Alex Kline

[Capt. Tuttle]

Name the last time Syracuse executed in crunch time after a timeout. Or even a simple inbounds play?

That tells you everything you need to know about the level of coaching we have.

And you know the worst part. Red actually turned down adding another assistant coach to his staff. Like he and his staff had all the answers.

Meanwhile, any staff in any sport is working to add more and more analyst positions. Yet, here is our coach saying nooo. We don’t need more resources or coaches. Why would I want that!!! No competent coach in America would turn down extra resources and coaches.

Fear or arrogance would drive that choice

 

[littlereg]

Why do you say this?

Nate Kingz was a part of a 20-win season at Oregon State. His team at Oregon State beat nationally-ranked Gonzaga in a game that he had 20 points and was super efficient. And overall his numbers were much better.

William Kyle played in 32 games last year for a UCLA team that won 23 games. He only played 10 minutes a game, but he was a member of that team and was a bit contributor to a team that went to the NCAA Tournament.

Nait George, I don't disagree - he played on a .500 team in the ACC and was a starter, but never won at a high level. However, his stats are overall better at GT than they are this season.

Those are the three main portal additions. They had varying levels of success at their prior institutions but the issue is Freeman, Starling & the others are SU products and haven't done anything to produce team wins.

I don't know that I agree with the 'haven't won a damn thing' argument.

So in conclusion, they haven’t won a damn thing when it comes to college basketball success? No but in all seriousness I probably could’ve worded that better/more confined and I could be completely wrong and would eat it if I was!

btw this isn’t to say they aren’t talented I said this as my first point, nor do I think Kline should be fired, he gathered talent and got what the players/ formula the coaches wanted, We gathered talented players, they just don’t fit together and aren’t used correctly and which again also falls on coaching . You can have the most athletic team in the country, if you don’t play smart, fundamental ball it won’t matter, if they can’t shoot it won’t matter, if they don’t play team defense it won’t matter, if they can’t rebound at all it won’t matter, etc. you need the correct ingredients to build a good, successful team and the combination of skill sets this roster has doesn’t fit that. a handful of have been saying all season Kingz should’ve been at the 2, and betsey at the 3. Kingz has been royally screwed this season by this staff and his teammates on the court. Kyle has made the best of the situation considering he’s not put in a position to succeed much at all when it comes to our offensive sets and motion. George has been a complete mess. By no means do I think they aren’t talented players but they also aren’t players who carried their past teams substantially, huge producers to post season teams, they haven’t been a main factor in a team that’s been susccessful at the highest level of college basketball.