Anyone who watched that first half and believes that the right succession plan post-Boeheim is to promote someone from within the program is certifiably nuts. We need a clean break, an infusion of new ideas, and the adoption of a more contemporary style of play on BOTH ends of the floor.
Nothing will change until there is a complete break, a new approach is in place, and our players are actually coached how to execute half court offensive sets.
Oh, and can the new coach throw in a defensive adjustment once in awhile?
I wonder if he's considered playing in Europe?I hope he leaves for his own sake. There aren’t any centers coming in. What are the chances he plays 30+ at the 5 next year again.
Today I became a believer. This year’s Syracuse team is really bad. There is not one player I would put in the top half of ACC players at his position. 10-6. 6 games left unless postponed games are rescheduled, 4 on the road. Only positive is that the string of winning seasons should continue. Depressing.
Not sure I agree. Quincy certainly is. Griffin could be. Kadary projects as one.
BUT, the problem is that we've structured our entire offense not around those three, but around two slow, unathletic guards who don't shoot the ball well because they can't shake ACC caliber defenders. Seriously -- that's our offense.
I honestly wonder if our best lineup would be Kadary, Griffin, Dolezaj / Woody at , and Quincy in the middle -- even though he isn't a shotblocker.
agree, if you are going to play 2-3 zone every minute of the season, it should be a three-quarter court 2-2-1 zone press into a 2-3.
It's a conservative press, it doesn't give up lay-ups unlike the embarrassing trunk monkey 1-2-1-1 full court which is an emergency press.
with the 2-2-1 maybe you get some steals, but by the time they get settled they have 18 seconds to test the zone.
It makes too much sense, but also probably too much coaching energy.
He won't be in shape to play more than 20 minutes. It can take several months to reach that level of stamina.Let's see where he is after more than 20 mins of live action.
Teams will continue to treat Buddy like honey to bees. He’ll continue to chuck up shots and we’ll get down big. That’s what we have left for the year. NIT at best.
Play Kadary and Woody. Limit Buddy and Joe and see if you can grow these kids for next year.
Time well- spent, imo.I went cross country skiing with the wife. Came home and eventually checked the dvr to see if I even got the game today. Nope. Way more fun spending time in the great outdoors.
Lol yup. Never mind that Joe scored all of his points when we were down 25.
Is it bad that I’m literally not fazed in the least, and watched a replay of the Hunger Games on TNT?
It took all of 5 minutes to see that the same-old, same-old was gonna be the story of this game.
Yeah, as i wrote in the game thread we were a bit “rusty”, but the bottomline remains that we are the most predictable team in cbb. We don’t switch defenses unless we absolutely have no choice, & then all we do is desperately press and hope it works.
On offense, any pressure in-your-face D rattles us and we take forever to get going. Rinse...and repeat.
You believe he will need several months after missing 8 wks with an injury before he can play more than 20 mins in a game? Meaning you don't think he should play more than 20 mins in a game or he physically will not be able to play more than 20 mins in a game due to stamina?He won't be in shape to play more than 20 minutes. It can take several months to reach that level of stamina.
In his presser, JB said Clemson has good shooters. Just checked- before today they were 41% overall, good for 292 out of 347 teams and 31% 3pt%, good for 281st. Interesting definition of good shooters.
Joe wins the Matt Stafford garbage time award.
Joe wins the Matt Stafford garbage time award.
JB sez stuff
But what is 31% from three when you change it to two pointers and adjust for misses that are as good as assists?
The argument about the final 4 recently is weird. Okay... just apply that final 4 to either 2010 or 2012 when we literally had champ level teams. One of those teams was far more worthy than almost any team we’ve had historically. Using that to justify mediocre play doesn’t make any sense.
When we lost our rivals we lost our luster and our ability to recruit the top echelon. More than many like to admit our success depended on our rivalries with the likes of Georgetown, Ucon, Pitt, Nova... The ACC has no gravitas for us. Not saying that we had a better alternative, although I might have considered downgrading football and staying in the BE. I lean towards hoops and what we have suks.We have been a bubble/NIT team since 2014-2015. That is a long time. We stink.
Final four isn’t even that recent. When Deshaun and Shumpert were allegedly feuding and we went to the NIT, people weren’t saying, “hey it’s ok, we JUST went to the final four a half decade ago!”
The ACC has nothing to do with our recruiting.When we lost our rivals we lost our luster and our ability to recruit the top echelon. More than many like to admit our success depended on our rivalries with the likes of Georgetown, Ucon, Pitt, Nova... The ACC has no gravitas for us. Not saying that we had a better alternative, although I might have considered downgrading football and staying in the BE. I lean towards hoops and what we have suks.