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By: dexineffex

dexineffex — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:31:02 +0000

Quite a convincing angle on Cuse b-ball. I can say that Syracuse looked to be the best team my Tarheels have faced all season (better than Texas, Kentucky, Mich St, Clemson) — that was purely our matchup versus them. Granted, I don’t follow the CUSE but they have talent, are athletic as hell & are deep — led by a hall of fame coach [that's a great recipe for a nat'l champ]. Ironic how a team can be this strong after loosing it’s 1-2 Guard punch to the league. Also ironic how a team (UNC) can nearly run the table, then a year later, just be a hot pile of pooh [injury bug not helping the heels --- we'll bounce back!]

Gottlieb is hit & miss — if he’s a CUSE hater then he’ll get a bad hangover from drinking & serving up orange haterade to the masses.

While I’m more of a fan of the man-to-man — history has shown most teams have fits playing against an active & ‘smart’ 2-3 zone like SU runs.

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By: Kevin C

Kevin C — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:53:33 +0000

Doug Gottlieb is a moron. im sick and tired of liistening to this guy talk about something he doesnt really know that much about and surely was never very good at. ESPN- if theres 2 people u need to cut from your staff for being morons, its Doug Gottlieb #1 and Douschepump Jay Bilas #2

By: Paul McNeil

Paul McNeil — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:22:54 +0000

Thanks, Tommy for saying everything I wanted to say, but saying it better.

I really believe Mr. Gottlieb is simply parroting someone else’s storyline, perhaps because he lacks a deeper understanding of college basketball.

Many people, including even some coaches, used to say that being exclusively dependent on a zone defense would make winning a national championship very hard to do. And they kept saying that right up until 2003. Then they stopped saying it. Or, at least we stopped hearing it until Mr. Gottlieb’s recent diatribe.

Mr. Gottlieb must think the Syracuse zone is like your normal high school pack-it-in zone. It isn’t. And it’s not even close to that! It moves! And it traps! It’s a “match-up” zone.

Bobby Knight says that of all that he has seen thus far, he likes Syracuse for the number 1 spot right now.

And to me, what Bobby Knight says carries a lot more weight than anything a Mr. Gottlieb says.

By: SU#1Fan31

SU#1Fan31 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:22:26 +0000

Doug Gottieb is a college basketball D0UCH3!!! By season’s end he’ll be sucking the juice from a freshly squeezed Orange National Championship… At that point he can continue to rag on the Orange as the only National Champions to have lost to a D2 team… IN AN EXHIBITION!!!

By: StoneColdJZ

StoneColdJZ — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:09:56 +0000

Very well put TommyD. Cuse is good enough to win it all and the zone D did work very well back in 2003. They were able to take out Okie State, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas during that tourney run.

By: D2B

D2B — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:09:50 +0000

Agreed TD.. Gottlieb is a ninkcompoop. always has been.. Which is why he couldnt hack it at ND and had to transfer to “get into school easy” U called Okie St. ‘Cuse is real deal