Louisville Postgame Thoughts

[Red Holzman]

This isn’t really fair. A win is not a win in our situation. Margin of victory is important (unfortunately) and we had a 20 pt lead well into the second half. It is not unreasonable to be somewhat disappointed that the margin we had and needed was whittled away carelessly.

I respect your opinion, but do have a different perspective-
Sure it wasn't the classic door-slamming finish-
Considering where this team was, I'm going to allow myself to be happy that they've put together a 4-game win streak, peaking at the right time of the season, and now destiny is in their hands for March Madness.
This team is still a work in progress, and riding along, in general, has been a lot more fun lately.
This is a VERY happy and somewhat unexpected development from earlier in the season -for me!

 

[MikeSU02]

20 flippin wins in his first season and 11-8 in conference. Great job Red ! with a seriously flawed roster and no post players. Hanging on by a thread with a 6-8 and 6-6 kid manning the fort inside. Unbelievable.

He must have took that nutty tweet to heart to because suddenly they have Bell running all over trying to shoot off screens. Love it.

Bell moving off ball.

Maliq-as-Draymond

JT being a guy that cuts and gets points at the rim.

All items that are recent. That’s coaching.

 

[DoctorBombay]

I truly don’t think people understand how much this team is achieving. When are we going to give them the credit they deserve instead of all these back hand compliments ? It’s so weird to me that people aren’t genuinely happy with these outcomes

This team is horrible. I hate that we won blah blah blah Something something Net and ranking and Red...blah blah blah. Somebody shoot me please, so I can finally be happy!!!

 

[kingtidge]

I truly don’t think people understand how much this team is achieving. When are we going to give them the credit they deserve instead of all these back hand compliments ? It’s so weird to me that people aren’t genuinely happy with these outcomes

There are those that are not ready to accept Red can do better with the same players.

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[Bulldog04]

This team is horrible. I hate that we won blah blah blah Something something Net and ranking and Red...blah blah blah. Somebody shoot me please, so I can finally be happy!!!

If we hired outside the program, our net would be so much better

 

[UpstateSM]

There are those that are not ready to accept Red can do better with the same players.

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It would have been a disaster this season. Can't argue with anybody who thinks otherwise.

 

[br801]

I don’t think that’s anywhere near accurate.

Besides, it’s not like they went 3-12 from the field.

11-22 from the line excluding Bell and Mintz is accurate.

 

[FrancoPizza]

“The 20 regular-season wins are the most for Syracuse since the 2013-14 season.”

Well done, Red

That can’t be true. That’s horrid

 

[samspann1]

11-22 from the line excluding Bell and Mintz is accurate.

See, this is worded clearly.

 

[FrancoPizza]

Bell moving off ball.

Maliq-as-Draymond

JT being a guy that cuts and gets points at the rim.

All items that are recent. That’s coaching.

But does that happen if draymond doesn’t call out the coaches?

 

[storange]

I love the Net. It's so advanced.

It is so advanced
It is the only metric that can truely appreciate Xavier’s greatness!!!!

 

[br801]

Games like tonight are where a healthy Chance would have been beyond great

I would have settled for just having McLeod and Williams still part of the rotation. Red would have had so many more options and would have been able to play more people at their natural positions.

 

[AlaskaSU]

We do pretty well for having to play 4 guards and 1 forward.

 

[kcsu]

But does that happen if draymond doesn’t call out the coaches?

Yes

 

[cuseinseattle]

I think Red has had a great first year. I feel like multiple players have improved this year and this is a fun team to watch. They make mistakes but I'm enjoying the up and down style. I was hoping we would get close to 20 wins after the year was over and we could win 22-23. I go to bed tonight thinking if we beat Clemson and win a game or two in the acc tourney we have a shot. I don't get all the negativity.

 

[pwong]

The blowout losses, lack of blowout wins, Chaminade not counting in NET and our extremely poor rebounding metrics are what has crushed our NET. Whole thing is a joke this year.

Not to nit pick but general question - for the folks who think margin of winning doesn't show how good a team is, what is your opinion on high margin of losses? Our margin in losses is about -18 point difference (with 2 almost 40 point losses) and most of our good wins are against teams on the wrong side of the bubble.

 

[Cusesky8214]

Beat Clemson and let's see where we are. Winning is all that matters. A dub is a dub!

 

[Cuse181]

Our NET is just about irrelevant to whether we get in the tournament it's a sorting tool for team's wins

Uhhhh

 

[swish7]

I Still Don't Think that I like this team very much and somehow we are playing for a double bye most likely on Tuesday.

Survive and advance at this point. Win is a win.

Only caught the last 4 minutes. Up 10, and still the team somehow managed to give me a few mini strokes. Never seen a team so consistently be up so many points, then suddenly cannot score at all, and give up super quick scores on the other end. Drain the clock, throw up a garbage shot, and get scored on within 3 seconds on the other end.

 

[SP_Gilbs]

 

[storange]

Only caught the last 4 minutes. Up 10, and still the team somehow managed to give me a few mini strokes. Never seen a team so consistently be up so many points, then suddenly cannot score at all, and give up super quick scores on the other end. Drain the clock, throw up a garbage shot, and get scored on within 3 seconds on the other end.

5 out of 6………wins vs UNC and at NC state

 

[007]

Tournament or not, this has been an impressive 1st season for Red. Taking nothing away from the players, Red has pretty much made "chicken salad" given the hand he's been dealt with the roster construction, the injuries, and the dismissal.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

Our NET is just about irrelevant to whether we get in the tournament it's a sorting tool for team's wins

You can believe that if you want, but in reality that’s not how it works. The NCAA created the stupid, flawed NET so they’re going to use it

 

[OrlandoCuse]

Road win vs Lville and KenPom stayed exactly the same (80). I’m sure the NET will be similar as they’re highly correlated.

Complete BS

 

[OHIORANGES]

See, this is worded clearly.

I guess the words other than are extremely confusing to at least you