes -- e.g. Giannis. But for every Giannis, there's a whole lot of Michael Carter-Williamses and Shabazz Muhammeds. Getting a solid starter in the 8-14 range is a successful draft
March 28th, 2018 at 12:23 PM ^
And I don't understand why teams draft "projects". By the time these guy reach their potential they'll be done with their rookie contact and onto a different team.
Yeah, Milwaukee should not have drafted Giannis. /s
Even if he doesn't end up on your team long term, you can do a sign and trade and get a good haul in return after their rookie contract is up.
March 28th, 2018 at 12:25 PM ^
I don't understand this thinking. If you pick in the 8-14 range three years in a row, how can you possibly expect that your three picks will all be "best on the team" sort of guys? The average length of an NBA career for all players is around 5 years. In those 5 years, you have 70 players picked in the top 14 of a draft. There are only 30 teams in the league, so some of those guys are bound to be role players, especially since the guys at the top of the draft generally have much longer careers than 5 years.
This isn't the NFL where you're trying to find 22 quality starters plus competent backups, so you're reliant heavily on guys in the first and second round not busting out on you. It's much more similar to the NHL, where if you're not picking top-5, you're looking for guys that will play at a reasonably high level for a while but aren't counting on to be the centerpiece of your franchise for years.
March 28th, 2018 at 12:26 PM ^
I think teams would be ecstatic to get a good supporting player with any of their picks. Remember, most picks do not end up as a top 3 player on a good team. Most end up off your team within a couple years.
March 28th, 2018 at 12:50 PM ^
Any team picking in that range would be lucky to get a guy that can be a #3 on a good team.
None of these guys are going to come in and light the world on fire. I think he has more upside than Mikal Bridges, who is projected to go in that range.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:38 AM ^
I still wonder why he came back. Was it for glory? If so, he missed that baby by a mile.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^
Hindsight is 20/20, MUS's 2017 recruiting class was killer and there was good reason to believe this team was capable of making a lot of noise in the tournament. How was he suppossed to know Izzo was turning into late stage Ben Howland in the interim?
March 28th, 2018 at 10:56 AM ^
never really understood the hype about MSU from the beginning of the year. They were barely a tournament team the year before and got blown out by Kansas to finish the season. That was one of the worst MSU teams in recent memory in 2017. They basically had that team plus Jackson coming back. Great recruiting class or not, I never really understood why so many people expected them to go from sucking to best team ever in one year. Never made a lot of sense to me.
March 28th, 2018 at 11:34 AM ^
they got back all of their injured big guys, and their star studded recruiting class got another year older, and added a future lottery pick at center?
They're probably the most talented team in college basketball. Which makes it that much more amazing that Ben Carter was their most played big man against Syracuse.
talented team in college basketball. It may have looked that way at the beginning of the year, but not so much now. The 2016 class didn't turn out to be that great. Bridges is the only one to live up to greatness. Winston is good, Langford is average and Ward is average. The players that got healthy are all average bigs, not great. Jackson has high potential but didn't reach it this year and really wasn't given much of a chance to develope it.
They didn't have the depth that many think they do. Just because you play a lot of guys, doesn't mean that you have good depth. They were too heavy in bigs and lacked depth in guards/wings. Off the bench they brought in Tum-Tum and McQuade.
Position by position, Michigan was better. At the 1 even, 2 UM, 3 MSU, 4 MSU, 5 UM, rotation players UM and coaching UM. We're still playing and they're not.
March 28th, 2018 at 11:37 AM ^
Because Izzo is a great coach - especially in March.
Baaarrfffff... Ugh, sorry, I couldn't hold it in...
playing together in the frontcourt. They looked to have four sophomores starting and players tend to make the most improvement between freshman and sophomore year. And that lineup was three 5*s, a borderline 4/5* and a 4* in Ward who had a surprisingly strong season.
Few schools could put out a team that could match their rankings and no one else had a certain lottery pick coming back. As mentioned above, last years MSU team had a lot of injuries and everyone was back.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:39 AM ^
I wonder if last year Bridges thought that there was any chance that coming back he would hurt his game and draft stock, and still not make it out of the first weekend in the tourney or beat Michigan. Best of luck to the kid though.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:40 AM ^
Should left last year. Might have been a higher pick.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:41 AM ^
Finally, he'll get some coaching
March 28th, 2018 at 10:42 AM ^
bye Felicia.
1-3 against Michigan
2-2 in the NCAA tournament
part of the most disappointing classes in MSU history. hell of a legacy.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
Guessing Jackson will announce the same soon.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
I would not be surprised at all if Jackson returns. A lot of MSU folks are suggesting that its 50/50. Jackson's dad was an NBA player and his mom his head legal counsel for the WNBA, so their deicision making is likely different that your average family - particularly given their nba-related resources.
As an aside, they might be worried about his minutes (maybe too many?) next year given Ben Carter is graduated, so Jaren may get more than 15 minutes in the most important game of the season.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:50 AM ^
Seems like wishful thinking on MSU's part but you never know. Why a lottery pick who couldnt stay off the bench in March would ever come back seems beyond reason
March 28th, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
why would he come back? If he comes back, his stock will fall just like Bridges and the fact that Izzo refuse to play him in NCAA tournament is telling.
March 28th, 2018 at 11:32 AM ^
Maybe he wants to make his own money based on his own talent and not sponge off his parents like a kid anymore? Sometimes, believe it or not, even kids of the wealthy want to make their own living!
Huh? I just meant that it's not like he doesn't have people in his circle that are familiar with the process, have connections regarding draft forecasts, and who understand life as a professional athlete. Not sure if I ever suggested he wanted to "sponge off his parents".
They've also seen guys wait too long and flame out of the draft by not capitalizing on their stock. And they've seen, with their own eyes, Izzo's apparent determination to not play JJJ in key minutes.
The impression I got from late in the season is that JJJ wasn't happy with his coaching. He totally chewed out Fife at least once. And it's really hard to explain why Izzo wasn't playing him more.
If he is a top ten pick, I think he has to go now.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:49 AM ^
I'm surprised he didn't come back to try and have more S16 points than CJ Baird.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:44 AM ^
Get a refund of that $40 or?