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Message: [QUOTE="Ghost, post: 2865544, member: 581"] Eh, he should have a green light if he was a pretty good shooter. :) I guess what's hard to understand is that people would make the same argument for playing guy's like BJ Johnson and get laughed at by people who are not laughing any more inexplicably - even when we needed shooting and sucked at basketball then. My argument is always the same - I'm okay with Buddy playing as needed, but I've always felt like playing these dudes will pay long term dividends. Play Buddy all you want - other guys are struggling, and we suck. I like potential - let's roll the dice. Other people seem to sway back and forth and pretty much argue both sides depending on the year/situation/what JB is doing - which isn't really a fair way to argue. Then they huff and puff that nobody understands basketball but them... JB shredded other dudes shooting around 20%....and went straight up red light. I remember all the encouraging words he had for Patterson, who had a rep as a shooter coming out of school... "I can shoot 15 percent right now," Boeheim said after the game. "I'm 70 years old. But after 22 games you have to look at the numbers and say, ‘You know what? You can’t make it,’” Boeheim said, raising his voice, before saying Patterson is needed for penetration on offense and activity on defense. “… Let’s do that. Let’s stick with that. Let’s do what we can, let’s not do what we think, what we dream we can do. That’s not dreamland out there, it’s reality. Let’s do what you can do and help your team.” At the time of that quote, Patterson was 8-48, Buddy was 8-39. Buddy is at 23% after catching fire last game....even Patterson shot 31% as a Frosh. So, I can't really go crazy on people that want to put forward an argument that the treatment is slightly different. Patterson was better probably in every other aspect of his development at that point. Defense, driving, passing etc... [/QUOTE]

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