FAU (12/29/22)

[Greenrex]

All three phases

[kingwoodgreen]

Crap basketball, not just the refs. Hope for a crowd Saturday but not after this

[GMG24]

Brutal absolutely brutal… just blow a 9 point lead at home.  Our fans have 0 clue on when and what to cheer for and the Gameday production doesn’t help.  Frustrating isn’t the right word 

[akriesman]

Embarrassing finish.  13-0 FAU run.   Losing Ousmane had to be the difference.   They were not the same after.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

Officiating was awful. But the offense is inept. Relying that heavily on defense is a play not to lose mentality with a 9 point lead under 4. 

[CMJ]

FAU 50 ------- NT 46

 

 

Final

[keith]

Good crowd, big game and we lose at home. I guess that’s who we are. It never effing changes. 

[NTXDJ]

NT scores 0 points in last 5:24!  Terrible. 
Good to see Jones contribute 8 points, but we've got to have more double digit offense than just TP and Ousmane.

[CMJ]

I'm honestly in shock we let that one slip away.  Up 9 at the under four media timeout under Mac is money in the bank 95% of the time.

[keith]

16 minutes ago, keith said:

Good crowd, big game and we lose at home. I guess that’s who we are. It never effing changes. 

F your eye roll and 2 down votes and your puking eagle and eye roll. 

Edited December 30, 2022 by keith

[Green Otaku]

The rest of the team needed to step up, wide open 3s were missed on so many plays. TP and Ousmane were taken out of this game by the refs and their stupid calls. Also Mac was screaming at the refs for a foul on Jones when he was driving into the paint. 

[Side.Show.Joe]

Absolutely terrible finish to the game. Perry did all he could. At some point the other players need to step up and make shots too. Mac should run the sh!t out of those guys tonight before they get to leave the Pit. The NET is going to punish us for the way we blew this game. 

[L Ron Studdard]

0 points at home after the 5:24 mark in what is likely their biggest game of the season. They say Hodge runs the defense--so what exactly does Mac do? These kinds of scoring droughts have crippled every team of his entire tenure.

Edited December 30, 2022 by L Ron Studdard

[Green Otaku]

Don't forget the bucket taken away from Perry by these inept refs. Also IIRC the steal that should have gone our way was called a foul on Jones that led to the 2 Ousmane fouls. I too am not one to blame refs but this game had their prints all over it. 

[kingwoodgreen]

Outside of abu and Perry, rest of team was 3-20. Was anybody else impressed by fau? 

[NorthTexasWeLove]

1 minute ago, Side.Show.Joe said:

Absolutely terrible finish to the game. Perry did all he could. At some point the other players need to step up and make shots too. Mac should run the sh!t out of those guys tonight before they get to leave the Pit. The NET is going to punish us for the way we blew this game. 

Throughout the game, we must've missed 10-12 wiiiiide open shots. Up 9 and lose at home is tough and the crowd was trying to drag them to the finish line. But sucking the life out of the clock to 3 or 4 and then trying to find a rhythm in basketball is a poor strategy. But that is who GM is and it killed his team tonight. 

[NorthTexasWeLove]

1 minute ago, kingwoodgreen said:

Outside of abu and Perry, rest of team was 3-20. Was anybody else impressed by fau? 

FAU is a scrappy bunch. And big. Real big. 

[Side.Show.Joe]

8 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

Officiating was awful. But the offense is inept. Relying that heavily on defense is a play not to lose mentality with a 9 point lead under 4. 

The offense is inept because 3 for the players on the court don't hit their shots. Perry and Ousmane can't produce all of the points.

[greenminer]

10 minutes ago, CMJ said:

I'm honestly in shock we let that one slip away.  Up 9 at the under four media timeout under Mac is money in the bank 95% of the time.

Toughest loss to swallow in the Mac era? I think so.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

2 minutes ago, Side.Show.Joe said:

The offense is inept because 3 for the players on the court don't hit their shots. Perry and Ousmane can't produce all of the points.

No doubt. Bleeding the shot on pressure moments isn't helping either. 

[UNT Family Man]

0-6 from the field and 0-1 from the one in the final 5:24

[Side.Show.Joe]

4 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

Throughout the game, we must've missed 10-12 wiiiiide open shots. Up 9 and lose at home is tough and the crowd was trying to drag them to the finish line. But sucking the life out of the clock to 3 or 4 and then trying to find a rhythm in basketball is a poor strategy. But that is who GM is and it killed his team tonight. 

I don't mind our slow defensive style. I mind how most of our players missed everything they shot. Even with the refs on our case all night, if anyone else in a Mean Green jersey would have hit a few shots, UNT would have won this game. 

[p_phelps]

1 minute ago, Side.Show.Joe said:

I don't mind our slow defensive style. I mind how most of our players missed everything they shot. Even with the refs on our case all night, if anyone else in a Mean Green jersey would have hit a few shots, UNT would have won this game. 

I'm really getting tired of our entire offense going through 1 dude every year. 

[p_phelps]

Stone shouldn't be on scholarship.  I've literally never seen him score.  Never.  He has that walk on try hard mentally,  so maybe that's what he should be

[greenminer]

2 minutes ago, p_phelps said:

I'm really getting tired of our entire offense going through 1 dude every year. 

definitely