Syracuse 64 - Georgetown 61: The Canadian Went Bakin'

They will argue that the go-to guy is the guy who has the ball with time running out and hits the shot. Not the guy that goes for nearly 30. I’d put money on it. We know who our go-to guy is and if no one else does, good.

it was a relatively easy game to call imo.

Hoyas sitting in a zone + launching a ton of threes. Not as many interesting spots to put refs in compared to a typical BE games.

Georgetown loses, prob drop to 16th.

and this is certainly a different conversation without his 9 boards… but it was tough to see him struggle shooting against the zone, which afforded him so many nice opportunities to hit that nearly automatic mid-range jumper. I don’t know how much more zone we’ll see but given that this team is streaky (at best) from three, it’s a decent strategy to employ against this team. I think tonight was just an anomaly on offense for CJ, though – if he is hitting those 10-15 footers from the heart of a zone, teams won’t be able to play it. CJ could be the Zone Eater.

Duke lost, UConn lost, Georgetown lost, North Carolina lost, and Syracuse won. Great week in college basketball.

If one Georgetown fan could explain to me why Hollis Thompson, with whom they TOTALLY WOULD HAVE WON, was not already a) in the game or b) waiting to come in if they were going offense defense.

was triche hurt? because waiters and scoop were terrible. especially dion, boeheim called for an iso at the end of regulation and dion decided to throw up a 40 footer.

ugh. dion was TERRIBLE

I’m happy. Hoya fans are mad. Georgetown sucks. Syracuse doesn’t.

Good night. LET’S GO ORANGE!

The only way to describe it. Both teams under 65 point…in an OT game. Both teams shot under 35% from the floor. An old school Big East style slug fest and given the fact that Syracuse came out on top, it couldn’t have gotten any better. Key stats.

KJ, 29 points, 9-20 FG, 6-11 3pt, 5-6 FT, 5 reb 3 stl. I won’t go on a “here’s our go-to guy” diatribe. KJ’s game spoke for itself. No one else outside of Fab played particularly well, so KJ had to carry them and he did it in spectacular fashion.

Fab, 11 pts, 7 rebs, 6 blk. It’s amazing to see Fab improving so fast. I mean, he was a completely different player between last season and the start of this season. And he’s a completely different player between the start of this season and now. If he continues to get better at this rate, we’ll have to legitimately worry about him leaving, cuz he’ll be a lottery pick.

Syracuse, 8-24 3pt. Normally I’d say this is far too many 3pt attempts, but I’m not mad at it this time for a few reasons. For one, they were mostly good shots, mainly coming off of drive and kick action. For everyone outside of Fab, Rak and Melo, that’s a good shot. Two, they still shot around their average. And three, KJ accounted for almost half the attempts and all but 2 of the makes. Again, normally I’d complain about KJ taking so many 3s, but I’ll take it for all the same reasons I don’t mind the team totals. I’ll second Paul Harris’ in-game tweet, though. The Orange can’t think the 3 ball is going to bail them out every game.

Hoyas, 48 rebs, 20 Oreb. The stat that everyone is talking about. Terrible, terrible work on the glass. Deplorable. Putrid. Disgusting. Feel free to add other adjectives as you see fit. I mean, Otto Porter had as many rebounds (9) in the first half as the entire Orange team. In a game like this that’s played primarily in the half court, rebounding is paramount. I know that the guards tend to hang out to set up the break, but I agree with one of the earlier comments. When it’s obvious that it’s not going to be a running game, the guards need to abandon the break, except on TOs, and help out on the glass.

Otto Porter, 14 pts, 13 rebs. Kid killed Syracuse, plain and simple. I’ll admit, I don’t look forward to playing him in the future.

A great game between great teams locked in a great rivalry. I’ll admit, the Duke UNC game was great. But this one was just as good.