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Message: [QUOTE="KevMonstah, post: 225870, member: 327"] My initial point on this was, despite whatever coaching you have, you can tell a 7'0", 244lb C to post five feet from the hoop, stick your arms up, catch the ball, and shoot it as soon as you're set. Fab is shooting 56.6% from the field. I mention this because, when another team maybe is hitting a ridiculous amount of threes, Syracuse players think they need to match them, and this sometimes doesn't work. Rather than shoot 15% from deep thinking you can hit an eight/ten/fourteen point shot, why not feed the post, and work inside out? 56% from two is better than 15% from deep. And no shot is worth more than three points, regardless of the situation. With a followup to other points raised: - SU had an offensive threat in the post in AO. He shot 66% from the field for his career, which meant "every game not against Hasheem Thabeet". However, he'd get 5-7 shots at most. A guy you can just abuse the interior with, and he gets that, despite every move you could have, and with either hand. SU just does not take advantage of post play. - Craig Forth had an advantage only against players from the mid-major level down. I'll grant you, a nice supporting player for SU who would've owned lesser level competition, but he was someone whose best clutch game was like 8pts, 5 rebs. Sadly, he couldn't even do to some schools what the under athletic types do to SU, which is have a career game against them. I like the team, I like the pieces, they just don't always seem to use the right weapons at the right times. Answering a made three with a missed poor three point attempt, or answering a made three with a good offensive possession that gets an attempted five footer? Sometimes the answer is the second one. If they could figure that out - ie, figure out how to make the plays Pitt/Gtown/Lville make against the SU zone - I'd be more convinced that they will go further. Kev [/QUOTE]

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