Another game, another win, another Tristan Thompson scoring display. The dude is going to win the tournament’s most outstanding player award without question. He has…
Mean Green Nation
Let me start by apologizing for my absence. Life has been bothering me and asking me to do things. I have complied, however unhappily, with…
I was playing the semifinal game of our little indoor soccer league when North Texas was succumbing to fatigue (I suppose) and the defense of Arkansas State…
This is such a weird year. 2010-2011 is the Year of the Injury in basketball and, most memorably, in football. That is right folks! I…
Seriously, they look the same. It was along running joke that Papa Dodge brought with him the Southlake Carroll Jerseys. In fact, I once imagined…
The Loss Proper
Oh hell. Oh hell. The shame of losing to the team with the worst record in the conference is nigh unbearable. North Texas was the second conference victim and the seventh overall on the year for the Warhawks of Louisiana-Monroe.
Disappointing as it was, it was not surprising in the least. I sort of called this. Sort of. I didn’t know what to expect after ULM was spanked at Denver. I figured they could start with a little more fire but if they were handled early then they’d fall into “Uh oh. Not again” mode.
Unfortunately we didn’t make that happen. We played a very typical UNT game, let them hang around (or did they let us hang around??) and tried to break free late. Instead, they took control down the stretch, made clutch defensive stops and executed.
Simple as that.
The solution is less simple. Of course, that assumes there is one.
For all our problems, we can take comfort in the fact that we aren’t ULM. Right guys? Sitting at the bottom of the conference at…
Full disclosure: I left at halftime. Not because I was anti-basketball nor because it wasn’t entertaining. No, I had my own sporting adventure to partake in.
So, I missed the mini-comeback that was the win vs USA. After typing that abbreviation I finally understand the Team USA inspired threads they were rocking out there.
Not much changed from the first half. That zone killed our offense enough for WKU to turn the lead into 20 points and keep it…
After fighting back to within five points the good guys scored only two more points for the last 3:51 and allowed 12 to WKU. What…