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Message: [QUOTE="moqui, post: 2814020, member: 214"] the tempo is terribly slow, i agree. but it is a cbb wide phenomenon - most games are played at the 63-68 possessions pace. even the vaunted villanova teams play at fairly slow pace - disregard the rankings, look at the actual numbers. since 2010, nova has averaged 66.6 possessions per game. syracuse has averaged 64.6 over the same period. a mere 2 possessions per game difference. i didn't include this year in those calculations, but for this season we are actually 2 possessions per game ahead of nova's pace so far, 67.1 to 65.1 but jb's offensive scheme apart from tempo is solid. multiple cuts and movement on nearly every possession; screen after screen after screen, looking for a mismatch, a drive lane, or an open shot. failure to convert possessions is a most often a matter of execution, not scheme. [/QUOTE]