This is effin' unreal.
Syracuse's remarkable run continues
Friday, March 13, 2009 | Print Entry
Posted by Dana O'Neil
NEW YORK -- He walked to the bench, a towel draped over his head. The improbable -- no, the damn impossible -- had happened.
Twenty-two hours after wrapping up a six-overtime marathon, Syracuse was going into the extra stanza again. And after 174 minutes on the court over the span of three games in three days, Jonny Flynn had finally hit the wall.
"I'm thinking all of these coaching things, motivation, what I'll say and he just looks at me and says, 'Coach, I'm just shot,'' associate head coach Mike Hopkins said. "I mean, what could I say?''
Nothing -- Hopkins said nothing. He just nodded his head sympathetically and turned Flynn back onto the court for five more minutes.
It's not like there was much choice. Flynn is the heartbeat of Syracuse. During the course of the Big East tournament, he played 35 minutes in the first-round game against Seton Hall, played through crippling cramps for 67 of the 70 minutes against Connecticut and then on about three hours sleep, steered the Orange through regulation against West Virginia, playing every one of the 40 minutes.
I'm sure that he Thanks God that it was only one overtime! 'Cuse won, 74-69.
I talked to a friend of mine who works in the lab I used to work in, who is a 'Cuse grad. He told me that he thinks that Jim Boeheim is making a balls-to-the-wall run at the Big East title. The last two times that 'Cuse won the Big East title, they were eliminated from the NCAAs on the first day of the tournament. He surely doesn't want
that to happen again . . . Oh--IMO, Jonny Flynn is good enough to get the Orange to the Final Four. He's
that good.
