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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2082125, member: 289"] Gomez , in listing the show’s phone number, said he’d have to get used to giving the area code before the number. Jim was way ahead of him. He’s always stored numbers with the area code. “I’d forge tit anyway.” Gomez is proud of his nephew, a swimmer in the New York State championships, who won one race and came in third in another. The NCAA Top 16 had no Big Ten teams. JB: “Wisconsin will probably play their way in. They lost some big non-conference games by a lot.” ([I]Not to us[/I].) “The rest of the Big Ten has not stepped up.” ([I]Wisconsin may have to wait some more: Michigan beat them 58-64[/I].) “Duke has everybody back. They are playing the way people thought they would when they were ranked #1 pre-season. Jason Tatum made some long, tough shots against Virginia. Virginia was right on them. Virginia is not quite as good as they have been. Malcolm Brogdon is in the NBA. Anthony gill is playing in Europe. Mike Tobey is in the NBA.” Gomez said that Tobey is an “upstate kid”: he’s from Monroe Woodbury. JB: “You’d have to be from New York City to consider him an ‘upstate’ kid.” He added that Virginia is depending on their freshmen guards, who will be very good down the road. It sound like this was the year to beat them. Gonzaga was the #1 overall seed in the "first 16". JB: "It doesn't matter." Gomez noted that the RPI seemed to matter more than people were saying it would. JB: "They say they don't use it much but they do. Sagarin, who is very good, had us at #37 while RPI has us at #55. It's a little arbitrary." NC State fired Mark Gottfried. “He went to the NCAA tournament four times in five years, twice to the Sweet 16. It’s strange to fire a coach before the season is over. I don’t know why you’d do that. I’m sure Archie Miller of Dayton will be in the conversation. Gomez said that this is, statistically the best shooting year ever. He called it “The Golden Age of Accuracy”. JB: “There’s more good shooting, more fouls being called. Scoring is up huge.” It looks like the SU women’s team will shatter the attendance record. “Their guards are tremendous. They are pretty close to the best backcourt in the country. “ Gomez said that there’s a rumor that John Calipari will be coaching the USA under age 19 team. This was news to the head of the committee that will be making that decision: James Arthur Boeheim. “It’s not true. We all know better than that.” I guess he doesn’t want Coach Cal to get into the minds of all those top teenagers. Kevin Love will be out for six weeks. “He was having a great year …..Russell Westbrook is a junkyard dog as a competitor. He plays as hard as he could play every night. He’d do it in a pick-up game. He’s not a fraternizer… Good friends can play hard. LeBron and Carmelo are friends and they go at it all the time.“ Draymond Green had the first ever triple-double that didn’t involve points, (rebounds, assists and steals). “He does the dirty work. Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston come off the bench. Iguodala is a star-level player. Livingston was the #1 kid coming out of high school according to some. He had some injuries. JaVale McGee has resurrected himself. I don’t see anybody beating Golden State. They have too many weapons. If they keep everybody together, they should be in the finals for the next five years and win them at least four times. LeBron is great and in good shape but he’s got a lot of mileage on him” Green has 11 technical fouls before the All-Star break. Doesn’t he get suspended at some point? “You miss a game with your 16th technical.” DeMarcus Cousins now has 17. Steve Kerr praised Greene saying “He plays with an edge.” JB: “A lot of guys do that. Someone told they weren’t that good.” Brook Lopez had 8 blocks and 6 treys, the first player ever to get hat combination of stats. They went back over the Carmelo Anthony dilemma: he has that no-trade clause and the teams he would agree to go to won’t give equal value in terms of a veteran player and don’t have the draft choices to give equal value there. Jim did think that the Celtics could get Jimmy Butler because they have a couple guys they might give up and they have some good draft choices. Carmelo will play in the All-Star game, replacing Kevin love. “He’s had a good year.” “James Harden is the MVP right now. He’s come the farthest and his team is doing better than Russell Westbrook’s. Then comes Isaiah Thomas and LeBron..” Gomez had this fun fact he’s read about but hadn’t known: before 1966, the NBA had “territorial picks” where teams had one pick before the draft of any player within 50 miles of their city. It wasn’t news to Jim Boeheim. “They wanted good local players. Chamberlain and Robertson were both territorial picks. 