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[QUOTE="Oráiste, post: 1978020, member: 5974"]
I generally agree with your concern about the half court offense; I think the problem mostly lies with the point guards we have had:  Ennis was deliberate to a fault, Kaleb Joseph was just not good enough, and Gbinije was not a true point guard.  Frank Howard is a work in progress; I have good hopes for him this year (Gillon, not so much).  But even so, our half court offense in those five seasons have been middle of the pack, not terrible.  I'd be willing to bet they were well within a single standard deviation of the national mean each year.

I also notice that in the first of your 5 year examples, we had the very capable Scoop Jardine as the primary point guard and the team was in the upper quartile in half court efficiency.

But I disagree with your dismissal of transition offense.  The entire point of basketball is to get easy buckets.  Any overall scheme designed to maximize such buckets while still maintaining competence in the half court is a system that is going to work a lot, both IMHO and backed up by our history.

Finally, the quote I highlighted above was a strange way to end your critique.  The team has gone 12-4 in the NCAA tournament the last 5 seasons.  Discounting national champions, I'll bet there's not 3 teams with a better tournament record over that period.  Bad offense can cost you a game at any time, but it has absolutely not led to Syracuse making short tourney runs in recent years.  Bizarre.
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