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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2832131, member: 716"] My only guess about the Hughes situation is that Boeheim's logic goes like this: 1) We need scorers on the floor. 2) Battle has next to no point-guard skills. 3) If Hughes comes off the bench, he's either replacing Battle (same skillset) or the starting point guard (leaving us with no point guard). 4) With 80 potential minutes to be played by Battle and Hughes, we need to get all we can out of them. I can't disagree with any of that, could just be the best bad choice of a menu of bad choices. What's kind of gone under the radar is why Battle -- seemingly the prototypical Syracuse combo guard -- has such difficulty with the ball in his hands in the half-court offense. For a kid who does a lot of things very well, it's too bad that he can't give 10 half-decent minutes a game at the 1. The system needs its off guards to do that, and apparently he can't. [/QUOTE]