What’s up with Bethea?

Must be in the doghouse is all I can figure

I feel like I’ve been the most vocal person about it on the board and I’ve stopped beating my head against the wall and accepted that for whatever reason Oats just isn’t going to play him. You’re right that it doesn’t make sense, but I’ve accepted that we won’t ever get a reasonable answer


Oats earlier in the year said he was working his way in and getting “used to blue collar basketball”. Well, when are about 7 of our regular rotation guys going to consistently play blue collar?

The crazy thing is, he plays hard when he’s in. He tries on d, crashes the glass, boxes out.

This really sucks because I think he’d be a great player for us, but we wasted a year of his eligibility and he’s a high profile player. You have to hope other transfers don’t look at this and not want to chance coming in to be 10th off the bench.

It's wild. He does talk some and mug a little, but he dives for loose balls and scraps out there. I have seen complaints about him being a bad shot taker, but i haven't really ever seen him take a blanket covered 3. The rule is, if you're open, you shoot. Which he generally does. And to be blunt, percentage wise he is doing it much better than Wrightsell or Mallette.

But most importantly, he is just a guy who has the ability to play above the rim with length and athleticism. It gives him a much higher ceiling rebounding and defending than those two as well. I have said it before that I don't really know what Bethea is, but I do know what Wrightsell and Houston are. They are really solid mid major guys who are serviceable at the power conference level but they are going to always be mismatched by athletic guards