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[QUOTE="General20, post: 2004322, member: 724"]
Read Orangefog's thread called Against a Zone.  Syracuse is good against zone's and terrible against man to man.

The worst teams we have played (South Carolina St., Eastern Michigan, etc) have also all zoned us, so we win huge against them.  The best teams we've played (Wisconsin and South Carolina) went man to man against us so they blew us out.

Georgetown zoned us for stretches, and we scored 71 points despite missing about a thousand lay ups - we could and probably should have scored close to a hundred in that game too.  We were up 11 on UConn despite many shots being half way down and rimming up until they switched to man to man and we completely fell apart blowing the lead and the game.

The explanation is, Syracuse runs a decent zone offense and an embarrassingly bad man to man offense.

If you want to know why, there are a few reasons.  One is team cohesion, there is a lack of crisp passing and ball movement against man to man defense, and that's usually a product of guys not understanding what they are suppose to do.  Hopefully this will get fixed in time.

Two is, nobody on our team merits a double team.  Its easy for man defenses when each guy on their team can handle each guy on our team, and nobody ever has to double or get out of position.

Three, our guards are not a threat to penetrate and score. Even when we beat somebody off the dribble we miss the layup, so again, nobody has to leave their man to protect the rim which means there are no open shots for us.
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