Benny

[Ozone!]

Billy Edelin………

I can’t comment on specific players as I was a university employee and federal laws prohibit me from doing so.

 

[JaySU22]

It’s super frustrating that for 3 straight years we have made this overrated and unreliable player a big piece of the roster.

 

[sweetpea]

Looking forward to today but some positive criticisms.

- We lost Jessie, our only returning senior. Maybe it was more than the money?

- imo. I imagine this one-game suspension is fair. However, maybe he shouldn't have had to sit two games for the other?

-Maybe he wouldn't have missed a game if JB was still here. Off this topic, Red doesn't have to be completely different than JB.

-Benny should be co-team captain with Judah. Instead, he was pulled out of the starting lineup after one exhibition. He is being called a headcase by 60% of us. I don't see all the hate, he can flat-out play. He probably should be averaging 26mpg despite that.

-What people see on TV is like the D-league basketball. Even midmajors are loaded with upperclassmen. This shouldn't feel like a daycare. Shooting ourselves in the foot is something only Syracuse knows. Name one midmajor who wouldn't do everything they can to get Benny on the court. You won't find one.

-On the positive; we can have our entire frontcourt run motion around the perimeter and the baseline It's possible we never run that if Benny was averaging, 13 and 8 in Maui.

Like I say I love Red. He's not a headcase. Positive criticism.

I guess your thought is Benny being a captain will somehow make him more responsible? The idea of Judah being a captain is only slightly better. I want Benny to show up when he is supposed to and play hard.

 

[two3zone]

Billy was well liked and actually produced.

Don’t have a title without him.

 

[two3zone]

It’s super frustrating that for 3 straight years we have made this overrated and unreliable player a big piece of the roster.

Well, the pundits have us right where we are, only overrated in the 315.

 

[FRANKIEFAN]

At this point Benny is probably one of the biggest busts in Syracuse history for all the hype that he came in with.

Agree but he still came into the Tennesse game and hit a couple threes and kept us in it.

Taylor is who I’m mad at inexcusable to get zero points over 2 games as a starter.

 

[dasher]

Agree but he still came into the Tennesse game and hit a couple threes and kept us in it.

Taylor is who I’m mad at inexcusable to get zero points over 2 games as a starter.

Boot Taylor out of the program? Is this a serious statement? SMH

 

[DilemaCuse]

Looking forward to today but some positive criticisms.

- We lost Jessie, our only returning senior. Maybe it was more than the money?

- imo. I imagine this one-game suspension is fair. However, maybe he shouldn't have had to sit two games for the other?

-Maybe he wouldn't have missed a game if JB was still here. Off this topic, Red doesn't have to be completely different than JB.

-Benny should be co-team captain with Judah. Instead, he was pulled out of the starting lineup after one exhibition. He is being called a headcase by 60% of us. I don't see all the hate, he can flat-out play. He probably should be averaging 26mpg despite that.

-What people see on TV is like the D-league basketball. Even midmajors are loaded with upperclassmen. This shouldn't feel like a daycare. Shooting ourselves in the foot is something only Syracuse knows. Name one midmajor who wouldn't do everything they can to get Benny on the court. You won't find one.

Benny doesn't know how to play, if he did and could match his recruiting hype, he probably would have entered the draft by now. He also doesn't know how to be a professional, or else he wouldn't keep having these setbacks as a jr and one of the eldest members of the team. He's a failure to launch.

 

[atlanticuse]

Billy was well liked and actually produced.

Can’t disagree with you.
But we might have gone to FF in 2003-04 if he hadn’t fizzled midway through the season…
… and then the 2005 loss to Vermont… without him.

 

[atlanticuse]

Benny doesn't know how to play, if he did and could match his recruiting hype, he probably would have entered the draft by now. He also doesn't know how to be a professional, or else he wouldn't keep having these setbacks as a jr and one of the eldest members of the team. He's a failure to launch.

