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Syracuse Quotes
Jim Boeheim
How we won
“The only reason we won this game, is we hit a couple key shots late and our defense was good late.”
On Rebounding or the lack thereof
A disaster for us,” "Right now, I don't think we're a good basketball team because we can't rebound," "… For a long time this year we were within a couple, two or three rebounds, I don't think I was concerned about rebounding that much. But when it gets 10, 15, 20, you better be concerned."
"There's just no excuse for us to rebound the ball the way we rebounded tonight," It's just not championship level. We just won't win if we can't rebound better than that. Period." it's a team effort. It's everybody. It's not one guy. We've got to find a way."
“They got on the boards from the beginning, and that’s just a disaster for us, getting outrebounded by 17 rebounds. This is a disaster game as far as I’m concerned. Very disappointing at this stage of the year to get beat like that on the boards.
“You can miss shots. That’s part of the game. We have got to find a way to rebound the ball better.”
On Kris
“Yesterday is the first day I can remember in a long time that he made a couple shots in practice, I was hoping that would be a good sign.”
"Kris bailed us out," "Nobody else looked really comfortable shooting the ball.
On Fab
"He's got to save us with some blocks in there, and he did a couple times tonight,"
On Scoop
"I thought he was making plays (in the second half) rather than trying to make a shot," "I thought he made some plays in the second half, and he got five or six assists trying to get in the lane and making plays."
"He's really the only point guard that gets us into plays, gets us into a set and makes plays," "He's going to make a bad play once in a while, but he makes good plays. And we need that. We need him doing that."
On our play against the zone
“I thought this was a game that we just did not attack their zone. I mean, we play against it every day, you’d think we could attack it. We did not attack it well. We couldn’t really make much until Kris [Joseph] bailed us out. He made some shots for us; nobody else was really comfortable and didn’t look comfortable shooting the ball. C.J. [Fair] got some good looks that he usually makes, he just couldn’t make them. We really struggled offensively. We haven’t seen a lot of zone but that’s not a good excuse."
On his career win totals
"I'm upset over this game right now, and we'll address all that stuff when I retire. I'm happy to get this win, and I just don't think about those goals."
On the Georgetown rivalry
"It's always been a good game. It always will be as long as we keep playing it,"
On where this game ranks in the rivalry asked by a young reporter
"Twenty-eighth . . . 30th," "Before you were born, there were 20 better than this."
Kris Joseph
On his game against the Hoyas
“It’s the last game I’ll ever play against Georgetown, assuming we don’t play them in the Big East Tournament,” “So it was good. I feel like I came out on top in this rivalry.” “That was a great way to sign off,” “I’ve been here four years. It’s been fun playing against Georgetown knowing the tradition behind the rivalry.”
On the Hoyas defense
“For some reason, they left me open,” “Maybe they didn’t see the last four or five go in. I was open for the shot and I knocked it down.”
On rebounding
"We know that's a problem," "At the end of the day, we have to go get it. Rebounding and defense are going to win us a championship -- we have to do a better job." “We need to get back. We rebounded well on Saturday. We were outrebounded tonight, and we can’t allow that to happen. Looking down the road, it won’t always turn out this way if we rebound like we did tonight.”
On his shooting
“The last couple games I wasn’t making them, but I felt like I was shooting it pretty well,” “The mechanics were the same. They just weren’t falling.”
"Staff and teammates just kept telling me to shoot the ball and they were going to fall," "And tonight's the night."
On playing with Scoop
"Scoop's a great point guard," "I've been alongside him for four years now, and it's just great to have a player like him on your side. I would hate to have to play against Scoop because he makes the right decisions."
On his shooting of late
"Obviously, I hadn't been shooting it great from the outside, but I was never going to stop shooting. I was getting good shots. Even against St.John's I was getting good shots and I just missed 'em. I knew I was going to hit them eventually. My teammates told me to keep shooting them. My coaching staff told me to keep shooting them. My mom told me to keep shooting them (laughs). You know what I mean. I was going to keep shooting the ball.
On his shooting Wedmesday
Tonight was a night where I knocked a few down." "I was getting open shots all night. I was finding areas, dead areas. I knew it would be hard for the defense to recover. It is like teams that play against us. Plays where you are just in a situation where it is hard to get to the shooter and I was just knocking down some shots."I wasn't trying to force the issue or do anything out of character. I was just playing ball."
