In Reply to: Some classic Michael Miller posted by Dr.Bruin on April 14, 2025 at 01:02:27
Clearly, Michael belongs in the Hall of Fame of UCLA basketball posters on several different forums. You can tell he's a screenwriter by his verbosity. I have a post of his analysis of the 1999-2000 season which is 4400 words long! He may be an astute player evaluator, but he has had some bad misses, too, where a player he raved about turned out to be a dud. One of the last players he hyped here was LiAngelo Ball ("Li'Angelo Ball will be the most surprising freshman in college next year. I mean the whole country, not just UCLA.I think he will score 18-20 PPG as a SO and then be a late first round pick".) Well, we never got to find out how accurate that one was.
But his basketball observations career might be a lot more successful than his screenwriting. The Joan of Arc script he mentioned was turned into an award winning mini-series. But he followed that up with "See Spot Run", a film panned by critics with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 24%. The description: A mailman takes care of a dog that, unbeknownst to him, is an FBI drug-sniffing superdog that has escaped from the witness protection program after becoming the target of an assassination. Anyone see that?
Also, a few corrections on his basketball stories. He gets a pass on these because he wrote about these games 20 years after they happened. Greg Goorjian scored 62, not 69 against Muir. The final score of the Pasadena-Verbum Dei CIF championship game was 70-68. not 45-44. That dunk he described was at the end of the 3rd quarter by Dale Cooke.
Finally, I lost some respect for him when he showed up at a high school game a Fairfax High wearing Trojan colors. We'll give him a pass on that, too.
So if MM is reading this, feel free to make any additions or corrections. We miss you here.