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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 2911011, member: 2133"]
I've posted this a few times, but "smooth" is a qualitative term.  Efficient is more accurate.  SU's offense is exceptionally slow and not particularly efficient (i.e., converting shots to points).  If your team is playing with fewer possessions by design, which SU does, possessions become more valuable and need to be converted to points at a higher rate to keep up.  That Duke game was won because Syracuse took 80* (20% higher than 2nd most) shots, but they still weren't particularly efficient.   That game was an outlier in terms of how they played offense.

SU also doesn't convert FTs, which they need to do because they're scoring with the clock off.  UVA is an example of an exceptional offense geared to make the most of every single posession and burn as much clock as possible.

*Forgot that this was an OT game, but 72 FGA in regulation are still the most SU has attempted this season.  by 4 against the defensive juggernaut Morehead State (68).
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