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[QUOTE="The General, post: 139401, member: 1150"]
By "padded" I mean the majority of his numbers were accrued against lesser competition. Remove Albany, Colgate, etc... and what will you have by season's end? I care about "real" games. You used Pomeroy stats to compare the two. Don't tell me I don't get it, when YOU compared them, head-to-head, statistically!

Here's my disclaimer... I love CJ. I love Southerland. I love Syracuse basketball. Nothing would make me happier than both of them being incredible. I just think CJ should be the 3. He does more. He creates his own offense by doing the right things, being in the right place, attacking the offensive glass and he's our best rebounder. This doesn't take away from JS. To me, he's a great 6th man.

They have a different skill set. It will come down to what we need more, a shooter to spread the floor or a versatile rebounder. I understand it's not CJ vs. JS as players, but it is as who should play the 3 next year. I guess I prefer the versatile rebounder over the jump shooter.

I understand what you mean about player combinations, spacing. We started 6'5 non-shooting Harris for 3 years at SF. Before that 6'5 non-shooting Pace for 2. I mean, we recruited those guys to play the 3.  We basically run the same offense as then, no? If you insist the personnel is vastly different so this is irrelevant, ok. But starting a 6'8 rebounding, do it-all CJ over a jump shooter makes sense to me. You could argue that we had much better spacing once Wes took over for Harris which opened up things for others. I'd buy that. And if JS can be Wes Jr. I'm all for it. That's a big if.

I'm not anti anybody. I'm pro-Syracuse.
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