On Fab Melo
“Half the time when a guard’s going up there against him, it’s like a 50-50 shot. It’s not a great shot,” “They have to shoot it over a 7-footer with his hands reached out. He just does such great things for us. He changes shots, he plays great defense.”
On that shot with 29 seconds left in OT
I just remember I was over on the left wing. Scoop drove to the basket. I saw the defense collapse, so I just made myself available. I was able to get in his (Scoop) line of vision. When I got the ball, there was no question in my mind I was going to shoot it. Once I released it, I knew it was good. It was a good feeling
"I felt it going in, I was ready for it, I was in rhythm and knocked it down." “I’ve shot that shot many times in practice and in games,”
Scoop Jardine
On Kris
“He’s been there all year for us,” “He made the big shots down the stretch that we needed. Kris has always been steady with his 14, 15 points every game. That’s why he’s our leading scorer. That’s why he’s our go-to guy. That’s why he stepped up today.”
On his role
"It's controlling the game," "That's my job. That's what I'm here to do. That's what makes our team run."
"Me controlling the team, I have the ability to get everybody all on the same page with my personality and the way I play," "So for the most part, today in the second half, I was able to do that."
On reboundng
"It's effort. Like coach said, it is all about effort and really wanting it." "We have the ability to do it. A lot of athletic guards and bigs. We have to become a better effort team and get all over the ball. That starts with everybody. Coach is going to keep pushing buttons so we can become a better team. We have to get better. I agree with him." “When you have a team coming in like Connecticut which feeds off of rebounds, we must do better,”. . So I know tomorrow in practice and from here on out, we are going to try to be better with our rebounding.”
On the mood of the team
"We’re not pleased with ourselves," "We can be better. We can rebound better. We’re not making shots. But I know one thing: We’re all happy with the win. We got a big win against a tough Georgetown team and Coach broke a record. So, he’s happy . . . for the most part."
On playing against G' Town's zone
“I made better reads,’’ “I just calmed myself down. They played the zone and I ran the right plays to get in the lane. In the second half, I hit lobs to Fab (Melo) and kick-outs to Dion (Waiters) and two great kick-outs to Kris.
On that last pass to KJ
"Sometimes, that's what happens in basketball," "You just have to play off of instinct in basketball, and that's what I did right there.
Fab Melo
On Kris
"He was great," "He finished when he had to finish."
On rebounding
"We work on it every day in practice, but they're still beating us on the boards," "I don't know. We know we have to do a better job."
On the fans
“It was great to make the fans happy,” “We made it a little bit longer, but good for them.”
On the Brazilian flag in the student section
“I saw that,”“That’s very nice.”
On that block against Sims with the game tied at 55 under a minute left
“I never thought he would shoot a jump shot. I was a little bit late,” “He got his shot off on me, but I tipped it. That’s why I got the ball. And it felt great. It felt great that I got that stop. If he made that, we would be in trouble.”
On the lobs that come his way
“Today they were in a zone and that’s how we got the lobs,” Melo said. “I look to be always on the opposite side from Scoop, because I know he’s going to throw the lob.”
On his improved play
“That’s how I learned how to play this year,” “I watched Rick’s films the whole year. I got his videos when I went to China. He’s great at getting into position. He knows where he has to be in zone. That’s how I learned how to play.”
Brandon Triche
On coach
"Just watching him coach, play after play, he calls the play and about 90, 95 percent of the time, that play works,"
On why he wasn't in the game at the end
"I have no clue, honestly. I'm disappointed. But whatever it takes to win. Coach has been doing it a long time. 880 wins. He obviously knows what he is doing. And we got a win."
Dion Waiters
On playing the Hoyas
"It was crazy. Just the atmosphere alone. This is why you play college basketball for games like this." "That's just Syracuse and Georgetown for you. Plain and simple"
On rebounding
"We have to be concerned." "We have to rebound better down the stretch. That is the main thing."
On Fab Melo
“It gets us going, it gets the crowd going,” SU guard Dion Waiters said. “He blocks shots, he takes charges. He’s just been unbelievable on defense this year.”
On that last shot in regulatin
"I actually thought Scoop was going to pull up, because I was nowhere near the three-point line. I saw both guys go to him. But by the time I moved up and got the ball, I didn't know how much time was left, so I just put it up."
On not passing to Joseph
"I didn't see him" "He (Joseph) told me he was open, but I didn't see him."
On the win
"I don’t know what we gotta do to make Coach happy, but we’re satisfied with the win," "That’s Coach, man. We got a great win tonight. It was a battle."
