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[QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 2238110, member: 668"]
Exactly...effort, grit and mindset/toughness makes up the mental capacity of D and athleticism makes up the physical.  I truly find it astonishing that JB repeatedly claims that his guys can't play a wink of man.  Talk about 'Crying Wolf.'  We may not recruit/able to land top 10-15 players, but we certainly get our share of Top 50, 75 and 100 type.  Players in this category have very good athleticism and have been playing man to man defense their entire lives to the time they reach the Hill.  And, that's a  ton of hoops, considering all the camps, tournaments, AAU ball these kids play.

If our guys (who if they had chosen other schools or move on to other schools) would miraculously be capable of playing man.  No different than the recruits we've missed on who shockingly are doing so.  I watched Kevin Heurter play for Maryland several times this year, a so-called prototypical (made for zone) type guy.  Incredibly, he's playing man to man, and, from what I observed, not all too shabby at that...for a frosh nonetheless.

I get that it's JB's program and that he's the captain of the ship.  But for crying out loud JB, just frigging admit that this is the style that you [I]CHOOSE[/I] to play at SU...period.  His success speaks for itself, but [I]"Come on Man!"[/I] It's not because our consistently Top 50-100 athletic players can't play a wink, that's just utter nonsense, it really is.  It's mind boggling to me that he can preach this and get people to actually believe it.  If all of our highly athletic recruits truly were incapable of playing any legit man to man, well, that's more of a reflection on JB than his players.
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