Basketball Recap – BYU 97 , UNT 67

[Mean_Green09]

For those interested here on some thoughts from last night game against BYU.

North Texas was beat by a far superior TEAM tonight plain and simple. BYU is a well coached well disciplined team and they showed it. There is no shame in losing to a team like that; you just wish UNT could have put together a solid two halves instead of just one

UNT was able to hang with BYU for the first 20 minutes, by attacking the rim and knocking down some open shots. They weren’t really ever able to slow down BYU offense. The Cougars made adjustments to their defense in the middle of the first half and it started to show as they built up a 7 point lead.

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[drex]

My congratulations to Benford and the team for holding them to under 100 points.

[UNTLifer]

North Texas was beat by a far superior TEAM tonight plain and simple. BYU is a well coached well disciplined team and they showed it.

That sums it up.

[foutsrouts]

But why can't we be well coached and well disciplined?

[Censored by Laurie]

But why can't we be well coached and well disciplined?

The JJ instilled street-ball mentality.

duh.

[Greendylan]

What if Benford had had the luxury of taking over a team with some real legitimate talent? Let's say (and I'm just dreaming here) an NBA prospect? Or, for instance, let's get crazy and imagine hypothetically that he took over a team that had had several consecutive winning seasons (many of them 20 win) and even a couple NCAA tournament appearances? Then we would really see what the man could do with some talent and a program on the upswing!

But, alas, all that is a wistful daydream, for mighty Benford was handed a team devoid of any Division I talent at a program that hadn't had a winning season in over a decade. We'll have to give him at least 4-5 years to turn around this disaster of a program he was given.

[GangGreen]

Another problem is we have absolutely no post game whatsoever. I don't know what Gaines brings to the table, but hopefully he can help in this area. Right now we have a bunch of wings and guards and a couple of garbage men.

[Green P1]

Have we decided who the locker room cancer is this season yet?

[Greendylan]

Have we decided who the locker room cancer is this season yet?

We also need to figure out what three-point shooting phenom is out for the season with an injury, thus preventing Benford's unstoppable system from manifesting for another year.

[Army of Dad]

We also need to figure out what three-point shooting phenom is out for the season with an injury, thus preventing Benford's unstoppable system from manifesting for another year.

New year, new script.

Gaines is hurt which allows teams to push out to defend the three.

[curtisdaa]

Watching BYU run the break was a thing of beauty. Even when the score was close I knew we would eventually get blown out. I will watch BYU again, fun basketball.

[greenminer]

For fun: How would JJ's final UNT team stack up against that BYU team?

Edited December 6, 2013 by greenminer

[CMJ]

For fun: How would JJ's final UNT team stack up against that BYU team?

Hmmmm good question. I think BYU would have beaten us by about ten.

[BillySee58]

For fun: How would JJ's final UNT team stack up against that BYU team?

I think our offense would've prevented a lot of the fast breaks that BYU had.

Also, do we have Jordan Williams, Chris Jones, and Tony Mitchell all eligible for this game? I think lose by 10 is likely.