Florida International (12/20/09)

[NT03]

ballgame

Anyone in the West division would have beat us by 20 today.

Good to see the men fight back, though.

Should be a wake up call for the whole team , you just can't show up and expect to beat a lesser opponent. Even if we were off , we still should have won.

Don't understand settling for the outside shot all day & not pounding it inside. Don't say it much , but this loss is on JJ

[Keith7]

should have harassed the players, not the coach

[Green P1]

Well that sucked.

[Fitzyrection]

Should've been plenty of booing today. This loss is inexcusable.

[UNT90]

115 - 127

assist to tournover ratio for this team. That's an average of right at 14 TO a game, with 11 1/2 assists a game. Both terrible stats. Today the team had, you guessed it 14 turnovers (George said it at the end of the game).

The lack of a real point guard will probably cost this team 4 upset losses in conference this year. Please, JJ, recruit a JC point guard for next year.

These stats do not include today's game.

Edited December 20, 2009 by UNT90

[UNTflyer]

This loss hurts. First time in a long time that I felt disgusted by our play on the court.

[FirefightnRick]

What a great day to be at work, eliminating the urge to drive to Denton.

Rick

[LoveMG]

i swear the whole athletic department must now be infected with it. good riddence to 2009.

[drex]

I'm sure that FIU enjoyed the 'prevent offense' that we employed late in the game.

[bstnsportsfan3]

horrible game...sloppy play...dumb shots at the wrong time...if josh doesnt make the luckiest and best shot i have ever seen at the pit...this game doesn't even go to OT.

[UNTFan23]

horrible game...sloppy play...dumb shots at the wrong time...if josh doesnt make the luckiest and best shot i have ever seen at the pit...this game doesn't even go to OT.

I we had shot better from the charity stripe this game doesn't go to OT.

[UNT90]

I we had shot better from the charity stripe this game doesn't go to OT.

Very funny. Even if it wasn't meant to be.

[Side Show Joe]

Should be a wake up call for the whole team , you just can't show up and expect to beat a lesser opponent. Even if we were off , we still should have won.

Don't understand settling for the outside shot all day & not pounding it inside. Don't say it much , but this loss is on JJ

I wouldn't go so far as to say its all JJ's fault, but certainly he deserves a share of the blame. When a team stinks up the home court this bad, there is alot of blame to go around. fiu played alot of zone, and we were standing around, with bad spacing too. For most of the first half, there were just no lanes to get into the paint. In the second half, we stopped standing around, improved our rebounding, and forced overtime. I don't know if the team was out of gas in OT, or if they just quite. It was the worst effort I've seen from a Mean Green basket ball team in a long time.

Watching us shoot freethrows was like watching a team of Shaq impersonators at the line.

If we lower our expectations to football standards, we played a decent second half, and White hit a miracle 3 to force overtime.

[LoveMG]

I wouldn't go so far as to say its all JJ's fault, but certainly he deserves a share of the blame.

contract extension?

[UNTFan23]

Very funny. Even if it wasn't meant to be.

There's nothing funny about shooting 18-30 (60%) when standing still, uncontested, 15 feet from the basket.

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

FUI was 3-10 with wins over such "powerhouses of Florida Memorial, Florida A&M, and North Carolina Central...

We lost to them by 70-80.... matching their largest margin of victory this year...... awful..

Merry Christmas...

[NT80]

FUI was 3-10 with wins over such "powerhouses of Florida Memorial, Florida A&M, and North Carolina Central...

We lost to them by 70-80.... matching their largest margin of victory this year...... awful..

Merry Christmas...

I agree awful, as in awful shooting today. UNT lost in all categories of shooting: FG, FT, and 3-pt. You'll never beat any poor team if they outshoot you.

[UNT90]

There's nothing funny about shooting 18-30 (60%) when standing still, uncontested, 15 feet from the basket.

Was referring to the "one play away" tone of your post. Hey, it's good enough for football, right?

I know that's not what you meant, but it just struck me as a funny comparison.

[KRAM1]

Terrible effort by the men yesterday. It was painful to watch, but stayed through OT. UNT got it's rear handed to it in OT (and through out the game) by a team UNT should have beaten by 20. Turnovers, sloppy, sloppy, sloppy passes, no rebounding, no inside play at all and couldn't hit squat from the free throw line. Other than that, UNT played well enough to win! Man, I was really surprised by the "out of sync" feel to the game from start to finish. OK, it's over...on to victory Tuesday.

I think someone stole the whole team and coaching staff and let Avatars play instead that were programmed to play like zombies!

[untgirl04]

should have harassed the players, not the coach

Oh there were plenty of catcalls to the players - I sat in the front, behind the FIU bench and next to the Pit Crew. They got the bird from a player eventually, but the problem was that the players they were harassing were the ones on the bench. Either way, I have to give props to the Pit Crew for creative signs.

[TheTastyGreek]

I know we're slagging FIU for losing to the likes of Florida Gulf Coast... But as was pointed out on the SBC forum today, Florida Gulf Coast just beat a Big East DePaul team with a winning record.

I still hate this loss, though.

[UNT90]

I know we're slagging FIU for losing to the likes of Florida Gulf Coast... But as was pointed out on the SBC forum today, Florida Gulf Coast just beat a Big East DePaul team with a winning record.

I still hate this loss, though.

And FIU just lost to Sam Houston by 30... Just sayin

[gruu]

And FIU just lost to Sam Houston by 30... Just sayin

Bad, bad, bad...