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SU Still Has Much to Play For After Getting Short End of the Stick (DO: Dougherty)
When Syracuse limped off the floor of the Petersen Events Center on Saturday evening, another loss had hardened the following prevailing logic:
It’s a good year to self-impose a postseason ban because the Orange isn’t going to make the NCAA Tournament either way.
And after falling to Pittsburgh (16-8, 5-5 Atlantic Coast), 83-77, with the toughest part of its schedule still ahead, SU (15-8, 6-4) has eight games left to win for itself and prove that theory wrong. With the dust settled on the self-imposed postseason ban — don’t get too comfortable, dust — the Orange now has eight more games to prove itself a victim of the circumstances instead of a handy administrative chess piece.
If SU continues to lose, slapping a postseason ban on this season will be harmless compared to doing so in almost any other year. But if it plays for pride and stockpiles wins, the record will show that the season wasn’t always bound to be a wash.
It’s hard to look past the fact that SU inappropriately announced the ban on football national signing day — a day Syracuse head coach Scott Shafer said is “about the kids” — that this year’s team isn’t to blame for past discretions and that Rakeem Christmas, the team’s leading scorer and only scholarship senior, has played his last postseason game.
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Will Any Former SU Basketball Players Make the NBA Playoffs? (PS; Murray)
The New York Knicks are terrible. The Los Angeles Lakers stink. The Philadelphia 76ers are lousy.
Those teams have three of the four worst records in the NBA this season.
That means that four of the six former Syracuse players in the NBA right now don't have any chance of playing in the postseason.
Carmelo Anthony will miss the playoffs for the second straight year while Michael Carter-Williams, Jerami Grant and Wesley Johnson will still be seeking their first postseason appearances.
Dion Waiters with the Oklahoma City Thunder and Tyler Ennis with the Phoenix Suns have the only realistic shot at the NBA's second season.
Phoenix is currently holding on to the eighth and final playoff spot in the West while Oklahoma City is two games behind the Suns.
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SU Still Has Much to Play For After Getting Short End of the Stick (DO: Dougherty)
When Syracuse limped off the floor of the Petersen Events Center on Saturday evening, another loss had hardened the following prevailing logic:
It’s a good year to self-impose a postseason ban because the Orange isn’t going to make the NCAA Tournament either way.
And after falling to Pittsburgh (16-8, 5-5 Atlantic Coast), 83-77, with the toughest part of its schedule still ahead, SU (15-8, 6-4) has eight games left to win for itself and prove that theory wrong. With the dust settled on the self-imposed postseason ban — don’t get too comfortable, dust — the Orange now has eight more games to prove itself a victim of the circumstances instead of a handy administrative chess piece.
If SU continues to lose, slapping a postseason ban on this season will be harmless compared to doing so in almost any other year. But if it plays for pride and stockpiles wins, the record will show that the season wasn’t always bound to be a wash.
It’s hard to look past the fact that SU inappropriately announced the ban on football national signing day — a day Syracuse head coach Scott Shafer said is “about the kids” — that this year’s team isn’t to blame for past discretions and that Rakeem Christmas, the team’s leading scorer and only scholarship senior, has played his last postseason game.
...
Will Any Former SU Basketball Players Make the NBA Playoffs? (PS; Murray)
The New York Knicks are terrible. The Los Angeles Lakers stink. The Philadelphia 76ers are lousy.
Those teams have three of the four worst records in the NBA this season.
That means that four of the six former Syracuse players in the NBA right now don't have any chance of playing in the postseason.
Carmelo Anthony will miss the playoffs for the second straight year while Michael Carter-Williams, Jerami Grant and Wesley Johnson will still be seeking their first postseason appearances.
Dion Waiters with the Oklahoma City Thunder and Tyler Ennis with the Phoenix Suns have the only realistic shot at the NBA's second season.
Phoenix is currently holding on to the eighth and final playoff spot in the West while Oklahoma City is two games behind the Suns.
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