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Message: [QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 3703035, member: 668"] Thanks for your thoughtful response, I appreciate it, and certainly respect your perspective. That stated, I'm not persuaded enough to concur fully with your point of view. As to your why: I agree with #1. In regards to #2, I would say, yet 99% of all schools/coaches out there under the circumstances you mention, commit fully to m2m as their 'primary' defense. It's not as if JB is the modern day Elon Musk and has literally reinvented the wheel here, and no one out there is trending JB's way/investing in his yesteryear technology/train of thought. As to problems: #1 fully agree with. As to #2, JB's apparent stubbornness & unwillingness to adapt, has pigeonholed him by not utilizing his assembled personnel where they may be best suited. It appears he has options, some have mentioned Kadary and Griffin at the top of the zone. Same applies for #3 here, and I don't think many would say that neither of those two are not athletic enough in m2m. In regards to [I]"the typical arguments against playing m2m as outlined[/I] above" sentiment, my reply would be how does a program the stature of Syracuse even faced with such a dilemma? And, these "typical arguments" are nothing new to the program. Syracuse, according to many here, and I think the many many more that are not fan board diehards, but about in the greater community would probably opine that SU is in a group of schools right after the blue bloods. As I mentioned earlier, SU is the 6th winningest program in NCAA history, not to mention being in one of most premier P5 hoops conferences in the ACC, with a chitton of resources available. Therefore, gathering/assembling an athletic enough team to compete at this level should seldom to never be an issue, let alone actually being physically unable to play m2m. If I'm being fully transparent, the thought of such is laughable, if not completely unacceptable. I wasn't suggesting that UVA be the litmus test. However, one can argue why not. Unless of course, as Alsacs has pointed out in several of his posts, the SU fan base is totally good with accepting our new normal of being a middling/mediocre program vs. being at the top of our league chasing conference titles as once accustomed. Perhaps, I am guilty of living in the past, since we are now on our 7th straight season of double digit losses and not being ranked in the Top 25 come January since 2014. [/QUOTE]

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