He’s a bouncy goof with crazy (not in a good way) hair.
I had hoped for 6th man… he’s now like 9th man.

 

[two3zone]

Can’t disagree with you.
But we might have gone to FF in 2003-04 if he hadn’t fizzled midway through the season…
… and then the 2005 loss to Vermont… without him.

He was so damn smooth, we’ve probably had “better” point guards than him since but he is exactly what you need from the position.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Agree but he still came into the Tennesse game and hit a couple threes and kept us in it.

Taylor is who I’m mad at inexcusable to get zero points over 2 games as a starter.

Uh, no.

 

[atlanticuse]

He was so damn smooth, we’ve probably had “better” point guards than him since but he is exactly what you need from the position.

How did we have such an amazing flow of players in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s?
And then after 2015… crickets.

 

[two3zone]

How did we have such an amazing flow of players in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s?
And then after 2015… crickets.

 

[oTTo113445]

He's had like 18 total minutes this year in 6 games when he should be averaging like 26 per game. I don't see how we can have any expectations yet. The season hasn't even started for him.

 

[atlanticuse]

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Our next football coach?

 

[NineOneSeven]

That might very well be true. However, that doesn't explain no out of bounds plays. It doesn't explain letting guys shoot 3's that can't make them. That has to change.

It might sound crazy, but the out of bounds stuff is actually my biggest coaching issue right now. The other stuff can be hard to differentiate between player execution and what the plan was. The continual struggle to inbound under the hoop is 100% due to coaching not setting up something. It’s basic stuff. Very disappointing it wasn’t cleaned up before yesterday.

 

[Ghost]

How did we have such an amazing flow of players in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s?
And then after 2015… crickets.

Players used to just line up to go to Syracuse because they could officiate games at the YMCA in their spare time.

Once we lost that perk, we couldn't compete with the big boys with their fake academic programs, money, etc...

 

[NineOneSeven]

Players used to just line up to go to Syracuse because they could officiate games at the YMCA in their spare time.

Once we lost that perk, we couldn't compete with the big boys with their fake academic programs, money, etc...

How has our spacing been so far? Ideally our 2 guard shoots better than 7% from deep moving forward.

 

[oTTo113445]

Copelands not getting his body into the defender when they play off of him. Would rather him get picked once a game than not do it at all. I know he's skinny but I don't see how a Pace, or Buddy could back their man down at will and he can't roll off his man once in a while going left. Taylor also. Especially with JJ and Judah next to them.

I really want to see our entire frontcourt in motion for a half. Nothing cures a cold hand like a 7-foot swish.

 

[Day2]

Can’t disagree with you.
But we might have gone to FF in 2003-04 if he hadn’t fizzled midway through the season…
… and then the 2005 loss to Vermont… without him.

“Fizzled” is an interesting (and callous) way of putting it.

 

[Day2]

He's had like 18 total minutes this year in 6 games when he should be averaging like 26 per game. I don't see how we can have any expectations yet. The season hasn't even started for him.

And whose fault is that?

 

[OCESIP]

How did we have such an amazing flow of players in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s?
And then after 2015… crickets.

I'm convinced that leaving the Big East plus just plain aging greatly impacted JB's level of enthusiasm and motivation.
He needed to take a close look in the mirror and retire, but after giving his entire life to the program it had to be a gut wrenching decision he just was not ready to make.

 

[DilemaCuse]

He's had like 18 total minutes this year in 6 games when he should be averaging like 26 per game. I don't see how we can have any expectations yet. The season hasn't even started for him.

Is this a serious post?
Because he shouldn't be getting suspended! This isn't an injury situation like Chance. This is how you conduct yourself.

 

[Zepharus]

How did we have such an amazing flow of players in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s?
And then after 2015… crickets.

$$$$ Don't kid yourself We were doing the same thing the other coaches got nabbed within the FBI Sting only problem is we got smacked twice so we stopped... All downhill after that