I do not get to watch a lot of games due to work and CUSE games not available in on tv in my local area (Georgia). What I saw yesterday repeated what I had seen in the few games I did.
That is: NO BALL MOVEMENT and Extremely POOR SHOT SELECTION. The announcers kept saying that Syracuse possessions was 1 and Done. That was not quite right. They were 1 and Done because Triche, Jardine, Waiters and Joseph would bring the ball up and either drive to the basket (too often into a crowd of 2-4 people) or put up an unbalanced shot from behind the three point line and miss. They chose not to work the ball around for a good shot. ND did this really well and controlled the possession of the ball.
Too often then not, it was one person taking it on their own to create the shot. I can understand that line of thinking if it was a fast break but we did not have that many fast breaks in the first half.
I expect this type of play out of Waiters and Jardine who have shown repeatedly this in the past. Triche appears to be lost for some unknow reason and usually when he shoots quickly from the outside in these situations he scores. He does drive in side too much and gets rejected or puts up a bad shot. That said I like Triche but he does not appear to be in the reglar game plan (not sure there was a plan last night in the first half)
Joseph needs to be more focused on following his shot especially on his outside the three point line attempts. Jardin has to realize who is inside on his passes. Keita can not handle hard passes and his best shots are put backs. Even when Fab was inside, it was a 50-50 chance he would catch aa hard pass from Jardine.
Final statement: Syracuse needs to move away from One and Done Ball (as described above) and move more to Team Ball
That is: NO BALL MOVEMENT and Extremely POOR SHOT SELECTION. The announcers kept saying that Syracuse possessions was 1 and Done. That was not quite right. They were 1 and Done because Triche, Jardine, Waiters and Joseph would bring the ball up and either drive to the basket (too often into a crowd of 2-4 people) or put up an unbalanced shot from behind the three point line and miss. They chose not to work the ball around for a good shot. ND did this really well and controlled the possession of the ball.
Too often then not, it was one person taking it on their own to create the shot. I can understand that line of thinking if it was a fast break but we did not have that many fast breaks in the first half.
I expect this type of play out of Waiters and Jardine who have shown repeatedly this in the past. Triche appears to be lost for some unknow reason and usually when he shoots quickly from the outside in these situations he scores. He does drive in side too much and gets rejected or puts up a bad shot. That said I like Triche but he does not appear to be in the reglar game plan (not sure there was a plan last night in the first half)
Joseph needs to be more focused on following his shot especially on his outside the three point line attempts. Jardin has to realize who is inside on his passes. Keita can not handle hard passes and his best shots are put backs. Even when Fab was inside, it was a 50-50 chance he would catch aa hard pass from Jardine.
Final statement: Syracuse needs to move away from One and Done Ball (as described above) and move more to Team Ball
