What bugged me..

[USAFminersfan]

It wasn't our terrible rebounding. I expected that. I know it will be an issue all season.

What bugged me is our ugly turnovers. For a team full of experience guards, we turned it over way too much. There was a stretch where we literally threw the ball away 6 or 7 times, which led to easy dunks on the other end. Hell, it became so regular that the aggies did a 360 dunk just for fun.

If your strength is you guard play (and not your rebounding), then so be it. I just expect a little more intelligent decision making, especially when these guys are more than experienced...

 

[miner661]

This is exactly right. We gave up 73 boards to CSU, but we committed only 8 turnovers the entire game, as compared to CSU's 21. Winning the turnover battle is key.

 

[sweetlou#1]

You guys hit it right on the head, the turnovers by the guards were terrible and made a big difference in the outcome!

 

[Rot]

Siakam had 23 rebounds and the entire Miner team had 27. That was the difference.

 

[Haskins Fan]

I saw a lot of mental errors which caused the turnovers.
We looked flat at times.
I just hope it was overconfidence.
At time there was no one to get a rebound, it seemed like we just didn't
care who rebounded the ball.
I just hope it was a day off.

Go Miners...

 

[alvinosports]

It wasn't our terrible rebounding. I expected that. I know it will be an issue all season.

What bugged me is our ugly turnovers. For a team full of experience guards, we turned it over way too much. There was a stretch where we literally threw the ball away 6 or 7 times, which led to easy dunks on the other end. Hell, it became so regular that the aggies did a 360 dunk just for fun.

If your strength is you guard play (and not your rebounding), then so be it. I just expect a little more intelligent decision making, especially when these guys are more than experienced...

There goes the ranking, bye bye, and UTA will be quite difficult

 

[jamasterj]

What was frustrating as hell was during our 1-3-1 defensive spurt where the Aggies turned the ball over, we couldn't capitalize on the turnovers. We were only down 4 and could not get over that hump. 3 or 4 times on fastbreaks we would fumble the ball away instead of tying up or taking the lead. Major props to the Aggies, they are a good team but I think we let them off the hook. Also, you have to remember this is their first road game in a very hostile environment for 90% of the team...they'll learn from this.

 

[utep2step]

What was frustrating as hell was during our 1-3-1 defensive spurt where the Aggies turned the ball over, we couldn't capitalize on the turnovers. We were only down 4 and could not get over that hump. 3 or 4 times on fastbreaks we would fumble the ball away instead of tying up or taking the lead. Major props to the Aggies, they are a good team but I think we let them off the hook. Also, you have to remember this is their first road game in a very hostile environment for 90% of the team...they'll learn from this.

Lee Moore pretty much didn't know what to expect as per pre game interviews. Going one hundred percent from three point range (5 for 5 I think) puts you up against the wall that's just has hard to fight as the last two minutes down even less.

 

[unihorn]

Moore had his first bad game last night -- wasn't sharp. But who can Floyd bench him for? With Jones and Willms out, we're going to ride these three guards (Artis, Moore and Morris) as far as they can take us.