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[QUOTE="LaxFactor, post: 5325373, member: 7349"]
Been watching a lot of Cuse tape leading into my next quick video and my takeaway leans me into your camp a bit more than I was. I misread one data point and had the sort backwards as that data point, "shots on goal percentage" was glaringly bad, but it's the opposite, Cuse gave up more shots than average per possession, but their "shots on goal percentage" was just outside of the top 20.  That data metric isn't perfect, but you can "in a small way" assume Syracuse's defense was doing a better than average job of "contesting shots" to the point their opponents were missing the cage more than average.  So between the "eye test" and those data points, I'm a bit more with you.

Where I depart a bit from your view is in him being a "flat out liability".  That part just isn't true.  His .778 save percentage in the 10-4 win over Duke, he and the defense won that game.  His .591 in a 1 goal win over UNC on a day where the defense gave up way too many hands free shots, that was also a game you could argue his "good day" played heavily in the outcome.

So I WAS WRONG, in what I said. The defense clearly deserved more credit than I gave them, which makes me feel a bit better about that side of the ball this upcoming season. Something I'm more than happy to be wrong about haha.
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