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Jim Boeheim’s radio show is on Thursdays from 7-8 or 9PM on ESPN Radio in Syracuse, which is AM1200 or FM 97.7 on the dial. The show originates from Carrabba's Italian Grill in Fayetteville. The first hour, hosted by Matt Park, the Voice of the Orange, is on their general network. The second hour, which begins with the conference season, is hosted by Gomez, a local radio personality.
This year’s schedule: Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 pm, Tuesday, November 19, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 5, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 12, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 19, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 26, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 2, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 9, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 16, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 23, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 30, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 6, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 13, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 20, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 27, 7:00 pm,
Thursday, March 5, 7:00 pm.
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
Or on Twitter at mattpark1 or “askBoeheim”.
The show can be heard in Syracuse on FM 99.5. It’s sometime simulcast on AM 1200 or FM 97.7. You can also get it on: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | NFL, Sports, Podcasts, Music & News
I will be posting my rough transcript the night of the broadcast focusing on my questions, the team and their last and next games and then a second post the next day on other things that were discussed.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
First Hour:
“Coach, one encouraging thing about the NC State game was that 49 of our 74 points came from freshmen. When you combine that with good recruiting news and the fact that we have no seniors, the future looks bright. The key is to keep players here while they develop their skills. We’ve lost a lot of players after a year or two in recent years. It’s often said that the NBA drafts player based on potential. You’ve pointed out that there are very few spots open on an NBA roster and each year there’s a whole new wave of talent becoming available. I would think that NBA teams would draft to get fully developed players who could help them immediately. Why do they draft on potential?”
Second Hour:
“Coach, Marek’s confrontation with the refs in the Wake Forest game reminded me of a baseball story from years ago. A player named Bob Dillinger, who wore glasses, was disgusted with two strike calls an umpire had given him. He handed his glasses to the Umpire, who then put them on and called for the next pitch. “STRIKE THREE!” He then handed the glasses back to Dillinger. My question is: isn’t there a league or Dome rule against showing replays of controversial calls? Should there be such a rule?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(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. In recent years they have started out doing one hour shows and then shifted to two hour shows in January. When they do two hour shows. I might do two posts: one on the night of the broadcast on the issues directly relating to the team on the other the next days on other things that were talked about.)
JB: “Elijah just needs rest. He’s not healthy yet. He feels better. He played some in practice today and will play more tomorrow. But we won’t know until Saturday. He shouldn’t have tried to play. He could not physically do anything. The players made adjustments. Joe was tremendous getting to those mid-range shots. Quincy was great off the bench, too. We had too many turnovers. That was NC State’s best game of the year. They mad more threes than they usually make- 11. They average 7. In how many ACC games are you going to get 46 points from two freshmen? We did a good job on their best player and a guy who doesn’t make shots made them. We missed Elijah most at the end of the game. He finds people and he makes free throws….This game helped us. Joe knew he had to do more. Marek tried to do more but he missed shots.”
I called in my first question. About why the NBA drafts on potential when they have limited spots available. JB: “They want to get a great player. The NBA is about great players. They have enough good players. Kids want to go. You can’t blame them. Some guys get a good fit, like Jerami Grant and it works out. They others made some money. They draft guys and trade them or put them in Europe. 60 guys will be drafted after 100 guys declared for the draft. 40-50 think they will be drafted in the first round. “
Processing this response, I think that the draft is really about the first 5-10 guys and the rest of it really doesn’t matter. It’s not that they are drafting based on an assessment of the potential of the players beyond the top few. They are just gambling that some players from that group will turn out to be good NBA players and they assume that guys who are looking to leave college early must have the best potential. As a result you get many guys who are judged before they have reached their peak as players and are then cast aside. Meanwhile their college teams struggle to find replacements for them.
