Postgame Thoughts... Pitt (game 2)

[hoopsupstate]

Jim was inaccurate with his rebounding number. Saying we are only minus 3 is misleading. Being equal doesn’t put you near the top in rebounding. There are a lot of teams plus 8 or 9 in rebounding. Settling for even on the boards doesn’t make you a good rebounding team. Mike and Donna need to fact check his statement.

 

[hoopsupstate]

We as i said will never beat a good team again playing zone unless they are stone cold.
Jim would have won 5 or more games if he would just play man.

We would have lost a couple games playing man too. Our success over BC is playing zone. This team wouldn‘t be able to keep anyone in front of them. NCS would kill us in man. What guards could guard their guards?

 

[atlanticuse]

So I guess MaliQ is gone?

 

[atlanticuse]

Did JB have any comment on why Bell did not play today? I didn't see anything about it.

Trying some new things out.

 

[atlanticuse]

I had a church event so I recorded the game. I got home and my DVR tells me this recording is unavailable and won't let me watch it. I just checked online, saw that we lost and now that I am reading about the game - my malfunctioning DVR was tonight's MVP.

Your DVR must be related to my WiFi-less flight last Saturday.

 

[pfister1]

I am sure it will get better under Red or GMac. LOL. CLEAN HOUSE nobody coaching this year deserves a chance to coach SU Hoops next year nobody.

Why? Do you think JB actually listens to any of them, or allows them any input into how the games should be managed. C'mon!

 

[CuseCPT]

"What are we now? 9-9?" That's what you predicted us to be. *sarcastic smile*"

Yeah, Jim, you sure owned them. How dare they correctly assess the team.

 

[tptcuse]

Did JB have any comment on why Bell did not play today? I didn't see anything about it.

He said Bell was "available" and "not injured" and those obviously mean the same thing, so why would anyone ask a follow-up question (even after seeing Bell's hand wrapped)?

 

[Cuse181]

JB suggesting that his portal comments were off the record is a pretty strong allegation against Thamel.

Journalists work for clicks, you’re taught early on in Newhouse that weaseling around “off the record” is key for good sound bites/quotes

Nothing is “off the record” unless you’re protecting a source

 

[CuseCPT]

If JB got "tricked" by a dude that lived on my floor freshmen year (true story) is still a thing in 2023, that's on Jim at this stage in his career.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Jim was inaccurate with his rebounding number. Saying we are only minus 3 is misleading. Being equal doesn’t put you near the top in rebounding. There are a lot of teams plus 8 or 9 in rebounding. Settling for even on the boards doesn’t make you a good rebounding team. Mike and Donna need to fact check his statement.

Our style of defense generates a lot of extra possessions against most opponents, between the extra blocked shots and steals we usually get, and how many turnovers the opponents have with bad passes or tipped passes against the zone.
Historically, for years, if we stay within 5 rebounds of the other team or so, we usually win, because we get all these other extra possessions.

 

[samspann1]

Journalists work for clicks, you’re taught early on in Newhouse that weaseling around “off the record” is key for good sound bites/quotes

Nothing is “off the record” unless you’re protecting a source

I thought that story was dead though?

 

[Cuse181]

I thought that story was dead though?

It is, have you seen an article about it from outside syracuse? I haven’t. Not making the point you think you are…

 

[bpo57]

I watched JB's postgame presser. Several times he lamented his team's inability to play defense. Then went on to say that JG has played great this year and has been great for the last three years. Does he see the cognitive dissonance with those statements?

 

[STEVEHOLT]

Can't help but wonder where we would be with a 5th year senior Braswell right now. Probably our best forward defender including weakside shotblock and rebounding the last 4 years as a sophmore, even over Dolezaj at forward imo.

With braswell we’re legit national title contenders. No doubt about it.

 

[STEVEHOLT]

I’m not so sure the guys on this team are all that good at M2M either.

 

[kcsu]

We would have lost a couple games playing man too. Our success over BC is playing zone. This team wouldn‘t be able to keep anyone in front of them. NCS would kill us in man. What guards could guard their guards?

Thats not true. Man would eliminated the wide open 3s.
We are losing because teams are raining 3s on us. Our team is loaded with kids that can play man. Other than Joe they all can.
Sy, cope, judah all solid
Bell Benny Brown Taylor solid
Jesse Himma average

Its my opinion but i think that we would be a much better team playing man. Not even close.

 

[Scooch]

Journalists work for clicks, you’re taught early on in Newhouse that weaseling around “off the record” is key for good sound bites/quotes

Nothing is “off the record” unless you’re protecting a source

No one is taught to “weasel”. JFC.

 

[samspann1]

It is, have you seen an article about it from outside syracuse? I haven’t. Not making the point you think you are…

Took me all of about 5 seconds

Syracuse's Jim Boeheim offers lengthy expansion of earlier remarks made about Pitt

Less than three weeks ago, comments by longtime Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim sent shockwaves through the college basketball world when he accused Pitt, among other ACC programs, of buying players in an interview with ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Lamenting the changing landscape of college athletics in the...

triblive.com

 

[Cuse181]

No one is taught to “weasel”. JFC.

As a Newhouse grad, you’re taught to weasel.

 

[Cuse181]

Took me all of about 5 seconds

Syracuse's Jim Boeheim offers lengthy expansion of earlier remarks made about Pitt

Less than three weeks ago, comments by longtime Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim sent shockwaves through the college basketball world when he accused Pitt, among other ACC programs, of buying players in an interview with ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Lamenting the changing landscape of college athletics in the...

triblive.com

The desperation to continue to try and make this into more than it is? Hilarious

 

[Scooch]

As a Newhouse grad, you’re taught to weasel.

I am as well. That’s a dumb way to frame it.

 

[kirbivore]

We as i said will never beat a good team again playing zone unless they are stone cold.
Jim would have won 5 or more games if he would just play man.

You're right I don't think Stone Cold has a sold J

 

[Chip]

I watched JB's postgame presser. Several times he lamented his team's inability to play defense. Then went on to say that JG has played great this year and has been great for the last three years. Does he see the cognitive dissonance with those statements?

In addition to that, there were other things about that presser that were concerning.

He doesn't know yet from talking to Thamel (who isn't exactly new at this) whether or not he's off the record?

He went on and on for about 5 minutes talking in circles about the same thing regarding the transfer portal.

During that Superman spin around the world, he talks about how all these teams had instant success using the transfer portal but we're a bunch of freshmen so we will struggle against the older kids.

He's a 78 year old guy who's basically admitting that he's trying to rebuild and not evolving with the game.

Oh well no one cares, he'll coach as long as he wants to.

 

[Cuse181]

I am as well. That’s a dumb way to frame it.

You want to sugarcoat it? Feel free. But com law teaches you how to skirt the law and the brojo capstone teaches you how to skirt ethics.