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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 2090224, member: 622"] It's easy to be a great coach when you have all the talent you can want. Real coaching (management) is the ability to take what you have and get more than the sum of the parts to obtain better results. Consider the injuries, lack of a PG, two 5th year guys who had to learn a new system, losses to the pros, etc. and JB really should be up for coach of the year, at least in the ACC. As for the offensive identity of a JB team, there has been one constant, that tough D will create turnovers and JB believes in capitalizing on every turnover. The transition game is the quickest way to drive an opponent to fear, engage a home crowd, silence an away crowd. Every team that plays Syracuse knows they have to slow the game down. Kids have too much pride to not respond to he transition game, JB plays off of this as most coaches do not teach the kids to run the whole game. Syracuse teams are expected to run at any moment. Every opposing coach knows that Syracuse will get points in transition and feed off the energy. Considering the injuries this team has endured, the lack of a true center, etc., just being in most of these games is a testament to JB's ability to coach. Winning some of the games shows why he is an elite coach. The Orange are not one dominant player or two outstanding players, they are good to very good players that are not yet developed, hadn't played as a team before this season, not playing their natural positions, etc. This is a team that JB can take a long ways in both the ACC and NCAA tourneys. We have not yet seen what can happen once they all click at the same time and these kids are starting to click, starting to peak - AT THE END OF THE SEASON! I am not saying they will win it all, but this is a team nobody wants in their bracket. [/QUOTE]

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