Syracuse Loses to LeMoyne 82-79 in Exhibition
This just isn't our week. If I were a Syracuse student, I wouldn't go out to any LeMoyne Bars for a while.
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Um...
How did this happen? Did Bernie Fine sub in on a dare?
by DMF on Nov 3, 2009 9:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
ouch
just plain ouch
Still, I wish Nick was here
by adirondackangelfan on Nov 3, 2009 9:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Only 3 months and 17 days until lacrosse season!
Though honestly, although it’s embarrassing, it still doesn’t count on the record. I just hope my fellow students don’t take this loss and make it into another pathetic turnout like football next week….
by RyanMcD29 on Nov 3, 2009 9:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
watched the game on SNY
complete disgrace.they should use that new melo center to run sprints from now til midnight. and then run more tomorrow.
by orngfan on Nov 3, 2009 9:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Pathetic performance
Also watched on SNY…
Played little to no D
The bigs are still big pansies. Neither could do anything inside and have yet to develop any moves. Oh well.
Wes Johnson: better than advertised
Triche is no Flynn. Had some bad turnovers, but showed he’ll be solid.
Turnovers….
It was a typical SU game. Uninspired play, got outhustled, bricked open shots, etc. Thankfully it doesn’t count, but the damage is done. That was pathetic and really puts a damper on this team going into the year.
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
by Kurupt on Nov 3, 2009 9:54 PM EST via mobile reply actions 0 recs
At least they know not to take their work for granted
For a team who thinks they’re inheriting the hot program that sent a sophomore to the #6 spot in the draft and have the best 2010 recruiting class and everything is A-OK time to go play and be given what’s theirs, this is great.
These clowns haven’t earned anything together. Nothing is bestowed upon a program because of its documented past and presumed future. If any of these kids have half the pride that it takes just to be a scholarship athlete, this loss will completely consume them to stay late after practice for 2 hours and run by themselves until they throw up. They will wake up before the sun rises and block everything into its appropriate compartment… school, gym, meals, socializing, stretching, and resting. They will be regimented and focused, because this is the most humiliating performance I can imagine.
Nothing against the LeMoyne team, who deserves every bit of glory they EARNED with this win. Fortunately for most of them, there are very few press clippings to skew their collective self-perception. At this point, they have to believe that a commitment to each other and the game itself will trump anything else they face. Regardless of how “flat” Syracuse may have been, this will hopefully do for LeMoyne and Syracuse the same thing:
It will teach them that at the end of the day, the only difference-maker is unadulterated commitment and hard work.
I won’t even wish best of luck to both teams, because if this game shows anything, it’s that luck is not a strategy. Instead, I’d like to wish them each the willpower to use this game as a springboard to taking no opportunity for granted.
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 3, 2009 10:20 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Word.
Hope they use this as motivation for the rest of the year. Sometimes a good team needs a scare to get those competitive juices flowing. Don’t forget – Boeheim’s teams have a tendency to play to the level of their opponents, big or small. Hopefully this gets that out of the system off the bat and we don’t have any problem with our initial cupcakes. Maybe we’ll even avoid the yearly Cornell scare? Of course, by then Cuse will have played some big boys – Cal, OSU or UNC, and Florida. Should be a very interesting season.
by DMF on Nov 3, 2009 11:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
man
this week is the worst ever for a syracuse fan.
by nc44 on Nov 3, 2009 10:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Wow.
Thankfully the selection committee won’t be looking at this. It’s not like Kentucky losing to Gardner-Webb two years in a row. It’s more like Izzo losing to Grand Valley State, which meant nothing (Sparty got a 5 seed that year if I recall).
by adselver15 on Nov 3, 2009 10:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
After that, Izzo kicked the team out of their locker room. Perhaps Boeheim should consider it.
by Orange22 on Nov 3, 2009 11:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I know it's just one exhibition game
But man, after this week, it really does feel like we just suck at everything. Ugh.
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
by kotite4ever on Nov 3, 2009 10:44 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Wooo!
Syracuse was first on Sportscenter…..oh wait…fuck
by 'CuseRugby on Nov 3, 2009 11:23 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Also, I know this is comparing apples and oranges
Considering it’s two different college sports and are completely different animals, but Central New York’s other winter institution, Cornell hockey, lost an exhibition game and they’re still nationally ranked. Although with basketball it’s much more under the microscope, things will be fine once the season starts next week
OK, horrible horrible comparison. But still, I hope to God people don’t think this is already a doomed season because of this.
by RyanMcD29 on Nov 3, 2009 11:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
My cousin is a Dolphin, she found this highly amusing. :/
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 3, 2009 11:55 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Two of mine are...
I’ll never hear the end of this.
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by Chris Dobbertean on Nov 4, 2009 10:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Why does it seem
that we’re always the ones with the embarrassing basketball losses? First to lose to a 15 seed, the loss to UVM, then this. I know other alumni can point to other embarrassing losses – just seems like we get it more often than some.
by SlikSvelte on Nov 4, 2009 12:12 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
“The Shire” (the Dewitt Shire Tavern) located behind Liquor Square on Thompson and Erie Boulevard. Place is literally a hole in the wall….
by stumpycuse on Nov 4, 2009 12:18 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And to think
I used to work a Liquor Square in high school… many blind nights at the Shire when returning home during college… although I always knew I never wanted to be a townie at these places, somehow their mere existence can still associate with new memories of autumnal despair and wintry dubiety.
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 4, 2009 12:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
We need his grad assistant mentorship!
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
by Kurupt on Nov 4, 2009 1:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's funny
Yesterday at lunch I was getting my hair cut in Liverpool. In walked 2 young men. One was the starting point guard and the other the 6th man for LeMoyne. They both talked about playing hard but they figured there was no way they could win the game.
Guess they were wrong.
by moosedontbounce on Nov 4, 2009 8:46 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
To their credit, LeMoyne played their asses off and this was the biggest game of the season for them. During the second half it didnt feel like an exhibition. Christopher Johnson played out of his mind. We played man most of the game, which we were VERY inexperienced with. Clearly, foul trouble is going to be an issue for us this season. The one thing that has me calmed down right now is how calm Jimmy B was after the game. He didnt seem to care.
by ryanwk628 on Nov 4, 2009 8:50 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
whats up with offensive and defensive PG switches? Is this lacrosse?
by ryanwk628 on Nov 4, 2009 8:50 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
defense...
i didn’t watch the game, but the story made it seem like Syracuse played man the entire game…any truth to that from those that watched?
by rerunsu on Nov 4, 2009 8:57 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I only saw the second half, but yea. Man to man and full court trap at the end.
by ryanwk628 on Nov 4, 2009 9:31 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
SU always plays almost exclusively man to man during the exhibitions.
by Orange22 on Nov 5, 2009 6:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No excuse...
As my buddy said after the game, it doesn’t matter which defense we played; it’s LeMoyne. We could’ve been playing a prevent defense and we should beat LeMoyne. It’s an embarrassment, and I hope they run suicides until they vomit.
At this point, we should have absolutely no expectations of this team this year. For all the talent we’ve been talking about with Wes, AO, Andy etc, there’s clearly very little leadership, and that’s a big problem.
by Matt M. on Nov 4, 2009 10:21 AM EST reply actions 0 recs









