This team can't go 3-17 behind the arc and beat pretty much anyone.
Turn the ball over 20 times, and you can pretty much mark that down as a loss.
It was the guard play, IMO.
All these things are true. But honestly the most frustrating thing was that for the last 10 minutes of the first half and first several of the 2nd OU simply outplayed us in every phase of the game. More effort, more aggressive, got every loose ball, just made more plays. Honestly, I can live with some dumb plays when you play hard, Frank's teams tend to do that. But I don't expect the half hearted effort we seemed to show for about 15 minutes. That is the most frustrating. And that seems to always be the case when Frank has lost these home games to teams we should beat. Inexcusable for this to happen.
Tonight moved me past the phase of considering this a "game against a team we should beat." In conference, that only applies to Texas Tech. Accept, _Fan. Accept. Getting mad at this team for slow conference starts, horrible road performances and half-assed home games against mediocre teams, and starting in a 20-pt hole at KU is like getting mad at Jamar for not finishing at the rim. Just accept them for what they are. We have to reverse our paradigm and let them define our expectations.
Except Angel. He was as beautiful and majestic as a springbok on the veld. Until he was abandoned by his herd and pierced with a hollowed-shaft arrow from the bushmen. During the first half, the springbok barely knew he was in trouble; it merely felt an itching, but, as the poison slowly took effect, strength ebbed and dizziness set in.
Even when it saw the hunters approach, it was powerless to leap aside. It gasped, staggered, and took refuge beside a tree, against which it leaned. Pitifully, it called to its vanished companions, then its knees began to crumble and all was confusion as the little men ran up with stones.