CJ Fair
On rebounding
"I don't know how to pinpoint it. Sometimes we were just out of position looking for the shooter "Depending on how you they go off rebounds, you might be going against 2-3 guys. It is a zone. There can be a lot of people in the area. For me if I'm not rebounding, he (Boeheim) will take me out to make sure I'm rebounding."
SUA Quotes
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Hoya Quotes
John Thompson III
Asked if there was a breakdown on that last shot of Joseph's
“It clearly was.” "Obviously, he was having a terrific night," . "We had some type of breakdown in communication. He ended up wide-open and banged the shot."
On SU's defense
"They have a terrific defense. Their defense keeps you at bay,". "I thought with a few exceptions we executed our game plan of getting the ball into the middle of the zone and then having that guy find who's open. We got decent looks. The ball didn't go in."
On the play of freshman Otto
“Otto did what Otto does,” “Otto plays the game. He doesn’t limit himself to worrying about scoring or shots…every part of the game he takes he pride in. Every part of the game is important to him and it shows up every night.”
On Sims going 1-12
“He missed a bunch of layups and the ball just wouldn’t go in,” “It happens sometimes.” He was getting the ball in pretty good position right under the basket. At the end of the day, he got it right there and the ball didn't go in. Fab played a role in it, but a lot of them I don't think Fab was anywhere around."
On not getting a sub in
“I shouldn’t comment on Hollis Thompson not being able to get in,”
On if this is the last game against Syracuse
“They now fall into the category as every other out-of-conference,” opponent, “There’s a finite number of games we can play out of conference. Do I like this series; has this series been important to Georgetown? Yes. Has it been important to Syracuse? Yes. Has it been important to our conference? Yes. But they are leaving, so now we will see.”
On the last play of the game
"We wanted to get a pick for Jason at the top and see if he could get into the lane and maybe drive and kick to the corner. They played it well.”
Jason Clark
On the last play of the game where Scoop stripped the ball
"They played it well and knocked the ball out of my hands,”
On his last game at the Carrier Dome
“It’s always fun to come up here and play in this atmosphere,” “But you do want to get a win for the last time you’re playing that team. So that’s heartbreaking.”
Jim Boeheim
How we won
“The only reason we won this game, is we hit a couple key shots late and our defense was good late.”
On Rebounding or the lack thereof
A disaster for us,” "Right now, I don't think we're a good basketball team because we can't rebound," "… For a long time this year we were within a couple, two or three rebounds, I don't think I was concerned about rebounding that much. But when it gets 10, 15, 20, you better be concerned."
"There's just no excuse for us to rebound the ball the way we rebounded tonight," It's just not championship level. We just won't win if we can't rebound better than that. Period." it's a team effort. It's everybody. It's not one guy. We've got to find a way."
“They got on the boards from the beginning, and that’s just a disaster for us, getting outrebounded by 17 rebounds. This is a disaster game as far as I’m concerned. Very disappointing at this stage of the year to get beat like that on the boards.
“You can miss shots. That’s part of the game. We have got to find a way to rebound the ball better.”
On Kris
“Yesterday is the first day I can remember in a long time that he made a couple shots in practice, I was hoping that would be a good sign.”
"Kris bailed us out," "Nobody else looked really comfortable shooting the ball.
On Fab
"He's got to save us with some blocks in there, and he did a couple times tonight,"
On Scoop
"I thought he was making plays (in the second half) rather than trying to make a shot," "I thought he made some plays in the second half, and he got five or six assists trying to get in the lane and making plays."
"He's really the only point guard that gets us into plays, gets us into a set and makes plays," "He's going to make a bad play once in a while, but he makes good plays. And we need that. We need him doing that."
On our play against the zone
“I thought this was a game that we just did not attack their zone. I mean, we play against it every day, you’d think we could attack it. We did not attack it well. We couldn’t really make much until Kris [Joseph] bailed us out. He made some shots for us; nobody else was really comfortable and didn’t look comfortable shooting the ball. C.J. [Fair] got some good looks that he usually makes, he just couldn’t make them. We really struggled offensively. We haven’t seen a lot of zone but that’s not a good excuse."
On his career win totals
"I'm upset over this game right now, and we'll address all that stuff when I retire. I'm happy to get this win, and I just don't think about those goals."
