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By Anthony Gimino
FOXSportsArizona.com
TUCSON -- Arizona beat Cal State Fullerton 73-62 on Wednesday night and, other than a couple of highlight dunks, the best entertainment was saved for after the game.
Coach Sean Miller packed plenty of emotion -- most of which was missing from his players for 40 minutes of game time -- into a 10-minute news conference in which he expressed his displeasure over what he had just seen.
It wasn't exactly a rant. He didn't curse. He didn't throw a chair.
But, with voice elevated, he fired off several one-liners that made it absolutely clear that he won't tolerate the lack of defensive effort that helped Fullerton shoot 58.3 percent in the second half, including 5 of 8 3-point shots.
"How did they score?" Miller asked rhetorically. "Any way they wanted."
It was, if only for a game, a return to the Arizona of old. And by old, we don't mean the high-flying, highly ranked Lute Olson teams of the 1990s. It was more like the past few years when the Wildcats mistakenly felt the name on the front of their jerseys was enough and that opponents simply would cower in fear.
"We were fat and happy," Miller said.
"Didn't play together. Didn't compete on every possession. Weren't responsible on offense.
