Miller compared UCLA point guard wizard Lonzo Ball to an NFL quarterback.
“If you let Tom Brady just sit back in the pocket, go through his progression, no blitz, no pass rush… he’s just too good and he makes everybody else better,” Miller said. “We wanted to challenge him. We wanted to pressure him.”
They did, sort of. But Ball was still Ball. He had 24 points on 10-for-15 shooting — including 4 of 8 from beyond the 3-point line — along with eight assists to one turnover, plus six rebounds and two steals.
“We didn’t do anything to stop him,” Miller said. “He’s the best guard that I’ve seen.”
Yet, in his postgame UCLA news conference, Ball was hardly in a mood to talk about himself. The biggest number he saw was this: 50, the percent UA shot from the field.
“We’ve gotta guard going forward,” Ball said. “The places we want to go, we have to play defense.”
