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Had a chance to review SI's March madness issue (with Tyler Ennis on the regional cover, in a similar shot to MCW last year). Lost of juicy 'Cuse references.
- Tyler has a video profile at SI.com/rising stars:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/risingstars/#ncaab/tyler-ennis
(Good report, even if it features Seth Davis and our two tone uniforms from the second BC game.)
- On page 27 is an article that advocates eliminating the charge/block call altogether. The author, Mike Bebernes, wants to eliminate "the secondary defender's ability to step into a driving player's path near the basket and plant his feet, ready to fall at the first contact. Let's make it simple: If player's hands are protecting their vitals, they aren't playing defense". I wasn't sure if he was advocating no-calls or all blocks and no charges or charges is a player's arms are up. Anyway, he uses the CJ Fair call against Duke to illustrate his argument and describes that play and the reaction to it in detail, with the single pciture being of that play.
- They have a smaller version of their montage covers on page 34-35, (although there's no page numbers on those pages). Otto is very prominent, bottom center, signaling a three-pointer. At the top of the group, just to Otto's right, is CJ Fair going up for a jumper. But the images are alrge and there's fewer of them in the old days and searches for Otto and a Syracuse player isn't as much fun as it used to be.
- The next two pages have their bracket, which is typically way off but doing pretty well so far this year, (23-4 as I write this). We are to "escape and MAC upset in the final minute" but lose to Dayton because they have the "Atlantic 10's most efficient offense while 'Cuse stopped scoring in mid-February".
- On page 44, (again, no actual page number), starts a three page article, (interrupted by two full page ads) about Jerami Grant. It talks about everyone in his family being a late bloomer but how his father and uncle had long NBA careers. JB predicts Jerami will be in the NBA for 15 years. but wants him to build himself up from his current 218 to about 230 to win the wars against NBA forwards. His father, Harvey, believes his son "will do what's best to build the foundation for along career." He says "Getting drafted is the easy part". It also describes how Adrian Autry is restructuring his jump shot. When Jerami came here, he could only see the basket out of one eye because of the way he was holding the ball.
- She didn't go to SU but Cicero-North Syracuse's Breanna Stewart is chosen to SI's women's All-America team on page 55, then is given a 6 page article afterwards. There's about a page and half on her upbringing here, with comments by her Dad and coach at CNS. No discussion aobut why she chose UCONN over SU. None really needed.
- On page 62 is a 6 page article about how more and more teams are using zone in the tournament, "inspired by Syracuse's success in March". There's a page and half picture of Jabari Parker trying to find a way to the basket with Baye Keita standing next to him, arms raise and CJ, G-Man and Jerami cutting off passing lanes. It starts with a description of the 2009 LeMoyne game that caused Jim to decide to go all zone. "It is odd to see a 69 year old coach on the cutting edge of a trend". The article says that when the other team finds something that works against the zone, he changes it. It goes over the history of the zone and coaches who have used it and developed it: Buzz Ridl, Tim Grgurich, Jerry Tarkanaian, Jud Heathcote, (who used it to "hide Magic Johnson's defensive deficiencies"), and Rollie Massimino, who used a 2-3 zone to win the 1985 national championship. The article goes into average time of of possession fro opposing teams, (highest in the nation), steal percentage, (5th in the country) and block percentage (4th in the nation). It also discusses the strategies and techniques of the zone and it's "inherent vulnerabilities". I hope opposing coaches don't read this article. But SU fans will love it.
- Tyler has a video profile at SI.com/rising stars:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/risingstars/#ncaab/tyler-ennis
(Good report, even if it features Seth Davis and our two tone uniforms from the second BC game.)
- On page 27 is an article that advocates eliminating the charge/block call altogether. The author, Mike Bebernes, wants to eliminate "the secondary defender's ability to step into a driving player's path near the basket and plant his feet, ready to fall at the first contact. Let's make it simple: If player's hands are protecting their vitals, they aren't playing defense". I wasn't sure if he was advocating no-calls or all blocks and no charges or charges is a player's arms are up. Anyway, he uses the CJ Fair call against Duke to illustrate his argument and describes that play and the reaction to it in detail, with the single pciture being of that play.
- They have a smaller version of their montage covers on page 34-35, (although there's no page numbers on those pages). Otto is very prominent, bottom center, signaling a three-pointer. At the top of the group, just to Otto's right, is CJ Fair going up for a jumper. But the images are alrge and there's fewer of them in the old days and searches for Otto and a Syracuse player isn't as much fun as it used to be.
- The next two pages have their bracket, which is typically way off but doing pretty well so far this year, (23-4 as I write this). We are to "escape and MAC upset in the final minute" but lose to Dayton because they have the "Atlantic 10's most efficient offense while 'Cuse stopped scoring in mid-February".
- On page 44, (again, no actual page number), starts a three page article, (interrupted by two full page ads) about Jerami Grant. It talks about everyone in his family being a late bloomer but how his father and uncle had long NBA careers. JB predicts Jerami will be in the NBA for 15 years. but wants him to build himself up from his current 218 to about 230 to win the wars against NBA forwards. His father, Harvey, believes his son "will do what's best to build the foundation for along career." He says "Getting drafted is the easy part". It also describes how Adrian Autry is restructuring his jump shot. When Jerami came here, he could only see the basket out of one eye because of the way he was holding the ball.
- She didn't go to SU but Cicero-North Syracuse's Breanna Stewart is chosen to SI's women's All-America team on page 55, then is given a 6 page article afterwards. There's about a page and half on her upbringing here, with comments by her Dad and coach at CNS. No discussion aobut why she chose UCONN over SU. None really needed.
- On page 62 is a 6 page article about how more and more teams are using zone in the tournament, "inspired by Syracuse's success in March". There's a page and half picture of Jabari Parker trying to find a way to the basket with Baye Keita standing next to him, arms raise and CJ, G-Man and Jerami cutting off passing lanes. It starts with a description of the 2009 LeMoyne game that caused Jim to decide to go all zone. "It is odd to see a 69 year old coach on the cutting edge of a trend". The article says that when the other team finds something that works against the zone, he changes it. It goes over the history of the zone and coaches who have used it and developed it: Buzz Ridl, Tim Grgurich, Jerry Tarkanaian, Jud Heathcote, (who used it to "hide Magic Johnson's defensive deficiencies"), and Rollie Massimino, who used a 2-3 zone to win the 1985 national championship. The article goes into average time of of possession fro opposing teams, (highest in the nation), steal percentage, (5th in the country) and block percentage (4th in the nation). It also discusses the strategies and techniques of the zone and it's "inherent vulnerabilities". I hope opposing coaches don't read this article. But SU fans will love it.
