[Red and Black]

Rather have pente and spriggs over him. I like team players not I play for myself type of kids

Both great senior basketball players, no doubt. I mean no disrespect to them. Do you think Keithley plays for himself because he feels like he doesn't have enough talent around him? Do you think it's coaching? Or do you think that's just how he's gonna play no matter what?

The team had to change the whole offense because the staff realized Keathley wasn’t going to pass. And to answer one of your questions about “Keathley shooting less”: I think saying shooting less is not the correct phrase. He needs to take higher percentage shots. If he shoots 100 shots and is making 55%, not sure there’s an argument. But because the team sees his wild shots, they tend to take bad shots because they know they have to shoot before he gets it back or else they’ll not touch the ball again. Again, stats don’t lie and there’s not a single stat out there that says Keathley deserves the ball in his hands. The argument could be made that Napier should be shooting 114 shots because he’s at 65% on the season and Braxton shoot the least. 

Having been around this program and analyzing nearly every bit of game film (that’s what coaches do), it’s easy to see Keathley has a high ceiling, but give anyone else on the team as many shots as he takes by himself and they’d average 27 as well. And that’s not an assumption. Percentages state that as fact.

I hadn't heard that they had changed the offense this week. That's good news. Anybody telling him that he could be D1 is just setting him up for failure. He's a great basketball talent, but D1 players are just built different than anybody in the 15th region right now. I don't think Watts and Onkst aren't even D1 players and they're both way better than everybody else around here. Hopefully the team will respond well to the offense change, but I still don't think that's enough. Tackett should probably start sitting Keithley for a few minutes when he starts going rogue, which he hasn't done so far. Keithley seems to snowball when he feels pressure to score and just starts jacking up bad shots every time he touches it. If Tackett sits him and talks to him before he starts to snowball then I think it will pay off for the team in the long run.

It wasn’t this week. It was changed after the first couple of games but it still hasn’t worked. If I’m Coach: bench him for a game. What does it hurt? You’re winless. The team is miserable. He likely transfers anyway whether now or at the end of the season.

I haven't' seen film from Pineville or Lawrence, so I haven't seen it yet, but if Tackett is telling him to do something and he refuses to do it, then he should definitely be sitting. Should be no players bigger than the coach.