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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5539415, member: 722"] You make a good point. Syracuse scoring 100 points has been exceedingly rare. I think you underestimate a few things, though. We are playing a terrible group of teams in our OOC. Several are expected to be lower division teams in their bottom of the barrel conferences. They are really bad. Add to that the fact that Syracuse is a lot better offensively and defensively than previous years, and we really should be able to put up 50 point halves against these bad teams. We are going to force a lot more bad shots and force live ball turnovers that quickly go for baskets the other way. Our second team isn't the dropoff it has been in the past. We'll be running top50 players like Anthony, White and Betsey on our second team, with former ACC starter Souare and former Australian National u19 team player Fennell. The second team being able to continue the rout is a critical part of running up the score. Even if Red puts out the worst squad he has available, there are no more walkons. Lobdell, Womack, Zephir, Diawara and (say) Fennell is going to continue to blow out the second string of these bad OOC teams. And almost all these guys are competing for additional playing time. There is no such thing as garbage time anymore. Next, the NCAA with their NET ranking has mandated running up the score if you want to get into the NCAA tournament. It is terrible decisionmaking, but what else is new with the NCAA? I think the ACC finally got the message and Red's choices in scheduling makes it clear he got the message too. Normally, you would expect our last 5 on the floor for extended periods once we get up by a huge margin... I think the periods of time Lobdell, Womack, Zephir, Diawara and (say) Fennell share the court are going to be exceedingly short and rare. Winning by 40+ is how you get to the Tournament. Sportsmanship be damned. All this adds up to a string of 105-55 type blowouts [/QUOTE]

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