BREAKING: Scoop Jardine, Dion Waiters May Not Actually Be Cousins

get that SU has pro level talent. All we have been hearing lately is that “I would never put Su to the final four in my bracket cus when i look at teams I look for the team with a first round pick” or SU is a mystery becuase they have won so many games with minimal talent. These are the people who just skim boxscores and see SU’s leading scorer has only 14ppg so that must mean they dont have good players. When in reality the see the same boxscores for a team like uk whose scoring avg’s are almost identical to su’s with the leading scorer on that team at 14ppg (but if your name is uk/unc they watch all of the games religiously and even when the play awful and squeak out a win it shows toughness and no negatives.) In reality SU may not have the number one pick in the draft but they have as much talent as anyteam in the country the reasons theyre leading scorer only has 14 ppg should be seen more as a possitvie then a negative. It means that this team has bought in to team basketball, our unselfish, and care more about doing whatever it takes to win then indivisual stats. People who actually have followed this team realize but it most analyst fav topic to put down and nitpick on SU. ""Guys like Kris Joseph, Brandon Triche and Dion Waiters could be all-league if there was less talent around them" Think about that, not even just those guys, meyers leonard is thought as a lotto pick, if fab melo played for illinois he would probably be a whole lot better then leonard. If about 7 of su’s player played for weaker teams they would have huge numbers and probably be big time pro prospects. People who actually watched the games know that, also if players like xmas and mcw played for teams that desperatly needed them to have impact, and gave them the playing time to speed up theyre developement, at this point in the season they might be prospects as well. Even scouts will tell you that people saying SU has a lack of pro prospects are unfounded, they say 3 first round picks and depending how waiters, krisjo, and melo finish the season likely 1 or 2 lotto picks. They also will tell you that guys who are expected to stay like cj fair and triche next season when they will be relied upon a whole lot more a likely to emerge as big time draft prospects. Some even think scoop can be a verge secon rounder because he is one of the best true pg’s in the game and his stats in limited mins has been impressive as well as the nba being desperate for pg’s. It just pissed me off when guys like gary parrish, goodman, grantland douch say that su is just an overacheiving team with no talent. but guys like jay bilas, andy katz some other espns/si/and nbcsports guys i dont remember and even guys who i usually hate like gotlieb and pat forde, all people who actually watch the games will tell you this team has talent as good as any and can win it all this year

That this is the biggest scandal to hit Syracuse basketball on years.

Dajuan is not Derrick’s illegitimate son. Nice try.

Where’s the question on if he was the lone person not voting Cuse #1?