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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 3729590, member: 716"] Eh, I maintain that we lost double-figure games mostly because of two interrelated circumstances: 1) we had basically a first-year point guard who made a lot of freshman-type mistakes, and 2) Boeheim adopted this micromanagerial strategy (that he's pretty much held on to ever since) because after three years with on-court coaches he no longer had upper-class players who he 100% trusted. And that lowered our offensive ceiling. That was a very up-and-down team from the beginning; they coughed up big leads to Arkansas and whichever team they beat for Boeheim's 900th win (Detroit? I remember ushers in the Dome coming around and starting to take back the "900!" placards that they'd handed out as the lead dwindled to nothing). The Villanova loss was a singular "this isn't 2010-2012 anymore moment." Temple was so disappointing, first non-conference loss in 4 years. And 39 points against Georgetown was as much a reflection of Syracuse's problems as it was Georgetown's strength. Trouble was, they didn't have a ton of depth (Triche actually played small forward every so often) and guys hadn't fully found their roles in a new offensive system yet. And then the Southerland academic situation totally torpedoed his season - people forget, but he was playing very well; then Boeheim had to rejigger the lineup for a month; but then when Southerland returned he was a shell of himself. He didn't start to play well until MSG. But they did have some talented players. Carter-Williams showed brilliance in between his WT_?! choices; Fair was starting to get a comfort level with his perimeter game; and Triche would occasionally totally carry the team in the way that Bilas and Boeheim said he should do every night. Essentially they were like a lot of SU teams: they could (and did) beat anyone on the schedule and lose to anyone on the schedule. After the previous three years that was kind of a let-down, but it was still a good year. [/QUOTE]

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