What’s the old saying, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take?” That adage has a whole new, twisted meaning for Darius Miller after the Ole Miss loss.Beaten up, both by fans and himself, for not taking a wide-open, last-minute shot against Ole Miss, Miller has become more recognized in the past week for the shot he didn’t take than any shot he’s ever taken. “I don’t know (why I didn’t shoot it),” Miller said. “If I knew I’d tell you.”That non-shot, a passed-up 3-point attempt from the right corner in which Miller could have buried the Rebels’ upset hopes, ended up a hesitated pass to DeAndre Liggins, a shot-clock violation and an upset loss to a struggling Ole Miss team. Instead, by passing up that shot, Miller almost instantaneously erased any positive vibes he had built recently with the best five-game stretch of his career.After the game, Miller sent out a tweet apologizing to his teammates and fans. On Friday, just a day before the Cats play Southeastern Conference Eastern Division leader Florida in a crucial game in Gainesville, Fla., Miller shouldered the blame for the loss.”I just felt like I had a really bad game,” Miller said. “I felt like I was one of the main reasons we lost.”Miller said he was hoping to use Tuesday’s performance as motivation.”Good,” UK head coach John Calipari said. “I hope something does it.”Truth be told, Miller’s shot was just a glimpse into a much larger veteran problem. The play of veterans Miller, Liggins and Josh Harrellson has been magnified in recent weeks, and a few days after Calipari stressed their importance, the trio of leaders laid in egg in Oxford, Miss. The three combined for nine points, 12 rebounds and six turnovers in 80 minutes in the last game, and their production has weighed heavily on how the Cats have fared this season.In Kentucky’s wins this year, Miller, Harrellson and Liggins are averaging a combined 26.3 points and 18.7 rebounds. In UK’s five losses, their scoring and rebounding averages have dropped  to 19.0 points and 15.0 rebounds. That means, despite having three freshmen lead the team in scoring, UK has to have more from its experience. “We don’t have enough room for error,” Calipari said. “If two guys really play poorly, like, really play bad, we’re trying to play with three and a half guys.”The play of the veterans has drawn mixed reviews so far this year. Each one has had his ups and downs.Harrellson was the story early in the season but has tapered off of late. Liggins has shown signs of the type of scrappiness and defense that earned him minutes last year, but it’s been too inconsistent. Miller has been criticized for his pattern of disappearing for stretches of a game, but he was starting to surge the last handful of games until the Ole Miss loss.Calipari took the blame for being too complacent with them.”There are things that they’re not doing that we must have let go because that’s where they are,” Calipari said. “It always comes back to me. We’ve accepted certain things, and for us to move forward, we can’t accept those things. Those are so important. That’s one or two possessions in a couple-bucket game. And for us, every game we’re going to play is going to be a couple buckets. Those two possessions are game.”The prime example was Miller’s lack of a shot. Calipari said he spoke to Miller about passing on the last-minute possession and pointed out that, despite a loss, Miller is “still alive.”” ‘When you get that shot next time, shoot it,’ ” Calipari said he told Miller. ” ‘If you miss it and we lose, you’ll live. We’ll be fine. And if you make it, you’ll feel good.’ (I told him that) just to say this isn’t life or death. ‘You’re treating it that way.’ “Not taking the shot wasn’t a lack of confidence, Miller said, but Calipari seemed to hint that it was.”At the end of the day, it’s what’s inside you,” Calipari said. “I believe in him. I keep telling him, ‘I believe in you. I think you’re as good as anybody in the league. Now you’ve got to go do it.’ “Miller said he isn’t “letting (the shot) go,” adding that he hopes to learn from it. He’ll have a chance to redeem himself Saturday in an all-important primetime game against the Gators.In addition to the national spotlight of ESPN College GameDay’s broadcast of the week, UK is in dangerous territory as it enters the halfway point of the league schedule. A loss to the Gators would not only put the Cats two and a half games back of Florida in the SEC East, it would also bury Kentucky behind a host of other SEC teams with five games still remaining against Florida, Vanderbilt and Tennessee.That’s a ton of pressure for a freshman-laden team to shoulder. That’s why it’s imperative the veterans step up in another hostile environment on the road.”It’s a good game for us to play right now – great game,” Calipari said. “It’s a bounce-back game and you better bounce back.”