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HuskyHawk

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San Diego St has some chuckers, wow

As with most teams facing Cuse zone for the first time they haven’t figured it out yet. Cuse made a rep on that.
 

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Georgetown had a nice little run of these. But maybe that was just a few of them in a small window, versus more consistent programs that have done it over decades.

Arizona and Duke have a longer list than even Purdue.
 

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It's really infuriating that Buddy Boeheim got suddenly good in the middle of the year.

I think Buddy Boeheim is a pretty good player, and actually hides how bad Boeheim's recruiting has been otherwise.
 
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It's early, but San Diego St. in typical "Zone? What's a zone?" mode.
This is how it always goes for Syracuse:
  • sneak into the Tournament with an undeserved 10 or 11 seed
  • luck out with matchups or teams that are baffled by their gimmick defense
  • everyone calls Boeheim a genius even though his teams had to badly underachieve just to get to that point
 

HuskyHawk

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This is how it always goes for Syracuse:
  • sneak into the Tournament with an undeserved 10 or 11 seed
  • luck out with matchups or teams that are baffled by their gimmick defense
  • everyone calls Boeheim a genius even though his teams had to badly underachieve just to get to that point

Their matchup zone is a nightmare for teams that don’t see it regularly. Always has been. But talent wins out eventually and Cuse goes down.
 

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Brutal shooting by SDSU
 
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The kid has always been good despite the boneyard saying he blows.

This board overhyped all year how bad they were. They struggled to beat a solid mid major in December. "They stink!".

Shutting their game off and watching Nova. I've seen this story before. SDSU looks pathetic against the zone. Amazing how they always draw these teams.
 

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This board overhyped all year how bad they were. They struggled to beat a solid mid major in December. "They stink!".

Shutting their game off and watching Nova. I've seen this story before. SDSU looks pathetic against the zone. Amazing how they always draw these teams.

They shouldn’t be in, but they got the perfect draw for them.

Shame they didn’t give us the 6 to face them.
 
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Jesus, SDSU shooting 3 of 17 from beyond the arc so far.

Typical Syracuse Tournament luck, pretty much exactly what I called.
 

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This board overhyped all year how bad they were. They struggled to beat a solid mid major in December. "They stink!".

Shutting their game off and watching Nova. I've seen this story before. SDSU looks pathetic against the zone. Amazing how they always draw these teams.

Jump to conclusions much? I don't know how good SDSU is. Syracuse is an NIT caliber team, and one half of basketball against an MWC team is not enough for anyone to change their opinion on that.
 

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SDSU, a very good shooting team, just bricking wide open 3's.

They aren’t wide open. SDSU hasn’t figured it out yet.
 

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They really letting noted Nova superfan Brian O’Connell ref this thing?
 
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Say what you want about Cuse during the season by tourney time they draw teams that are mentally challenged by the Cuse zone. Bohemian as an underdog is dangerous in March.
 
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If teams want to learn how to destroy the Cuse Zone, they should look at Uconn game footage from 2003.
 
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They aren’t wide open. SDSU hasn’t figured it out yet.
I mean not all of them. They've taken a few deep and somewhat contested ones. But a bunch of them coming from reversals and middle-kickout shots have been wide open and bricked.
 
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Jump to conclusions much? I don't know how good SDSU is. Syracuse is an NIT caliber team, and one half of basketball against an MWC team is not enough for anyone to change their opinion on that.

Every 11 seed is NIT caliber. That's why they are an 11 seed and just made it in.

Syracuse lost at the buzzer to UVA. UVA along with Nova are the 2 best programs in America despite ESPN spooning Duke, Kentucky, and Carolina non stop.

They are not great. They are not bad either.
 

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