“Our team is very young, with a lot of basketball potential. We’ll be solid next year. A lot of guys will be coming back. We’ll have a 5th year player or two next year.” We have two very young guards, a freshman and a a sophomore. We have a couple guys redshirting that we think could be good players. We want to win right now but you have to look down the road. Many guys have redshirted and turned out to be good players. We were always going to be a young team. We are in the top 4 in the league in offense for the first time in a long time. We are in the top 5 in three pointers. The surprise is that we are in the top 5-6 in field goal percentage defense and three point percentage defense.”
Josh in boulder asserted that “We are a good team, a very good team. Without Elijah, Joe just stepped in. Quincy reminds me of Otis Hill”. JB: “He gets a lot of offensive boards. He made two really good post moves. He’s still learning how to finish. Sometimes he just throws the ball up there. He had been making three pointers the last couple of years but now he struggles to make them in games and even in practice. He’s also lost his rhythm on free throws. He was making them but he missed them against NC State and is now missing them in practice. He’ll keep going. Maybe he’ll improve. If he can’t make jump shots, he can’t drive. He’s just not there yet.”
On our next two opponents: Florida State “plays 11 guys. The 11th guy hadn’t been playing but then he hit 6 three pointers. They have tremendous talent. One guy will score 17 in one game and 5 the next. But somebody else will score 17 and the first guy will get that in the next game.” Matt Park pointed out that 8 FSU players have ahad a 15 point game. JB: “There isn’t another team in the country like that. They have guys that can jump out of the gym. They have 3-4 shot blockers. They don’t always shoot well from three but they can.” Matt: “They are averaging 9 steals a game.” JB: “They will come at you in waves. You have to take care of the ball and get back on defense.” Louisville: “also has 8-10 guys who can play and all of them can score.”
Gomez came on and asked about the Wake Forest game. JB: “It was a crazy game. We got off to a really good start. We had a good spurt to start the second half. We didn’t play that poorly but they got right back in the game. Then we got in foul trouble. The big guys have to be careful not to commit silly fouls: pushes, over the back calls, etc….Wake is as good team, they just beat North Carolina by 17 after they had almost beaten Duke. It was the first time they’d beaten UNC in 6 years….That, (winning that game) was one of the most surprising things I’ve ever seen. That’s up there with the most improbable wins. Look at that line-up We had two 6-5 forwards and Jesse who isn’t ready. (Jesse the Readiless) We had 3 freshmen against 3 seniors and 2 juniors. We got steals, blocked shots and got rebounds. Jesse has physical skills but he needs 6-7 months in the weight room. Etan Thomas stayed at school during the summer to work out in the weight room with the football players. He got really strong and wound up a 9th round draft choice.”
More on the NC State game: “I told Joe that he had to get going. He was just great. He got us back into the game. If only he’s hit a normal percentage of his three pointers, we could have won. Elijah has made the plays we needed at the end of games. That’s where we really missed him….Quincy ran out of gas. He hasn’t played enough this year to go that long. It’s just a matter of time before he gets there. Buddy had some good looks in the first half. He had a pretty good second half but then came the turnovers. Without Elijah he doesn’t get help. We played spectacularly to get 6 point lead.”
I called in my second question about whether there was or should be a rule about showing controversial calls. “There isn’t a rule in the league or in the NBA. I think there used to be one. It was a really bad technical foul, the referee should have just admitted he was wrong on that one.“ Gomez: Do the referees ever apologize? JB: “No they move on to the next game. Their supervisor might say something. If there is contact you can call a foul but if a guy isn’t out of bounds you can’t call him out of bounds.”
On Brycen Goodine’s injury: “he doesn’t really see the ball clearly through the mask. It may come off next week.” (Actually, he started playing better when he put it on – maybe they should all wear one.)
Gomez said that Elijah seemed very active on the bench in supporting his fallow players on the court. JB: Our bench has been great, (he also mentioned Jalen Carey). The fans have been great.” Gomez asked if the players have anything to say during time-out huddles. JB: “No. There’s no talking in the huddle. First I describe what I want and then the assistants get a few words in with their players.”
