It’s hard to be that unprepared for a game.

[Palatine]

That picture represents one thirtieth of a second in a 40 minute game. Literally, 1/ 72,000th of the game.

Yet you are drawing conclusions on the entire game base on that 1 in 72,000 instant in the contest. Seems like a bit of a reach. And yes, it is fun to point out how absurd your purported evidence is under examination. I'm sure Detective Columbo would be aghast.

 

[7774]

"But we had hands in his face."

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How come you’re not posting all the good defensive possesions that ended in a made shot so we can see how many fall into each category?

 

[auror]

This can be fun. Granted we don't have a Ricky Moore on this team but there are ways to minimize the dammage.

"The Boneyard says we were prepared to lock down allen."

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This is one of the 3 of 27 we didn't closely guard and had a late contest.

Look where Cole is on that play and where all the NM St players are. It was off an offensive rebound and Cole hard contested and the guy got him to fly by, so then we had to play 4v5. You have to guard Rice there, he had made a few 3s already also.

 

[Kolumbo]

How come you’re not posting all the good defensive possesions that ended in a made shot so we can see how many fall into each category?

Just playing along with the screenshot game. You can easily watch the replay of the game. Whether it was coaching, planning, execution, what have you, our "good defense" simply wasn't good enough. Sometimes you have to play great defense to win big games.

 

[Kolumbo]

This is one of the 3 of 27 we didn't closely guard and had a late contest.

Look where Cole is on that play and where all the NM St players are. It was off an offensive rebound and Cole hard contested and the guy got him to fly by, so then we had to play 4v5. You have to guard Rice there, he had made a few 3s already also.

Yeah, Cole messed up there. So there were at least two possessions where we left allen wide open. All I'm saying is there had to be a better plan to try to lock him down, or we just don't have a player capable.

 

[7774]

Yeah, Cole messed up there. So there were at least two possessions where we left allen wide open. All I'm saying is there had to be a better plan to try to lock him down, or we just don't have a player capable.

“There has to be a better plan than playing very good defense 90% of the time”. Bahaha.

 

[connVA]

I'm sure that took you a while to type and it's not nearly as clever as you probably thought it was.

Good to know- thanks, Ace

 

[jdb50]

First half Hurley matched height vs height and Jackson could not stop Allen from blowing by him. In the second half Jackson did a good job forcing him left and the ref made a bad call giving Allen 2 free throws. Sanogo's foul was a killer.

 

[UncleSpliff]

I mean, you pretty much do. That's why New Mexico State is moving on and we're going home.

Ok than we’re better than auburn this year…..

 

[UconnFanDC]

When does "just happened" become a reality check for the head coach? We have a pattern of losing close games because of our offense. At some point the coach needs to look in the mirror

They aren't the better team. We had more talent at 4 of the 5 positions on the floor. They executed better, had more focus, adjusted better, ran better sets, mixed up their defense, etc. We were unprepared AGAIN for a big game.

Nope, NMSU was 100% the better team on Thursday March 17th, 2022 in the Buffalo Region. I never said that they were better then us over all. The best team(s) do not always win during March Madness. #MovingOnSeasonOver