In all my 20 something years of watching Syracuse hoops I can't remember a squad this feeble getting out and running. Even on opportunities where we had 2 on 1s we managed to mess them up.
For as good as Ennis is doing everything else, his lack of elite athleticism really comes through on fast-break situations and it doesn't help that Cooney isn't an elite athlete either. Whenever Scoop, Brandon, Dion, or MCW were on a 1:1 or 2:1 situation you could count the points... with this squad its pretty shaky potatos.
The result of this is that we are only going to be building a cushion if we can hit our jump shots and since we are never going to be consistent at that all year we are going to have a lot of yo yo games like yesterday where we pull ahead by a good amount and get pulled back in or games where we can't get a big run going.
This season is going to come down to how well we execute in the half court sets so we can avoid scoring droughts.
For as good as Ennis is doing everything else, his lack of elite athleticism really comes through on fast-break situations and it doesn't help that Cooney isn't an elite athlete either. Whenever Scoop, Brandon, Dion, or MCW were on a 1:1 or 2:1 situation you could count the points... with this squad its pretty shaky potatos.
The result of this is that we are only going to be building a cushion if we can hit our jump shots and since we are never going to be consistent at that all year we are going to have a lot of yo yo games like yesterday where we pull ahead by a good amount and get pulled back in or games where we can't get a big run going.
This season is going to come down to how well we execute in the half court sets so we can avoid scoring droughts.