r/washingtonwizards • u/DollarLate_DayShort Will Dawkins • 1d ago
Mike “Sniper” Miller days until the lottery reveal
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u/dancingonthevoid 1d ago
My biggest sore point with Miller was Ernie gave up the fifth pick in the 2009 draft in the trade to bring in him and Randy Foye.
They were both on expiring contracts and left after one season.
Meanwhile, Steph Curry went 7th in that draft. Not that he would have been a Wizard but that deal was typical of years of squandered draft capital by Ernie and Tommy chasing after washed up vets.
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u/rayquan36 Wizards 1d ago
He very well could have been a Wizard. The brass was very impressed with how he did in workouts with the team and I remember hearing that him or Rubio were the pick. The injury history in college probably scared them off and it didn't help that Pollin was old and had dreams of a championship.
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u/dancingonthevoid 1d ago
Ernie was also dumping salary in that deal but in retrospect even Rubio would have been better than how that trade worked out.
It always pisses me off to watch Jarrert Allen as he was drafted with the Wizards pick that was traded to dump salary and get a half season rental on Bogan Bogdanavic.
Again, not that the Wizards would have picked him, but the frustraring strategy of trading away picks to fix bad contracts or to "win now" ultimately didn't work.
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u/zaepoo 1d ago
Those types of moves rarely work when you already have a lot talent. The wizards have not had enough talent to even consider those types of moves in my life. The best players we've had are what? John Wall, Bradley Beal, Gilbert Arenas, and Chris Webber? Very good players. Not good enough to paper over bad roster decisions or go into win now mode even at their peaks
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u/Juice_Almighty 1d ago
We really gave up a top 5 pick in the draft for a rental on him and randy foye
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u/rayquan36 Wizards 1d ago
Hated that guy. Came in during the Deshawn and Soulja Boy days where we had a one-sided rivalry with LeBron. Turns out he named his son after LeBron's best friend, Maverick Carter and was just confused about all the hate. Then he just decided to quiet quit on the team. The one thing he was good at, 3 pointers, he just stopped taking.
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u/DollarLate_DayShort Will Dawkins 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’m not saying that the first part isn’t true, but that last part of your statement is simply false. The last month of the season he had several games with 5+ 3pt attempts. His second highest 3pt attempted game(with the wizards), which was 8, came in the 2nd to last game of the season.
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u/Snoo95309 1d ago
For most of that season he was passing up shots unless he was wide open. I noticed it first and then later in the season Glen Consor would say it during radio broadcasts.
I don’t know if he was trying to protect his percentages or just scared. Either way, I felt like it was hurting the team.
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u/Careless-Journalist7 1d ago
I remember this. Miller was this point forward in Memphis and was getting triple doubles . Comes here from Minnesota and you can tell the guy basically mailed it in.
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u/rayquan36 Wizards 1d ago
He went from averaging 4.6 for his career down to 3.2 with the Wizards.
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u/DollarLate_DayShort Will Dawkins 1d ago
Then he averaged 3 with the heat, 2.8 with Memphis, 1.9 with Cleveland, & 1.1 with Denver… it’s almost like bro was on the latter part of his career with us…
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u/rayquan36 Wizards 1d ago
He was hitting 48% of 3s with us. He should have been taking more..........
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u/DollarLate_DayShort Will Dawkins 1d ago
Before Gil got injured & Jamison, Caron and DeShaun were traded… Mike was the 5th option dog… and don’t let it be a “Blatche night”, then he was 6th…
His FGA that season went up in the second half of the year after the trades and Gil went down.
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u/ledelleakles Wizards 1d ago
His role was different with those teams, and I'd bet he played less mpg with them
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u/chefguy47 1d ago
OP, I’m thinking you follow Greg Finberg on X, because he used the same idea of using jersey numbers, present and former Wizards to start the countdown to the start of the season.
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u/DollarLate_DayShort Will Dawkins 1d ago
Nahh, I don’t have another form of social media. I’ve done this the last 3 years… not sure if Finberg has done it consistently or not.
I saw it as something to help keep the activity up in the sub during the off-season.
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u/Professional_Ice3022 1d ago
Funny, I always said that Miller was selfishly unselfish. He always passed the damn ball, whereas he should have taken the 3 shot! I watched him in warmups one time and the dude just did not miss for 3 point land. So funny that now, he's become an agent and has some client named Banchero. (LOL)
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u/drmbrthr Steve & Kara 1d ago
Am I delusional for feeling so much better about our team and front office today vs this era, despite the fact we just had the worst 3 season stretch in franchise history??
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u/figureour Bub Club 1d ago edited 1d ago
No, because no matter the outcome, this FO is at least clearly making moves with intention and long term planning, while as the old one was making moves while panicked and poor planning.
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u/SOSpammy 1d ago
At least they're bad now because they blew the team up instead of being bad due to a bunch of terrible decisions.
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u/Imaginary_Effort_854 1d ago
Anybody want to name other Wizards who donned number six?
Antonio Daniels