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Coach Autry’s radio show is on Thursdays, (Wednesdays until the Dino Babers Show ends) 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:
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics The choice, finally is the “Adrian Autry Show” or the “Fran Brown Show”!
Or on Twitter at x.com or Twitter (@CuseLearfield) using the hashtag #AskAutry.
The show can be heard in Syracuse on FM 99.5. It’s sometimes simulcast on AM 1200 or FM 97.7. You can also get it on: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | Live News, Sports, Music, Audiobooks, and Podcasts If not, try: https://cuse.com/watch?Live=6575&type=Live
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
Coach, after the Cornell game you said “Guys who aren’t going to play with heart and who aren’t going to do what we ask them to do will not play moving forward and that’s just the bottom line”. JJ Starling was the only change in our starting line-up for Tennessee and we wound up playing everybody. Afterward you said “This is not what this is. This is not Syracuse basketball”. We may have the right mix of talents on this team when everybody’s healthy. Do we have the right mix of personalities?
The Twitch Segment:
There won’t be one until January.
COACH AUTRY
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject. The quotes may not be verbatim –they are from my scribbled notes. I have not knowingly changed the meaning.)
The answers to my questions:
Q1 – “When you do post games, often there’s raw emotions. No one is a bigger competitor than me. I tend to express my frustrations.” [Is he being more honest when he does that or in the more filtered environment of his coach’s show?] “We compete for a while. I’d like to see a little more fight. I don’t care about mistakes. I want to see them be more aggressive.” Matt added “It’s a game of runs. When it’s 12 in a row – that’s what you’re looking for.” AA: “Keep chopping wood. Get better with each game.” [But have we gotten better with any game?] Later Matt asked “Is the effort lacking?” AA: Certain plays have nothing to do with scoring. Little things that don’t take talent. 50-50 balls. Be greedy. Get 70% of them.” [It must be harder get players to do that in this era of NIL and the portal.] MP: A guy can think he’s playing hard enough but he’s not playing hard enough to win at this level. AA: “It takes time to pressure them and get them going. Every player thinks he’s playing hard.” [Judging from his pressers, I don’t think he thought it was going to take this long.]
Q2 – (no Twitch segment until January)
Matt started by saying “Tennessee is pretty good”. Coach Autry: “We competed in the first half. We missed some free throws and made some turnovers. No one has played them as close. In the second half they started making shots. It was hard to overcome that. The game got too far out. But we battled and competed.” Matt suggested “You’ve got sustain good defense for 40 minutes.” Coach responded: “At least 35. We needed to take a couple of things we did well and extend them out. ”Michael in Manlius said what we need are “some big momentum-turning plays. With Starling out and Mintz in the pros, should we emphasis making big plays on defense?” AA: I emphasize defense and hustle plays. But 5-6 threes can really change the game.” [Is Chris Bell listening?]
Matt said that “bad free throw shooting is often the product of having the wrong guys at the line but in this game, we had some 80% guys missing”. AA: “Chris Bell missed three of them but that happens.” [How often?] Still, Matt pointed out that we’d scored the most points on Tennessee of anyone. AA pointed out that without our best scorer, we’d still scored 70 points on the best defensive team in the country…Tennessee was a veteran team, with vertical guys. Lanier will play in the NBA and Zakai (Ziegler) is strong, tough and a nuisance.”
Our problem is we have too many horizonal players:
Both SU and Notre Dame are missing key players: The Irish were 4-0 when Marcus Burton, their great young point guard, went down. They are 0-5 since, although the losses have included strong teams like Houston, Creighton and Georgia, all more formidable than the Orange right now. “Notre Dame is physical defensively. And good shooting from their NBA sets.” Matt pointed out that road teams have bene very successful in this series. Now we’ve lost JJ Starling. AA: “We need more time to work through it. We need to make adjustments. The defense gravitates to him.” We are earlier in the adjustment period than Notre Dame. Matt asked if JJ could still be a “settling influence” on the time. Can he still be a leader? AA: “He’s the captain. I thought our guys responded well in the first half. JJ is the guy.” Matt referred to what Fran Brown had said about Marlowe was when he was out: he attended every meeting and every practice and continued to encourage his teammates. Coach said of JJ: “I call him Coach Starling. He can now remove himself from the games and learn more. He can come back an even better player. The season doesn’t end with an early win or an early loss.”
Coach watched the Georgia-Notre Dame game. “Georgia is pretty good. Their guards are athletic and physical.” The ACC-SEC challenge is going poorly: Louisville has lost two players. But Clemson beat Kentucky, their fifth straight win over a top 5 team, and Duke beat Auburn.
“Choppa kept us relevant and close. He’s getting better with each practice and each game.” Matt’s joke: “If some is good, Moore is better.” AA: “I like it. I’s exciting to have productive freshmen.” Matt said that doesn’t happen very often but gave some recent examples like Oshae Brissett. He said there are three freshmen in the ACC that are averaging 25 minutes a game, much less the 30 minutes Choppa played. They are our own Donnie Freeman, Duke’s Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel.
Justin in Syracuse wants to know if Chance Westry is now ready to contribute. AA: “We’re easing him in. He hasn’t played in a while – 2 years. We’re getting him acclimated.” Matt noted that the box score had him with a technical in the first half but it belonged to Freeman.
Matt asked how we raise the profile of the league. Autry said something about “How good is your team going to be? Do they have seniors, good transfers? I’ve never had so many transfers- 4-5. Matt said not all of them are going to be Dalton Knecht. [I guess the conference came up with too many lemons this year. The loss of some great coaches hasn’t helped, either.
