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Jim Boeheim
On SU's Approach to games
“We’re just trying to win the next game,’’ Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. “That’s all we’ve thought about. That’s what we’re going to keep doing. That’s the only way to approach basketball games. If you don’t get ready, you’re going to get beat. We’ve just got to get ready every night.’’
On the streak
“We’ve had the same focus from the first game to the 19th. There’s only one way to approach every game, and that’s to take it as the biggest game of the year. These kids have done that.’’
On employing the press
“It speeded them up a little bit,’’ Boeheim said. “We got a couple turnovers out of it. It did speed them up a little bit. I think it got us going a little bit.’’
“When we’re playing with intensity and forcing turnovers, which we do better than most, we can score points in a hurry,’’ Boeheim said. “That’s the nature of the game. Good defense usually leads to easy hoops, and we’re converting on a high rate this season.’’
“When we force turnovers,” SU coach Jim Boeheim said, “we convert better than most teams.”
"I don't know if we forced them or not," SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. "They made a lot of turnovers."
On his point guard
“Scoop played really well tonight. He really moved the ball, got the ball to people,” “I thought he was exceptional tonight.”
On Council
“They are obviously a different team without Council because he’s a very good player,’’ Boeheim said. “Providence did about everything they could do to keep it close.’’
On Pitt
Pitt's a good team. I don't care what their record is. They'll come in here and play well."
JB Quotes at SUA
Dion
On tying the consecutive win streak
“It’s a great accomplishment,’’ SU sophomore Dion Waiters said, “but we don’t want to stop here. We want to get more wins and stretch it as far as we can and just keep getting better.’’
On the press
"It gets us going and it leads to turnovers and it leads to buckets for us," Waiters said, "so I think it worked tremendously for us tonight."
On flash mobbing the opponents
"We just know how to pick the tempo and get it going I guess. When you are in the game, in the heat of the moment, you don't really pay attention to things like that. You are just trying to win. Trying to get the crowd involved. That is what gets me going. That is what we were able to do tonight. Bust it wide open when we threw the press on them."
On the run
“It started off by getting a steal,’’ Waiters said, “and everything else was history then.’’
On Pitt
“We’ll be ready and I’m sure they will, too. Everyone knows they aren’t as bad as their record, and they have a history of playing us tough here.’’
Scoop
On Council's absence
“They were without their star player,’’ “We didn’t care about that. It was about us and us going out there and playing well.’’
On his free throw misses
“Focus, concentration,” he said.
Jardine claimed that’s all it is.
“I’ll make ‘em when I need to,” he said. “I can say that.”
On the teams depth
"We have a lot of guys. It is our depth. We come in waves. We give you so many different looks it is hard to scout us."
On the first five minutes of the 2nd half
"I just took what the defense gave me and for the most part our last three games, our second halves were really, really down," Jardine said. "So the first five minutes was key and I knew that, so I had to go in there and really try to make some plays for us to spread the lead a little bit."
On the press success
“Dion and I just got active on the press and forced them into some bad passes,’’ Jardine said. “That got everybody going because we were kind of settling for outside shots on offense the first 10 minutes.’’
"Myself and Dion really did a good job of picking the intensity up," Jardine said. Dion got two great steals and made a 3 and a jump shot where it opened the lead up, and that's what we need to do.""It starts with the guards with our intensity, getting us involved and getting our teammates going."
"We knew we'd be able to bother them a little bit with our press and tonight we did that," Jardine said. "But for the most part our press was really working for us whenever we used it."
"You never know when we're going to use it against a good team," Jardine said. "Because that's a press we can use and we've got the athletes to be in that type of press, and coach called it tonight and it was successful for us."
On the botched Ally Oop
"I just played the game," Jardine said. "Honestly, I probably tried to throw a no-look in there, like I made it look a little better, but for the most part I just try to play the game the right way."
On how we prepare for their press
“It’s tough, especially when you’ve got Fab (Melo) and all those long guys,” Jardine said. “I’m going against Michael (Carter-Williams) and Dion (Waiters). They’re really tall up top. Against other people’s zone, I’m looking over them, and I’m lobbing the ball over them.
