This is a pretty damning indictment of Red and the coaching staff and the apparently poor job they’ve been doing. From the PS article:
Eight of Syracuse’s 11 scholarship rotation players have underperformed the talent level set by Miyakawa at the start of the year.
The only exceptions are Taylor and freshmen Elijah Moore and Petar Majstorovic, who average about 22, 16 and 14 minutes a game, respectively.
Miyakawa said that when the majority of a team underperforms its talent level, it creates questions for him about a team’s coaching, especially if it occurs repeatedly.
He said failing to match preseason expectations can occur due to other factors, including injuries to key players or a team that just doesn’t fit together.
The majority of SU’s roster has underperformed his system’s expectations this year. More than half the team missed expectations during Autry’s first season, too, although those misses weren’t quite as severe.
“Coaching is probably the first thing you think of just in terms of broad strokes,” Miyakawa said. “But every team is unique. ... You can’t immediately say it’s all on coaching. Sometimes it’s a key guy getting injured. That happens.
“But you look at Louisville before this year and no matter what high-level recruits those guys got, they all played way worse than expectations. You can blame some of that on the players, but if it’s happening over and over, I’d be comfortable pinning that on the coaching staff. Indiana and Mike Woodson consistently underperform their roster talent. The opposite is true at UConn. They often get guys to outperform what we think they will do.”
Syracuse hasn't just failed to improve through the transfer portal. A member of one of the country's top conferences, the Orange has actually gotten worse.
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