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My cover’s blown.Are you JB? I feel this is the response JB would make in a press conference if asked about Benny's recent strides and sudden DNP.
My cover’s blown.Are you JB? I feel this is the response JB would make in a press conference if asked about Benny's recent strides and sudden DNP.
After walking 20 miles to the game in the snow.. barefoot!Agreed. With Jim instead of it being "Hey you kids get off my lawn", it's " Hey you kids get of my court"! Back when I played the center covered the corner with a 50 pound backpack on.
He'd rather throw a kid under the bus than accept responsibility for that kid's development and the team's record? Sincere question from a friend.As I said about this in the Benny thread, why not deflect this question if he feels that way?
Bruh, because he's an 18 year old kid. In the gym criticism of players by coaches is fair game. You get on them when needed, but you also have to find something, a building block for the kid to build on, improve, and contribute; plus give you the chance to tell him good job. That starts the reset of the relationship, and it's a two way street between coach/player in regard to developing trust and building a relationship.According to the crew on this site, that’s nothing new. Not sure why it would bother him considering JB has been “doing that” for years. The guys that left last year left because either Jim was right (q shouldn’t shoot 3s), they weren’t good enough (woody) or because they didn’t like that they had to earn their time (Kadary).
If they were going to fine him based on dress, it would have had to be done Pre-Juli, like the stunner below.It’s a private institution. They can fine him for wearing the wrong tie.
(And they had plenty of opportunities back in the 80s.)
You can see Benny is not the kind of kid that needs blunt psychology.Do you feel that Boeheim is giving up on BW, or he is using blunt psychology because he thinks BW will meet that challenge?
I don't know that i'd go that far.Yes. Major personality flaw. If you haven’t noticed it’s become much more pronounced over the past decade. Guy has no respect for anyone but himself and his boys.
Some, not all, get crankier the older they get, the filter comes off even more. In this case, well you know.I think as you get older, your personality traits don’t change, they just increase in intensity.
That episode of Jimmy at the 5 where we got toasted at the rim for a bunch of possessions on the way to the loss—that was glaring. I don't know if he's family-blind, or just stubborn, or if that was a case of 'i legit/objectively thought that could work, but after the first negative result, i thought we'd make up for it on the other end and then after the second, i thought okay small sample size, can't happen again, and then after the third, maybe it's too late to change tactics.' That almost makes sense. Except for the thinking that led to the experiment in the first place, wherein the misfitting son was the first thought. Not the actual backup center.
Close games against tougher competition.
Not only 8 guys, but 5 who never played or rarely played in our system with a defense you can’t grasp right away.The fact the HC allowed the team to enter this season with only 8 playable guys is malpractice.
I get wanting an 8 man rotation by conference play but JB built a team and didn’t even invest in trying to have more guys.
Now if he runs it back we will have 5 players sitting on the bench next year because they aren’t ready.
JB talks too much to the press and then what he says he talks like people can’t see thru his crap.
It’s time and we don’t need another year of the boys.
We were desperate for a win.Like the 20 point blowout win against PITT?
Do you suppose that the people who who advised Williams to go to Syracuse and play for JAB are fools? He is here for a reason.You can see Benny is not the kind of kid that needs blunt psychology.
I’ll take a proctologist at this point.whatever happened to the goood ole days worrying about what those bonehead, I mean boneyard knuckleheads we’re posting about and us duking it out with them.
Look at what we’ve been reduced to.
Where’s a witch doctor when you need one?!?!?
Because he’s working backwards in order to fit the narrative that Jimmy has to play. No one disagrees with the fact Jimmy is way better offensively right now than Frank or Benny. You can’t even argue that. I also don’t think 1 fan (or assistant coach for that matter) thinks Jimmy was the answer defensively at the 5, especially during that last play at Wake. JB kept defending it by saying Jimmy helps on offenseYEP. You knocked it out of the park. The "not talked about issue" with the whole Jimmy at center vs Wake deal was not just the obvious.
of course, the defense would be lacking, but in his own words, " It gives us a little advantage on the other end that they have to cover Jimmy with a bigger guy."
If the thought behind the decision is based around Jimmy scoring vs "a bigger guy who can't guard him", then he's already lost the plot. We have a preseason All American in Buddy. We have a lights out off the ball shooter in Joe. Both already are lacking in D. We don't need to implement a gameplan to get more shots for Jimmy, but for whatever reason, he appears to be smitten with Jimmy's offensive game...and that said, Jimmy is good on offense, so I don't want to suggest he's not. But you don't need to game plan to get a 60% FT shooter shots driving vs an ACC center. His comment triggered big time red flags with me on that one and as you said I think he legit thought it could work
VOD is available.Actually, I didn't see that. I also didn't see him saying much to his son sitting next to him either.
That's a snap decision he made during crunch time. Who do you trust to make the right play, James made a nad read, Frank might have as well. You can fixate all you want on that one play, but the refs systematically took that game away from Syracuse starting with the no call when Girard got ran over in transition, to the huge discrepancy in fouls and free throws and to finally sitting Jesse on the bench. Shameless.Because he’s working backwards in order to fit the narrative that Jimmy has to play. No one disagrees with the fact Jimmy is way better offensively right now than Frank or Benny. You can’t even argue that. I also don’t think 1 fan (or assistant coach for that matter) thinks Jimmy was the answer defensively at the 5, especially during that last play at Wake. JB kept defending it by saying Jimmy helps on offense
That's a snap decision he made during crunch time. Who do you trust to make the right play, James made a nad read, Frank might have as well. You can fixate all you want on that one play, but the refs systematically took that game away from Syracuse starting with the no call when Girard got ran over in transition, to the huge discrepancy in fouls and free throws and to finally sitting Jesse on the bench. Shameless.
I also would add bumping Buddy from behind on the inbound play and then calling it Wake's ball.There are going to be 4 or 5 ACC spots for the NCAA and the league doesn't want Syracuse to get one over Wake, if it came to those 2 teams.Do you know how lame it sounds blaming the refs in a game against Wake Forest when you are Syracuse sitting at 8-9 with one of the worst defenses statistically in the country?
“He has nothing better to do with his time”Not only does this approach not work in college basketball anymore it doesn't even work in the NBA and those guys are paid professionals. He just needs to retire so the program can begin to move forward whether it get better or it gets worse but this will never end well as he is holding it hostage because he has nothing better to do with his time
How many games has Syracuse got with that kind of home cooking? None. Just like the FSU football game, FSU gets a bowl, Syracuse can go kick rocks. If you didn't have blind contempt for Boeheim, you would be able to see it.
What a troll.