“But against our zone, we’re tall, we’re long. You think you’re getting in the lane, and we hit the ball right out from your hand. There’s really nothing you can do. Other people’s zones, they don’t play it like that.”
Fab
On playing time
"Oh, no," Melo said. "We don’t care at all. We want the team to be happy. We play everybody about 20 minutes. That’s how we want to play. I don’t see any reason why anybody should be upset. I really don’t. Maybe . . . Coach. He’s always upset about something. But we’re a happy team."
MCW
On his PT
"This is a great experience," said Michael Carter-Williams, the freshman guard who has sat more than he’s ever sat in his life . . . and without complaint. "I’m enjoying it. My teammates are the best teammates I’ve ever had, I have a great coach and I’ve learned more than I had in my whole life. We’re on a great run. We’re 19-0. We just keep winning."
"I am very lucky to go through this and just be part of this team," "I’d like to play more, but we’re 19-0. If I’m the coach and we’re 19-0, I’m not switching anything. I’m doing the same thing we’ve been doing every day." "I’m definitely enjoying the ride," "It’s an eye-opening experience, and I know how lucky I am to be here. I’m just trying to enjoy every moment because I know this year, particularly, is going to be special."
Kris Joseph
On the missed assist chance for Scoop
“My arm hit the blue thing on the backboard,’’ Joseph explained. “That’s the only reason I missed.’’
Joseph said he probably should have caught the ball and brought it down before going back up for a shot.
“He threw a great pass,’’ Joseph said, “and I wanted to convert it with an alley-oop.’’
On why the team is so successful
“I don’t know what it is that we do differently. We’re just playing good basketball right now,” SU forward Kris Joseph said. “When you got five to six, seven guys scoring in double digits, it’s gonna be a tough game for any opponent. Our offensive arsenal is packed right now. We can score in so many different ways, it’s hard for other teams to really know how to defend us.”
“Every time we’ve faced adversity, on and off the court, we’ve been able to bear down and focus on the task at hand. All 19 players and all the coaches are on the same page, and we know what it takes to be successful.’’
And if the streak were to end and making sure a losing streak doesn't follow.?
"That will definitely be something that we're going to be reminded of," Joseph said, "and I'm sure I'll voice my opinion on that and Scoop will do the same so we won't let that happen.
"For now, we're enjoying the win streak."
On the press
"It is part of what we do I feel. We had a slow start, with about 10 minutes left (in the first half) we only had 14 points and that's not really our style of basketball. But with that press that we threw on, it got our offense going and got us some needed points and confidence."
On intensity
"As we came out in the second half, we had the same intensity," Joseph said. "This is the best we've done so far keeping the intensity, starting the second half with high intensity that we've done all year. I think that was a good step forward for us."
What missing Council meant to the Friars ability to handle the press
"We had the intention of pressing but with him being out it just made it that much better for us," said Joseph, who led the Orange with 13 points. "He's a great ball-handler and he would definitely be able to — not necessarily pick it apart, but kind of keep their composure."
CJ (not) Fair
On the trap
“When you trap the short corner,” Fair said, “his only vision is that little high post area. So you just try to act like you’re not there and then just sneak in for it.”
Brandon Triche
On the run
"I think we were energized," Triche said of SU's 15-4 run to begin the second half. "Scoop did a great job passing the ball."
On Scoops play
"I'm pretty sure he assisted on every bucket (in the second half)," Triche said. "So with him being great at seeing the floor and his vision, it helps that much and I think he kind of made it easier for the big guys. With our movement on the perimeter it made it easier for them to kind of get open a little bit."
On SU's success
"It's our defense, and you can't even say it is one person. It is a different person who starts it every time. I think we play off each other so much. When someone is down, we know how to pick them up. That brings everyone else's energy up. It starts with defense. Once we get in transition it is a lot easier to get it working and makes it that much more fun to play. We do figure on this. I think it is only like two games we haven't gone on a big run this year. We just stick to the plan"
Player Quotes From SUA
Providence HC Ed Cooley
On SU
“Let’s face it: That is clearly the best team in America. I don’t think there’s a close second,” Cooley said. “Clearly the best team in America. I’m proud of them.
Seriously. From a coaching standpoint and how they play – they play with a purpose. They’re terrific.”
