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[QUOTE="Flacusian, post: 1611717, member: 264"]
A lot of valid points have been made in this thread. For me it all boils down to this. We need to recruit better players and more of them.

When you consistently have squads that essentially only have 6 or 7 guys who at that point in time can play at the level of ACC conference play you are going to find yourself really thin on the bench and lacking options to deal with situations which arise in games.

There are many reasons we find ourselves struggling this season and some of those reasons have seemingly become embedded in the program itself.  If we have a big who can contribute for us we don't have any shooters. When we supposedly have shooters we don't have any presence down low and we don't rebound.  Much if not all of the success Syracuse has is reliant on having the right type of players to fill the roles of the Boeheim 3-2 zone. We currently do not have the right mix of players to operate the zone in the manner in which it needs to be run.

Yesterdays effort was actually quite amazing in the 1st half, the way we limited the #13 team on offense. But upon closer inspection it was because Miami missed a remarkable amount of shots. After the halftime adjustment our defense was as porous as a sieve and on offense it was a clinic on what not to do with turnovers, sloppy play, and complete lack of offensive strategy.

It is what it is and Boeheims return, although it will help somewhat, it won't be a panacea for the host of problems this team has right now. And frankly, I don't see it getting better until we get a few more good players on the team and can stop the bleeding resultant from the complete disparity in rebounding.
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