Saturday, May 18th, 2013
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Nerlens to Cuse would be the best thing in a long time
For those saying Nerlens Noel coming to Cuse is a bad idea, stop it. Just stop it. As of today, Syracuse is widely considered a top 15 team, including only two players that played a lot of minutes last season. Southerland will join Triche and Fair as the leaders of next year’s team. Keep your eyes on Michael Carter-Williams who I believe is the most talented and explosive point guard to come to Syracuse in the last decade.
If Nerlens Noel picks Syracuse on April 11, CJ will be your starting 3 and Southerland will back him up. Xmas starts at 4 and Noel starts at 5. Grant gets a redshirt year, Keita backs up Noel and Coleman backs up Xmas. Sounds pretty deep to me!
On top of that, Nerlens Noel happens to be best friends with Michael Carter-Williams, the starting point guard for next year’s team. I won’t even explain why this erases any concern about chemistry. Nerlens Noel would put Syracuse in next year’s top 5 and create what I think would be a more explosive and talented team than this year’s squad.
–Nick Padula
@CuseNation315
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Dion and Fabricio: A Tale of Two Goodbyes
I knew they’d both leave. Their departures should have hurt equally. I should be proud to identify with both of them. Instead, I reacted to Dion’s decision with pride but Fab’s with derision. Why?
Dion fought to the bitter end. He cried when those evil Buckeyes cut down the nets in Boston. He left it all on the court. His face manifested our pain. He’s finishing the semester to help our APR. There’s no question Dion loved us as ferociously as we loved him.
But where was Fab? Was he crying when we lost to OSU? With Fab, could we have battled Kentucky? Reached the Final Four? We’ll never know. The not knowing separates the two legacies. It’s like Fab viewed SU as the starter wife. We feel used, and to a loyal fan base that’s unforgiveable. It leaves a bitter taste. He’ll always be the villain that robbed us of what could have been.
–Lian Shalala
@leeniebeanie07
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Tags: Basketball, Dion Waiters, Fab Melo, Nerlens Noel, Syracuse
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that bitter tast you described dosent even begin to explain how i feel about him. fab melo has no offensive talent. he has no post up game, none what so ever those eight points a game were from putbacks and alley-oops. not to mention the only three defensive rebounds a game. he was at the core of syracuses rebounding problm. he was so focused on blocking shots he could never box out. for these reasons as a diehard fan syracuse fan who bleeds orange i hate fab melo, no i despise him, wait ill do you one better i loathe him. hes nothing but a money hungry basketball player who will ultimately fail in the nba, and eventually play across europe and maybe even back to brazil were eventually hell retire and go bankrupt.
I agree. I could have written an entire piece on how he will be the least missed out of Scoop, Kris, and Dion, heck possibly even CJ. Blocked shots and lob city gets on ESPN. I realize he was there to get to NBA. But part of that is doing what you need to do academically. To be that selfish garners you disdain.
Great piece, Lian. Way to avoid all the stats and really cut to the emotion of it. Well done.
Im not a person that is blinded by Orange filled goggles but in this case I have a STRONG POSITIVE feeling that Nerlin Noels is going to make the Cuse Nation Very Happy come April 11th and will have the dome ROCKING next year lets keep our fingers crossed. GO CUSE!
Recruiting drama hangover today, but relieved its over and looking forward to having a great team next season. Im very happy today for Baye Kieta as he is one of the hardest and most dillagent working players on the team ,also a terriffic teamate from what I hear. If Noels “brought his talents” here, Baye,s playing time would have been similar to our beloved Mookie Jones. GO CUSE!