SWC75
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- Two impressive performances this week over teams that looked good in other games. We beat that Notre Dame team that won the 5OT game vs. Louisville by 16 point and then beat St. Johns, coming off their win over Connecticut by 19. A lot of Syracuse teams have declined as the season progressed. This one seems to be getting better.
- As many have mentioned , having to use Jerami Grant and seeing what he could do, (the stats suggest he didn’t actually perform better than he had been when Southerland was available, just less – his points and rebounds per 40 minutes actually declined slightly during the period when he started), was beneficial to the team now that Southerland is back. We’ve got more option than we felt we had. It’s almost like blood-doping, where you remove blood from an athlete, have his body replace it and then inject it back in, giving him more red blood cells, (and thus energy) than he would normally have. Here we lost a player, replaced him, got him back and now we have two guys we know we can rely on. Live Strong!
- With more options, Michael Carter-Williams is again playing like an All-American. He shot 6 for 9 in this game, scored 17 points, dealt 8 assists, stole the ball 6 times and grabbed 4 rebounds.
- Brandon Triche also benefited. He doesn’t have to try to do too much by himself and winds up doing more. He was 5 for 10, scored 16 points, dealt 7 assists and had 5 rebounds.
- Southerland took a half to get his feet wet but got into one of his zones at a critical point in the second half, scoring three treys and a thunderous dunk to help us pull away to victory.
- The paper this morning said “CJ Fair continued his steady play with 18 points and 10 rebounds in Syracuse’s win over Notre Dame”. If CJ Fair averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds a game, (especially in games where we scored only 63 points), he’d probably be national player of the year. He does things so effortlessly that you don’t realize how much he’s doing. Today he had a “steady” 17 points, (actually 19 and it probably should have been 20: thanks ref!) and 9 rebounds.
- Baye Moussa Keita had to play 22 minutes with Rakeem Christmas in foul trouble and came through with his first strong game in a month, going 4 for 4 from the field , pulling down 4 rebounds and blocking 2 shots.
- It was our 37th straight home win, the second longest home winning streak in school history and the longest in the nation. And the career of John Thompson (II) is “officially closed”.
- We are now 97-19, (.836) since the decade began. Kansas is 107-17, Kentucky 105-20 and Duke 103-18. It’s a nice neighborhood.
20-3 with 8 and more to be done.
LET’S GO ORANGE!
- As many have mentioned , having to use Jerami Grant and seeing what he could do, (the stats suggest he didn’t actually perform better than he had been when Southerland was available, just less – his points and rebounds per 40 minutes actually declined slightly during the period when he started), was beneficial to the team now that Southerland is back. We’ve got more option than we felt we had. It’s almost like blood-doping, where you remove blood from an athlete, have his body replace it and then inject it back in, giving him more red blood cells, (and thus energy) than he would normally have. Here we lost a player, replaced him, got him back and now we have two guys we know we can rely on. Live Strong!
- With more options, Michael Carter-Williams is again playing like an All-American. He shot 6 for 9 in this game, scored 17 points, dealt 8 assists, stole the ball 6 times and grabbed 4 rebounds.
- Brandon Triche also benefited. He doesn’t have to try to do too much by himself and winds up doing more. He was 5 for 10, scored 16 points, dealt 7 assists and had 5 rebounds.
- Southerland took a half to get his feet wet but got into one of his zones at a critical point in the second half, scoring three treys and a thunderous dunk to help us pull away to victory.
- The paper this morning said “CJ Fair continued his steady play with 18 points and 10 rebounds in Syracuse’s win over Notre Dame”. If CJ Fair averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds a game, (especially in games where we scored only 63 points), he’d probably be national player of the year. He does things so effortlessly that you don’t realize how much he’s doing. Today he had a “steady” 17 points, (actually 19 and it probably should have been 20: thanks ref!) and 9 rebounds.
- Baye Moussa Keita had to play 22 minutes with Rakeem Christmas in foul trouble and came through with his first strong game in a month, going 4 for 4 from the field , pulling down 4 rebounds and blocking 2 shots.
- It was our 37th straight home win, the second longest home winning streak in school history and the longest in the nation. And the career of John Thompson (II) is “officially closed”.
- We are now 97-19, (.836) since the decade began. Kansas is 107-17, Kentucky 105-20 and Duke 103-18. It’s a nice neighborhood.
20-3 with 8 and more to be done.
LET’S GO ORANGE!
