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[QUOTE="General20, post: 3293833, member: 724"]
Neither Boeheim deserves any blame.

Florida St was regularly sending double teams to Buddy Boeheim.  Assuming we can all agree that Buddy is not a Carmelo Anthony type talent that we want taking a lot of shots even when double teamed, he was right to not take very many shots.

Obviously you don't want Buddy going 0-7, but I would have been very happy with 2-7 and considered 3-7 a great game considering the defensive attention.  Sometimes the shots just don't fall.

Florida St treating Boeheim like he's our star allowed Girard and a clearly not 100% Hughes to get enough space to score 47 combined points, on pretty much all good shots.

Late in the game when Florida St tried to shut both Buddy and Girard down, Hughes got multiple open lay ups in a row.  That never happens against top 10 teams in late game situations when their half court D is set up and not in transition. Offense was not our problem.  Our offense was great.  As always this year defense and rebounding was our problem.

Put a great shot blocker in the middle of our zone and this might be a championship contending team.
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