Pac-12 School Style and Attitude Awards – Media Day

MOST INTENSE AND MOST PREPARED COACH

The University of Arizona Wildcats

Arizona Wildcats Head Coach Sean Miller

It should come as no surprise to most Arizona Wildcats fans that Sean Miller not only was the most intense, but also the most prepared Head Coach of the day. His answers were well thought out, and the delivery was concise, direct and serious. He gave the longest preview of his upcoming season full of tidbit and hints as to what he has in mind this year.

For one, he had to prepare for the inevitable “Where’s Trier?” question asked by Arizona Basketball guru Bruce Pascoe. Even when answering a question on chemistry, Miller indirectly slipped in our notable Alumni as well as answering the question (this is such an insightful and proud moment that we are including his entire reply):

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“You know, if you were watching our red-blue weekend, Miles Simon epitomizes a lot of things that we talk about, and that is Miles wasn’t a high school All-American. He didn’t go on and have a great NBA career. But he had his number retired at a basketball program that is second to none with the tradition that we have.

Why? Well, because he won the national championship, because he was the most outstanding player of that Final Four. And when you’re associated with a team that does well, and you’re successful in the month of March and you’re consistent throughout the season, it’s amazing how the respect goes to the individual players.

So for that to happen, you have to sacrifice. Not everybody can start, not everybody gets to shoot the same amount of times, and I think that is an ongoing process. I think you can have a team that has great chemistry. You can lose it, you can get it back and lose it again. So it’s something that we’re well aware of, and we’re going to try to foster that, and have already fostered it beginning last spring when our season ended.”

That was something that didn’t dawn on us, losing chemistry, so if you have chemistry you may lose it and the challenge is to sustain it. It seemed like last season the team did start out with a lot of chemistry, and then it waned as player after player got injured.

Here is the intro video and the ensuing Q and A for the Cats if you want to get a bit excited for the upcoming season: