SWC75
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- It was just too much to expect this team to play a game two days after the Duke game and play at a high level. The ACC has not been kind to Syracuse this year, with three Saturday-Monday “doubleheaders” with the first games being North Carolina, Duke and Duke and tow of the Monday games being on the road. There should be a rule that there has to be a certain number of days between games.
- Mike Brey decided after the Duke game that he wasn’t going to let CJ Fair and Jerami Grant get to the basket and that part of the strategy worked. Against the Blue Devils, Fair and Grant got 52 points on 19 for 31 shooting. In this game they got 15 points on 5 for 21 shooting. It’s disappointing that such a strategical adjustment could be allowed to work.
- CJ was particularly awful. He looked like Peyton Manning against the Seahawks. He had two turnover sin the first 42 seconds. He was 2 for 13 from the field, many of them wild, off-balance shots. His “net points: went from 23 vs. Duke to -1 tonight. If you’re going to be an All-American, you need games like Saturday on national TV but you also need to avoid games like tonight.
- I thought at halftime that Trevor Cooney had saved us but that CJ and Jerami would take over in the second half because the Irish would be chasing Trevor all over the court. They did chase Trevor all over the court but we didn’t make them pay for it. They7 even switched to a box and one, which JB considers to be a lousy defense. But we couldn’t seem to find the holes in it.
- Notre Dame always seems to have a big man who really knows how to maneuver in the paint and we had trouble guarding him and keep him off the boards. Why can’t we get a guy like that?
- We’ve been a good rebounding team. But not tonight.
- You don’t often see a Syracuse box score with one double figure scorer.
- If they had had Jerian Grant, we’d have been toast.
- Mike Brey decided after the Duke game that he wasn’t going to let CJ Fair and Jerami Grant get to the basket and that part of the strategy worked. Against the Blue Devils, Fair and Grant got 52 points on 19 for 31 shooting. In this game they got 15 points on 5 for 21 shooting. It’s disappointing that such a strategical adjustment could be allowed to work.
- CJ was particularly awful. He looked like Peyton Manning against the Seahawks. He had two turnover sin the first 42 seconds. He was 2 for 13 from the field, many of them wild, off-balance shots. His “net points: went from 23 vs. Duke to -1 tonight. If you’re going to be an All-American, you need games like Saturday on national TV but you also need to avoid games like tonight.
- I thought at halftime that Trevor Cooney had saved us but that CJ and Jerami would take over in the second half because the Irish would be chasing Trevor all over the court. They did chase Trevor all over the court but we didn’t make them pay for it. They7 even switched to a box and one, which JB considers to be a lousy defense. But we couldn’t seem to find the holes in it.
- Notre Dame always seems to have a big man who really knows how to maneuver in the paint and we had trouble guarding him and keep him off the boards. Why can’t we get a guy like that?
- We’ve been a good rebounding team. But not tonight.
- You don’t often see a Syracuse box score with one double figure scorer.
- If they had had Jerian Grant, we’d have been toast.