Syracuse Fans Complaining About Big East Hoops

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NYCRedmen

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After watching Marquette beat Syracuse earlier tonight, I took a quick glance at the SU version of Redmen.com. I couldn't stop laughing at what I was reading. Someone started a thread complaining that the Big East is too physical for them and get this, they can't wait to start ACC play b/c it's not as "rough" and the refs won't stand for it. It gets better, fans actually started agreeing with that. I thought our fans were hard on our boys when we lose, but we have nothing on those guys. Two losses in a row and now they can't handle the Big East b/c it's too rough and physical. Somebody call the wambulance. LoL.
 
After watching Marquette beat Syracuse earlier tonight, I took a quick glance at the SU version of Redmen.com. I couldn't stop laughing at what I was reading. Someone started a thread complaining that the Big East is too physical for them and get this, they can't wait to start ACC play b/c it's not as "rough" and the refs won't stand for it. It gets better, fans actually started agreeing with that. I thought our fans were hard on our boys when we lose, but we have nothing on those guys. Two losses in a row and now they can't handle the Big East b/c it's too rough and physical. Somebody call the wambulance. LoL.
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Would you mind maybe posting. Link to this forum, i would like to read that before going to bed!
 
L'Ville, UNC, Duke, Pitt, Miami, etc.

Cuse has a legitimate shot of finishing 4th or 5th in the ACC once UNC and Pitt get back to being top 10 squads, and if Miami can build off this break through season, it seems even more possible they can finish 5th.
 
Reading the Syracuse fans whining about Big East hackfests, if Syracuse players think the same, you could imagine a guy like Charles Oakley breaking into a huge grin at the prospect of playing them. While physical basketball can by ugly to watch, the old Riley Knicks made you pay every time you dared to bring the ball inside.

I don't know if schoolyard basketball really exists anymore, but if you took your game to the roughest courts in NYC in the old days, you had better not be prepared to call a lot of fouls when you got hacked. It's kind of funny to think that schoolyard basketball rules is played on an honor system of calling whether you got fouled or not. The only thing that checked it was the defensive player and team loudly complaining that you weren't fouled. There were boro rules, and black/white rules. In some places, you coudl call your own foul and if the ball went in it counted. In other places, call your own foul and the basket wouldn't count. Black kids traditionally played straght up, white kids took defensive rebounds out to the foul line. Can any of you younger guys verify what rules you play schoolyard ball under, if it exists at all?
 
I know I always played "take it back" so even after rebounds we would take it to around the 3 pt line if it was a half court.
 
I know I always played "take it back" so even after rebounds we would take it to around the 3 pt line if it was a half court.
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In Queens we took it out to the foul line playing half court. A "fast break" would have you dribble quickly to take it back, slide your foot across the plane of the foul line, and take it back to the hoop. Actually, taking it back always made more sense to me than straight up, which black kids played. If you played striaght up on a black court, and pulled up for a short jumper instead of taking it all the way to the hole, black kids would taunt you that you were scared (of the contact). If you could play hard nosed basketball on those courts without complaining when you took the hits, you could gain a lot of respect. In the days where racial tensions were pretyt bad, you could break down a lot of barriers through hoops.
 
Cuse fans will be more upset when they find themselves not even getting a top 4 seed in the BET. At 10-5 they still have games with Lville and Georgetown. Meanwhile Pitt at 9-6 will likely run the table with games against USF, Nova and Depaul to clinch the 4 seed.
 
I know I always played "take it back" so even after rebounds we would take it to around the 3 pt line if it was a half court.
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In Queens we took it out to the foul line playing half court. A "fast break" would have you dribble quickly to take it back, slide your foot across the plane of the foul line, and take it back to the hoop. Actually, taking it back always made more sense to me than straight up, which black kids played. If you played striaght up on a black court, and pulled up for a short jumper instead of taking it all the way to the hole, black kids would taunt you that you were scared (of the contact). If you could play hard nosed basketball on those courts without complaining when you took the hits, you could gain a lot of respect. In the days where racial tensions were pretyt bad, you could break down a lot of barriers through hoops.
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I'm black. Played with black and white kids in Brooklyn and Queens. We always took it back out to the foul line. Didn't have a 3 pt line in my day, Joe. If you were playing 2 on 2, you would hope your partner went out for thr pass and then look to set up down low for a quick return pass.
 
