Daxter Miles of West Virginia is a dirty player
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Inexcusable 22 second mark.
Huggy bear do the right thing and suspend him. That is not needed in our game. And think KU has to play this guy at least twice. Fear for our kids.
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Huggs apparently has had enough of the new rules and has decided to drag the game back in the sewer, where he likes it.
Did you see the guy that escorted Daxter to the locker room? He looked like a bouncer in a strip joint!
I’m afraid Huggie is backsliding into darkness…again.
It’s going to be very ugly.
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Blatant elbow; nice flop. Flagrant 1
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His nickname is THUGgins for a reason. Do you remember his years at Cincy? Dirtiest team in CBB.
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Huggins probably high fived him for it after the game.
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@BeddieKU23 There’s no excuse or call for this type of behavior in the game. If huggy doesn’t suspend him the NCAA should, five games.
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Y’all see Latin for OU try and fail at flopping?
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@kjayhawks did they just ignore it?
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@nuleafjhawk he’s probably killed a few lions himself!
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@nuleafjhawk We can fear all we want, but it’s a big boys’ game. If our “kids?” fear, then they should just stay home … JMO
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@globaljaybird think he meant they better fear doke!
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Does anyone think that Huggins or any other coach, with the exception of John Chaney, encourages or condones this type of behavior? I would think not as it would certainly be counterproductive in the short as well as in the long term. Players/teams with this type of reputation get extreme scrutiny from the refs and a very short leash, definitely not something you want.
Having said that, has Daxter Miles done something like this before? He was an honor roll student in HS and he has been Academic All-Big 12 First Team his first two years, not the type of player you would expect to act like this. I am not defending him or condoning what he did, I just don’t know enough about him to label him one way or another with the information at hand; I am sure none of us would label EJ a dirty player for his one time nut hit, would we? Just curious if someone has more information on him.
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@JayHawkFanToo said:
Does anyone think that Huggins or any other coach, with the exception of John Chaney, encourages or condones this type of behavior? I would think not as it would certainly be counterproductive in the short as well as in the long term. Players/teams with this type of reputation get extreme scrutiny from the refs and a very short leash, definitely not something you want.
Having said that, has Daxter Miles done something like this before? He was an honor roll student in HS and he has been Academic All-Big 12 First Team his first two years, not the type of player you would expect to act like this. I am not defending him or condoning what he did, I just don’t know enough about him to label him one way or another with the information at hand; I am sure none of us would label EJ a dirty player for his one time nut hit, would we? Just curious if someone has more information on him.
I don’t know if this is another character reference but Miles did mouth off his freshman year before the UK game in the NCAA’S and they made him pay dearly for it… it’s not a correlation to the play on Saturday but just pointing out this isn’t the first time he’s negatively in the news. I think that play was dirty and don’t need to see him prove it again to think that. Not saying he should be painted a dirty player if he learns from it but that elbow had a lot of intent and I don’t want to see one of our players be on the receiving end
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Excellent topic!
The Big 12 is currently evaluating that situation. I’m sure of that because all severe flagrant calls get evaluated. I hate to say this… but if that same play had happened in Big 12 play, you would have definitely seen a suspension by the Big 12.
I haven’t heard if Virginia filed a formal complaint with the Big 12, but they should have if they didn’t. No way this kind of play can be tolerated. If this punk came to Lawrence and tried that, he would be hanging from a tree within 2 or 3 minutes. Fans would storm the court and take him outside.
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Daxter Miles said about UK:
“I give them them their props. Salute them to getting to 36-0. But tomorrow they’re gonna be 36-1.”
I don’t see anything wrong with that other than youthful, boastful enthusiasm giving the other team bulletin board material and not uncommon and no dirty play involved.
My point was that he averages 2 fouls per game at 16 mpg, so it does no appear to be a fouling machine. I saw the foul and there is no question it looks pretty bad. The question was whether this type of play was typical or an abnormality and from what I have seen, together with his apparent academic excellence, appear to indicate the later, that’s all.
