My Questions for Tonight's Adrian Autry Show

[SWC75]

Coach Autry’s radio show is on Thursdays, from 7-8:30PM on ESPN Radio in Syracuse, which is AM1200 or FM 97.7 on the dial. The show is at Carrabba's Italian Grill at 550 Towne Drive, Fayetteville, NY. The first hour, hosted by Matt Park, the Voice of the Orange, is on their general network. They are again doing a third half hour segment on Twitch: I think I will save myself some time by posting the main show and linking the Twitch segment the next day when it shows up on You-Tube.

Their schedule: AmeriCU Adrian Autry Radio Show Starts Nov. 14 - Syracuse University Athletics

You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-424-8599. Or you can submit questions from this page:
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MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

“Coach, I went over some recent scores: Texas lost to #1 Tennessee by four points and to #2 Auburn by 5 while Texas Tech lost to #3 Iowa State by 1 point. We lost to Texas by 4 and Texas Tech by 5. Georgetown lost to #7 Marquette and #9 Connecticut by 8 points each. Notre Dame lost to #4 Duke by the same margin. We lost to Georgetown by 4 and split with Notre Dame, outscoring them by a combined 3 points. Does this team realize how good it could be?”

The Twitch Segment:

“Coach, Kyle Cuffe scored 9 points in 15 minutes. Chris Bell scored 4 in 18. Lucas Taylor scored 4 in 24 and Petar Majstorovic never scored in 21 minutes. We often have multiple guys who aren’t scoring in the line-up at the same time. How do you decide who should be out there and for how long?”

 

[HyattsCuse]

I like the Twitch question. I'm interpreting it as polite way of saying his random rotations don't often make sense so what's the rationale?

Cuffe is a perfect example. Not only from scoring production, but you would think he was our best D option against Clemson's guards yet only gets 15 minutes yesterday? Carlos got 20?!

First question, I fear you're going to get a generic, "We just haven't put it all together" / making mistakes type answer.

 

[hoopsupstate]

Everyone is talking about our offense breaking down last night. We gave up 86 points. That’s why we lost. Ask him why nobody can keep people from going to their strong hand? Why do we continually go under the screens? Why can’t we defend a simple flair screen. Why are our bigs nowhere to be found when guys come off simple curl screens? Why does Lampkin plop himself under the rim on defense and doesn’t move. The only good thing it does is he gets hit in the head with the ball after it comes out of the net. Do we switch on the wing? On offense, why does Lampkin and our bigs NEVER roll to the rim if they try to screen? No one on this team cuts or gives themselves up to get a teammate open. Our wings just run around to the corners when we have the ball. Why? They can’t shoot. They put no pressure on the defense. Why does Lampkin always catch the ball twenty feet from the basket? We can screen to get him the ball inside eight feet. I’d love to hear Red explain these simple, basic fundamental issues with this team. Somehow he can’t get these basic things clear to his players.

 

[Irishsecra1]

I never know from game to game how much we are going to see Kyle Cuffe.
He is one guy who works his ass off, is our best hustling defender, yet always seems to be shunted aside for the more highly recruited players.

He kind of proves that hard work, good defense, good foul shooting and energy galore are just not going to be rewarded in Red's lineups. When Bell plays more than him, even Carlos, it just burns me bad.

Maybe if he had a more defined role, we would see more consistency in his shooting. He has proven recently that he can make 3s, but they have to be part of the game flow. Not one of the many throw away bricks that his teammates put up.

 

[Blanko97]

Oh god, that first question is going to pump their egos so much lol They are anything but good

 

[SWC75]

Everyone is talking about our offense breaking down last night. We gave up 86 points. That’s why we lost. Ask him why nobody can keep people from going to their strong hand? Why do we continually go under the screens? Why can’t we defend a simple flair screen. Why are our bigs nowhere to be found when guys come off simple curl screens? Why does Lampkin plop himself under the rim on defense and doesn’t move. The only good thing it does is he gets hit in the head with the ball after it comes out of the net. Do we switch on the wing? On offense, why does Lampkin and our bigs NEVER roll to the rim if they try to screen? No one on this team cuts or gives themselves up to get a teammate open. Our wings just run around to the corners when we have the ball. Why? They can’t shoot. They put no pressure on the defense. Why does Lampkin always catch the ball twenty feet from the basket? We can screen to get him the ball inside eight feet. I’d love to hear Red explain these simple, basic fundamental issues with this team. Somehow he can’t get these basic things clear to his players.

Your call into the show should be interesting

 

[SWC75]

Oh god, that first question is going to pump their egos so much lol They are anything but good

The first question was composed after the BC game, the second after the Clemson game. I though they made a good combination.

 

[orangepassion]

Is the 1st question a serious question?

