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- It was a valiant effort but it was a fourth straight loss and our seventh of the season. We need to go 7-7 the rest of the regular season to ensure that 46th straight winning season and avoid the first school year since 1947-48 in which both the football and basketball teams had losing records. And, barring a run in the ACC tournament, we’ll have to do a lot better than that even to climb onto the NCAA bubble.
- While we continue to originate everything from the perimeter, the Tar Heels went high-low, high-low all evening. It was a song of woe for Syracuse:
- Four ACC games. Points in the paint: 28-34, 16-30, 18-40, 26-46.
- Our three point percentages after the Colgate game, when we were 14 of 30 (.467): .192, .333, .280, .308, .333, .318, .382, .290. that’s one game in eight where we shot the ball well from the arc, a big part of this team’s offense. Again, it’s some we do a lot more than something we do well.
- When teams decide to take Michael Gbinije out of the game, as Miami did (3 for 14 with 8 turnovers) and UNC did tonight (3 for 13 with 3 turnovers). I kept thinking: “Gbinije hasn’t started scoring yet and we are even with them. When he stars scoring, well pull away.” He didn’t score a field goal until there was 3:31 left in the game and got 6 of his 10 points in the final 1:50 by which time the Heels had pulled away from us.
- Tyler Lydon in ACC games has played 121 minutes and gotten 17 shots off, one every 7 minutes. 65% of those shots have been three pointers. He’s 6-9. Some of it is a freshman trying to play at a level of competition he’s never played at before. Some of it is a resulting decline in confidence. But a lot of it is that we’re just not putting him in circumstances that give him a chance to excel.
- Steals and turnovers are supposed to be our bag. We had 5 steals and forced 9 turnovers: they had 8 and 13.
- We’ve proven that even in a down year, we can compete with top ACC teams. But we keep coming up short. Our last quarters: 13-28; 17-25; 17-11, (but 12-13 in overtime after we blew it at the end of regulation and tonight it was 22-34. The Pitt, Miami and UNC games 48-44, 34-39 and 51-50 after three quarters, against three of the best teams in the conference.
- “If we play this well in the rest of our games, we’ll win a lot of them!” But how do we maintain this level of effort? This game was played under special circumstances that won’t be duplicated the rest of the year.
- While we continue to originate everything from the perimeter, the Tar Heels went high-low, high-low all evening. It was a song of woe for Syracuse:
- Four ACC games. Points in the paint: 28-34, 16-30, 18-40, 26-46.
- Our three point percentages after the Colgate game, when we were 14 of 30 (.467): .192, .333, .280, .308, .333, .318, .382, .290. that’s one game in eight where we shot the ball well from the arc, a big part of this team’s offense. Again, it’s some we do a lot more than something we do well.
- When teams decide to take Michael Gbinije out of the game, as Miami did (3 for 14 with 8 turnovers) and UNC did tonight (3 for 13 with 3 turnovers). I kept thinking: “Gbinije hasn’t started scoring yet and we are even with them. When he stars scoring, well pull away.” He didn’t score a field goal until there was 3:31 left in the game and got 6 of his 10 points in the final 1:50 by which time the Heels had pulled away from us.
- Tyler Lydon in ACC games has played 121 minutes and gotten 17 shots off, one every 7 minutes. 65% of those shots have been three pointers. He’s 6-9. Some of it is a freshman trying to play at a level of competition he’s never played at before. Some of it is a resulting decline in confidence. But a lot of it is that we’re just not putting him in circumstances that give him a chance to excel.
- Steals and turnovers are supposed to be our bag. We had 5 steals and forced 9 turnovers: they had 8 and 13.
- We’ve proven that even in a down year, we can compete with top ACC teams. But we keep coming up short. Our last quarters: 13-28; 17-25; 17-11, (but 12-13 in overtime after we blew it at the end of regulation and tonight it was 22-34. The Pitt, Miami and UNC games 48-44, 34-39 and 51-50 after three quarters, against three of the best teams in the conference.
- “If we play this well in the rest of our games, we’ll win a lot of them!” But how do we maintain this level of effort? This game was played under special circumstances that won’t be duplicated the rest of the year.
