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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2541200, member: 2932"]
[URL="https://www.theringer.com/march-madness/2018/3/18/17137122/syracuse-orange-zone-defense-michigan-state-ncaa-tournament"]When the Syracuse Zone Is Operating in Full Effect, No Team Is Safe[/URL]

It is genuinely remarkable that this has become the conventional wisdom about Syracuse. I have three points about this:

1) In the 2011, 2012 period the line boeheim antagonists took was that sure he could put up great regular seasons but he couldn’t get it done in the tournament. Now some in that group make the opposite argument. Both are silly.

2) the speed at which this narrative changes should be another reason to doubt the staying power of narratives about coaches like tony Bennett.

3)  the tournament is largely a crapshoot. It’s great that SU is putting together run after run in the tournament but I’m skeptical that boeheim has mastered basketball anymore than he was an idiot four years ago.

4) the real takeaway is that you aim to put together good teams and get in the tournament and over the long run you’ll basically get what you deserve.
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