Syracuse Defense, most PITTiful thing around

The beloved Syracuse 2-3 zone defense, the one in which ESPN flaunts every time they are covering Syracuse Basketball, seems to have been figured out by the rest of the Big East. After back-to-back 50% shooting performances by Villanova and Pitt, it seems as though all the oranges are out of the box for Syracuse's defense. The Cuse entered the Pitt game with one of the top defenses in the league, but after the Panthers started the game with 19 unanswered points, Pitt was on their way to a decisive victory.. Nasir Robinson helped pace the victory for Pitt, with 21 points. It appears as though all that is left for the Orange is their peels.  The only fair point of the game for Syracuse was freshman C.J. Fair who had a career high 16 points.   In the next game the Orange entered a home game vs. Villanova with more than 34,000 fans in the crowd, enough fans to have Wade Phillips even show emotion. Well the Cuse showed zero emotion. After 8 three's in the first half, it appeared as though Syracuse had no answers.  It is great to have what is known as the "simplest-complicated" defense in the NCAA, and even better if it works, but what is the point if you can't move into a man-to-man defense when the zone is clearly not working.  The way to beat the zone is shoot 3's, there is no way around it, and the sooner Boeheim realizes a 5 ft. space between the shooter and the defender is not going to have good results for the defense, the sooner the Orange will be back on top.  It appears as though the "Big East Gang" has finally caught onto "Old Jimmy's" tricks as the Orange have been sliced through in the last two meetings.  One last point to make, the only person who should ever be able to wear the #3 jersey for Syracuse is Gerry McNamara, not freshman Dion Waiters who thinks his Philly street style game will result in success. Waiters was clearly the weak point on a very saturated day for the Orange.  His costly misses hurt the Cuse.  It appears as though Waiters took a page from Wes Johnson's chapter on when not to shoot.  Hopefully the Cuse will turn it around before they get squeezed out of the Big East race.