ok , so your position here seems pretty clear. but for the record are you saying that no team can win playing man to man defense or are you saying that syracuse basketball alone can not win playing M2M defense. cuz that would seem to be a coaching thing. they can yet we can't. you see the issue here ?
What I am saying is that there is no good reason for SU to switch to M2M for any period of time.
M2M is NOT better against the 3 Pt shot than is Zone the way SU plays Zone.
That there is no element of surprise here when you switch to a defense the opponent is highly familiar with.
That the SU M2M is something we rarely use and therefore don't practice and it's likely not to be a very good M2M.
It is IMO a "dumb idea" that surfaces continually from the more emotional posters who apparently are searching for the guilty after losses. The usual suspects in this post-defeat search for the guilty are Boeheim, The Zone, the refs and assorted SU players and the NCAA rules that allow One-and-Dones.
The whining, gnashing of teeth and finger-pointing and assignment of blame on this forum after a loss is surprising and disappointing.
Weaker teams beat better teams in games. It happen all the time. (I was in Cole Field House for the Richmond debacle when our future NBA'ers were beaten by a bunch of future lawyers.)
Very good players --- and that's what you see a lot of in the ACC especially at schools like UVA --- are going to make good and even great plays against us. That's the reason UVA beat us.
Sometimes our players are going to screw up. It happens.
It's all part of college basketball.
And one last point. UVA hasn't lost in that gym in like four years. It took some great plays and great shots on our part to keep it as close as it was. Without these SU plays and with the UVA plays, we would have lost by 16 or 20.
