Ryan Anderson earned the Pac-12’s Player of the Week award Monday but to Arizona coach Sean Miller, he’s a pretty deserving guy after any week, any game or any practice.
Except one game. That arrived exactly a month ago, in UA’s four-overtime loss at USC.
Anderson could barely buy a bucket, shooting 2 of 7 from the field against USC’s athletic, swarming interior players and getting to the free-throw line only twice while scoring a season-low five points. Anderson couldn’t always hold on to the ball, either, committing four turnovers. While he had eight rebounds, that actually dragged down his 10.