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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 3204331, member: 1674"] Not sure I really follow to be honest. Girard was no more a true PG in high school than any of our other recent PGs and it remains to be seen how he'll be in college. I think there's definitely something there if we convert to more of a pick and roll style offense, but we'll see if Boeheim (or whoever theoretically replaces him) makes that adjustment. Goodine and Guerrier fit into the athletes first mold that you seem to be so focused on. I don't know what mold JBA or Edwards really fit into yet, but they're both very raw at the moment. We literally just recruited Carey last year lol. I don't think 1 freshman out of 3-5 of them fitting some "new" mold is evidence that Boeheim has changed his ways, nor do I think bringing his own son onto the team is. But I'm not really talking about who is and who isn't being recruited anyways; I'm talking about the actual on-court product. Our team consistently has 0-2 players on the entire roster that attempt to box players out on the glass every year. Our team doesn't have anybody that can break a defense down and yet he's consistently featured a ton of isolation sets. He simply has not done a good job of developing an offensive system to fit the roster in a long time. I'm not one of the people that rails on Boeheim for sticking with the zone defense; I think that works plenty fine, but getting guys to box out and running pick and roll should be pretty close to the bare minimum that's expected out of a basketball coach and he's not doing it. Again, I will always love and appreciate Jim and the whole family. I'm not grabbing my pitchfork and running him out of town. I'm just saying if the program falls apart without Boeheim, then so be it. I'm not scared of the program failing because what the program is right now isn't fun to watch either. We simply need to try to get better. [/QUOTE]

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