When a player returns to the NBA after two-plus years out of the league, expectations for his impact tend to be relatively tempered. It hasn’t taken Darius Miller long to exceed all of them.
“I think it’s been a little bit better than the best-case scenario,” Pelicans third-year head coach Alvin Gentry said of Miller’s early-season performance. “He’s just been really, really good. He’s found a role for himself and embraced that role. Everything we’ve asked him to do, he’s done and then some. He’s come up with some really big shots, and it seems like when we’ve been struggling the most, that’s when he comes up with big plays for us.