This kid is my favortite player in the Big East,,doesnt take sht from nobody. Love a kid like this on my team
Devendorf 
He is a heck of a player. Anybody that thinks this kid is overrated doesn't know basketball.
I've heard some people kill his defense, but that is just silly. There was a very noticeable difference between how much better of a defender he than McNamara when they manned the top of the zone together. He has always been very good in their matchup zone.
Bilas knocked his rebounding last night, but that was an uncharacteristic bad call by him. Obviously opposing teams will try to attack the weakside boards against the zone. The only way to make teams pay for doing that is pushing rebounds you do get and the guards need to leak out for that.
You think he's a better player than Gerry?
I think he's a better player than Malik Boothe.
Gerry, however, is one of the most accomplished players in the history of our conference. How many players have a national championship and two big east tourney championships on their resume? When Devo hits 6 threes in the first half of a national championship game, then he can enter the discussion.
Devondorf isn't held accountable lately for his careless me-first basketball antics, but that's because the Orange have won the games. All year long, he's cost them games trying to go coast to coast, and doing jumping jacks on defense.
He's not Gerry. Not even close. And every basketball fan knows that this is Johnny Flynn's team. Not Devondorf's.
Gotta say, I find it funny, listening to fans here talk about how Devondorf hit a girl.
He didn't hit a girl. He had an arguement with a girl. Not quite the same thing.
He was suspended for that. A lot more than SJU did to Grady Reynolds.
Are Johnny fans going to seriously point a finger?
I'm a huge McNamara fan. I loved his attitude and I sometimes watch the highlights from that Big East Tournament three years ago. It gives me goosebumps, because it was a senior--a great kid--refusing to go down. If they lost even the championship game, they weren't going to the dance.
With that said, there was a clear difference between the athletic levels of GMac and Devendorf. It was very evident on defense. Devo was just so much more active, he closed out better, and he had better feet. GMac's defense is the only thing keeping him from being a backup PG in the league. I think he has more than enough PG ability offensively.
I want to dislike Devo. He is a punk. He is a showboat. But the kid always comes up big and he has an NBA offensive game. I think the lack of man to man experience will kill him just like it did to Donte, John Wallace, Lawrence Moten, GMac, and so many other players that have come out of Syracuse.
I agree with a lot of what you said, but I couple of parts stood out.
How did Donte get killed with his lack of man to man skills?
He's a rookie. A 19 year old rookie for that matter.
Wallace would have been a very good NBA player,
but he didn't have his head on straight.
I think when it comes to GMac, people loved his heart, his attitude, and the respect he played the game with. Now, he didn't win that ring by himself, but as a strong supporting cast member, he allowed Carmelo to work that Championship game one on one because was he was so strong in that first half.
Devo, has obvious talents, but we all know that he is allowed to play such a wreckless brand of basketball because there is so much talent around him to pick the pieces if he should turn it over on 3 straight possessions like he did against Arizona State.
He is making big shots now, so you have to be happy with the way he's playing, but you never know when midnight will come for a guy that never met a shot he didn't like.