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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1617084, member: 289"] PART 2 The Gomez section began with Jim joking that he should have spent the time with him in Florida going to McDonalds and Denny’s and playing put-put golf. Later Pat called in and joked that Jim might rather spent 3 minutes talking to him that spend that time with Gomez. Jim invited Pat to call a couple more times. Gomez asked Jim to compare his suspension to retirement. Jim reiterated that in retirement you are going to have a plan for what you are going to do. You don’t have a plan for a suspension. “You can’t go into retirement saying ‘I’ll find something to do’. People with plans are busier than ever. They do charitable work or get another job. The good news is that I’ve got some time to figure it out….I’m a late night person. I always watch Steph Curry’s games. I go to bed about 2-2:30AM. I do a couple of errands a day. For a week or two you can do that. This was 5 weeks of it. I tried to go out but people were flocking to me whenever I went out. I don’t want to go through it again.” They discussed the SU Women’s team and their 86-50 win over then #12 Duke. JB: “I watched the whole game. They played great. Maggie Morrison had 7 threes and she plays hard all the time. They turned Duke over 32 times. It’s one of the best games I’ve seen the girl’s team play.” Alexis Peterson had a double-double with 17 points and 13 rebounds. Britany Sykes, who like DaJuan Coleman, has had multiple knee injuries and hardly played for two years, had a good game. Briana Butler “has a shooter’s mentality. She can throw up an air ball and come back and make a shot”. She had 4 treys in the Duke game. They followed the SU women’s game against North Carolina as the evening went on and the women were ahead most of the game but UNC pulled ahead in the fourth quarter, (yes, the women play quarters), to win. They also followed the Louisville-NC State game, which Louisville won 77-72 and SMU, who is now 14-0 after beating Cincinnati 59-57. Of course SMU’s Larry Brown had a 9 game suspension but that was from the beginning of the season and they faced lesser competition during that time. Jim also noted that they have a veteran line-up full of seniors and juniors. Louisville “lost only at Michigan State when they had Valentine and at Kentucky when they had the only good shooting game they’ve had all year….Louisville has two 5th year seniors who averaged 20 points a game for other schools last year. They’ve signed a kid from Pennsylvania for next year. There are 30-40 guys like that a year now. Pittsburgh has 3-4 of them and Georgia Tech has a couple. It’s an option that’s becoming more and more real. You can get a proven player.” Kansas and Oklahoma had a “great game. That was the best regular season game in a long time. 3-4 Oklahoma starters played 55 minutes so I guess you can do it? Buddy Hield was spectacular with 46 points.” Utah cancelled their game next December at BYU, who they have played for 116 years “due to concerns for player safety”. JB: A joke. They just don’t want to play at BYU.” About the Baseball Hall of Fame. “Who were the three guys who didn’t vote for Ken Griffey Jr. They shouldn’t be allowed to vote again.” About the PEDs: “Who did, who didn’t?. It’s a sad, terrible situation. Bonds and Clemens got only about 47-48% of the vote. It’s hard to come to grips with the issue. Who would have guessed that a guy like Andy petite was using? It’s sad to see great players who won’t get in. Probably 60-70% were using at some point.” On Tom Coughlin: “A great, unbelievable career. Not many coaches have won two Super Bowls. “ Who will win the college football championship? “Alabama has trouble with quarterbacks like Watson. Oklahoma was the hottest team coming in. I see Clemson in an upset. “ Jim believes both teams should have the same amount of practice time and it should be limited to 20 hours, (there’s a difference because of when the semesters end at the schools: you get a limit of 28 hours if school is in session and unlimited if it’s out of session, as is the case at Alabama). Katie in Liverpool wondered what Jim would do with the money if he won the $700 million power ball lottery? “Take Gomez out to dinner….I’d probably give most of it to my Charity Foundation…I figure I’m ahead in the lottery because I’ve never bought a ticket. I think it would be better if they had 400 winners each of whom would get a million. They’d sell more tickets because there’s be an astronomically higher chance of winning and people would play to get a million dollars, too. And the people winning would be people who need it because those are the people who play the lottery. “ Brad called to ask if there is a different between how Jim would manage a regular season game vs. a post season game. “It’s not much difference now that they’ve extended the media time-outs every four minutes to regular season games. “ Has the shot clock changed things very much? JB: “It’s a little change, not a big change. We are really struggling to get shots off in a reasonable time. At the end of the shot clock you don’t get the shots you want to get. With a good offensive team you never get a shot clock violation. We can’t score inside. People know that and they cheat on shooters.” What’s the overall impact? “Everything’s up. There are more fouls. They’re calling i9t closer- even fouls that aren’t there. But as the season goes along, things will go back more to normal. I called in that second question I’ve bene listing for a couple of weeks about why top NBA teams don’t seem to have Syracuse players. JB was shocked that we’ve have 28 ex-Orangemen playing in the Super Bowl. About the dearth of SU players in the NBA finals: “It’s a fluke. Many things happen. We haven’t had as many great players, there have been bad fits…Math is an issue obviously. There are only 24 guys in the finals every year out of 360 guys in the league. That’s less than 10%.” Can Golden State win 72 games? “It will be hard but possible. Injuries could be a factor. They weren’t as good with Curry out. The Spurs have only 5-6 losses. The Clippers and Thunder are good teams. The Clippers won 7 years in a row without Blake Griffin. They’ll be better with him. Cleveland when they are healthy will be the tough to beat in the East. If they have Love and Irving in the finals will be tough to beat. There was a game where C. J. McCallum was accidently left off the roster of the Trail Blazers and Clippers coach Doc Rivers was given a choice about whether to let him play and refused. If that happened with SU Saturday, would Roy Williams let a Syracuse player play? Jim laughed and said that would be a “tough call”. He recalled a game where there were only four guys listed in the SU starting line-up at Pitt and the official scorer wrote in another guy’s name. The guy was a reserve but the officials ruled that he had to start. Mitch Kupchak has said that this season for the Lakers “is all about saying goodbye to Kobe, not developing young players.” Jim dismissed that, saying you can do both- Kobe plays only one positon. . “It will be good for younger players to be out there with him. They’re just not a very good team and in a good division.” Gomez asked the question about which Kobe was better: #8 who won one tile or #24 who won two of them? Jim laughed but declined to answer. The Knicks “are a little better. They’ve won more games in 36 than they won all last year without Carmelo. But the East is better and they still might not make the playoffs, even with the improved record.” Tim from Phoenix thanked the coach for signing an autograph for his mother and grandmother at an event in Phoenix. JB: Mothers are the real die-hards”. Tim wondered if he’d gotten out to see his kids play ball. “I see my kids play anyway. They usually play Friday nights. I think I’d rather coach my own team. But there’s something special about watching your kids play.” Adrian Autry had been asked what it’s like to see his son out there in an SU jersey. He likes it because he knows where his son is. [/QUOTE]

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