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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 2095837, member: 837"]
This the thing I think people fail to understand with JB -- everything is based on percentages. He was basically playing advanced metrics starting in '96 long before it became vogue to talk about all that stuff. JB has a system that makes things rough on teams offenses pretty consistently. Occasionally there are teams and/or coaches that are ready for it. Buzz Williams was always tough, Dixon, Pitino to name a few. But, and this is the other thing people have to remember, we generally recruit players built for the zone and that has tended to put a bit less focus on quickness and a bit more focus on length -- aggressive athletic teams give us fits.

So some teams/coaches have owned SU/JB for a bit but those have also generally been really, really good coaches/programs. That happens sometimes.

At the end of the day, there are a few blue bloods out there who seem to post 25+ wins in the regular season every year -- Duke/Carolina/Kansas, etc., but for the most part teams have to scratch and claw and stay above the fray to get to 22 or 23 regular season wins. That inherantly means they are losing some games along the way. The key for us, IMO, is to get back to this point of 22 or 23 wins consistently in the regular season -- which means beating st. johns/g'town/uconn and teams like GA Tech on the road. And at that point a loss to a top-10 L'ville team on the road is not really  all that big a deal.
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