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Patrick Mills: NBA Draft Profile
February 24th, 2009
by Jeff Fox
Patrick Mills
College: Saint Mary’s (CA)
Class: Sophomore
Position: PG
Height: 6’0”
Weight: 175lbs
Accolades: Australian National Team, Honorable Mention All-Freshman - CHN (08), Mid-Major Freshman of the Year - CHN (08), First Team
Mid-Major All-Freshman - CHN (08), First Team All-WCC (08), WCC Newcomer of the Year (08), Australian Under-19 National Team, Australia Junior National Men’s Team.
Scouting Report: A diminutive, explosive scoring point guard.
Strengths: Lightning quick. Great at splitting double teams. Can get past the defense and to the rim whenever he feels like. Can hit jumpers over taller defenders. Very good scorer for a point guard. Strong free throw shooter. Deep range on his jumper. Quick hands gets him lots of steals. Confident and poised. Great experience playing internationally for Australia.
Weaknesses: Undersized for the NBA - probably is really under-six feet. Needs to get physically stronger. Missed a large chunk of his sophomore year due to injury. Poor shot-selection - barely shoots over 40% from the floor. More of a scorer than a playmaker - almost averages as many turnovers as assists. Takes a lot of shots. Settles for outside jumpers too often. Horrible at drawing fouls.
Projected 2009 Draft Range: Late lottery to mid first round pick.
Consensus: Patrick Mills’ outstanding Olympic performance opened a lot of people’s eyes as to what kind of NBA player he could be. But realistically, he is a vastly undersized point guard who looks for his own shot first, which doesn’t add up to a super promising NBA career. He needs to prove he can play like a true point guard to ensure himself a long career.
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Comments
Patty Mills
Submitted by You have no idea (not verified) on Wed, 2009-05-13 01:13.
What a ridiculous assesment of Patty Mills. You are a typical ignorant American who is insular and thinks the world outside of the USA can't play basketball.
Mills smashed Paul and Williams at the Olympics and also in the warm up game, look for him to go top 15.
American
Submitted by Jeff Fox on Wed, 2009-05-13 08:55.
Sorry, I'm not an American, so that would probably rule me out of your "typical American" slur.
Patty Mills
Submitted by You have no idea (not verified) on Fri, 2009-05-15 08:44.
The last time I looked Jeff Canada was in North America. It's not a slur, it's fact, you guys get so wrapped up in the US College system when in reality it is an average to above average standard. This was proved many times by the USA's inability to medal at the Olympics or World's before they bought the Pro's back in.
The facts on Mills are that he burnt Lithuania, Russia and The USA twice when playing at several levels above College Ball last year.
I would be basing my assessment of Mills on these tournaments rather than St Mary's vs San Diego in some 3000 seat stadium out in Moraga.
Mills is quality, is proven at the next level and unlike most of these so called studs who most will end up as dud's, is humble. Too many of these College kids get wind blown up their ass that they will be top pro's. How in the hell can Brandon Jennings be projected so high when he cant even get game time for his Euro club?
Take a reality check all of you mock drafters and look outside of the USA border.
patty mills
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-06-04 13:23.
i would be very surprised if her was still there at pick 20 , showed he can play against quality collage teams let alone NBA stars and the best euro's had to offer . just ask chris paul , kobe bryant and dwayne wade if he can play , all got burnt by his lightning speed , yeah maybe only just 6 foot , but plenty of players have managed in the nba at the 5'10 to 6'2 mark , not the best PG in the draft but he's deserves to be up there. who ever picks him up won't be dissappointed , not sayin he's gonna be the next chris paul or allen iverson , but he will play his part as surprise a lot in his wake , my opinion is that he is the best australian talent in the last 20 years , bogut ain't got nothin on this guy
Would give Ty Lawson a run
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-06-25 18:19.
Would give Ty Lawson a run for his money.
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About Jeff Fox
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Background
Jeff Fox is a freelance journalist based an hour outside of Toronto, Canada. While attending University of Waterloo (Canada) earning a B.A. in Economics and Management Studies, Jeff managed to walk onto the school’s varsity basketball team, the Warriors, for 2 seasons. His final year riding the pine for the Warriors saw the team make it to the CIS (Canada’s NCAA equivalent) Final 8 tournament. In addition to this site, he is a regular contributor to SLAM magzine (& online) and The Hoops Manifesto. When he isn’t planted in front of his computer he spends the rest of his time with his wife, Lisa, his son, Adam and his dog Jeannie.
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Patty Mills
I have watched patty play for a number of years now, plenty of talent, extremely quick, shot 20 pts against USA all star olympic team, he turened the likes of chris paul and lebron inside with his speed to the hoop, if your team drafts him be very happy....