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[QUOTE="AJDavCuse, post: 972323, member: 4421"]
@Stephen_Bailey1: Boeheim said Roberson gives the team nothing: "He doesn't know the defense. He doesn't know the offense. He can't help us right now."

"He doesn't know the defense"

With all due respect, the zone we run isn't rocket science.  The wings are asked to do more and rotate higher vs most zones, we have a few traps we run out of it (not lately) and their are passing lanes the guys are expected to close down depending on where the ball rotates to, but c'mon, its a 2-3 zone.  How can he not "know the defense."  It appears to me that he actually plays pretty good defense.  Vast majority of freshman learn switching, dealing with ball screens, playing the pick and roll, help defense, etc in man-to-man schemes, but our zone is so complex a kid who has been playing ball for years doesn't "know" it.  Give me a break.

JB also took a shot at Rak and said feeding him the ball can't help team win and that he had his chances.  Granted he is too up and down, but we are so inconsistent in looking for him.  Coach said he doesn't look at statistics.  Maybe he should take a look and see that Rak is shooting better than Rick Jackson did his jr and sr seasons.  His offensive game looks improved to me this year on a team that is struggling to score, and yet he is getting about 20% less shots per minutes played than he did a year ago.  FG% almost 10% higher year-over-year, amount we go to him down 20% year-over-year.  Yep, that's on Rak.
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