On the effects of the Syracuse press
"We're limited with our personnel. When they pressed us, a lot of our warts came out -- our inability to handle the ball," Cooley said. "Let's face it: they're the No. 1 team in the country for a reason."
“Our whole thing was ‘Don’t turn the ball over.’ Turn the ball over, the game changes,” Cooley said. “There were four or five turnovers out of eight possessions. They scored. Game over. You can’t recover from that.”
On benching Council
“It’s a character thing with Vincent,’’ first-year Providence head coach Ed Cooley said. “We’re trying to build a program, and everybody has to buy into what we’re doing, even the guy who plays the most minutes.’’
"I want to build a program based on character and integrity. If you can't be a company guy and do things the right way, it doesn't matter who you are to me," coach Ed Cooley said without elaborating.
We're limited with our personnel," Cooley said. "I think I have three guys in the top five in minutes played in the country. We have to improve our decision-making. We basically have one point guard, who was suspended. Everybody played out of position, but I was really proud of our guys. I think our kids gave a great effort. We've got to move on."
Bryce Cotton Providence's freshman PG
About the SU big men
“Their length, I think, is key in their zone,” he said.
The game plan
Cotton said the plan was to “attack the little gaps” in the Orange zone and then look for teammates located in the short corner.
On attacking the press
“You just have to be precise with the ball,” Cotton said. “Like in the short corner. As soon as you get it, you have to be able to move or know what you’re going to do right away. There’s no time to kind of just sit back and evaluate.”
On the failure to attack it
“I think when we made one turnover and the crowd got behind them, it got a little loud and everybody just kind of got out of whack, kind of panicked,” said Cotton. “I think that was our biggest issue.”
Gerald Coleman
"We don't have that much depth, but we do have heart," said Gerard Coleman, who had 11 points on 4-of-14 shooting. "We're a young club. We should have taken advantage of that (Syracuse's misses from beyond the arc). This is the Big East, you've got to have memory loss in this. On to the next one.
"They're very deep. Hats off to them. We've just got to come back and be ready for the next time."
Jim Boeheim
On SU's Approach to games
“We’re just trying to win the next game,’’ Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. “That’s all we’ve thought about. That’s what we’re going to keep doing. That’s the only way to approach basketball games. If you don’t get ready, you’re going to get beat. We’ve just got to get ready every night.’’
On the streak
“We’ve had the same focus from the first game to the 19th. There’s only one way to approach every game, and that’s to take it as the biggest game of the year. These kids have done that.’’
On employing the press
“It speeded them up a little bit,’’ Boeheim said. “We got a couple turnovers out of it. It did speed them up a little bit. I think it got us going a little bit.’’
“When we’re playing with intensity and forcing turnovers, which we do better than most, we can score points in a hurry,’’ Boeheim said. “That’s the nature of the game. Good defense usually leads to easy hoops, and we’re converting on a high rate this season.’’
“When we force turnovers,” SU coach Jim Boeheim said, “we convert better than most teams.”
"I don't know if we forced them or not," SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. "They made a lot of turnovers."
On his point guard
“Scoop played really well tonight. He really moved the ball, got the ball to people,” “I thought he was exceptional tonight.”
On Council
“They are obviously a different team without Council because he’s a very good player,’’ Boeheim said. “Providence did about everything they could do to keep it close.’’
On Pitt
Pitt's a good team. I don't care what their record is. They'll come in here and play well."
JB Quotes at SUA
Dion
On tying the consecutive win streak
“It’s a great accomplishment,’’ SU sophomore Dion Waiters said, “but we don’t want to stop here. We want to get more wins and stretch it as far as we can and just keep getting better.’’
On the press
"It gets us going and it leads to turnovers and it leads to buckets for us," Waiters said, "so I think it worked tremendously for us tonight."
On flash mobbing the opponents
"We just know how to pick the tempo and get it going I guess. When you are in the game, in the heat of the moment, you don't really pay attention to things like that. You are just trying to win. Trying to get the crowd involved. That is what gets me going. That is what we were able to do tonight. Bust it wide open when we threw the press on them."
On the run
“It started off by getting a steal,’’ Waiters said, “and everything else was history then.’’