After several weeks without one, they had a trivia question: who was the last SU freshman to score 30 points in a game? They admitted that’s a pretty easy one. To make it more interesting I’ll ask what SU freshmen have scored 30 points in a game and how many times did they do it?
This year’s schedule: Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 pm, Tuesday, November 19, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 5, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 12, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 19, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 26, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 2, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 9, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 16, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 23, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 30, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 6, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 13, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 20, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 27, 7:00 pm,
Thursday, March 5, 7:00 pm.
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
Or on Twitter at mattpark1 or “askBoeheim”.
The show can be heard in Syracuse on FM 99.5. It’s sometime simulcast on AM 1200 or FM 97.7. You can also get it on: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | NFL, Sports, Podcasts, Music & News
I will be posting my rough transcript the night of the broadcast focusing on my questions, the team and their last and next games and then a second post the next day on other things that were discussed.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
First Hour:
“Coach, one encouraging thing about the NC State game was that 49 of our 74 points came from freshmen. When you combine that with good recruiting news and the fact that we have no seniors, the future looks bright. The key is to keep players here while they develop their skills. We’ve lost a lot of players after a year or two in recent years. It’s often said that the NBA drafts player based on potential. You’ve pointed out that there are very few spots open on an NBA roster and each year there’s a whole new wave of talent becoming available. I would think that NBA teams would draft to get fully developed players who could help them immediately. Why do they draft on potential?”
Second Hour:
“Coach, Marek’s confrontation with the refs in the Wake Forest game reminded me of a baseball story from years ago. A player named Bob Dillinger, who wore glasses, was disgusted with two strike calls an umpire had given him. He handed his glasses to the Umpire, who then put them on and called for the next pitch. “STRIKE THREE!” He then handed the glasses back to Dillinger. My question is: isn’t there a league or Dome rule against showing replays of controversial calls? Should there be such a rule?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(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. In recent years they have started out doing one hour shows and then shifted to two hour shows in January. When they do two hour shows. I might do two posts: one on the night of the broadcast on the issues directly relating to the team on the other the next days on other things that were talked about.)
JB: “Elijah just needs rest. He’s not healthy yet. He feels better. He played some in practice today and will play more tomorrow. But we won’t know until Saturday. He shouldn’t have tried to play. He could not physically do anything. The players made adjustments. Joe was tremendous getting to those mid-range shots. Quincy was great off the bench, too. We had too many turnovers. That was NC State’s best game of the year. They mad more threes than they usually make- 11. They average 7. In how many ACC games are you going to get 46 points from two freshmen? We did a good job on their best player and a guy who doesn’t make shots made them. We missed Elijah most at the end of the game. He finds people and he makes free throws….This game helped us. Joe knew he had to do more. Marek tried to do more but he missed shots.”
I called in my first question. About why the NBA drafts on potential when they have limited spots available. JB: “They want to get a great player. The NBA is about great players. They have enough good players. Kids want to go. You can’t blame them. Some guys get a good fit, like Jerami Grant and it works out. They others made some money. They draft guys and trade them or put them in Europe. 60 guys will be drafted after 100 guys declared for the draft. 40-50 think they will be drafted in the first round. “
Processing this response, I think that the draft is really about the first 5-10 guys and the rest of it really doesn’t matter. It’s not that they are drafting based on an assessment of the potential of the players beyond the top few. They are just gambling that some players from that group will turn out to be good NBA players and they assume that guys who are looking to leave college early must have the best potential. As a result you get many guys who are judged before they have reached their peak as players and are then cast aside. Meanwhile their college teams struggle to find replacements for them.
“Our team is very young, with a lot of basketball potential. We’ll be solid next year. A lot of guys will be coming back. We’ll have a 5th year player or two next year.” We have two very young guards, a freshman and a a sophomore. We have a couple guys redshirting that we think could be good players. We want to win right now but you have to look down the road. Many guys have redshirted and turned out to be good players. We were always going to be a young team. We are in the top 4 in the league in offense for the first time in a long time. We are in the top 5 in three pointers. The surprise is that we are in the top 5-6 in field goal percentage defense and three point percentage defense.”
