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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 567111, member: 716"] Statistics. Cool. You're right - he's improved his shooting quite a bit in recent weeks. That's good. I still haven't seen anything to indicate that his taking a three-pointer (especially early in the shot clock) is a good idea. Could that be our fifth offensive option? Tenth? I can think of a number of ways that we're more likely to score than by having Mike take a three. Guys who shoot 28 percent for a full season shouldn't have a green light; I don't doubt that he'll become a good shooter some day. Right now, that's not an efficient way for Syracuse to get points. And a reduction in turnovers is a good thing, too, though I'm sure much of this has to do with the pace of play: there was more opportunity to rack up a lot of turnovers in transition (which frankly don't bother me as much - he's distributing and trying to make plays) earlier in the year in back-and-forth games. As we've slowed it down, we're not seeing those turnovers. We're seeing the jump-pass to no one and the open-court strips, though, and one would hope that he'd have curbed that by now. Dribble penetration - I dunno. Really don't want to go back and watch the Georgetown game again, but it's seemed that opposing guards haven't had too much difficulty getting into the lane lately. Not all Mike's fault, not anywhere near the top of the list of things one should criticize him for; I was just correcting what I thought to be an erroneous claim (that he's a very good defender who's limiting dribble penetration) in another post. Also don't agree that his post-turnover demeanor resembles any of his teammates. Do think that a number of those guys look to need a kick in the ass (Rakeem moves at a glacial pace half the time; South's effort in recovering from his turnovers yesterday stunk). But I also don't see anyone else hang his head and sulk like Mike does after a bad play. [/QUOTE]

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