A recipe for disaster for Syracuse would be a game where James
Southerland is held to 3 points, Michael Carter-Williams has only one assist,
and Carter-Williams is the leading scorer on the team. Yet that is exactly what happened in the
Syracuse / Indiana game, and the Orange won handedly.
I must admit that I thought this team had no chance of
making the Final Four, and now they are one very winnable game from being
there. Marquette is a tough opponent, and either team could win the game, but
this is not a case where Syracuse has to slay Goliath to advance.
The Syracuse defense has been outstanding in this
tournament, and really has been consistently strong all season. It really hasn’t been a question of whether
they could stop their opponents. It has been a question if they could put
together enough offense to outscore their opponents. The Orange haven’t been
playing perfect on offense, and still are making some ugly unforced errors, but
they have been doing enough on offense to win.
Indiana had a game plan that refused to let Syracuse get the
ball to Southerland. That is a very smart game plan. The Syracuse guards responded with the correct
action, and that was to take the ball to the hoop, and have the guard play
dominate the game. I hope this mindset
of driving to the hoop carries over to today’s game, because when Brandon
Triche and Carter-Williams drive the lane, good things happen.
Good luck to the Orange today! It should be a great game.
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