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[QUOTE="KevMonstah, post: 1221801, member: 327"]
I don't totally understand the philosophy of not playing kids to rest the starters and to make
the bench players improve, but JB believes in using his better players to the point of really
tiring them out.  It doesn't seem that the teams he's used a short bench fare that well as the
season goes on.  To get the guys to develop, they need to play, and I don't think practice 
gives them everything that they need.

My bigger complaint would be ... they shoot 3-22 from the 3pt line, 19-36 from inside ... so 
why do they continue to chuck up 22 shots from out there?  SU is not Michigan shooting 
from outside; even in losing to NJIT, they went 11-24.  SU is not a good deep shooting team,
and I don't see why you'd shoot that many.  Unless they are following the Louisville model 
from a few years ago, and hoping for 12-40 from out there.  Yes you need to take some shots,
but not 22.  This sequence drove me nuts watching it on Sat:

4:08 Green makes a 3pt to make it 55-55
3:56 SU timeout
3:53 Patterson misses a 3

There's NO WAY that JB called that shot out of the timeout.  I didn't mind his miss a moment
or two later, because the shotclock was about to expire, but did mind that Greene went and 
buried another three.

Kev
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