On par or less talent than SU? Are you mad?
BTW this guy has won two national championships with teams with a talent profile that is on par or even less than this current Syracuse roster. If your top 30 in talent composite which Syracuse is, it comes down to development, system, and scrappiness. We are probably one of or if not the worst in that department amongst our peers. The system being more of the problem. Unless they are just making us crazy right now and waiting for the time to roll out the system that involves maximizing the talent of the players. This is not ok. From fans, to the team, the coaching staff, and the athletic department, the success for any northeastern athletic program starts with scrappiness. As a collective, we used to have it, some still do, but a lot of people have given up with this mentality for Syracuse. For Autry, stop talking about it, do it, your the leader. Demand it from your team, but also the coaching staff, fans, and the AD.
Development through a good system
I agree that Red needs to go. He will be gone and we will see where we go from here. I would love nothing more than Syracuse basketball to make a good hire and spend money smartly in NIL and be good again. Sorry for being stupid.
If Red gets the blame for George and Kingz playing worse than they did at previous schools, does he get the credit for Kyle playing significantly better?
I have liked what Kingz is doing outside of 3 point shooting. He was in the West Coast Conference before and I think is playing against better competition. I think when things have gone as bad as they have over the last few years with Red he probably doesn't get much credit for the few good things since there are so many bad.
That would make sense if conference play had started. He’s 12-36 against the cupcakes we’ve played.
Kyle has been great. I was bullish on him coming in. I still think Kingz will be fine. I am really concerned about George.
The fact that Red made a point to say we fixed the free throws because of 1 game, just shows his incompetence. He truly felt that because we didn’t shoot 50% in one game, he did his job as a coach. Axe and others seemingly laughed at him after this back and forth.
Where can we find these comments from Will?
JB could be exhausting. Years of needlessly controversial comments for absolutely no reason. It was fine and funny and entertaining when he was winning, but when he was losing he just sounded like a sad old man unwilling to see that his time had passed. And I get that. There are aspects of being middle aged that I hate, I'm dreading getting even older.
On offense they need to use players that are inside threats (Sadiq White, JJ Starling, Donnie Freeman (if he comes back), and Kiyan Anthony to set screens in spots where Betsey and Kingz can shoot a high percentage from the outside where George can deliver them the ball. These screens should create havoc in the middle of the floor and also open up a lob threat for Kyle or Souare when they are in the game. It could also open space up for the 4 screeners to work the driving lanes for George to dish the ball if the defense sells out too much on a Betsey or Kingz. In the most highly efficient offense for this team, 3s from Starling, Anthony, and Freeman should only be in transition or select isolation moments. And for White if they are literally giving him the space for 3s. That’s how it would look if you’re building the offense around George passing, but we seem to have elected to not do that. It’s up to George to figure out where our shot makers like the ball to make some moves and hopefully hit medium to low percentage shots.
They are recruiting at there highest level right now and probably have their most talented roster under Hurley this season. I would actually be stunned if they don’t cut down the nets again at the end of the season because they really have everything, though some other very good teams at the top of the sport this season. Their national championship teams had 1 5 star between the two teams (Stephon Castle). Development via good systems. They have some guys succeeding at the next level that would’ve never gotten there without it. Maybe Syracuse has a click it moment which at this point would be out of no where. But this narrative around talent deficiencies at Syracuse to compete at the top of the sport is objectively false after the talent infusion this past offseason. We underperformed in year 1 and 2 as well with what we had, though not the level of talent we have this season.
What is he stressing? The Cold War?
Just bet them at +900 thanks to you!
Their. Multiple times. We haven’t had UConns level of talent in well over a decade. Or their development.
I hope I’m wrong, I take no pleasure in watching them win nattys, though they have a fun and entertaining product to watch. But yeah mentally preparing for them to get number 7, be pleasantly surprised if it doesn’t happen.