On Pitt
“We’ll be ready and I’m sure they will, too. Everyone knows they aren’t as bad as their record, and they have a history of playing us tough here.’’
Scoop
On Council's absence
“They were without their star player,’’ “We didn’t care about that. It was about us and us going out there and playing well.’’
On his free throw misses
“Focus, concentration,” he said.
Jardine claimed that’s all it is.
“I’ll make ‘em when I need to,” he said. “I can say that.”
On the teams depth
"We have a lot of guys. It is our depth. We come in waves. We give you so many different looks it is hard to scout us."
On the first five minutes of the 2nd half
"I just took what the defense gave me and for the most part our last three games, our second halves were really, really down," Jardine said. "So the first five minutes was key and I knew that, so I had to go in there and really try to make some plays for us to spread the lead a little bit."
On the press success
“Dion and I just got active on the press and forced them into some bad passes,’’ Jardine said. “That got everybody going because we were kind of settling for outside shots on offense the first 10 minutes.’’
"Myself and Dion really did a good job of picking the intensity up," Jardine said. Dion got two great steals and made a 3 and a jump shot where it opened the lead up, and that's what we need to do.""It starts with the guards with our intensity, getting us involved and getting our teammates going."
"We knew we'd be able to bother them a little bit with our press and tonight we did that," Jardine said. "But for the most part our press was really working for us whenever we used it."
"You never know when we're going to use it against a good team," Jardine said. "Because that's a press we can use and we've got the athletes to be in that type of press, and coach called it tonight and it was successful for us."
On the botched Ally Oop
"I just played the game," Jardine said. "Honestly, I probably tried to throw a no-look in there, like I made it look a little better, but for the most part I just try to play the game the right way."
On how we prepare for their press
“It’s tough, especially when you’ve got Fab (Melo) and all those long guys,” Jardine said. “I’m going against Michael (Carter-Williams) and Dion (Waiters). They’re really tall up top. Against other people’s zone, I’m looking over them, and I’m lobbing the ball over them.
“But against our zone, we’re tall, we’re long. You think you’re getting in the lane, and we hit the ball right out from your hand. There’s really nothing you can do. Other people’s zones, they don’t play it like that.”
Fab
On playing time
"Oh, no," Melo said. "We don’t care at all. We want the team to be happy. We play everybody about 20 minutes. That’s how we want to play. I don’t see any reason why anybody should be upset. I really don’t. Maybe . . . Coach. He’s always upset about something. But we’re a happy team."
MCW
On his PT
"This is a great experience," said Michael Carter-Williams, the freshman guard who has sat more than he’s ever sat in his life . . . and without complaint. "I’m enjoying it. My teammates are the best teammates I’ve ever had, I have a great coach and I’ve learned more than I had in my whole life. We’re on a great run. We’re 19-0. We just keep winning."
"I am very lucky to go through this and just be part of this team," "I’d like to play more, but we’re 19-0. If I’m the coach and we’re 19-0, I’m not switching anything. I’m doing the same thing we’ve been doing every day." "I’m definitely enjoying the ride," "It’s an eye-opening experience, and I know how lucky I am to be here. I’m just trying to enjoy every moment because I know this year, particularly, is going to be special."
Kris Joseph
On the missed assist chance for Scoop
“My arm hit the blue thing on the backboard,’’ Joseph explained. “That’s the only reason I missed.’’
Joseph said he probably should have caught the ball and brought it down before going back up for a shot.
“He threw a great pass,’’ Joseph said, “and I wanted to convert it with an alley-oop.’’
On why the team is so successful
“I don’t know what it is that we do differently. We’re just playing good basketball right now,” SU forward Kris Joseph said. “When you got five to six, seven guys scoring in double digits, it’s gonna be a tough game for any opponent. Our offensive arsenal is packed right now. We can score in so many different ways, it’s hard for other teams to really know how to defend us.”
“Every time we’ve faced adversity, on and off the court, we’ve been able to bear down and focus on the task at hand. All 19 players and all the coaches are on the same page, and we know what it takes to be successful.’’
And if the streak were to end and making sure a losing streak doesn't follow.?
