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Message: [QUOTE="moqui, post: 208861, member: 214"] can't cut and paste those pay-per-view articles, but the gist of it is that Gasaway thinks that Syracuse is a very powerful exception to the rule. He delves into various iterations of the points-per-possession statistics and concludes that the Syracuse defense is so good that even giving teams extra possessions via weak defensive rebounding don't hurt us as much as you'd expect. Even with the weak rebounding, SU's defensive PPP is 0.94, best in the Big East. When he partials out the effect of turnovers (as a way of imagining how we would do against a disciplined team that really values the ball), he finds a PPP of 1.23, not overly impressive, but still better than the Big East average of 1.26. Gasaway concludes: [/QUOTE]