bballbeadle
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Ha ha! Yesssssss.Praising the general is always insightful!
Ha ha! Yesssssss.Praising the general is always insightful!
I have argued for years that the regular season, especially the conference season, is a better measure of a team's strength than the single elimination post season. I always got told that the post season, specifically the NCAA tournament was all that counted.
If we are now going to acknowledge that the regular season is the better measure of a team, then we should learn to appreciate regular season accomplishments. if we can win a conference regular season title, (even if it's unofficial), win 30 games, get ranked #1, we should remember the teams that did that as fondly as teams that had good post season runs.
As far as predicting how far a team will go in the tournament, all i want is to be curious, rather than nervous on selection Sunday. The regular season can get a you a good seed but that's all it can do. The rest is a spin of the roulette wheel, (as Virginia found out last year).
A JB quote in recent article (about rarity of returning all starters) has me wondering something - here it is:
“The returning five have given rise to high expectations for this year's Orange, but SU coach Jim Boeheim preached caution, noting that Syracuse struggled to 20 regular-season wins last year.
"We have to be a lot better than we were last year,'' Boeheim said. "The (NCAA) tournament doesn't really matter. That's just an isolated instance. We played good for a week. We didn't play good for the whole year last year.''
My question: Are we letting our final impression of last years team (success in NCAA tournament) cloud our judgement about how good this year’s team may be?
Like many here I am extremely optimistic about the 2018-19 SU basketball team. Like, dreaming of a Final Four or more.
But is this optimism grounded in reality? Per JB, this is a team that did not look great heading into the Tournament last year...thoughts?