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Originally Posted by Beatty Town Coach Your point is well taken; and, That's pretty much what I observed from Syracuse on defense (my second paragraph), but not on offense. Syracuse only scored 60 points against a team that tied for 8th place in the pac10; but Saint bonnies, from A10 beat a team that tied for 3rd place in same package 10. Realizing you cannot necessarily compare scores of other games; but coupled with the fact that I said "might ", and the reality that Saint Bonnaventure beat Cuse in the carrier dome, and that UD beat Bonnies 82 -72 at UD ARENA. Syracuse is terrible on offense, and their greatest offensive asset is their obnoxious arrogant loud mouth head coach, who has tacit permission to yell, scream, and cry to the officials without the same fear of punitive outcomes as other coaches. It took a hall of fame coach to squeeze out a bulls hit win over an 8th place pack ten team. Call me excessively unimpressed; even if the yelling cry baby, screams his way to another final four.

He was pretty tame....I was within earshot the whole game and his physical animations are much more emphatic than the words he is hollering.

Their offense is typical for some of those teams. Very athletic and try to beat you in a game of one on one with some cuts and ball screens. Very few one hitters and most of them are to set up a lob, open 3 on reversal, or an iso. Their practice on Monday...VERY good shooters.

I will say that while listening to JB coach, it is AMAZING at what BASIC basketball instruction he was giving some of these players. One of his guys got beat off the wing and fouled early on...he was yelling at the player to open his hips and beat him to the spot. Duh....that's pretty basic. There were also things that seemed really elementary.

He has a couple top dogs in the country and while great ball players, the game isn't complex that he was coaching...not one bit.

	St Bonaventure SAINT BONAVENTURE Founded in 1858, St. Bonaventure University is a liberal arts college located on 500 acres in southwestern New York state. SBU offers 43 undergraduate majors, the most popular of which are elementary education, journalism, psychology, accounting, marketing, finance, and management. Total undergraduate enrollment is 2,000. Virtually all freshmen and most undergraduates live on campus. A founding member of the A10 Conference. Famous athletes include Bob Lanier. Historical nickname was the Brown Indians, but later changed to the Bonnies. Their mascot is a wolf.