Postgame Thoughts… Duke game 2

[IthacaMatt]

Doesn’t matter. Individually he was eons better than what we have now. Put Buddy and/or JG3 on that team, and they still suck. Can you imagine Buddy or JG3 making that tiptoe, sideline pass interception in the Sweet 16 vs Gonzaga? Which should’ve rightfully ended that game right then? Not in a million years.

I have to be honest. Cooney was never as good as he was made out to be. He under-performed expectations in my book. He never played as well in college as he did on Team Final in AAU ball.

 

[OttoMets]

Swider is a much better version of Ryan Blackwell, and that 2000 team had the national champs, Mich State, down by about 20 points on their home floor in the Sweet 16. I take a player like that any day on my team.

Girard as the 2 is a far better version of Trevor Cooney. I think that's completely fair to say. Joe shot 41% so far this year having to still play most of the time as PG.

Trevor Cooney is...not one of my favorite players, to say the least.

But he played defense. And he kept the atrocious ballhandling mistakes to a minimum. And while he took and missed his fair share of questionable shots, never did I get the sense that he was one of those "time to get mine" guys.


For Swider, full disclosure, I've seen him play in a Syracuse uniform exactly one time: Saturday night. The only thing that stood out was how small he played. Non-entity on defense and on the defensive glass. Whether that's an aberration or not I'll leave for the diehards to decide.

 

[OttoMets]

I have to be honest. Cooney was never as good as he was made out to be. He under-performed expectations in my book. He never played as well in college as he did on Team Final in AAU ball.

Agree completely. And he was still way better than Girard.

 

[DoctorBombay]

I have to be honest. Cooney was never as good as he was made out to be. He under-performed expectations in my book. He never played as well in college as he did on Team Final in AAU ball.

If we’re just talking offense, I’d agree. He had very good games, i remember one vs ND in particular, but he was too inconsistent.
However, defensively there’s no contest. He was more athletic than our backcourt starter now and was quicker on his feet. I just think any player that is enough of an asset to help get you to a F4, is deserving of more recognition. At the very least he contributed, and didn’t blow up the team.