First 10 Minutes of Second Half

[Orangezoo]

i get your point, but if you go back to the last 3 games, we were creamed by terrible Pitt. Is a 2 game span really enough to say “we’re back”

Yep a Pitt team that is quite a ways below Colgate in the metrics

 

[CardiacCuse]

i get your point, but if you go back to the last 3 games, we were creamed by terrible Pitt. Is a 2 game span really enough to say “we’re back”

no not at all.

the margin for error on this team is just too small

(although I do get the feeling watching the last two games that something has clicked at least a bit..for the first time this year i finally felt like i was watching syracuse basketball)

BUT

look at how buddy and the team caught fire last year end of season...its pretty much been the formula for JB...his teams have really peaked at the end of the year over the past 5-10 seasons - -now the lead up to those peaks has been mediocre at best..which is a huge problem and a very big one this year...

but I expect the trend of peaking at the end of the year to continue with this team

 

[Day2]

i get your point, but if you go back to the last 3 games, we were creamed by terrible Pitt. Is a 2 game span really enough to say “we’re back”

We led by double-digits early and had the lead at the half. While it shouldn’t have been necessary to beat a team like Pitt, Torrence was desperately needed in that game. Girard played his worst game of the season and was even hurt at one point.

Obviously it still counts as a loss. I just don’t think it’s indicative of where we are right now.

 

[orangecuse]

We led by double-digits early and had the lead at the half. While it shouldn’t have been necessary to beat a team like Pitt, Torrence was desperately needed in that game. Girard played his worst game of the season and was even hurt at one point.

Obviously it still counts as a loss. I just don’t think it’s indicative of where we are right now.

So, where are we right now after beating the likes of Wake and NCST? Do you think it's sustainable to shoot lights out as we did in the 2nd halves against both of these schools? JB last night in his show said had we only played "good" vs. "great" against State, we lose my 10. Mind you, playing "good" and still losing (according to JB) to an NCST team that is 3-9 in conference.

 

[Day2]

So, where are we right now after beating the likes of Wake and NCST? Do you think it's sustainable to shoot lights out as we did in the 2nd halves against both of these schools? JB last night in his show said had we only played "good" vs. "great" against State, we lose my 10. Mind you, playing "good" and still losing (according to JB) to an NCST team that is 3-9 in conference.

I had us beating Pitt and losing to NC State. Keats does a good job against us. After losing a bunch of coin flip games, we finally won one.

So where are we? Our offense is improving. Swider is improving. Our defense - while still not anything to write home about - is improving. And Buddy’s starting to peak, as he tends to do this time of year.

We have enough winnable games in front of us to put together a nice winning streak, although we still have very little room for error. I’m not sure we’ll finish with a winning record. It will be close.

 

[orangecuse]

I had us beating Pitt and losing to NC State. Keats does a good job against us. After losing a bunch of coin flip games, we finally won one.

So where are we? Our offense is improving. Swider is improving. Our defense - while still not anything to write home about - is improving. And Buddy’s starting to peak, as he tends to do this time of year.

We have enough winnable games in front of us to put together a nice winning streak, although we still have very little room for error. I’m not sure we’ll finish with a winning record. It will be close.

I think we are 5-1 against NCST and Keats over the last 6 games, which makes him 1-5. I'd hate to know what you think doing a bad job against us is?

I agree we have winnable games in front us, especially with the ACC being as weak as I can ever recall.

The offense improving? Well, the last two games were about as good as we can possible play on the offensive end, scoring 94 and 89 respectively. Your "improving" comment didn't answer my question though, which was; do you think the offense can sustain such an high output? With the defense being as poor as it is, that'll likely be what it will take to win consistently. According to JB, playing "great" O vs. "good" as "good," according to JB, apparently still wouldn't have cut it.

I'll agree to disagree on the "improving" on the defensive front as I just don't see it as you apparently do. We just gave up 82 points to State. Even the prior game against Wake, we gave up 72. So, certainly far from anything to write home about, I'll agree there. It took 2nd half barrages in both games to win, 55 points against Wake and 47 against State, albeit against Wake, once we had that early 2nd half separation, the game was never in doubt afterwards.

Perhaps, we just need to continue our trend of being down 3 at the half. Seems to be a good omen for us...at least in these past two games.

 

[STEVEHOLT]

Last game was pretty obvious the second they took Jessie out the offense went in the tank the first half. So much of their offense results from his high screens as well as defense