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:
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics The choice, finally is the “Adrian Autry Show” or the “Fran Brown Show”!
Or on Twitter at x.com or Twitter (@CuseLearfield) using the hashtag #AskAutry.
The show can be heard in Syracuse on FM 99.5. It’s sometimes simulcast on AM 1200 or FM 97.7. You can also get it on: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | Live News, Sports, Music, Audiobooks, and Podcasts If not, try: https://cuse.com/watch?Live=6575&type=Live
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
Coach, after the Cornell game you said “Guys who aren’t going to play with heart and who aren’t going to do what we ask them to do will not play moving forward and that’s just the bottom line”. JJ Starling was the only change in our starting line-up for Tennessee and we wound up playing everybody. Afterward you said “This is not what this is. This is not Syracuse basketball”. We may have the right mix of talents on this team when everybody’s healthy. Do we have the right mix of personalities?
The Twitch Segment:
There won’t be one until January.
COACH AUTRY
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject. The quotes may not be verbatim –they are from my scribbled notes. I have not knowingly changed the meaning.)
The answers to my questions:
Q1 – “When you do post games, often there’s raw emotions. No one is a bigger competitor than me. I tend to express my frustrations.” [Is he being more honest when he does that or in the more filtered environment of his coach’s show?] “We compete for a while. I’d like to see a little more fight. I don’t care about mistakes. I want to see them be more aggressive.” Matt added “It’s a game of runs. When it’s 12 in a row – that’s what you’re looking for.” AA: “Keep chopping wood. Get better with each game.” [But have we gotten better with any game?] Later Matt asked “Is the effort lacking?” AA: Certain plays have nothing to do with scoring. Little things that don’t take talent. 50-50 balls. Be greedy. Get 70% of them.” [It must be harder get players to do that in this era of NIL and the portal.] MP: A guy can think he’s playing hard enough but he’s not playing hard enough to win at this level. AA: “It takes time to pressure them and get them going. Every player thinks he’s playing hard.” [Judging from his pressers, I don’t think he thought it was going to take this long.]
Q2 – (no Twitch segment until January)
Matt started by saying “Tennessee is pretty good”. Coach Autry: “We competed in the first half. We missed some free throws and made some turnovers. No one has played them as close. In the second half they started making shots. It was hard to overcome that. The game got too far out. But we battled and competed.” Matt suggested “You’ve got sustain good defense for 40 minutes.” Coach responded: “At least 35. We needed to take a couple of things we did well and extend them out. ”Michael in Manlius said what we need are “some big momentum-turning plays. With Starling out and Mintz in the pros, should we emphasis making big plays on defense?” AA: I emphasize defense and hustle plays. But 5-6 threes can really change the game.” [Is Chris Bell listening?]
Matt said that “bad free throw shooting is often the product of having the wrong guys at the line but in this game, we had some 80% guys missing”. AA: “Chris Bell missed three of them but that happens.” [How often?] Still, Matt pointed out that we’d scored the most points on Tennessee of anyone. AA pointed out that without our best scorer, we’d still scored 70 points on the best defensive team in the country…Tennessee was a veteran team, with vertical guys. Lanier will play in the NBA and Zakai (Ziegler) is strong, tough and a nuisance.”
Our problem is we have too many horizonal players:
Both SU and Notre Dame are missing key players: The Irish were 4-0 when Marcus Burton, their great young point guard, went down. They are 0-5 since, although the losses have included strong teams like Houston, Creighton and Georgia, all more formidable than the Orange right now. “Notre Dame is physical defensively. And good shooting from their NBA sets.” Matt pointed out that road teams have bene very successful in this series. Now we’ve lost JJ Starling. AA: “We need more time to work through it. We need to make adjustments. The defense gravitates to him.” We are earlier in the adjustment period than Notre Dame. Matt asked if JJ could still be a “settling influence” on the time. Can he still be a leader? AA: “He’s the captain. I thought our guys responded well in the first half. JJ is the guy.” Matt referred to what Fran Brown had said about Marlowe was when he was out: he attended every meeting and every practice and continued to encourage his teammates. Coach said of JJ: “I call him Coach Starling. He can now remove himself from the games and learn more. He can come back an even better player. The season doesn’t end with an early win or an early loss.”
Coach watched the Georgia-Notre Dame game. “Georgia is pretty good. Their guards are athletic and physical.” The ACC-SEC challenge is going poorly: Louisville has lost two players. But Clemson beat Kentucky, their fifth straight win over a top 5 team, and Duke beat Auburn.
“Choppa kept us relevant and close. He’s getting better with each practice and each game.” Matt’s joke: “If some is good, Moore is better.” AA: “I like it. I’s exciting to have productive freshmen.” Matt said that doesn’t happen very often but gave some recent examples like Oshae Brissett. He said there are three freshmen in the ACC that are averaging 25 minutes a game, much less the 30 minutes Choppa played. They are our own Donnie Freeman, Duke’s Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel.
Justin in Syracuse wants to know if Chance Westry is now ready to contribute. AA: “We’re easing him in. He hasn’t played in a while – 2 years. We’re getting him acclimated.” Matt noted that the box score had him with a technical in the first half but it belonged to Freeman.
Matt asked how we raise the profile of the league. Autry said something about “How good is your team going to be? Do they have seniors, good transfers? I’ve never had so many transfers- 4-5. Matt said not all of them are going to be Dalton Knecht. [I guess the conference came up with too many lemons this year. The loss of some great coaches hasn’t helped, either.
