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[QUOTE="moqui, post: 226411, member: 214"]
The [URL='http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1193711']Ewing Theory[/URL] popularized by Bill Simmons examines how some teams actually get better when a seemingly indispensable player is lost.
 
Syracuse definitely has the parts to pick up and move on from this.
 
Rak and Baye will have to elevate their games, but they both have accumulated more than twice as many minutes as Dash Riley had at the same juncture in 2010, and they have both shown flashes of the ability to play well.
 
There is no margin for error, so everyone is going to have to be completely focused for every game.
 
The outside shooting is going to have to come back on line.  Let's hope that the exit from the Big East elevates the three point percentages across the board, as it did in 2003.
 
The perimeter defenders are going to have to be that much better so as not to put to much reliance on the centers, who are more likely to draw fouls than the much more experienced Fab. 
 
This team still has Sweet 16 talent; it will take some serious coaching to rework it all in a week to a unit that can overcome yet another blow and go that far.
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