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Another thread make's mention of Steve Lappas's comment on the Cuse having as good a starting 5 as anyone isn't out of the blue. Lappas's has some insider insight from his relationship with JB.
As has been discussed in depth and ad nauseam on the pay side, JB has been intentionally sandbagging it (see losing 5 of 6 to close regular season post ((also on pay side)) ) and also demonstrated on our purposeful losing to Pitt in the ACC conference game so as to take advantage of maximum rest time prior to the start of the dance.
Especially brilliant has been JB's instructions to Cooney to make it look like his 3 point shot has progressively deteriorated over the course of the season to the point that other teams have no reason to doggedly guard him. And I thought Mike Hopkins reveal of the strategy of having Roberson not repeat his rebound performance we saw at Duke further substantiated the sandbagging strategy.
After the teams triumphant Battle for Atlantis tournament championship JB realized that this team, even with 3 freshmen contributors was light years advanced in development and was in fact undoubtedly the top team in the Nation out of the gate at the season's start. After returning from the Bahamas JB called a team meeting and told the entire team to " take the foot off of the accelerator pedal" and that he had devised a "master plan" for winning the National Championship that was based on the element of surprise and he laid out a plan for the season to unfold so as to have Syracuse " get into the NCAA dance by the seat of Southerland's pants" was in fact JB's exact verbiage.
Both Richardson and Lydon's advanced knowledge of the intricacies of the Boeheim Zone and Frankie's advanced point guard metrics made it unnecessary to hold conventional type practices so instead the team spent many hours learning the 2 step in preparation for the night life they would encounter while in Houston for the final 4 and the only basketball related activities were comprised of "Trunk Monkey Drills" which would be sprung on the dumbed down opponents as they marched in unstoppable fashion toward the National Championship. Richardson's taking over of the Virginia game came as no surprise to GMAC as he was quoted as saying that Malachi "hadn't missed a single 3 point shot in practice since he first stepped foot in the Melo Center". GMAC went on to say how he has enjoyed conducting "trick shot" contests between Mal, Cooney, and G and that Cooney has a mind blowing falling out of bounds, on the baseline, behind the back, one hand, flip wrist desperation shot which "goes nylon every dang time!" that he is saving for the right moment to seal his legacy at Cuse.
I guess all that's left is to just sit back calmly and let it all unfold. LGO!
As has been discussed in depth and ad nauseam on the pay side, JB has been intentionally sandbagging it (see losing 5 of 6 to close regular season post ((also on pay side)) ) and also demonstrated on our purposeful losing to Pitt in the ACC conference game so as to take advantage of maximum rest time prior to the start of the dance.
Especially brilliant has been JB's instructions to Cooney to make it look like his 3 point shot has progressively deteriorated over the course of the season to the point that other teams have no reason to doggedly guard him. And I thought Mike Hopkins reveal of the strategy of having Roberson not repeat his rebound performance we saw at Duke further substantiated the sandbagging strategy.
After the teams triumphant Battle for Atlantis tournament championship JB realized that this team, even with 3 freshmen contributors was light years advanced in development and was in fact undoubtedly the top team in the Nation out of the gate at the season's start. After returning from the Bahamas JB called a team meeting and told the entire team to " take the foot off of the accelerator pedal" and that he had devised a "master plan" for winning the National Championship that was based on the element of surprise and he laid out a plan for the season to unfold so as to have Syracuse " get into the NCAA dance by the seat of Southerland's pants" was in fact JB's exact verbiage.
Both Richardson and Lydon's advanced knowledge of the intricacies of the Boeheim Zone and Frankie's advanced point guard metrics made it unnecessary to hold conventional type practices so instead the team spent many hours learning the 2 step in preparation for the night life they would encounter while in Houston for the final 4 and the only basketball related activities were comprised of "Trunk Monkey Drills" which would be sprung on the dumbed down opponents as they marched in unstoppable fashion toward the National Championship. Richardson's taking over of the Virginia game came as no surprise to GMAC as he was quoted as saying that Malachi "hadn't missed a single 3 point shot in practice since he first stepped foot in the Melo Center". GMAC went on to say how he has enjoyed conducting "trick shot" contests between Mal, Cooney, and G and that Cooney has a mind blowing falling out of bounds, on the baseline, behind the back, one hand, flip wrist desperation shot which "goes nylon every dang time!" that he is saving for the right moment to seal his legacy at Cuse.
I guess all that's left is to just sit back calmly and let it all unfold. LGO!
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