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Message: [QUOTE="longislandcuse, post: 2452056, member: 937"] I'm not as forgiving as you are. Read the recruiting board and listen to some of the podcasts dealing with the subject matter and while, yes, sanctions played a part, the coaching staff played much more of a part in being where we are today. They didn't have the luxury of missing on a lot due to the sanctions but the misses were bad...and numerous. While I don't really enjoy CBB outside of March, I'll say this on Syracuse specifically. I don't like our style of play. I respect Boeheim but don't particularly like his style of coaching. I don't like playing 2-3 zone incessantly with the inability to change defense if only for a 1 or 2 trips to get a team out of rhythm. I don't like that teams can pass it around and play pattycake for 30 seconds while we stand around in defensive posture 10 feet from them waiting for them to initiate offense. I don't like that we recruit athletes over ball players. I don't like that we haven't adapted to basketball in 2010+... Allow me to go in: Our "shooters" are guys who can get streaky and aren't dependable, lucky if we even have them. Why tf do we recruit a Matthew Moyer or Marek Dolezaj? They're great kids and a model citizens it seems but what do you do nowadays with a Forward who can't even shoot from the midrange!? Why are we recruiting these players? Oh, yea, I forgot...to play zone. Can we get a damn point guard!? Enough with the converting of 2g to play point...who does that besides us? Recruit shooters...for love of all that's good in this world...recruit some shooters. If we're going to play backwardsass basketball, at least get a post player with some skill... cool, we've got Pascal Chukwu who can barely dunk at 7'2. Why.. because of the zone again. Awesome. Can't wait to tune in today to watch us run PnR with Frank and somebody who can't do anything with the ball outside of two feet 500 times... [/QUOTE]

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