No, I'm taking issue with him saying Bouknight has no weapons around him and Boeheim does. I don't know how anyone thinks Syracuse has more talent than UConn, they don't.
Maybe weapons wasn’t the best choice of words. My point is that Syracuse has better shooters. They have 7 players shooting better than 30% from 3. Besides Marek everyone of their players that get any burn have the ability to hit the 3. We do not have consistent shooters so teams just pack it in. That’s one of the things that happened with Maryland and Creighton. But do you really think that Buddy Boeheim would excel like he currently is in any program where his athleticism was exposed? I think he would be a fine player but a real liability on defense. And also what is Buddy better at than James other than shooting and maybe passing?
We had a similar player... this guy named Tyler Polley shot 40% from 3 against Maryland if I recall correctly.
I forgot to add he like 5 touches all game.
Again you are not understanding my point. All I’m saying is that we would be no better with him in Bouk’s role. We would be worse. He is not athletic enough to guard in a man scheme and there is no way he puts up those numbers facing the kind of double and triple teams that Bouk did. Boeheim is on fire right now there is no debating that. My point is that comparing Bouk and him without taking into account the system that allows him to stay on the court is probably not the best thing to do.
I don't think he would excel in any/every system and I think we have much better talent than Syracuse does. Boeheim figured it out and they are playing by far their best ball of the year, Hurley didn't figure it out and UConn played it's worst game of the year in it's last game.
Can’t argue with this and I actually agree entirely. I just took issue with the idea that Buddy in place of Bouk would have made any difference. Like you said the issues were coaching based and I believe some were supporting cast based.
I think their biggest issue was that they had a bunch of players who supporting cast types and not alphas. That changed with Buddy’s emergence.
That’s on the coaching and the PG. Every time down the floor Buddy boy has plays run for him. Why couldn’t we do the same for Polley? We kept trying to feature triple-teamed Bouk and even when that wasn’t working, we kept going back to it. You gotta put the players in the best position to succeed. Or you’re stuck on your couch talking what if’s.
I always thought the name of the game was making baskets yourself or helping your teammates make baskets. You think differently?
So, if I follow, it’s the coach’s scheme that elevates him by putting in a system that maximizes is strengths. Interesting. Interesting concept we might try.
Not at all. All I’m saying is that when the rest of your teammates can shoot it makes it way easier for you to dominate. Take a look at the last 4 games for both Syracuse. They shot the following as a team from 3:
Yes but like half of those threes are from Boeheim and he's shooting them at a 56% clip. When your best player is playing.like an absolute superstar and making everything it becomes much easier for everyone else, for whatever reasons we didn't have that. Syracuse was no better at making threes this season than UConn, since Buddy has gone super saiyan mode it's helped these other guys get wide open looks and the percentages went up.
Buddy Boeheim is not a great player- please walk back- he’s been hot over the last month or so- with that said it doesn’t mean he’s a great player- he’s one dimensional at best- although over the last month he’s been very good at that one dimension.
He's absolutely a great player now. Being one dimensional at the most important dimension in basketball makes you great when you are as good as anyone in the country at that one dimension.
But is this the player he is........or is he just on a hot streak? His history suggest he isn’t THIS good
I respect his coaching ability as he is one of the greats for sure. I just think hes kind of a the way he treats some of the kids in his program and hes a gross human being as there is absolutely no excuse for a grown man to pick and eat his boogers. That gross bro!
He’s an anus. Lotsa great coaches have been hemorrhoids, but because they win it’s usually tolerated.
He is rising to the occasion, unlike our best player
Tyler Polley shot 35% for the season. The fact that he went 2/5 tells us more about sample size. Perhaps because of the achilles injury, he just was not the same shooter from 3 this year.
I appreciate the input. I’m wondering as a Syracuse fan if you could provide an insight on a question that I have. Have you noticed the rest of the team improve on the offensive side of the ball during this incredible run by Buddy? Or have they pretty much maintained the same level of play? The reason I ask is that my impression of this SU team was that it was bunch of solid role players who lacked a go to player. Now that Boeheim is that guy the team complements each other nicely and these players aren’t really relied on to go above and beyond what is expected and playing at their previous level is okay. Or am I completely wrong?