I don't think the guys we brought in are that good either. But you could scheme them to be better offensively/defensively than they are. There is no urgency, there is no running the floor, there is no commitment. That is coaching.
I might not be understanding your post. Our defense was very bad last year too. 2023-24 Syracuse Orange Men's Roster and Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
If Red had 2 horrible years in a row, I would agree with you. Last year was good for a 1st year coach who inherited a roster that he didn't build, guys who saw him as the good cop and an assistant from the year before who may not have treated him respectfully as a coach, malcontents such as Benny (dropped from team mid-season) and Copeland who we later learned was a handful. This year was a total miss on the portal guys and a step backwards. The comparisons to Payne is vastly unfair - The guy deserves another year.
Is that you Paulie?
If you can't show year over year growth that's an even bigger indictment. I was a huge defender of his last year and was extremely excited going into this year. I thought the new assistant coach would help us play better defense. I could see what he was going for with the transfer of Lampkin, and hoped that Carlos could be the type of player that could distribute and get open shots for our shooters. I expected Bell, with the bad influences in the locker room gone, to work harder and take a Southerland-esque leap into a better all around player. With JJ playing more off ball as a 2, I expected him to be the Tyus Battle type consistent scorer we needed. With more depth on the roster, I thought we'd be able to play harder on defense, be more aggressive, and run the floor.
Well said.
Walnuts? Yeah.
Sign me up for that. Exactly what the program who just embarrassed us in our 2/3 empty gym just did.
If Red comes back next year unless the team starts winning about 23-25 games with no bad loses, the fans will not come back. 22 or less wins and it will continue to go downhill.
Were we not 20-12?
Isn’t it an indictment more than a credit? That he did better with the last guy’s players than with his own? Either way the trend is still steeply downward, and that’s down from a not very good position. Another year, for what? To trust/believe groundlessly that this year was an aberration? Or for him to learn basketball? To hope that a recruiting class can perform well enough to overcome the lack of coaching? To hope Melo buys enough top portal talent to overcome the lack of an offensive scheme and defensive technique?
I think the win against Chaminade gave us the 20th win, but the tournament doesn’t count that as a win because they are a division 2 school.
Ah. Thank you.
I guess the patience, respect and understanding for most on this board was fully spent on JB. When I was hard on him since 2015 and thought he overstayed his welcome in 2016, he hung on for several more years and dragged the program deep into the toilet. Meanwhile, a lot of posters, though upset, would say a lot of reverential foolery such as "he is the program" "he built it from the ground up and so he should be able to go out on his own terms or whenever he's ready." Now Red is on the shortest leash. I wonder if McNamara was the coach instead of Red, with the same exact situation as Red, would he be given more leeway and understanding?
I watched the game last night. He really moves his feet well on defense and challenges shots. He has an effect on people not wanting to challenge him inside. They ran absolutely nothing for him on offense. He’s more energetic than anyone currently on our team. He would be by far the best defender on this year’s team. It’s hard to tell what he can do, besides dunk bevause he’s not involved handling the ball. He’s left handed, but goes right really well. He’s like the energizer bunny. He doesn’t stop moving. We might finally have a forward who has hops to actually dunk the ball. The lob pass will finally return if we have a willing passer.
Hey admin boss, can you ask these folks to take the Red convo over to the BBall board and this needs to be only for Sadiq White, thank you?
