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Well, shoot.

Strike that. They didn鈥檛 shoot well. But Saturday night in Pullman, Washington was anything but a loss for the UNM Lobos.

Yes, Washington State beat the UNM Lobos in the Pacific Northwest, 74-66, in an exhibition game that not only doesn鈥檛 count, it wasn鈥檛 really even played quite like any regular-season game the Lobos will play this season. Ten players saw between 13 and 23 minutes 鈥� a rotation that clearly didn鈥檛 help the rhythm of the skill-heavy, shooting-capable roster Eric Olen put together for his first season coaching the program.

But shooting wasn鈥檛 what he was looking at. Thank goodness, because the final box score showed a dreadful 26.7 shooting percentage 鈥� 29.0% on 2-pointers and 25.0% on 3-pointers).

So, what was the point? And why was there plenty of positive signs for the Lobos?

Primarily, defense.

鈥淚 left tonight more encouraged than discouraged, for sure,鈥� Olen told the Journal after the game. 鈥淭here鈥檚 things that that we have to get better at and clean up, but I thought there were some good defensive possessions. There were definitely some plays where we were really connected on that side of the ball, where our disruption was good. We鈥檝e got foul a little less. It was obviously an issue.鈥�

Don鈥檛 let the Lobo half of the stat sheet distract you from the fact that Wazzou didn鈥檛 exactly light things up offensively against a Lobos defense learning a fairly complicated Olen zone defensive scheme that requires a lot of cohesion, chemistry and communication that usually only comes with time.

Olen鈥檚 UC San Diego team last season ranked third in Division I basketball in defensive turnover rate (23.3%) 鈥� 32 spots better even than the Richard Pitino Lobos, who were known for forcing turnovers (20.3% turnover rate, 35th nationally) and scoring in transition.

But that Tritons defense was built on returning players who had logged a lot of minutes together. This Lobos team is not that.

Still, the Lobos forced Washington State into 19 turnovers, converting those into 18 points. The Cougars shot just 40.8% and 22.7% from 3-point range.

Washington State didn鈥檛 make a field goal against the Lobos for the first 8 minutes, 13 seconds of the second half. To be clear, the Lobos鈥� foul-happy night didn鈥檛 exactly mean that drought turned the game around, since the Cougars hit seven free throws in that span in a game they attempted 43 free throws off 31 Lobo personal fouls.

But for a road game when a roster of 14 new players shot just 26.7% from the floor, something kept the Lobos in the game until the final minute.

鈥淚 wouldn鈥檛 say I鈥檓 happy, obviously, but I like what we saw out there,鈥� Lobo forward Antonio Chol said after his 11 point, five-rebound game. 鈥淲e could be disruptive. We鈥檙e a great team when we get out in transition (off of defensive turnovers). ...

鈥淭hings just weren鈥檛 falling and obviously we still had a close game. So I just think it鈥檚 a testament to coach. He really put a well put-together group. We were leading and still not doing the best offensively, we were still in the game. Nobody on our team was really too surprised, because we gel together, you know, we all like each other, and we鈥檙e just out there trying to win.鈥�

Comparison is the thief of joy

No, we don鈥檛 need to forever compare this new Lobos team under Olen to his old ones at UC San Diego, but this new-look version of UNM鈥檚 premier program is still so much of an unknown to everyone.

In their Division I existence (just since the 2020-21 season), the Tritons shot worse than 29.0% on 2-pointers in a regular-season game just once 鈥� Nov. 4, 2024 in a 63-58 loss at San Diego State when a team that included current Lobos Chris Howell and Milos Vicentic hit just 10 of 35 shots (28.6%) inside the arc.

As for that three-point volume 鈥� 44 3-point attempts out of a total of 75 shots (a 3-point attempt rate of 58.7%), that would have ranked as just the ninth most for Olen鈥檚 Tritons in a regular season game.

3s galore

The 44 3-point attempts in Saturday鈥檚 game 鈥� 10 of 11 Lobos attempted at least one, with guard Luke Haupt the only player without a triple try 鈥� would have been a single-game UNM record had it been a regular-season game.

The record for most 3-pointers attempted by the Lobos in game is 42, in a Dec. 11, 1993, double-overtime home loss to 近距离内射合集.

COUGARS 74, LOBOS 66

NEW MEXICO (0-0)

Albury 1-11 4-4 6, Chol 3-7 3-3 11, Howell 1-7 0-1 2, Buljan 2-5 0-0 4, Hall 3-13 2-2 10, Patton 1-6 0-0 2, Miller 1-6 1-2 4, Haupt 1-3 5-5 7, Tenette 4-10 0-0 11, Vicentic 2-6 0-0 6, Rock 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 20-75 15-17 66.

WASHINGTON STATE (0-0)

Yalaho 3-6 2-6 8, Thrastarson 4-9 4-4 13, Morton 1-5 10-13 12, Rodriguez 1-3 0-0 2, Okafor 3-7 3-7 9, Ugbo 4-6 6-8 16, Hildebrandt 3-7 2-3 10, Gerrits 0-0 0-0 0, Glass 1-4 2-2 4, Wynott 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 20-49 29-43 74.

3-point FGs鈥擴NM 11-44; WSU 5-22. Rebounds鈥擴NM 45 (Buljan 9); WSU 51 (Okafor 14). Assists鈥擴NM 12 (Howell 4); WSU 10 (Rodriguez 5). Steals鈥擴NM 9 (Haupt 3); WSU 8 (Rodriguez 3). Blocks鈥擴NM 3; WSU 6 (Okafor 2). Turnovers鈥擴NM 14, WSU 19. Team fouls鈥擴NM 31, WSU 17. Fouled out鈥擜lbury, Howell, Haupt, Tenette. Technical fouls鈥擵icentic, WSU bench.