Nova represents everything right about CBB

[Eric15]

This is going to probably be their 5th year in a row winning 30 games, and they're doing it with 4-year student athletes, not 1 year rent-a-players. They have only had three players drafted to the NBA in the past decade, and they're all seniors. Not since Kyle Lowry left after his sophomore year in 2006 have they had someone leave early.

They also score 88 points per game, and shoot 52% from the floor, 76% from the line, 42% from three as a team. It's unreal how well they put the ball in the hoop. The most inefficient scorer of their top 7-8 players is Omari Spellman, and his FG% is .477.

 

[two3zone]

This is going to probably be their 5th year in a row winning 30 games, and they're doing it with 4-year student athletes, not 1 year rent-a-players. They have only had three players drafted to the NBA in the past decade, and they're all seniors. Not since Kyle Lowry left after his sophomore year in 2006 have they had someone leave early.

They also score 88 points per game, and shoot 52% from the floor, 76% from the line, 42% from three as a team. It's unreal how well they put the ball in the hoop. The most inefficient scorer of their top 7-8 players is Omari Spellman, and his FG% is .477. They average 18 assists per game compared to our 11.

Would their most inefficient scorer be our most efficient scorer? Yikes.

 

[Brooky03]

"Eric15 and Nova sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G"

 

[Col. Bleep]

This is going to probably be their 5th year in a row winning 30 games, and they're doing it with 4-year student athletes, not 1 year rent-a-players. They have only had three players drafted to the NBA in the past decade, and they're all seniors. Not since Kyle Lowry left after his sophomore year in 2006 have they had someone leave early.

They also score 88 points per game, and shoot 52% from the floor, 76% from the line, 42% from three as a team. It's unreal how well they put the ball in the hoop. The most inefficient scorer of their top 7-8 players is Omari Spellman, and his FG% is .477. They average 18 assists per game compared to our 11.

It's all about ball handling: they take care of the ball, move the ball and share the ball.

 

[Alsacs]

What a concept. You can have a good offensive team and have a system that helps talent thrive.

Nova isn’t likely to win it all but that program should be appreciated by its fans.

They are like JB’s teams in the 80’s.

 

[sutomcat]

This is going to probably be their 5th year in a row winning 30 games, and they're doing it with 4-year student athletes, not 1 year rent-a-players. They have only had three players drafted to the NBA in the past decade, and they're all seniors. Not since Kyle Lowry left after his sophomore year in 2006 have they had someone leave early.

They also score 88 points per game, and shoot 52% from the floor, 76% from the line, 42% from three as a team. It's unreal how well they put the ball in the hoop. The most inefficient scorer of their top 7-8 players is Omari Spellman, and his FG% is .477. They average 18 assists per game compared to our 11.

Brunson's dad is a Syracuse native.

How Jalen Brunson was molded by his father, Rick

 

[Alsacs]

Brunson's dad is a Syracuse native.

How Jalen Brunson was molded by his father, Rick

RF2044 has told the board that Rick brought his son to JB and the school on an unofficial visit and he wanted to come to SU but JB passed.

Most likely because of his height and fitting in the zone.

Misses like this are why we have become mediocre.

 

[pfister1]

This is going to probably be their 5th year in a row winning 30 games, and they're doing it with 4-year student athletes, not 1 year rent-a-players. They have only had three players drafted to the NBA in the past decade, and they're all seniors. Not since Kyle Lowry left after his sophomore year in 2006 have they had someone leave early.

They also score 88 points per game, and shoot 52% from the floor, 76% from the line, 42% from three as a team. It's unreal how well they put the ball in the hoop. The most inefficient scorer of their top 7-8 players is Omari Spellman, and his FG% is .477. They average 18 assists per game compared to our 11.

And they stayed in the Big East.

 

[Brooky03]

RF2044 has told the board that Rick brought his son to JB and the school on an unofficial visit and he wanted to come to SU but JB passed.

Most likely because of his height and fitting in the zone.

Misses like this are why we have become mediocre.

The sanctions are why we have become mediocre.

 

[Alsacs]

The sanctions are why we have become mediocre.

We have 11 scholarships.
There is no excuse for only having 3 guys who can score.

That isn’t on sanctions. Also all we have heard is JB doesn’t play a lot of people and never has a full roster of 13.
Sanctions isn’t why we have fallen as far as we have.

 

[721Comstock]

And they stayed in the Big East.

Yeah, we definitely should have turned down the ACC and making like 10x the $ every year for our athletics programs, just to stay in the ghost of the Big East.

 

[UnknownOrange]

I've wanted Jay Wright for years. Need to make that happen whenever JB retires

 

[dasher]

We have 11 scholarships.
There is no excuse for only having 3 guys who can score.