"That will definitely be something that we're going to be reminded of," Joseph said, "and I'm sure I'll voice my opinion on that and Scoop will do the same so we won't let that happen.
"For now, we're enjoying the win streak."
On the press
"It is part of what we do I feel. We had a slow start, with about 10 minutes left (in the first half) we only had 14 points and that's not really our style of basketball. But with that press that we threw on, it got our offense going and got us some needed points and confidence."
On intensity
"As we came out in the second half, we had the same intensity," Joseph said. "This is the best we've done so far keeping the intensity, starting the second half with high intensity that we've done all year. I think that was a good step forward for us."
What missing Council meant to the Friars ability to handle the press
"We had the intention of pressing but with him being out it just made it that much better for us," said Joseph, who led the Orange with 13 points. "He's a great ball-handler and he would definitely be able to — not necessarily pick it apart, but kind of keep their composure."
CJ (not) Fair
On the trap
“When you trap the short corner,” Fair said, “his only vision is that little high post area. So you just try to act like you’re not there and then just sneak in for it.”
Brandon Triche
On the run
"I think we were energized," Triche said of SU's 15-4 run to begin the second half. "Scoop did a great job passing the ball."
On Scoops play
"I'm pretty sure he assisted on every bucket (in the second half)," Triche said. "So with him being great at seeing the floor and his vision, it helps that much and I think he kind of made it easier for the big guys. With our movement on the perimeter it made it easier for them to kind of get open a little bit."
On SU's success
"It's our defense, and you can't even say it is one person. It is a different person who starts it every time. I think we play off each other so much. When someone is down, we know how to pick them up. That brings everyone else's energy up. It starts with defense. Once we get in transition it is a lot easier to get it working and makes it that much more fun to play. We do figure on this. I think it is only like two games we haven't gone on a big run this year. We just stick to the plan"
Player Quotes From SUA
Providence HC Ed Cooley
On SU
“Let’s face it: That is clearly the best team in America. I don’t think there’s a close second,” Cooley said. “Clearly the best team in America. I’m proud of them.
Seriously. From a coaching standpoint and how they play – they play with a purpose. They’re terrific.”
On the effects of the Syracuse press
"We're limited with our personnel. When they pressed us, a lot of our warts came out -- our inability to handle the ball," Cooley said. "Let's face it: they're the No. 1 team in the country for a reason."
“Our whole thing was ‘Don’t turn the ball over.’ Turn the ball over, the game changes,” Cooley said. “There were four or five turnovers out of eight possessions. They scored. Game over. You can’t recover from that.”
On benching Council
“It’s a character thing with Vincent,’’ first-year Providence head coach Ed Cooley said. “We’re trying to build a program, and everybody has to buy into what we’re doing, even the guy who plays the most minutes.’’
"I want to build a program based on character and integrity. If you can't be a company guy and do things the right way, it doesn't matter who you are to me," coach Ed Cooley said without elaborating.
We're limited with our personnel," Cooley said. "I think I have three guys in the top five in minutes played in the country. We have to improve our decision-making. We basically have one point guard, who was suspended. Everybody played out of position, but I was really proud of our guys. I think our kids gave a great effort. We've got to move on."
Bryce Cotton Providence's freshman PG
About the SU big men
“Their length, I think, is key in their zone,” he said.
The game plan
Cotton said the plan was to “attack the little gaps” in the Orange zone and then look for teammates located in the short corner.
On attacking the press
“You just have to be precise with the ball,” Cotton said. “Like in the short corner. As soon as you get it, you have to be able to move or know what you’re going to do right away. There’s no time to kind of just sit back and evaluate.”
On the failure to attack it
“I think when we made one turnover and the crowd got behind them, it got a little loud and everybody just kind of got out of whack, kind of panicked,” said Cotton. “I think that was our biggest issue.”
Gerald Coleman
"We don't have that much depth, but we do have heart," said Gerard Coleman, who had 11 points on 4-of-14 shooting. "We're a young club. We should have taken advantage of that (Syracuse's misses from beyond the arc). This is the Big East, you've got to have memory loss in this. On to the next one.
"They're very deep. Hats off to them. We've just got to come back and be ready for the next time."
