But "not jelling" is different than giving up 13 offensive boards a game in Big XII play. It's different than allowing career 3-point shooting nights twice in three games. It's different than shooting 50% from the free-throw line. It's different than having your lottery-pick starting point guard miss 21 threes in a row.

And pardon me, but it's different than watching really boring basketball being played by a team that clearly doesn't understand what it's doing out there. Getting drilled by Houston is disappointing, but understandable. Losing to Texas Tech on your home floor when you turn the ball over four times in six possessions under 3 minutes, give up four offensive rebounds on three possessions under 2 minutes, and fail to get consecutive true defensive stops at any point in the last TEN MINUTES of the game is not disappointing. It's criminal. It's the mark of really bad, unfocused, undisciplined basketball being played by a team that has enough veterans to know better.

Losing? Sure. It's going to happen. Losing with two first-round draft picks (although...whoah, is the draft THAT thin this year?) is less understandable.

Losing by playing timid, clueless, turnover-prone, stand-around-and-watch basketball is...well, it's not BYU. Or at least it shouldn't be. When BYU plays like this and our best player is a sophomore Dallin Hall, like we had two years ago, well, that stinks but what can you expect? When Dallin Hall is a senior, and he's flanked by Knell and Fouss and Saunders, guys who beat Kansas on the road last year, and we've replaced Spencer Johnson and Jackson Robinson with two guys I'm told are potential lottery picks, I expect better. I don't think that's unreasonable.

You said you expected it to take half the season for the team to come together. Half the season is next Tuesday against Oklahoma St. I'll be watching closely.