That isn’t on sanctions. Also all we have heard is JB doesn’t play a lot of people and never has a full roster of 13.
Sanctions isn’t why we have fallen as far as we have.

History tells a story. Take a look at what sanctions did to us last time. Yes, we have had recruiting misses and they have hurt. But the sanctions were a killer.

 

[Eric15]

Need to make that happen whenever JB retires

Insert light-hearted <not sure if serious> meme.

 

[Brooky03]

We have 11 scholarships.
There is no excuse for only having 3 guys who can score.

That isn’t on sanctions. Also all we have heard is JB doesn’t play a lot of people and never has a full roster of 13.
Sanctions isn’t why we have fallen as far as we have.

Respectfully disagree. The sanctions made early departures hurt more than they should have and there wasn't much the staff could due to alleviate that, short of getting their hands on a crystal ball or a genie lamp. Tyler Lydon was recruited to be a 4 year player (3 years at the ver very very least). He left after two. Malachi left after an awesomely average season because he happened to get hot in the tournament. Kaleb Joseph turned out to be an anxiety ridden headcase who forgot how to dribble and we couldn't recruit depth to back him up. It all adds up and it all comes back to the sanctions. The sanctions and threat of sanctions must've certainly hurt the number of interested prospects, so the coaches were working with a smaller talent pool than usual. And the restrictions on the number of coaches who could be recruiting at one time had to have hurt a lot, too.

I don't see how anything but the sanctions was the primary driver of our downfall. Take the sanctions away, and you think we'd be where we're at right now?

 

[CousCuse]

Give me 10 years to investigate Nova or any program and I bet I could find some violations.

 

[UnknownOrange]

Insert light-hearted <not sure if serious> meme.

Haha who knows when that really is but I'd love Jay Wright to be our next coach

 

[Alsacs]

History tells a story. Take a look at what sanctions did to us last time. Yes, we have had recruiting misses and they have hurt. But the sanctions were a killer.

Why didn’t we recruit a PG in the Richardson/Lydon/Howard class?

Why didn’t we recruit a PG in the Battle class?

We lost in Greene in last years class.

We have gone 3 straight classes without a pure PG and people want to blame sanctions?
It’s on the coaching staff and not getting a freaking PG and having s SG play PG.

It explains why we have poor guard play and struggle in the half court.

 

[Bayside44]

We have 11 scholarships.
There is no excuse for only having 3 guys who can score.

That isn’t on sanctions. Also all we have heard is JB doesn’t play a lot of people and never has a full roster of 13.
Sanctions isn’t why we have fallen as far as we have.

We didn't get Huerter alone with sanctions. Put that guy on the floor and we have 2 losses right now, not 6.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Haha who knows when that really is but I'd love Jay Wright to be our next coach

The obligatory Jay Wright coach Syracuse post that happens in every thread that mentions coaching or Villanova.

 

[Alsacs]

We didn't get Huerter alone with sanctions. Put that guy on the floor and we have 2 losses right now, not 6.

That is the only guy we know we lost.
We chose Battle over Huerter.

 

[UnknownOrange]

The obligatory Jay Wright coach Syracuse post that happens in every thread that mentions coaching or Villanova.

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[Bayside44]

That is the only guy we know we lost.
We chose Battle over Huerter.

That one guy alone, minus everything else, really changes this team.

Honestly if there was a way to burn Moyer's LOI for Huerter...

 

[Cusefan0307]

That is the only guy we know we lost.
We chose Battle over Huerter.

Still doesn’t make sense to me. Could have had both and we wouldn’t have had to sign both White and Gillon over the spring/Summer.

 

[Waltdods]

This is going to probably be their 5th year in a row winning 30 games, and they're doing it with 4-year student athletes, not 1 year rent-a-players. They have only had three players drafted to the NBA in the past decade, and they're all seniors. Not since Kyle Lowry left after his sophomore year in 2006 have they had someone leave early.

They also score 88 points per game, and shoot 52% from the floor, 76% from the line, 42% from three as a team. It's unreal how well they put the ball in the hoop. The most inefficient scorer of their top 7-8 players is Omari Spellman, and his FG% is .477. They average 18 assists per game compared to our 11.

This 'Nova team, like the last several iterations, is both very good and a lot of fun. Jay Wright is a great coach. And there was a good chunk of his fanbase that wanted to move on a few years ago. He was still a good coach when Nova didn't win a tournament game for three years.

From 2009-February 2014 or so, it looked like Syracuse had figured out college basketball. From 2014-today, it looks like Villanova has. I don't say this to talk down Nova, which is a great program with a fanbase that should deservedly be excited, but just to point out that there's a lot of luck, things change quickly in college basketball, and fans' evaluation of coaches is not always flawless.