On the Georgetown rivalry
"It's always been a good game. It always will be as long as we keep playing it,"
On where this game ranks in the rivalry asked by a young reporter
"Twenty-eighth . . . 30th," "Before you were born, there were 20 better than this."
Kris Joseph
On his game against the Hoyas
“It’s the last game I’ll ever play against Georgetown, assuming we don’t play them in the Big East Tournament,” “So it was good. I feel like I came out on top in this rivalry.” “That was a great way to sign off,” “I’ve been here four years. It’s been fun playing against Georgetown knowing the tradition behind the rivalry.”
On the Hoyas defense
“For some reason, they left me open,” “Maybe they didn’t see the last four or five go in. I was open for the shot and I knocked it down.”
On rebounding
"We know that's a problem," "At the end of the day, we have to go get it. Rebounding and defense are going to win us a championship -- we have to do a better job." “We need to get back. We rebounded well on Saturday. We were outrebounded tonight, and we can’t allow that to happen. Looking down the road, it won’t always turn out this way if we rebound like we did tonight.”
On his shooting
“The last couple games I wasn’t making them, but I felt like I was shooting it pretty well,” “The mechanics were the same. They just weren’t falling.”
"Staff and teammates just kept telling me to shoot the ball and they were going to fall," "And tonight's the night."
On playing with Scoop
"Scoop's a great point guard," "I've been alongside him for four years now, and it's just great to have a player like him on your side. I would hate to have to play against Scoop because he makes the right decisions."
On his shooting of late
"Obviously, I hadn't been shooting it great from the outside, but I was never going to stop shooting. I was getting good shots. Even against St.John's I was getting good shots and I just missed 'em. I knew I was going to hit them eventually. My teammates told me to keep shooting them. My coaching staff told me to keep shooting them. My mom told me to keep shooting them (laughs). You know what I mean. I was going to keep shooting the ball.
On his shooting Wedmesday
Tonight was a night where I knocked a few down." "I was getting open shots all night. I was finding areas, dead areas. I knew it would be hard for the defense to recover. It is like teams that play against us. Plays where you are just in a situation where it is hard to get to the shooter and I was just knocking down some shots."I wasn't trying to force the issue or do anything out of character. I was just playing ball."
On Fab Melo
“Half the time when a guard’s going up there against him, it’s like a 50-50 shot. It’s not a great shot,” “They have to shoot it over a 7-footer with his hands reached out. He just does such great things for us. He changes shots, he plays great defense.”
On that shot with 29 seconds left in OT
I just remember I was over on the left wing. Scoop drove to the basket. I saw the defense collapse, so I just made myself available. I was able to get in his (Scoop) line of vision. When I got the ball, there was no question in my mind I was going to shoot it. Once I released it, I knew it was good. It was a good feeling
"I felt it going in, I was ready for it, I was in rhythm and knocked it down." “I’ve shot that shot many times in practice and in games,”
Scoop Jardine
On Kris
“He’s been there all year for us,” “He made the big shots down the stretch that we needed. Kris has always been steady with his 14, 15 points every game. That’s why he’s our leading scorer. That’s why he’s our go-to guy. That’s why he stepped up today.”
On his role
"It's controlling the game," "That's my job. That's what I'm here to do. That's what makes our team run."
"Me controlling the team, I have the ability to get everybody all on the same page with my personality and the way I play," "So for the most part, today in the second half, I was able to do that."
On reboundng
"It's effort. Like coach said, it is all about effort and really wanting it." "We have the ability to do it. A lot of athletic guards and bigs. We have to become a better effort team and get all over the ball. That starts with everybody. Coach is going to keep pushing buttons so we can become a better team. We have to get better. I agree with him." “When you have a team coming in like Connecticut which feeds off of rebounds, we must do better,”. . So I know tomorrow in practice and from here on out, we are going to try to be better with our rebounding.”
On the mood of the team
"We’re not pleased with ourselves," "We can be better. We can rebound better. We’re not making shots. But I know one thing: We’re all happy with the win. We got a big win against a tough Georgetown team and Coach broke a record. So, he’s happy . . . for the most part."
On playing against G' Town's zone
“I made better reads,’’ “I just calmed myself down. They played the zone and I ran the right plays to get in the lane. In the second half, I hit lobs to Fab (Melo) and kick-outs to Dion (Waiters) and two great kick-outs to Kris.
On that last pass to KJ
"Sometimes, that's what happens in basketball," "You just have to play off of instinct in basketball, and that's what I did right there.
