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Message: [QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 5582476, member: 6979"] the other teams play with bball iq...kansas does not have a wow factor roster but they simply play smart basketball as a team...that doesnt just happen by accident. listen to bill self talk basketball. in his press conferences he actually references bball knowledge and wisdom beyond "level 5 intensity" and vague aphoristic jargon. listening to him talk about bidunga after the SU game made me envious...he talked about technique of how he can seal off opponents in the post etc...types of comments red would simply never make (because i think he literally doesnt even have that kind of bball knowledge) you didnt see how the opponents blitze kiyan and got him to play like a shell of himself from previous games? you didnt see how opponents had a good gameplan to stop george and cause him to also play terribly? you didnt see how houston used smarts to get to the foul line? you didnt see how kansas used ball movement to get good shots and wide open plays? kansas was without their leading scorer and star player and they changed their lineup ...and they will be much better in feb or march then they are now. they are clearly working on things too. i NEVER would expect everything to be worked out from day 1. my point is that their baseline...and the baseline that most teams seem to start from game 1...like a colgate or even schools like that...is[I] they start the season [/I]running plays and playing with [I]high bball IQ [/I]whereas Syracuse DOES NOT. the offense is like 10% installed...they just stand around and jack 3s and kinda run picks at the top of the key sometimes...red has worked on the defense and not done much on offense yet...as if thats enough! it is not!!!!! "its gonna take some time" is NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!!! ...lose to tennessee and they will have a very low chance of making the NCAAT...this isnt the 90s anymore!!!! its not okay anymore to use the non con to lose every game and figure things out...thats not how it works now. JB did that and it was fine bc it was a different era. non con didnt matter, big east play was all that did then. this era is different. [/QUOTE]

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