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[QUOTE="General20, post: 4939739, member: 724"]
We know this team can't shoot and thus is bad in the half court.  But they do have athletes and they do like to get out and run.

Right?

Well, maybe not.  No doubt this team likes to score in transition off turnovers and is good at it.  But do they like fast paced up and down games?

You'd think so, but Duke and UNC embarrassed Syracuse, and it looked to me like speeding Syracuse up was the cause of the problem.  Against Duke playing too fast cause too many offensive mistakes (turnovers) and against UNC fast pace cause too many  defensive mistakes.

Even Colgate gave us a really good run playing fast.

What if this team looks like they want to play fast but actually needs to slow things up a bit except when they are ins transition with numbers?

This is my theory.  And I think the upcoming Miami game will teach us a lot.

Miami is the second fastest team in the ACC pace wise behind UNC.  What they don't have that Duke and UNC had are shot blockers.  Miami will be the worst shot blocking ACC team we have seen so far.

So I think we will find out for sure whether SU needs to slow things up a bit or of it was just Duke and UNC's combination of speed, size, athletes, and rim protectors that brought us down.

Interesting stuff. At least to me.
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