Fab Melo
On Kris
"He was great," "He finished when he had to finish."
On rebounding
"We work on it every day in practice, but they're still beating us on the boards," "I don't know. We know we have to do a better job."
On the fans
“It was great to make the fans happy,” “We made it a little bit longer, but good for them.”
On the Brazilian flag in the student section
“I saw that,”“That’s very nice.”
On that block against Sims with the game tied at 55 under a minute left
“I never thought he would shoot a jump shot. I was a little bit late,” “He got his shot off on me, but I tipped it. That’s why I got the ball. And it felt great. It felt great that I got that stop. If he made that, we would be in trouble.”
On the lobs that come his way
“Today they were in a zone and that’s how we got the lobs,” Melo said. “I look to be always on the opposite side from Scoop, because I know he’s going to throw the lob.”
On his improved play
“That’s how I learned how to play this year,” “I watched Rick’s films the whole year. I got his videos when I went to China. He’s great at getting into position. He knows where he has to be in zone. That’s how I learned how to play.”
Brandon Triche
On coach
"Just watching him coach, play after play, he calls the play and about 90, 95 percent of the time, that play works,"
On why he wasn't in the game at the end
"I have no clue, honestly. I'm disappointed. But whatever it takes to win. Coach has been doing it a long time. 880 wins. He obviously knows what he is doing. And we got a win."
Dion Waiters
On playing the Hoyas
"It was crazy. Just the atmosphere alone. This is why you play college basketball for games like this." "That's just Syracuse and Georgetown for you. Plain and simple"
On rebounding
"We have to be concerned." "We have to rebound better down the stretch. That is the main thing."
On Fab Melo
“It gets us going, it gets the crowd going,” SU guard Dion Waiters said. “He blocks shots, he takes charges. He’s just been unbelievable on defense this year.”
On that last shot in regulatin
"I actually thought Scoop was going to pull up, because I was nowhere near the three-point line. I saw both guys go to him. But by the time I moved up and got the ball, I didn't know how much time was left, so I just put it up."
On not passing to Joseph
"I didn't see him" "He (Joseph) told me he was open, but I didn't see him."
On the win
"I don’t know what we gotta do to make Coach happy, but we’re satisfied with the win," "That’s Coach, man. We got a great win tonight. It was a battle."
CJ Fair
On rebounding
"I don't know how to pinpoint it. Sometimes we were just out of position looking for the shooter "Depending on how you they go off rebounds, you might be going against 2-3 guys. It is a zone. There can be a lot of people in the area. For me if I'm not rebounding, he (Boeheim) will take me out to make sure I'm rebounding."
SUA Quotes
JB
Player
Hoya Quotes
John Thompson III
Asked if there was a breakdown on that last shot of Joseph's
“It clearly was.” "Obviously, he was having a terrific night," . "We had some type of breakdown in communication. He ended up wide-open and banged the shot."
On SU's defense
"They have a terrific defense. Their defense keeps you at bay,". "I thought with a few exceptions we executed our game plan of getting the ball into the middle of the zone and then having that guy find who's open. We got decent looks. The ball didn't go in."
On the play of freshman Otto
“Otto did what Otto does,” “Otto plays the game. He doesn’t limit himself to worrying about scoring or shots…every part of the game he takes he pride in. Every part of the game is important to him and it shows up every night.”
On Sims going 1-12
“He missed a bunch of layups and the ball just wouldn’t go in,” “It happens sometimes.” He was getting the ball in pretty good position right under the basket. At the end of the day, he got it right there and the ball didn't go in. Fab played a role in it, but a lot of them I don't think Fab was anywhere around."
On not getting a sub in
“I shouldn’t comment on Hollis Thompson not being able to get in,”
On if this is the last game against Syracuse
“They now fall into the category as every other out-of-conference,” opponent, “There’s a finite number of games we can play out of conference. Do I like this series; has this series been important to Georgetown? Yes. Has it been important to Syracuse? Yes. Has it been important to our conference? Yes. But they are leaving, so now we will see.”
On the last play of the game
"We wanted to get a pick for Jason at the top and see if he could get into the lane and maybe drive and kick to the corner. They played it well.”
Jason Clark
On the last play of the game where Scoop stripped the ball
"They played it well and knocked the ball out of my hands,”
On his last game at the Carrier Dome
“It’s always fun to come up here and play in this atmosphere,” “But you do want to get a win for the last time you’re playing that team. So that’s heartbreaking.”
