Who has a better opportunity than JB of getting Cuse to another National title... Common sense here

[ORANGE OATH]

Question:
Navigational point, how to know where you are when you are a P5 program with a traditional of excellence, and have enjoyed a perennial place in top 20 polls at one point, now long since gone.
Answer:
See your zone defense shredded to nano parts. See your TV games placed on ESPN.com, ESPN News, etc. . Be absent from the polls season after season. Miss on one top 50 recruit after another, get blown out of games on your home court. Lose to Colgate, lose to GTown, etc. . Show no inclination toward style, or change of any sort. Now you know exactly where your program is at.
JAB must go, again, give him the 22/23 season and then off with you !
Big send off, little send off, his choice.
I respect what JAB did, admittedly not his biggest fan (find his personality not to my taste) but no denying his contribution to SU Basketball are epic.
But, all of us must realize we all have an expiration date. Sadly, JAB has reached his.
We can debate at nauseam, but the record is what the record is. The state of SU Basketball is what it is.
I personally want a nation wide net cast in selecting the next Syracuse Head Basketball Coach. I of course would look at the current assistant coaches, but do not want it limited to the bench coaches by any means. National Search is a must in my opinion.
I hope JAB has a final kickass season in 22/23, but I hope it’s his last!

 

[STEVEHOLT]

I don't think anyone is anti-zone... c'mon dash. It's 'give me zone or give me death' that we're tired of.

no. I am . I hate it with a passion. I think it severely limits the type of player you can to bring in for it to be successful. It's basically the opposite of what one would think. To play an elite zone, you actually need great athletes who are long armed, mobile, and understand difficult concepts of where to be, where to cheat, where to help..etc. much harder to play an effective zone than Man D...

the attributes required on the D end, further complicate matters on the offensive end, as the types of players best suited for zone D, often aren't suited for being able to put the ball on the deck, dribble, drive, and kick...and that is where your scoring comes from, gaining and advantage and then either passing to an open guy whose man dropped to help...or going to the rim and scoring and / or getting fouled.

of course once in a while you recruit some alien like carmelo A and it works out.

 

[FrancoPizza]

no. I am . I hate it with a passion. I think it severely limits the type of player you can to bring in for it to be successful. It's basically the opposite of what one would think. To play an elite zone, you actually need great athletes who are long armed, mobile, and understand difficult concepts of where to be, where to cheat, where to help..etc. much harder to play an effective zone than Man D...

the attributes required on the D end, further complicate matters on the offensive end, as the types of players best suited for zone D, often aren't suited for being able to put the ball on the deck, dribble, drive, and kick...and that is where your scoring comes from, gaining and advantage and then either passing to an open guy whose man dropped to help...or going to the rim and scoring and / or getting fouled.

of course once in a while you recruit some alien like carmelo A and it works out.

A few minutes of zone here and there can still be very effective in the right situations or as a change of pace. To say we need to be 100% anything is inflexible. I think we have all seen that play out.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

I don't think anyone is anti-zone... c'mon dash. It's 'give me zone or give me death' that we're tired of.

I am. Completely.
I don’t disagree that it has been/can be effective, but I think it’s ugly, ‘basic,’ has as many inherent compromises as advantages, and is a turnoff to the kinds of players who can right our ship. It was kinda disappointing/head scratching when the NBA decided to allow it. As I keep saying, there are no CBB fans elsewhere in the world who are sitting there wishing their coach would go zone-exclusive.

 

[Otto'd]

I don't think anyone is anti-zone... c'mon dash. It's 'give me zone or give me death' that we're tired of.

I am. I despise that tavern league junk defense nonsense.

Its far outlived its usefulness.

 

[Otto'd]

A few minutes of zone here and there can still be very effective in the right situations or as a change of pace.

Exactly. It's a wrinkle, not a way of life.

 

[Fly Rodder]

the attributes required on the D end, further complicate matters on the offensive end, as the types of players best suited for zone D, often aren't suited for being able to put the ball on the deck, dribble, drive, and kick

And the problem with that is that players who are tall lanky mobile athletic, etc. and can dribble drive kick and shoot are top-20 recruits and NBA lottery picks ... i.e., players who don't commit to SU anymore.

 

[tbonezone]

Who has a better opportunity than JB of getting Cuse to another National title... Common sense here...​

he's batting like 1 for 45 ?

 

[CuseCPT]

cHeCkmAtE hAtErz

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

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