1966 was the year Dave Bing and Cazzie Russell came out. The Pistons wanted Russell but New York drafted ahead of them and took him so Detroit took Bing.” How would a backcourt of Dave Bing and Walt Frazier have looked? But then, there wouldn’t have bene Bing Steel and he wouldn’t have become a mayor of a major city. As Yogi said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Rick in North Syracuse wondered if the coach had seen the lacrosse opener and what he thinks of the team this year. “I missed the first game and will probably miss the second. I love lacrosse… One thing about lacrosse is that all transfers get to play right away….It’s now a little like college basketball. Denver, Notre Dame and the Big Ten are good now. The really good players have equaled out. “ Gomez asked if the trend of parents not letting their kids play football will mean more of them play lacrosse. (A gentler game…) “People will still play football. But Lacrosse could get more kids.” Katie in Lysander note that Coach had met many famous people and asked what famous people he would still like to meet. He chose Tom Brady “Our family loves him”. He’s a cooking show fan and would love to meet “The Barefoot Contessa”. No, not her: [URL]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51676S90MZL.jpg[/URL] Her: [URL]https://d213sdapb08052.cloudfront.net/assets/cookbooks/barefoot-contessa-foolproof/_cookbookCover/Ina_retouchFront_r3.jpg?mtime=20160728101244[/URL] “I was just getting ready to write her a letter.” Does Julie know about this? Then, with some prodding, he listed some of the famous people he’s met, mostly because they are basketball fans or play golf. “I’m pretty good friends with Kevin Costner. I met him at the Final Four and we’ve played golf together. I’ve met Bill Murray he’s a great guy. I met Sandy Koufax. That was big. I met Floyd Mayweather last summer. I met Ali. That’s the big one. One time A guy came up to me and started talking to me. He was a short guy with a beard. He was telling me how his son played basketball. I finally realized I was talking to Denzel Washington. He’s a great actor.” Gomez expressed surprise that Denzel Washington was short. JB: “They’re all about 5-6.” According to the IMDB, Denzel is 6-1: [URL='http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm']Denzel Washington - Biography - IMDb[/URL] Which brings up the question of whether that really was Denzel Washington that Jim was talking to. Dennis in Syracuse said he wanted to “Bust your balls over Tom Brady. Do you deflate your basketballs before the game?” JB: “It wouldn’t help. I have no idea who inflates them. Brady did pretty well with the regular balls.” Gomez said that they are planning to make a movie of Tom Brady’s life. ([I]spare me) [/I]Who should play Brady? Coach picked Ben Affleck. Belichick? “Pacino’s too old.” Roger Goodell? “A couple of guys. I can’t think of actor’s names.” Drew in Syracuse wondered what coach does in his spare time. “In the summer I fish and play golf. During the season I mostly watch other basketball games but when I can’t get to sleep I watch TV shows I’ve taped: the NCIS shows, The Blacklist, Bluebloods, Quantico. I used to watch Grey’s Anatomy and The Good Wife. I read books on my tablet. I download them when they came out. I’ve read “Never Never” by James Patterson and “The Whistler” by John Grisham.” This led to a re-telling of the time that Gresham, whom the coach had never met, walked into a NYC restaurant and Jim greeted him with “High Rick” because he’s almost a double with Rick Barnes. Gresham is a basketball fan and they had a good laugh over it. John Grisham: [URL]http://static0.bornrichimages.com/wp-content/uploads/s3/1/2012/06/01/1338552290.jpg[/URL] Rick Barnes: [URL]http://a.espncdn.com/media/motion/2012/0314/dm_120314_gameplanRickBarnes.jpg[/URL] Gomez asked who would play Jim Boeheim in a movie. Jim had no idea. I’d suggest the star of a TV series that JB was a big fan of: [URL]https://www.thegoldencloset.com/merchant/graphics/00000001/T0066i.jpg[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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