Josh in boulder asserted that “We are a good team, a very good team. Without Elijah, Joe just stepped in. Quincy reminds me of Otis Hill”. JB: “He gets a lot of offensive boards. He made two really good post moves. He’s still learning how to finish. Sometimes he just throws the ball up there. He had been making three pointers the last couple of years but now he struggles to make them in games and even in practice. He’s also lost his rhythm on free throws. He was making them but he missed them against NC State and is now missing them in practice. He’ll keep going. Maybe he’ll improve. If he can’t make jump shots, he can’t drive. He’s just not there yet.”
On our next two opponents: Florida State “plays 11 guys. The 11th guy hadn’t been playing but then he hit 6 three pointers. They have tremendous talent. One guy will score 17 in one game and 5 the next. But somebody else will score 17 and the first guy will get that in the next game.” Matt Park pointed out that 8 FSU players have ahad a 15 point game. JB: “There isn’t another team in the country like that. They have guys that can jump out of the gym. They have 3-4 shot blockers. They don’t always shoot well from three but they can.” Matt: “They are averaging 9 steals a game.” JB: “They will come at you in waves. You have to take care of the ball and get back on defense.” Louisville: “also has 8-10 guys who can play and all of them can score.”
Gomez came on and asked about the Wake Forest game. JB: “It was a crazy game. We got off to a really good start. We had a good spurt to start the second half. We didn’t play that poorly but they got right back in the game. Then we got in foul trouble. The big guys have to be careful not to commit silly fouls: pushes, over the back calls, etc….Wake is as good team, they just beat North Carolina by 17 after they had almost beaten Duke. It was the first time they’d beaten UNC in 6 years….That, (winning that game) was one of the most surprising things I’ve ever seen. That’s up there with the most improbable wins. Look at that line-up We had two 6-5 forwards and Jesse who isn’t ready. (Jesse the Readiless) We had 3 freshmen against 3 seniors and 2 juniors. We got steals, blocked shots and got rebounds. Jesse has physical skills but he needs 6-7 months in the weight room. Etan Thomas stayed at school during the summer to work out in the weight room with the football players. He got really strong and wound up a 9th round draft choice.”
More on the NC State game: “I told Joe that he had to get going. He was just great. He got us back into the game. If only he’s hit a normal percentage of his three pointers, we could have won. Elijah has made the plays we needed at the end of games. That’s where we really missed him….Quincy ran out of gas. He hasn’t played enough this year to go that long. It’s just a matter of time before he gets there. Buddy had some good looks in the first half. He had a pretty good second half but then came the turnovers. Without Elijah he doesn’t get help. We played spectacularly to get 6 point lead.”
I called in my second question about whether there was or should be a rule about showing controversial calls. “There isn’t a rule in the league or in the NBA. I think there used to be one. It was a really bad technical foul, the referee should have just admitted he was wrong on that one.“ Gomez: Do the referees ever apologize? JB: “No they move on to the next game. Their supervisor might say something. If there is contact you can call a foul but if a guy isn’t out of bounds you can’t call him out of bounds.”
On Brycen Goodine’s injury: “he doesn’t really see the ball clearly through the mask. It may come off next week.” (Actually, he started playing better when he put it on – maybe they should all wear one.)
Gomez said that Elijah seemed very active on the bench in supporting his fallow players on the court. JB: Our bench has been great, (he also mentioned Jalen Carey). The fans have been great.” Gomez asked if the players have anything to say during time-out huddles. JB: “No. There’s no talking in the huddle. First I describe what I want and then the assistants get a few words in with their players.”
After several weeks without one, they had a trivia question: who was the last SU freshman to score 30 points in a game? They admitted that’s a pretty easy one. To make it more interesting I’ll ask what SU freshmen have scored 30 points in a game and how many times did they do it?