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Message: [QUOTE="SUFan44, post: 3739022, member: 39"] The team has beaten exactly one team that is ranked in the Top 25 this season. And that team is vastly overrated comparative to their metrics (36 in KenPom, 36 in NET). We are slightly above average. We have been slightly above average for 6 years. Syracuse University men's basketball should be much better than slightly above average, IMO. And in the opinion of many others as well. That is why there are people who are not content. The ND comeback was great. Enjoyable to see Braswell play critical minutes and stick his nose in on a few of the key rebounds we got. But there's a ceiling. There's a cap. We can't, without shooting an ungodly percentage from 3, beat the Top 10-20 teams in the country. Or even be competitive on a consistent basis. We just can't. Defensively, we are too slow at the guard position. We are too small at a forward position. We don't have a normal-sized zone center that plays minutes regularly. And we are a horrific rebounding team. Offensively, when we play together, we can be very good. But we take bad shots way too often and some of the guys who need to be our key guys do not have a sense of what a good shot is, and do not have a time/score setting that's calibrated properly in their basketball minds. Per KenPom, we rank 32nd in the country offensively and 73rd defensively. Here is how we ranked during our NIT years: 2001-02: O - 114; D - 22; Combined = 136 2006-07: O - 60; D - 32; Combined = 92 2007-08: O - 43; D - 75; Combined = 118 2014-15: O - 117; D - 20; Combined = 137 (Probation - Likely NIT) 2016-17: O - 30; D - 119; Combined = 149 2019-20: O - 21; D - 116; Combined = 137 (COVID - Likely NIT) 2020-21: O - 32; D - 73; Combined = 105 We are a little better than last year, but on KenPom we are actually one spot lower (52nd, finished last year 51st). We are slightly better than the Donte Greene year. We are slightly worse than the big snub from 2006-07. No matter how you slice it, this team isn't a good one. It is slightly above average. And that shouldn't be good enough. [/QUOTE]

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