Miller benching Max and not benching Smith is mind bogglingly enraging

[WILD]

Miller benching Max and not benching Smith is just mind bogglingly enraging.

Miller says he benched Max for taking a quick 3 before half. Yet Miller keeps Smith in after he has 3 trouble possessions at the start of the half.

Miller also say Nico for way to long in the 1st and second half. He also used all our timeouts in the 2nd half. This was not a well coached game by Miller at all.

See Miller talking about benching Max.

https://twitter.com/AGWildcatReport/status/1221307226339467264

[2012Cat]

How many postgame press conferences of miller "owning" the loss do we need before he gets better or we move on? I'm over it

[AZip]

I assume you meant Benching Green??  Pretty sad when he tells the press that MAx didn't play because he shot an errant 3....wtf...what if he made it???   CSM is an idiot.   Whats to say that when MAX came back in he might start the 3 barrages again..and game over...keeping him out was just a very poor coaching choice.

[WILD]

Wow

https://twitter.com/DavidKellyKVOA/status/1221339351419965440

[Deb]

This is really an awful coaching move by miller. If anyone has earned the right to take that quick three, it was Max. He had just made 9 of em in the previous two games. 

[LJ]

I don't even know what to say to this.  I am beyond frustrated.

[TucsonTruckStop]

Stupid Hazzard: It was a stupid play by Hazzard; one probably born out of lack of playing time/experience.
Stubborn Miller: (1) If Miller gave Hazzard more playing time in these last few games like he deserved then maybe it does not happen and (2) the time of punishing players for mistakes is over. At this point you need to win the game, so so leave the players in the game that give you the best chance to win the game. In the 2nd half, Hazzard (even with his defensive deficiencies) would be hard pressed to play as poorly as Green and Smith.

[KansasCityCats]

Stupid Hazzard: It was a stupid play by Hazzard; one probably born out of lack of playing time/experience.
Stubborn Miller: (1) If Miller gave Hazzard more playing time in these last few games like he deserved then maybe it does not happen and (2) the time of punishing players for mistakes is over. At this point you need to win the game, so so leave the players in the game that give you the best chance to win the game. In the 2nd half, Hazzard (even with his defensive deficiencies) would be hard pressed to play as poorly as Green and Smith.

Exactly.  Who the hell takes a shot with 10 seconds left in the half, when you're up by a mile?  assu had momentum, leading in the 2nd half because Hazzard didn't play like a Senior.  Miller had to prove a point...but it was a costly point because nobody else could hit a shot to save their lives in the final 20 minutes.

[WILD]

On Miller benching Hazzard. He's gone 9-16 from 3 recently & gets benched for 1 mistake?? We then proceed to shoot 0-8 from 3 & couldn't buy a bucket in the 2nd half at asu. Max deserves more minutes & a green light to shoot as much as he wants. Let em play coach! So frustrating!

[GoCatZ]

Dylan Smith trash talking the asu crowd after every shot he makes in the 1st half was embarrassing. Smith is a 5th year senior who choked yet again at the free throw line missing 2 free throws(choked at Oregon missing front end of 1 and 1 also). There's no excuse.  You can't miss those free throws! Freshman Nico Mannion goes up next and drains 2 free throws like nothing right after that.

Apposing coaches know that Dylan will crumble in crunch time and if he's playing in an end game situation he'll probably miss key free throws and we'll lose. Smith playing 32 minutes in a game is an absolute joke and he needs to come off the bench and be taken out of end game situations. I just don't think Miller will take Smith out. He'll live and die with Smith just like he did with PJC.