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Quote Originally Posted by maya1812:
What's interesting about this thread is that all that is being talked about is Syracuse's amazing zone defense and nothing is being said about their woeful offense. Here are the averages from their last 3 tournament games: 60.7 points per game, 40.3% shooting from the field, 35.1% from the 3 point stripe, 4.3 three pointers a game, 66.2% free throw % (which will especially hurt them because they won't go to the line very often playing Michigan who commits the fewest fouls in college basketball), 6.7 assists per game (that is not a mistype), offensive rebounds 9.0 per game (3 less than season average) and 11.7 turnovers per game ( the only good thing they are doing right now but matches up against a Michigan squad who commits the fewest turnovers in college basketball). Bottom line, Syracuse's offense this tournament has been rather spotty and I think they'll have a hard time beating Michigan whose offense is clicking on all cylinders unless they made a vast improvement on these numbers.
What's interesting about this thread is that all that is being talked about is Syracuse's amazing zone defense and nothing is being said about their woeful offense. Here are the averages from their last 3 tournament games: 60.7 points per game, 40.3% shooting from the field, 35.1% from the 3 point stripe, 4.3 three pointers a game, 66.2% free throw % (which will especially hurt them because they won't go to the line very often playing Michigan who commits the fewest fouls in college basketball), 6.7 assists per game (that is not a mistype), offensive rebounds 9.0 per game (3 less than season average) and 11.7 turnovers per game ( the only good thing they are doing right now but matches up against a Michigan squad who commits the fewest turnovers in college basketball). Bottom line, Syracuse's offense this tournament has been rather spotty and I think they'll have a hard time beating Michigan whose offense is clicking on all cylinders unless they made a vast improvement on these numbers.
What the hell is so special about Michigan's defense that makes you think they'll shut down Syracuse? Marquette and Indiana were better than Michigan on D. What happened to them?
In case you haven't been noticing MCW and Triche have been more focused on taking it to the rack instead of settling for jumpers. Cuse runs double high screens for them and they either drive or dish to Southerland/Fair.
I would think HOF Coach Boeheim has been telling those guys to go to the rim since Michigan has ZERO ability to defend the paint. #148 in FG percentage allowed and #244 in Blocks Per Game.
Let's go Darwin
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I THINK YOU MEAN MATCH UP PROBLEM FOR SYRACUSE, I THINK YOU NEED TO DO MORE RESEARCH BETWEEN BOTH TEAMS, I JUST GAME MY SELECTION AND WRITE UP ON MY THREAD ON MICHIGAN. GOOD LUCK THOU, ALWAYS LIKE AN EFFORT!!!
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