Kamal Miller

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While we're looking great on the ball, we almost get a calamity off it as we get a communication mix-up between Pants and Kamal Miller as Pants rightly rushes out to claim a ball that's going to bounce right inside his box.

Miller doesn't hear the shout or act to the shout, doesn't get out of his way, and they clash in Keystone Cop style.

And we're lucky the ball doesn't fall for a Charlotte player with the goal gaping.

And I think this is another one where he's come out hard and gone for the ball, which he should go for.

And again, this is promising under new leadership and new goalkeeping coaching.

Kamal Miller should clear out of the way.

And for me, this is on Miller.

But the drama of the moment was really a lot of what this was about.

So lineup-wise, it was Pantemis, Forey, Miller, Waterman, Hernandez, which it has been recently.

Caicedo coming in, presumably getting healthy from the knock he had picked up three or four weeks ago for Charaa.

We keep Izoida in the lineup ahead of Cole Bassett.

Ball gets poked away, comes back down the right side.

DaCosta tucks in nicely on this.

But Caicedo on his recovery run drops all the way back onto Kamal Miller.

So this was like, again, he could have gotten bailed out by DaCosta, who did a terrible job of hedging Pep Biel to wide.

And I think he's really improved in that realm.

I thought Joel Waterman and Kamal Miller were really good together.

Christopher Valdo was way more selfless in this game.

I don't know if he had more trust in his teammates to contribute in this game than he had in recent weeks, but he was holding up the ball well and getting teammates involved.

That right-hand side that's been susceptible to some issues in the previous weeks.

I thought were really good against Charlotte.

So yeah, I mean, I still think it should be and probably will be Finn Sermon and Kamal Miller.

I think Kamal Miller and Jim Raffori have formed a really nice little partnership on that left-hand side.

We didn't even not bat down the hatches, okay? Jimmer Forey has been, in many cases, not too surprisingly, our best defender over this stretch.

It's not too surprisingly because Kamal Miller's not that good.

Joel Waterman's playing on the wrong side.

And Ronald Hernandez is our third right back who's being given another chance at MLS life, okay? So, like, however...

Like, why we're playing a 2-3-5 rather than a 3-2-5? Like, I understand the 5.

I don't know that this team and this personnel is up to having so many guys so far upfield when we're in possession of the ball.

But why leave Waterman and Kamal Miller alone? right? Give them the Jimmer 40.

Okay.

It's...

This one is I don't think this is a good team Andrew I just don't I look across there they've got a lot of players who have like individual abilities I think some of them are technically quite solid I mean come on Miller at center back I think he's actually pretty good at passing out of the back and I think he's a solid defender but I don't think he's.

special, right? I don't look at that player and go, oh man, you're not getting anything by him.

I'm not going to say Christopher Velda correctly, but I'm giving it my best here.

I just go down the team and give me two other names that you think I should even consider from this team.

Bassett and Lasser were two that I saw, but again, they're just very middle-of-the-road MLS performers.

You talk about Kamal Miller, I like him, but they are missing Finn Sermon, who is his preferred partner at center back.

They're having to play Joel Waterman there, who's a Canadian, and he's more like MLS non-playable character as well.

So, pants in goal.

Hernandez, Waterman, Miller, and Forey.

I say to at the six Ortiz and da Costa still.

So Bassett stays on the bench.

LA work a nice overlap on their left for a cross that's cleared.

The next movement comes down the same flank with a longer ball.

The ball is cut back and Royce ghosts between Waterman and Kamal Miller.

Neither pick him up and he drives through Pantsil at close range.