We get culturally obtuse

New Mexico State's offensive creativity is being narrowly defined by players too often taking shots after their own dribble-drives rather than feeding teammates or running sets that create open shots. So says Marvin Menzies, who wants higher Aggie assist numbers.

In an admittedly strange cultural reference (hey, it's Monday morning and the caffeine is flowing), we'll offer John Prine's 'Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore' as describing the outcome of the present Aggie offensive style.

Leave it to Leonard Nimoy (how can this entry get any stranger?) who advises, "The miracle is this -- the more we share, the more we have."

Mistakes cost New Mexico State at home
Jason Groves
Las Cruces Sun-News
1/12/2009

Nine assists and 18 turnovers.

Both numbers are uncharacteristic of the New Mexico State men's basketball this season, but they were a big part of Saturday's 77-67 Western Athletic Conference loss to Utah State on Saturday at the Pan American Center.

Utah State won here for the first time since 2000 to knock the Aggies to 2-2 in conference play.

"We only had nine assists on the evening and that's a tell-tale number for us not sharing the ball in the half court set," Aggies head coach Marvin Menzies said. "I think there were several opportunities where guys could have drove and dish..."

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