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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5334296, member: 40"]
That's because he has no tricks up his sleeves, no buttons to push, no answers.

He's a "no trick pony" as a coach, with respect to X's and O's and game management.  He has no answers beyond what he knows from coaching under Boeheim, which is apparently limited to running practices.  He's not in the same stratosphere as JB in terms of coaching acumen.

I feel like this is similar to how Hopkins got exposed at UW.  He inherited quality talent from Romar, and won with those guys.  Then, with his own players [some of whom were highly rated], he couldn't coach his way out of a paper bag.  UW's offense was atrocious -- much like how our offensive system [or lack thereof] is... well, "offensive."

Which is why I don't put much stock in the "we just need to land better players" argument.  If Syracuse was playing coherent team basketball and executing well on both sides of the ball, but we just lacked the horses and were coming up a little short in [U]competitive[/U] games, things would be different and I'd understand the optimism.

But the reality is that we AREN'T well coached, we DON'T play cohesive basketball, we AREN'T good either side of the ball.
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