 

[SWC75]

The answer to my first question:

Matt tried to reform the question slightly, asking what our ceiling was, what capability the players have. "There’s been trip-ups like Georgetown and Notre Dame, measuring sticks like Tennessee and Maryland, we’ve beaten teams we should have beaten.” He cited some comebacks, including the Notre Dame game AG: We played Georgetown and Notre Dame without JJ. This team’s ceiling is a little better than this. We preach 40 minutes. I think they give us effort. Sometimes it’s about the Jimmys and the Joes. We’ve just got to figure it out…Louisville and Clemson have really good players. Sometimes you’ve just got to chalk it up to that.”

 

[SWC75]

Question 2:

"If we don’t play any of those guys we won’t have a team out there. We’ve got to get clicking on offense. Kyle’s been really good but we need more (guys scoring)."

 

[SWC75]

They will be in California next week. There will be no live call-in show, just an recorded interview between Matt and the coach.

 

[jdubs30]

The answer to my first question:

Matt tried to reform the question slightly, asking what our ceiling was, what capability the players have. "There’s been trip-ups like Georgetown and Notre Dame, measuring sticks like Tennessee and Maryland, we’ve beaten teams we should have beaten.” He cited some comebacks, including the Notre Dame game AG: We played Georgetown and Notre Dame without JJ. This team’s ceiling is a little better than this. We preach 40 minutes. I think they give us effort. Sometimes it’s about the Jimmys and the Joes. We’ve just got to figure it out…Louisville and Clemson have really good players. Sometimes you’ve just got to chalk it up to that.”

I mean it’s true but I’m surprised he said it

 

[Cuse4455]

The answer to my first question:

Matt tried to reform the question slightly, asking what our ceiling was, what capability the players have. "There’s been trip-ups like Georgetown and Notre Dame, measuring sticks like Tennessee and Maryland, we’ve beaten teams we should have beaten.” He cited some comebacks, including the Notre Dame game AG: We played Georgetown and Notre Dame without JJ. This team’s ceiling is a little better than this. We preach 40 minutes. I think they give us effort. Sometimes it’s about the Jimmys and the Joes. We’ve just got to figure it out…Louisville and Clemson have really good players. Sometimes you’ve just got to chalk it up to that.”

Clemson brought in guys of equal rating transfer wise as we did. The problem is we've got guys that have had drop offs in scoring Bell went from 12.0 to 9.6, Jyare the previous two seasons 16ppg, this year 8. Lucas Taylor 14.6 last year, 5.4 this year. Clemson has a system and they get guys who complement that system... I'm not even sure what our system is. Louisville has money to spend but that's also because they clean slated the entire roster and coaching staff.

 

[orangepassion]

The answer to my first question:

Matt tried to reform the question slightly, asking what our ceiling was, what capability the players have. "There’s been trip-ups like Georgetown and Notre Dame, measuring sticks like Tennessee and Maryland, we’ve beaten teams we should have beaten.” He cited some comebacks, including the Notre Dame game AG: We played Georgetown and Notre Dame without JJ. This team’s ceiling is a little better than this. We preach 40 minutes. I think they give us effort. Sometimes it’s about the Jimmys and the Joes. We’ve just got to figure it out…Louisville and Clemson have really good players. Sometimes you’ve just got to chalk it up to that.”

Watching the game last night, Clemson didn't seem dramatically more talented, if at all. Better, but not more talented.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Watching the game last night, Clemson didn't seem dramatically more talented, if at all. Better, but not more talented.

Their roster is better than ours across the board. If Donnie was healthy we would at least have someone to compete with Schiefflin, but he’s not. Davis was no match for him.

Even if you thought JJ was equal to Hunter(he’s not overall), Zackery is a big upgrade than anyone we have at the other guard spot.

Lampkin was no match for Lakhin. He can’t jump and he can’t guard on the perimeter.

Wiggins is more versatile than anyone we could throw out there at sf.

Their portal pickups were better and their holdovers are better players. Three of them were starters last year on a team that made the elite 8. They replaced Hall and Girard with Lakhin and Zackery, kept everyone else and improved. We replaced Mintz and Brown with Carlos and Lampkin while one of our main holdovers regressed.

 

[kingtidge]

Clemson brought in guys of equal rating transfer wise as we did. The problem is we've got guys that have had drop offs in scoring Bell went from 12.0 to 9.6, Jyare the previous two seasons 16ppg, this year 8. Lucas Taylor 14.6 last year, 5.4 this year. Clemson has a system and they get guys who complement that system... I'm not even sure what our system is. Louisville has money to spend but that's also because they clean slated the entire roster and coaching staff.

Those are some sobering stats.

The sum of the parts are less than expected.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Clemson brought in guys of equal rating transfer wise as we did. The problem is we've got guys that have had drop offs in scoring Bell went from 12.0 to 9.6, Jyare the previous two seasons 16ppg, this year 8. Lucas Taylor 14.6 last year, 5.4 this year. Clemson has a system and they get guys who complement that system... I'm not even sure what our system is. Louisville has money to spend but that's also because they clean slated the entire roster and coaching staff.

