Syracuse, the Hoyas are coming through

VS.

We Not Slowing, Gotta Just Keep On Rolling Hoyas

"Nothing scares me about their team," Jardine said. We just have to come in a play Syracuse basketball, if we do that it'll be a great game, and I think we should get a win? Oh, okay, Scoop said, "should" not "will" get a win. Well well, something else to motivate our might Hoyas in tonight's matchup on the road in Syracuse. This game will become a battle of will of which team style of play will fair. Syracuse likes to get up and down the court in transition. This is what their best at. The Georgetown offense is a patient and thought oriented system. It definitely requires the opposing team to slow down and think on defense something that "some" teams are not used to.

Notre Dame and Cincinnati slowed the pace down against Syracuse with the Irish winning taking the shot clock down to under 10 seconds for nearly each possession and Cincinnati keeping the game close but loss to the Orangemen by seven points. What Syracuse knows is the Hoyas runs a methodical Princeton system similiar to Notre Dame's offense. "We moved the basketball," Boheim said. We just got really good shots down the court, and that was the best part for me of watching the second half, how "EASY?" (hopefully the Hoyas will make it "tough" for Cuse) we got the ball down and found people and found good shots."

So what does Coach Thompson III tell his team about the game tonight?

"We tell them we're going to face probably the best team in the country right now, a team that's multilayered in terms of their depth at every position," said Thompson, who guided the Hoyas to a 64-56 victory over Syracuse here a year ago, his first win in the Carrier Dome in six tries.
Coach Thompson's take on taking care of the ball on offense: "Being good on offense and not turning the ball over is a key to your defense against Syracuse," said Thompson, who is less concerned about how his players handle the atmosphere. The Hoyas have key wins this season at Alabama, Louisville, and, as Thompson pointed out, "Bayi Rockets," in China.

Glide's game plan:
Slow the Orangemen down, make them think...
Keep shifting the ball from side to side as this will get the defense to shift...
Guards keep your dribble low so you can see the holes in the defense this should be easy because the defense will have their hands above their waste or up high...
ATTACK the basket for floater or two points/and one or kick the ball back out...
Communicate/Point communicate...
Play tough, take the contact and finish...
Fight, fight, fight until it's over and "WIN"...

30,000 Cuse fans. So what! As I'm concerned the Hoyas don't hear a thing only from my teammates and the coaching staff.

Hoyabrotherhood

jg

"It was a big deal," Hoyas senior center Henry Sims said. "We were all proud of that. We wanted to get that win for him because he loves to win away games. They mean a lot more to him, I feel, than the home games do."