Sports are fun. They also are frustrating depending on the level you’re invested into them. For the majority of Lobo basketball fans the past two weeks were one of the biggest regular season roller coaster rides ever. The team collapses over the final eight minutes and loses to Rice at The Pit on a technical foul free throw. They head to Hawaii for a holiday tournament and get their doors blow off by BYU and Washington State losing all three games they played. Plus the turnovers from the coaches son, because he’s the only one that turns the ball over on the team. Of course that is not true but don’t tell frustrated fans that. While the Lobos will not see an offense like BYU are athletes like WSU on a consistent bases, what they have done since then highlights what college basketball and sports is about. Learning from your mistakes, growing and getting better results. UNM is 2-0 in conference play. They still turned the ball over at a high rate, 20 plus in both games, and they still won both by double digits. An impressive feat in-itself. The Lobos will be in the mix down the stretch for a regular season title however the biggest thing from just the first two conference games, they’ll have a chance in Las Vegas. If you want to play in March, win three in Las Vegas. Xavier Adams is starting to put it together off the bench. Obij Aget is finding ways to stuff the stat sheet. They’ll be a rough loss or two in the future. That happens in conference play. Craig Neal has the pieces to develop an interesting squad. Let them grow and we’ll see what happens in Vegas. Until then lets break down every dribble, because after all we are sports fans and that’s what we do.
