Free throws no longer a weapon for Lobo men

Six weeks ago, the Lobos were a different team.

Gethro Muscadin was the team’s 6-foot-10 starting center and 6-7 Emmanuel Kuac, who would later become UNM’s starting center before breaking his leg, was just getting cleared to play after an unrelated early-season injury.

The Lobos weren’t a good defensive team, then, but they weren’t as bad as they’ve become after those two players left an already undermanned frontcourt without many options remaining.

But offensively, the team was also doing something then that it seems to have abandoned – and maybe not entirely because of the shift in roster dynamics in the frontcourt.

In the Dec. 18 Journal, a story published on the cover of the sports section…