Clemson picked up a very good defender, 3 year ACC point guard starter from BC,, Jaedon Zachery, who averaged double digits all 3 years there and who shot over 40% on 3 pt‘ers. In addition they picked up a 6’11 center from cincinnatti, Victor Lakhin, who started his last 2 years of his 3 there who also averaged over 10 points , 6.5 rebounds and a block a game. Also Christian Reeves, a center transfer from Duke who rarely played his 2 years there but transferred to Clemson this year, just his junior year and has played in 19 games. Myles Foster, a 6’7” graduate power forward who played at Monmouth for 2 years and Illinois St last year who averaged 12.4 points, 8 rebounds and 1.7 assists while at Illinois St.

Zachery and Larkin are starters at Clemson, Foster is a rotational player with low minutes 6.5 in 17 games along with Reeves who has played 5.3 min in 19 games for Clemson. They got 3 power 5 transfers, one who had 3 years experience being a starting pg against ACC teams.

 

[kcsu]

Clemson brought in guys of equal rating transfer wise as we did. The problem is we've got guys that have had drop offs in scoring Bell went from 12.0 to 9.6, Jyare the previous two seasons 16ppg, this year 8. Lucas Taylor 14.6 last year, 5.4 this year. Clemson has a system and they get guys who complement that system... I'm not even sure what our system is. Louisville has money to spend but that's also because they clean slated the entire roster and coaching staff.

Bull

 

[Dick_in_MI]

, Jyare the previous two seasons 16ppg, this year 8. Lucas Taylor 14.6 last year, 5.4 this year.

A little context is necessary. Jyare got those stats as a starter at Delaware. Lucas got his as a starter at Georgia State.

So to summarize, their stats last year came in many more minutes and against MUCH weaker defenses. Some combination of those two factors pretty much explains the dropoff this year.

 

[Newhouser]

I mean it’s true but I’m surprised he said it

Me too and it is a step toward coach speak of "hey this isn't my fault the players stink".

 

[SimonSays]

where can i watch this ?

 

[Consigliere]

Clemson picked up a very good defender, 3 year ACC point guard starter from BC,, Jaedon Zachery, who averaged double digits all 3 years there and who shot over 40% on 3 pt‘ers. In addition they picked up a 6’11 center from cincinnatti, Victor Lakhin, who started his last 2 years of his 3 there who also averaged over 10 points , 6.5 rebounds and a block a game. Also Christian Reeves, a center transfer from Duke who rarely played his 2 years there but transferred to Clemson this year, just his junior year and has played in 19 games. Myles Foster, a 6’7” graduate power forward who played at Monmouth for 2 years and Illinois St last year who averaged 12.4 points, 8 rebounds and 1.7 assists while at Illinois St.

Zachery and Larkin are starters at Clemson, Foster is a rotational player with low minutes 6.5 in 17 games along with Reeves who has played 5.3 min in 19 games for Clemson. They got 3 power 5 transfers, one who had 3 years experience being a starting pg against ACC teams.

And Clemson broght back a core of three very good players from kast year, so they supplemented a core with the portal. We brought back one and did a full roster rebuild.
Looking at the portal class ratings for this year it is really hit or miss, Some very highly ranked groups like Kansass State, have been terrible. Roster churn has really broken college basketball. I'm not sure what the right approach is, but this probably isn't the thread to dissect it.

 

[SWC75]

where can i watch this ?

Syracuse Women's Tennis Court 1 Go to "On Demand" the main show is the third option. Or you could just listen "audio only".

The Twitch segment:

 

[Nicknack]

The Twitch Segment:

“Coach, Kyle Cuffe scored 9 points in 15 minutes. Chris Bell scored 4 in 18. Lucas Taylor scored 4 in 24 and Petar Majstorovic never scored in 21 minutes. We often have multiple guys who aren’t scoring in the line-up at the same time. How do you decide who should be out there and for how long?”

I like this question because this is a killer, offensively. I remember for years watching our teams and some years we might have ONE guy out there who just didn't contribute much offensively. I remember thinking, it's really hard to score points 4 on 5. Fast forward to this year's team, sometimes we have 2-3 guys on the court who can't reliably score. Petar is becoming like Carlos to me (from an offensive standpoint). He just turns the ball over too damn much (almost one a game) and can score very little (2 1/2 pts a game).

 

[jdubs30]

A little context is necessary. Jyare got those stats as a starter at Delaware. Lucas got his as a starter at Georgia State.

So to summarize, their stats last year came in many more minutes and against MUCH weaker defenses. Some combination of those two factors pretty much explains the dropoff this year.

I think what it shows is those guys have offensive potential, they have shown they can score at the D1 level - they’re veterans. Hell Taylor originally was in the ACC (Wake) and Jyare was going to go to Providence. So they were P5 scholarship guys out of HS; they played both a level lower and were productive. You would think Red would have been able to get more out of them offensively.