Syracuse's Flynn, Harris and Devendorf to enter NBA draft

[nedrow]

http://www.syracuse.com/today/index....s_and_dev.html

[nedrow]

harris and devo are gone ,wont be back at school ,says fox sports

[Homedawg]

Boeheim basically pushed these guys out the door. he has had a hard on for Brandon Triche from the minute he saw him out play Johnny Flynn in the 2006 NYS Championship game. I'm not too happy about how all this went down. boeheim has become pretty arrogant after winning his title


• Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim remains optimistic that he has a top-20
team even without point guard Jonny Flynn (
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/player...playerId=36581 ).
Boeheim said Wednesday that incoming freshman point Brandon Triche will
do fine in place of Flynn, saying he will be a solid 10-point,
five-assist performer for the Orange next season. He won't look for his
shot as much as Flynn, but Boeheim said Triche will feed post players
Arinze Onuaku (
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/player...playerId=27188 ) and
Rick Jackson (
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/player...playerId=36583 ) more
than Flynn did last season. He also said Iowa State transfer Wesley
Johnson is an upgrade over departing junior Paul Harris (
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/player...playerId=31825 ) and
that Andy Rautins (
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/player...playerId=27189 ) will be
just as good, if not better, than departing junior Eric Devendorf (
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/player...playerId=27187 ) in the
starting lineup.

"We lost three starters but I'll take Wesley Johnson over Paul Harris
and Andy Rautins over Eric Devendorf," Boeheim said. "In some ways,
Triche will be better for us. He's really good."

Boeheim went on to praise Johnson, saying that he's "the real deal,
he's really, really good." Boeheim said the confusion with Harris about
him declaring for the draft was a miscommunication. When Boeheim said
Harris was going to declare for the draft, Harris interpreted that as
meaning Boeheim had actually turned in the paperwork. He said that
didn't happen. According to Boeheim, Harris intends to declare for the
draft by Sunday's deadline. Devendorf does as well.
Boeheim said he couldn't get Harris on the phone for three weeks after
the season. Apparently he was not around for a spell. But Harris told
him he would do everything he could to pass six hours this semester. Not
sure how that would play out in class, but we shall see if it matters.