In 2009, the year Sean Miller accepted the Arizona Wildcats head coaching job, he attended an alumni party where he picked the brains of dozens of guys who played under his predecessor, Lute Olson.
Rather than distance himself from the past, Miller wanted to know how Olson turned what had been a floundering Arizona basketball program into one of the top programs in the country.
Miller said he gleaned three things from those conversations about the Hall of Fame coach and what made him so successful. He outlined them on a recent roundtable with Steve Kerr and Matt Muehlebach, two of Olson’s former players, on Arizona’s YouTube page.