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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3756102, member: 27"] For a season with no true home or away games, the results for this team have been remarkably different at home and on the road. Hard to believe but for a crazy series of events against a lowly Pitt team, this Syracuse team would have been undefeated at home. I hope we feel at home in good ‘ole Greensboro, my favorite town in the ACC. This game was won with defense. When we play with a high sense of urgency on defense, the results are markedly better. Of course, it helps when you play against a not very good offensive team that has struggled badly on the road most of the season. Clemson was almost as bad on offense in the first half as we were in the first half when we played down there. It is surprising that a lot of our best defense today was played with Kadary and Edwards on the bench. It might not have been pretty but it was effective. I thought the key to the game was our work on the boards. We actually outrebounded the Tigers. Marek, Q and Alan were all working hard, getting rebounds all game long. Special props to Alan, who was terrific on offense most of the game (in addition to paying good D and getting double figure boards). It got so hard for Clemson offensively that they had to go with a bizarre lineup of gangly goobers, all shooters, to try and get back into the game. The problem was this was a really bad defensive group and SU was able to exploit mismatches regularly with those guys out there. Thought JGIII gave good minutes for that long stretch when Kadary was (apparently) not able to play. He was really active with the ball and made a series of excellent passes to help keep the points flowing. I think between Joe and Kadary, our PGs got 11 assists and 1 turnover. That is pretty darned good and it is hard to beat a team with that kind of production from the point. You could see Kadary was not 100%, especially when he tried to shoot. Credit to him and Q for being gamers and gutting out important minutes to help get the win. A lot of players contributed, sometimes in small ways. This was a true team win, but if someone told me that Buddy was going to go 2-10 from the 3 point circle, with Marek going scoreless, Q getting 8 and Kadary only getting 5, I would have surely thought we lost. Very glad we are still in the discussion for the NCAA tournament going into next week. I wonder if there is any chance we might get another game with VT possibly not able to play this weekend? I would think if the Hokies can’t play, the powers that be will find an opponent for us. As others have said, it surely won’t be NC State. If we play again, it should be a home game. I would love another chance to get a regular season win under normal circumstances, but with so many injured players, coming off this insane stretch of 3 games in 6 days, we probably would be better served to have the time off to rest up and heal up from all the abuse these players have suffered during the conference season. Let’s make Lunardi look like a bonehead one more time. And, please, never, EVER show an extreme closeup of his face during a broadcast again. Remember, there are impressionable children watching these games. [/QUOTE]

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