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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4136233, member: 289"] The rest of the Gomez segment: Matt sat in for Gomez, who was ‘under the weather’. Indiana was 9 points up on Purdue as the segment began. JB: “You get away from home and make mistakes you can lose to everyone.” The schedule is tight as they try to get in games and adhere to the NCAA ‘days off’ policy. SU has no games for a week leading to 2/19, then three games in five days in the revised schedule. “We’re not learning a lot right now- just preparing for the next game. You make adjustments for every game. Sometimes you put a play in during a game. There’s just not a lot of time. Some things have gone really well on offense – movement, shooting, etc. But we haven’t been able to capitalize on it. We ‘won’ at Wake Forest – their guy knocked the ball out of bounds.” Ant other Matt sent in a question by E-mail. He doesn’t like how the guards and forwards collapse in when the ball goes inside and leaves the three-pointer open. Jim said “the forwards have go inside to prevent the lay-up. The guards have to rotate. Jesse can block shots but guys get behind Jesse. JB will use Bourama “if he feels good for a few minutes in a game. He moved well and got hit in the face. It’s been two years of not playing and he gets winded…Frank (Anselem) wasn’t ready to come here. I told him “This is really your freshman year.” He needs to get to 240. He needs to eat a lot.” Matt invited him to Carrabba’s. Joe B. Hall has died. He followed Adolph Rupp at Kentucky and was the head coach when we lost to them in Final Four in 1975 and when they won their 5th, (of 8) national championship in 1978. “He was a class guy all the way.” But Jim really wanted to talk about Greg Robinson, who died during the show’s week off a couple of weeks ago. “People don’t get it. You don’t talk about a guy’s coaching record when he passes. Mack Brown told me he was a really good football coach, has he had to have been to win two Super Bowl rings.” Matt made a reference to “how the program was resourced. It isn’t only the head coach drawing up plays.” As nice a man as you’d ever want to meet. He was a first-class guy who will be remembered and treated very well upstairs and his critics won’t be treated as well. His son Dominick is on the football staff at SU. He was at my house for a New Year’s Eve party. We were out of something at 11:45PM and all the stores were closed. Greg left and came back with just what we needed from his house. Those guys are well remembered when it counts.” Later, during the Twitch broadcast, (see link at the top), I sent a chat message describing our thread that was full of nothing but praise for Greg as a person and my wish that he’d been alive to read it. I noticed on Twitch that Matt was wearing a mask and Jim wasn’t. I hope that was enough protection between them. There was some talk about the best public golf courses in the area. I was trying to figure out how to post to Twitch and didn’t make a list, although he mentioned Leatherstocking and Turning Stone, some courses in the Utica/Rome area and Graystone in Rochester. Watch the Twitch segment for the full list. Coach watches NFL Red Zone, as I do and wonders why you would ever watch a full game, as I do and why the NFL’s sponsors let them do it without commercials, as I do. Somebody asked if Duke will “destroy us from three”. Jim: “It hasn’t happened yet. It’s Duke’s athleticism that scares me.” Somebody asked if officiating has gotten better or worse during Jim’s tenure here. “There are always bad and good calls. But it’s too physical. Too much grabbing and shoving. The NBA calls more fouls than we do and it should be the opposite. Referees don’t’ want to lose the game for a team.” [Well, when the referees make the wrong call, (Wake Forest and the “jacket game”, above) or don’t make a call when it should clearly be made, that can lose a game for a team, too!] What about analytics? “Tablets aren’t going to win games. It’s your feel for the game You don’t need analytics to know that a play worked. Other sports are different. They are slower and how often a pitcher gets a guy out matters.” [/QUOTE]

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