GMac On 2018-19 Team

[two3zone]

Carey = Trae Young

Don't forget.

Is this a real thing?

 

[OrangeDW]

Is this a real thing?

Yes. Not from this board though.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Is this a real thing?

Oh, it's real.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

I can’t wait to watch you eat so much crow next season.

Do you have a reading comprehension problem?
A poster stated that he thought we would have been a bubble team without Tyus next season.
Another poster stated they thought that opinion was wrong.
I then posted that we were in fact a bubble team WITH Tyus, implying that it would then be logical to have the opinion that without Tyus ( or the addition of anyone as good as Tyus) SU would be a bubble team next year. In other words, a bubble team that lost its best player without an equal replacement could easily be regarded as a bubble team next year.
Nothing I posted said that I think they will be a bubble team with Tyus, which is where we are today.

 

[Day2]

Oh, it's real.

And it's spectacular.

 

[Halfmooncuse]

Well, we were a bubble team last year with Tyus, so...

You mean a Champagne team...lots of bubbles ...and a team to celebrate with and for!

 

[DonLightfoot]

Good stuff from GMac, thanks for sharing

 

[CaptainJ]

Great stuff. Thanks for posting Tomcat. It seems from G-Mac to Katie Kowalski everyone around the program thinks pretty highly of Eli Hughes. Really looking forward to seeing what he does this coming season.

Did you interview her when she was in your state recently or something?

 

[cuseincincy]

Shocked we aren't number 1

IQ of LeBron
More athletic Van Horn
Rudy Gobert
Guy better than Bazley
And Frank Howard


On the bench:
Best shooter in Syracuse Buddy
Carey
Sidibe

 

[shu 49]

Curry has both the quickest release in the history of basketball and the greatest range. He does not have to look at the basket until his shot is in progress. He is a freak X-Man. Buddy is no Curry but he is good enough to deserve PT. Minutes distribution will be a first world problem for us.

Yeah I know I wasn’t comparing them just saying there are 3 levels and shooters know other good shooters. There is nobody like Curry yet.

 

[cuseinseattle]

Did you interview her when she was in your state recently or something?

It's actually Katie Kolinski and I didn't interview her but I know she came for Stewart's first game of the season for the Storm and to see Coach Hop and his family. She did an interview with Esden (who is a complete fool) and said Eli is the X factor and opens so many things up for other people.

 

[AlaskaSU]

Curry is a poor mans Buddy.

 

[CusefanATL]

Just played in the annual golf fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club of Syracuse. It raises between $40 - 50K each year. If you ever have the opportunity to play, do it. Great cause and lots of fun. It has played help at the Cavalry Club near Manlius for years. Nice course. They always do a good job hosting it.

GMac played in a group with Kip Wellman, Jay Feeley and (I think) Jason Poles. After the round, right after dinner, he spoke briefly to all duo attended and took done questions from the crowd.

Highlights:

He started off talking about the great news from this week. He sud Tyus is one of the greatest scorers the program Hs ever had. He pointed out once Tyus announced he was staying, every player tweeted back to him, excited by the news. He said the team was going to be good regardless but having Tyus back makes the players believe something special can happen this season. His presence means a lot to the other players.

He said Elijah Hughes is a basketball player. He has size, strength and physical ability but the thing that sets him apart is how smart he is. Even compared him to Lebron James in terms of hoops iq. Gerry coaches the guards and Elijah mostly works with him but Gerry talked about him playing more as a 3 than as a 2. He didn’t say this was going to happen but agin, he talked about him playing more at the 3 than the 2. The thought is having Frank and Tyus at the guard spots and Elijah at the 3 might be our best lineup offensively.

Said with the new rules where the staff can work with players in the summer, he thinks most schools are using the time to coach the whole team as one unit. Syracuse is using the time to coach players individually on skill development. So he is spending an hour with each guard working on their skillls. Gerry said he had Elijah took 500 3 point shots during his hour.

He also worked with Howard Washington for an hour today. Says he is ahead of schedule after the knee surgery and is scheduled to start full contact type drills in September,

He said at the point, Buddy Boeheim is the best shooter he has seen at Syracuse. That includes Andy Rautins and Trevor Cooney. Said the kid is legit. Someone asked if he can shoot better than Gerry. Gerry just smiled and said ‘next question!’.

Said because he recruited Sidibe, it was really hard to watch him try to play hurt all last season. The reason he played so well against Pitt is because he was shut down for 10 days and was relatively healthy for the first time in months. Bourama is telling him he feels good for the first time in a long time, which makes Gerry feel great.

Said this is the first time in years the team has real depth and he thinks it will be great to be able to rest players and keep everyone fresh.

Someone asked him about players getting paid. He said he was torn on it. He went a player like Tim Tebow makes millions for a school, it seems fair he should get some of that money. Said when he was at SU, he thought he was responsible for bringing in a lot of money. He wished he could have been paid when he was,aging at SU. But he also realizes that the income producing sports make money to help allow non-revenue producing sports to be played. Or to help build badly needed academic buildings. He is glad the players are getting some money now and also have access to more meals now (he closed them grab and go) than when he played.

He also talked about how important the cause was and how much he appreciated people coming out and supporting it.

It was a good talk. He lo0ks much more comfortable talking in front of crowds than he once did,

jay feeley the kicker???

 

[sutomcat]

jay feeley the kicker???

It was not mentioned, but a discreet Google indicates it was probably Jay Feeley, the well heeled financial services dude. He did play lacrosse at Maryland.

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