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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeXtreme, post: 1720570, member: 41"] [URL='https://twitter.com/syrbasketball'][B]Syracuse Basketball[/B] ‏@syrbasketball[/URL] Jim Boeheim's press conference at the NRG Stadium in Houston is about to begin. Boeheim: It's exciting to be here and be part of the Final Four again. It's exciting for our players Tremendously proud of what they've done Boeheim: Our team is 7 guys and it's really all hands on deck. We've gotten here with all guys. They've produced that in this tournament. Boeheim on Gbinije: He's done the work. He came in as a small forward who didn't shoot the ball or handle it very well. Boeheim on contract: I disagree I've ever been (ambiguous with my contract). I've never had any ambiguity. Boeheim: I have no plans (to go longer than 2 years). I have no plans (to step down if we win). I think you should step down when you can't. Boeheim: Some years you put team in a press and you get your ass beat. Sometimes you put your team in a press and it works. It's execution. Boeheim: Someone said to me we all have jobs but very few people have jobs that everyone thinks they can do better. Boeheim: We knew at the start of the year we were going to struggle. Then we went to Atlantis and played better than I thought we could play Boeheim: I got a vacation and we didn't play well. The first two games we didn't play well. It was a hard adjustment. Boeheim: For us to continue playing we need to shoot the ball. We're not shooting. We need to shoot the ball better. Boeheim on Cooney in Michigan: He did not have a good opportunity. I did not put him in a good situation. Boeheim: Trevor and Mike are graduates. If they felt something was right they could have gone somewhere else. They stayed with us. Boeheim: You go 27-4. How much do your leaders need to step up? This team has had a lot of opportunities they could have been down. Boeheim: Trevor has gotten more criticism than anyone I've ever coached. You have great fans and then you have 1 percent that are idiots. Boeheim to Roy Williams: I told him to win one. I didn't tell him to win two. I hope I didn't say anything that would make him win three. Boeheim: You guys would be happy if you won a Pulitzer right? You wouldn't have to win two. This probably is the wrong crew to say that to. Boeheim: Honestly I don't think about (proving people wrong anymore). I probably did. I want these guys to keep winning and having fun. Boeheim: I thought the words an ex-members said the other day were good. They're not trying to cripple you. Boeheim: I think the punishment is real. Losing scholarships is never a good thing. We usually play seven but we have 12 or 13. Boeheim: Nine games is a severe punishment. Losing the games is the most irritating thing to me. Boeheim: There were similar situations where games weren't being taken away. That was the thing that bothered me as much as anything. Boeheim: I've coached 40 years. It's something I regret. I don't think we gained any competitive advantage. it weighed on us for years Boeheim: Breaking rules is what happened. Cheating to me is a different thing. Boeheim: You can always disagree with an interpretation that is different from this case or this case over here. That's one of the problems. Boeheim: Someone who is on the committee said: "we have a horrible model." Boeheim on Dome advantage: I've seen people come into our building and make 60 percent. Guys that can shoot can shoot anywhere. [/QUOTE]

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