Next possession, Miller caught the ball on the right wing with his defender three feet away and his hands down he uncorked another. Miller, who’d made only three 3s all season, buried a corner 3. Then, 3 1/2 minutes in, McCasland ran a baseline-out-bounds play for him. They were even more astonished when McCasland started Miller, who had played seven minutes in the team’s previous five games. So McCasland told him to shoot right-handed during the game. Shoot it with your right hand the rest of shootaround. They opened the tournament as double-digit underdogs at South Dakota - the ideal setup for McCasland.Īt the game-day shootaround, McCasland noticed Michael Miller, a left-handed junior-college transfer who had averaged two points per game, messing around shooting with his right hand. He had taken over an eight-win team and led the Mean Green to 15 regular-season victories and a spot in the College Basketball Invitational. It was 2018, McCasland’s first season at North Texas. Then there’s the one where McCasland told a player to shoot with his non-dominant hand.
