Austin Wiley appreciation thread

Ever since Brooklyn he's left bodies in his wake. So glad he's come alive.

But Rolling Stoned on tSECRant told me that Wiley is the worst big man in the SEC! And he's watched 8+ Auburn games, so if anybody knows it would be him!

I was at the KY game, and as a side note, there were a couple of times where the ball was blocked or rolled off the rim and the KY couldnt control and the ball would just fall into Wiley's hands. The look on his face when he realized he had the ball and quickly put it back up was priceless.

he played well along with Anferee in either fronting or putting a body on Nick Richards. It almost seemed like the play was too fast for Richards, and he just couldn't get into the flow of the game.

To me though the most important key was controlling Hagans. He is their catalyst and gets it to the right people or scores. They had to rely on their other 2 guards totally for points but they don't give it up well like Hagans can.

Wiley also helped build this program. Helped in recruiting players.

Can't say enough about Austin...IMO you can sum up who he is by the change in his FT %. Not many guys can put that kind of work in and see those kind of tangible results. He is committed.

Austin is a great person. Great in his own role. But the 1 and 1/2 year and done plan was clearly not made with thought of Wiley’s skillset. Hard to say he underperformed when something like that was probably farfetched given his limited game outside the paint though.