Keep throwing enough good Syracuse basketball teams at the University of Louisville and, sooner or later, a Jim Boeheim team will prevail, 52-51, ending a seven-game losing streak to U of L.Especially when those dump-off passes beneath the basket are bouncing into ankles and elbows. Neither Russ Smith nor Peyton Siva capable of making them. Russ pulled from the game after two of them with eight minutes remaining. Siva making the fatal one with three seconds to go.For people wanting to point fingers, Siva committing five turnovers in 27 minutes, Russ four in 10 minutes. Syracuse would outscore U of L 14-8 on baskets after turnovers.The skeptics will jump on those occasional, but glaring, brain freezes of Siva which tend to obscure his overall effectiveness at the point. That quick second foul giving him three fouls in the first half, for example, and that over-the-shoulder pass to no one in the second.Mind-numbing. Inexplicable. Inexcusable.But enough about the mistakes and turnovers...
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