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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5603914, member: 722"]
This is a good point.  Davis is a very good player, averaging 20.8 points, 5.3 assists and 3.3 rebounds at 6'3 175 lbs.  I think George being ineffective on defense in this game hurt the team defense a lot. George was very good defensively earlier this season.  But we shouldn't be getting smoked by a guard from Hofstra, unless he scores an inefficient 20 in a 20 point loss.

Which is kind of what I would have expected him to do.

But if you take away his 8-14 and 2-2 from 3, the Hofstra team still shot 10-16 from 3pt range.  Without going back to watch, I am guessing Davis was assisting on a lot of those Hofstra 3s that Syracuse poorly defended.

In the end though, looking at all the stats of the game, and the game flow, the one really big aberration was Hofstra hitting such a high rate of 3s.  Syracuse up to this point was really good defending the 3 ball.  Hofstra is good 3pt shooting team, 56th in the country (boosted by their great showing against Syracuse, of course) but nobody ever expects to hit .666 on high volume.
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