Duke Post Game

[Scooch]

Good take by Axe.

The Autry pressers are unlistenable at this point.

He's trying to spin it positive but we're at the point of bold-faced lies sadly.

Axe diplomatically says that.

Autry’s repeating how college basketball is different from 10 years ago was a bad look given the setting. If he’s going to suggest that SU couldn’t compete then every fan who attended last night should get their money back.

 

[RF2044]

Exactly, people think we just need talent. Watch their defense last night. They play a switching style defense they all move together, they all battle, they all give effort, they all help, and they all know where they are supposed to be. That is coaching. Getting the best talent money can buy and rolling the ball out gets you Indiana. Getting talent with coaching gets you Duke and most SEC teams. Getting you no talent and terrible coaching gets you Syracuse.

It's just more excuse making, IMO.

A decent head coach would coax exponentially more productivity out of our current personnel. A decent head coach would have us playing far more effective offense, and better defense. Period.

Whether or not that would be enough to overcome Duke -- a legitimate national championship contender -- is irrelevant. If Tony Bennet were coaching our team, we'd have 16 wins, and wouldn't be blown out every time we play a team with a pulse.

People can point to the talent all they want, and talent is certainly important, but it is merely the symptom of the problem -- not the ACTUAL problem.

 

[tbonezone]

you may not like results (i don't) but Red's pressers are 1000x than JB's last few years.
at least he stands up like a man and takes it. again you may not like the answers (i'm frankly a little tired of "the we talked about this and that " ) but he doesn't snippily cut off questions , belittle the press or try to pretend he's the only dude in the room with the answers .

 

[Scooch]

It's just more excuse making, IMO.

A decent head coach would coax exponentially more productivity out of our current personnel. A decent head coach would have us playing far more effective offense, and better defense. Period.

Whether or not that would be enough to overcome Duke -- a legitimate national championship contender -- is irrelevant. If Tony Bennet were coaching our team, we'd have 16 wins, and wouldn't be blown out every time we play a team with a pulse.

People can point to the talent all they want, and talent is certainly important, but it is merely the symptom of the problem -- not the ACTUAL problem.

The talent thing is an annual cycle on this site. During the season people say, duhhh, talent is the problem. Then the offseason comes, we add some players, and those people say seeeee nowwwww we have talent. Then the season goes sideways and those folks say, duhhhh, talent is the problem.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I said this was the worst roster of my lifetime in the offseason and people came at me hard. It should not be a surprise we suck.

 

[atlanticuse]

#coaching

 

[tbonezone]

It's just more excuse making, IMO.

A decent head coach would coax exponentially more productivity out of our current personnel. A decent head coach would have us playing far more effective offense, and better defense. Period.

Whether or not that would be enough to overcome Duke -- a legitimate national championship contender -- is irrelevant. If Tony Bennet were coaching our team, we'd have 16 wins, and wouldn't be blown out every time we play a team with a pulse.

People can point to the talent all they want, and talent is certainly important, but it is merely the symptom of the problem -- not the ACTUAL problem.

i can't tell if this isn't an exact repost from 7 years ago. cuz the conclusion reads the same.

 

[sufan59]

I said this was the worst roster of my lifetime in the offseason and people came at me hard. It should not be a surprise we suck.

I thought this was the best roster we have had going into the season since 2018-2019 on paper which was a season I thought we underperformed. Yeah that wasn’t really that much of an underperformance in hindsight though. A notable red flag though in the offseason was not playing D1 exhibitions. We’re either incompetent or not trying to be competitive.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I thought this was the best roster we have had going into the season since 2018-2019 on paper which was a season I thought we underperformed. Yeah that wasn’t really that much of an underperformance in hindsight though. A notable red flag though in the offseason was not playing D1 exhibitions. We’re either incompetent or not trying to be competitive.

We don’t have a player that would have been in the top 6 in the rotation in 2021, top 5 in 20/22, and top 3 in 23. The talent level isn’t even close to JB’s worst years.

 

[sufan59]

We don’t have a player that would have been in the top 6 in the rotation in 2021, top 5 in 20/22, and top 3 in 23. The talent level isn’t even close to JB’s worst years.

 

[Hopkins16]

That’s a totally opposite take from Kiyan’s high school coach. At one point he was sixth man. He had nothing but great th8ngs to say about father and son.

Hope you're right. This is a bigger stage where Melo was king. Hopefully, the same attitude/behavior will follow Kiyan to SU.

 

[Hopkins16]

Starling would get into the rotation. The talent around him exposes his weaknesses and he is forced to do too much more than he is capable of, most recently, running the point.

 

[phsyra]

Our basketball team has a bad coach. Until we have a new coach we will keep underachieving.
Not rocket science...we cant dribble, we cant pass, we cant shoot.

we look like lost puppies out there...its sad to watch...Wildhack knows better

we need a new coach