Dana Altman may have completely flipped his roster over around Joseph Young but Sean Miller still sees some of the same things he saw when Altman was coaching Creighton.
In other words, he’s wary of tonight’s game (8:35 p.m., Pac-12 Networks).
“Dana has a style of play that he’s had really since his days beyond Creighton,” Miller said. “Although the faces have changed, there’s a constant (look)…. Defensively, they press, they change. They love to force turnovers. They love to dictate tempo. They want to take you out of your comfort zone of what you normally do.
“And on offense he has kind of a version of a two-guard front he’s been running for long time and it really puts his players in position to go one-on-one and to attack certain matchups.
“The other part is they love uptempo basketball. It’s never a slow down game, it’s always a fast-paced game. They love to get out in transition. They utilize their defense to created those opportunities and this year is more of the same.”
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Our main advance discussed UA's efforts to keep building chemistry in the face of what Miller calls constant "tugging" from those around players.
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It's looking pretty tough for anybody to get out of the Huntsman Center alive these days.
There's two other Pac-12 games, both of which will finish during the UA-Oregon game:
ASU at Oregon State, 7 p.m., Fox Sports 1
Stanford at UCLA, 7 p.m., ESPN
UNLV has not been able to gain any momentum from its Dec. 23 win over Arizona.
