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[QUOTE="General20, post: 1674274, member: 724"]
No way is Syracuse better with Howard in the game.   Not even close.

One thing I have not seen anybody mention is that a lot of Howard's success is predicated by the fact that Boeheim is picking and choosing ideal situations to play him in.

Because he accounts for so few minutes and so little production, teams are not putting a lot of time and effort into scouting him, and making adjustments to counteract his strengths.

When you don't score much, and your best ability is passing to other people, you can be game planned against fairly easily.   If Howard played say 30 minutes a game, teams would adjust to what he does and shut him down completely, making him a very ineffective player.

Even when Cooney is not shooting well he is providing spacing, and there is no way to gameplan against that.  Its simply an advantage Syracuse gets by playing Cooney.

I think Howard can be a good player for us down the line, but right now he's not very good.  In an ideal world he's not playing at all this year.  Hopefully he will be ready to give us 20 good minutes a game next year, and be a productive starter as a junior and senior.  I think that is very possible.
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