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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 232032, member: 210"]
I've read that exact quote in like 15 posts... we have 2 senior starters, 1 junior starter, 1 junior who gets about 20 minutes a game and 2 sophs with plenty of game experience who play 20+ mins a game and yet we have to "hope we bring it" for an ncaa tournament game.  That to me is unbelievable... what motivational tactics does the coaching staff use that we have slow starts in about 30 of our games this year?  Do they play Brahm's lullabye in the locker room before the games?  I don't get it.
 
This team played with so much more intensity and focus when they knew that anybody could be benched at any time.  Now that we're back to the shortened bench where the main guys know that JB is going to go out with his guys on the court we're back to dumb, lazy basketball where we let the other team dictate play.
 
If we continue to play like we did yesterday we will go out again and everyone will point to Melo as the reason SU lost to a team it should have beaten for the umpteenth straight year.  But the real reasons are JB's 2 achilles heels: to stubborn to take the game to the other team and force tempo on defense or offense (all of those jumpers he lets his kids take, when you are a sub 40% shooting team any open jumper is not a good shot contrary to what the coach says) and sticking with his guns even when they play like .  These two factors come out and bite us in the ass year after year.
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