Brent Axe chats live following Syracuse basketball’s 103-67 loss to North Carolina, its worst loss in ACC play and worst overall since a 39-point loss to DePaul in 2006.
Mike Waters joins Brent from Chapel Hill to go over why Syracuse could not match up with the Tar Heels, the main message from Coach Adrian Autry and SU players after the loss and to reflect on how Saturday’s loss compares to some of the other worst losses in recent Orange memory. Brent then goes over the key problem Syracuse may not have a solution for and what Judah Mintz has to improve on as a leader if Syracuse is going to improve as a team.
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Watching Uconn and Georgetown. Both teams have at least 2 guys crashing boards on offense. SU stands around while shot is put up , why dont they hustle and battle on O boards. This is why they are pitiful on rebounding stats every game.
I know it probably wouldn’t have made a huge difference. But this was the type of game where McLeod would’ve made an impact. UNC bigs can’t shoot. Just put him right under the hoop. Really could have used his interior D
For what it's worth – (a) Zero half court offense . . . SU guys just stand around. (b) Opponents have figured out Judah's foul-winning offense . . . UNC just put three guys in front of him and zip, nothing. Judah should not go to the pros end of season . . . he is simply not ready. And he could use a week or two in team leadership training. (c) Not much heart when things are going sour . . . they looked exhausted. (4) Coach Davis got to play virtually his entire bench and SU could not gain vs. the least of their players. Merciful of him. If he had kept the first string in UNC could have scored 125 or more points on 'Cuse. No NCAA this year . . . SU will need to dig deep into the NIL portal to get together a real team. And can they recruit? Only time will tell.
Full court press more please. Good luck rest of the way.
You know I do talk to Adam Weitsman relatively frequently He's a awesome guy.. I mean you don't understand how kind hearted this man is… he was done wrong I thought that at least with Fran that he may be able to make his way back in to the athletic director through Fran he thinks people are upset at him and talking smack cuz I send him some stuff.. that they mention his name so I try to share it and it's basically just related to their thinking he's back in and he isn't so… and he's kind of concerned it's like he's washed his hands because of what the university did to him He's not even bringing anybody in like celebrities I think that's uncalled for to put them in that position This is like his freedoms are taken away This has nothing to do with the university to call that off that is ridiculous is that the Chancellor or the AD I don't know but it's stupid but regardless with the NIL organization that we have now that are endorsed in essence by the university I would like for him to back door in through that and keep on bringing a celebrities back in there after a little bit of clearance from the idiot boys that run the university and the athletic program he would have bought through NIL legally a championship with JB what 5 years he said now we don't have that there seems to be an issue We need to have him back and affect the basketball the football team and even the girls basketball team and the lacrosse team because he is so big he is the most influential and IL booster in the entire nation there is nobody close and this guy loves the team We need to show some love back to him and start communicating to him on Facebook Messenger and on Twitter but we need some kind of recouping with him and basketball especially
I give Red Autry 3 years to get this outfit back to the NCAAs…
Games like this make me miss Edwards and Girard even more…
It is what it is..an NIT season but we all must remember an improvement from the last 2 seasons…. We all need to be patient folks-(And hope Judah comes back for a third season next season)…
There is no chemistry in a team so out of position with Justin being the most out of position.
The most out of position starting five since….. well i go back to Roys runts of 1972 73 and you will have to go back farther than 1972. Any opinion on this?
Why is this a surprise? What did expect from the Coach B tree? I dont care if its Red, Gmac or Hop…they will never get us over the hump. Its all they know. No offensive minded plays and cant recruit for todays game. No shooters no defense. Its gonna be a long year. Get your NIT tickets. Red needs to straighten this team up. If we see the same nonsense next year it may be time for SU to get a "Fran Brown" for basketball.
What is going on here.we don't even show up.This is a joke .we didn't even compete.Dont give me the bullshit how good North Carolina is.we didn't show up.Taylor is terrible so is Williams. Stop making that how good is the tar heels. Wedid not play with heart.0 and 5 against top 20 teams all by 15 or more points come on we can't make one game close.we are a d2 team we're in the acc show up play hard.no heart.
JJ would probably be better off the bench. I would start Taylor, Copeland, Brown, Bell, and Judah.
Good team at home, average or worse on the road. Bad loss. This team is talented, but softer than molasses. We need Copeland and Taylor to play the entire game as well because they impact the game with their hustle. The other 3 players with them can take the shots.
Was hoping for a close game but they got embarrassed. Almost wish I stayed home and not accepted free tickets. Lazy play, none of the shots went down, play was really stiff
Benny just doesn't have it. Even if he has the athleticism, if he hasn't shown up by now, he never will.
Mintz is a fringe NBA player, and the rest of the team belongs in the G-league, at best.
Red, Gmac, Griffin can't recruit the top players (track record for the past 5 plus years), and can't develop hidden gems.
We should have brought in Pitino when there was an opening. Look what he did to revive ST. John's program!
Flush it, not much you can do. Gut check for the players, not sure what coach can say. We will see who the leader is on team.
It is easy to pile on. My position why Coach Autry was not the right choice, fundamentally the inability to improve play which this is the responsibility of this staff. They never improved under Coach Boehiem. I know Coach B is loyal and defensive about it, but…
This is a character moment for the players and the coaching staff. Who wants to win
Damn…can't SU fans have nice things
Embarrasing.. zero outside shooters, benny is no good, no will to play tough defense, etc etc.. i dont wanna talk like this
Discouraging loss… There was nothing positive that came from this loss… Benny and JT looked lost. The defense looked terrible. Rebounding was worse… And dreadful outside shooting…
Hopefully it was just a one game blunder… There was nothing from this game to indicate that this team could make the NCAA. If we play like this, we’d have trouble making the NIT… yes, we played a good team but we looked like a JV team today
stop talking the NCAAs. this season the team will be lucky to make the NIT. Boeheim drove the program into the ground., it will take a few years for it to get back up and running.
Give Autry time