read this from Igor
we lead the nation in fouls. we give up more natural 3pt and 4 point plays than anyone.. we have given more all time scoring records than any team in his 37 years. jb claps when southerland goes from 40. he gripes when he misses. he plays who he wants like triche rather than watching his production. his players deserve better. the majority of the 35 k qre idiots like u and want him for another 10 years . he develops few. christmas is a wasted stud. mcw is a wasted stud. its not losing that bothers me, but rather boeheim blaming everyone but himself
Wow, some second year student moron has his opinions about a HOF 900 win coach. Laughable.
You take these boards like a grain of salt.
 
I'm black. Played with black and white kids in Brooklyn and Queens. We always took it back out to the foul line. Didn't have a 3 pt line in my day, Joe. If you were playing 2 on 2, you would hope your partner went out for thr pass and then look to set up down low for a quick return pass.
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That's the same way we did it in my area of the Bronx (where Jim Laranaga and BC's -- and later, Boston Celtics' -- Jerry Ward were the "older guy" local heroes). Only exception was when you rebounded an opponent's shot that failed to hit anything (i.e., an airball). Then, you could simply take it to the basket without having to take it out to the foul line.
 
I know I always played "take it back" so even after rebounds we would take it to around the 3 pt line if it was a half court.
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In Queens we took it out to the foul line playing half court. A "fast break" would have you dribble quickly to take it back, slide your foot across the plane of the foul line, and take it back to the hoop. Actually, taking it back always made more sense to me than straight up, which black kids played. If you played striaght up on a black court, and pulled up for a short jumper instead of taking it all the way to the hole, black kids would taunt you that you were scared (of the contact). If you could play hard nosed basketball on those courts without complaining when you took the hits, you could gain a lot of respect. In the days where racial tensions were pretyt bad, you could break down a lot of barriers through hoops.
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I'm black. Played with black and white kids in Brooklyn and Queens. We always took it back out to the foul line. Didn't have a 3 pt line in my day, Joe. If you were playing 2 on 2, you would hope your partner went out for thr pass and then look to set up down low for a quick return pass.
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Hey cool, thanks for the info. When I played in the schoolyards, which was long past my prime (which I never really had), that was the big differentiator between how white and black kids played halfcourt. I used to play in the citywide tournament in Springifield Garden in Monte bellair (SP?) park. Great competition. Entire HS varisty teams woudl enter.
 
I'm black. Played with black and white kids in Brooklyn and Queens. We always took it back out to the foul line. Didn't have a 3 pt line in my day, Joe. If you were playing 2 on 2, you would hope your partner went out for thr pass and then look to set up down low for a quick return pass.
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That's the same way we did it in my area of the Bronx (where Jim Laranaga and BC's -- and later, Boston Celtics' -- Jerry Ward were the "older guy" local heroes). Only exception was when you rebounded an opponent's shot that failed to hit anything (i.e., an airball). Then, you could simply take it to the basket without having to take it out to the foul line.
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Ah yea. Airballs and steals could go right back to the hoop. Paying halfcourt at SJU, everything would come back, airballs, blocks, steals, everything.
 
I'm black. Played with black and white kids in Brooklyn and Queens. We always took it back out to the foul line. Didn't have a 3 pt line in my day, Joe. If you were playing 2 on 2, you would hope your partner went out for thr pass and then look to set up down low for a quick return pass.
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That's the same way we did it in my area of the Bronx (where Jim Laranaga and BC's -- and later, Boston Celtics' -- Jerry Ward were the "older guy" local heroes). Only exception was when you rebounded an opponent's shot that failed to hit anything (i.e., an airball). Then, you could simply take it to the basket without having to take it out to the foul line.
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Ah yea. Airballs and steals could go right back to the hoop. Paying halfcourt at SJU, everything would come back, airballs, blocks, steals, everything.
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Exactly. (I remember how some guys, especially those who could do it reguarly, would yell, "Stuff!" whenever they blocked a shot.)
 
Next year they'll be complaining how boring the ACC is after Duke and UNC.
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Or how they won't be able to dominate the ACC like they were the Big East!
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Or how nobody in NYC except their alums and the biggest diehards will give two craps about Syracuse basketball anymore. Maybe they can make friends with BC.
 
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