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Message: [QUOTE="moqui, post: 232429, member: 214"] no, actually, we are not. SU plays at an adjusted tempo of 65.5, 201st out of 335 D1 squads. If you don't understand that basic fact, then you shouldn't even be in this conversation. the goal of playing a game is to win it, period. Look, I understand that the majority of the fanbase thinks this team is the college equivalent of the 96 Chicago Bulls; that many of you think that SU is a juggernaut that should win every game by double digits and should beat teams you have never heard of by 25 or more. But you are wrong. This year's team, like last year's, is offensively challenged. It is a perimeter oriented team with no low post threat and very little in the way of an interior game at all. Teams like will struggle to score on most nights. That is why they play at a slower pace - they can't afford to get in an up and down game (strategically running off of turnovers and long boards when they are available are not the same thing - generate transition points when you can, but slow it down otherwise, because you cannot keep up with high scoring teams). As I am so fond of saying: Facts are stubborn things. Asheville had two great strengths - scoring 2 point buckets and getting to the line. JB turned the game around and made them try to win from the three point line. On the season, Asheville got 49% of its points from two pointers; yesterday, it was 36.9%; on the season, they got 26% of their points at the line, yesterday it was 21.5%; on the season, they got just 24.9% of their points from the arc, yesterday it was 41.5%. Boeheim turned their offense completely upside down. It was a smart move, and it generated a victory. You can argue that he underachieves and lament that he's not Tom Izzo, but he completely outcoached Eddie SourGrapes yesterday and gets to play another round. Jeezus, he has won 32 games with a sclerotic offense and we have a chance to get to the second weekend. Take the victory and move on. Ken Pomeroy's Asheville season stats: [IMG]http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/8145/ashevillepomeroy.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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