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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3299940, member: 289"] PART TWO Around the conference: “Northern Carolina has lost four games by a single shot.” Miami won in three overtimes at Virginia Tech 102-95. “Maybe they are tired….Lykes is back, giving them two quick guards who can score. They’ve had a couple of head scratching losses. They can’t go to any post season tournaments. Virginia beat Boston College with no bench points. But all five starters were in double figures. That’s all it takes if your starting line-up is good. Florida State’s two best players were held to 10 points each but they still won by 15 over Pitt. There isn’t a bad player that goes out there for them.” Pitt may be going on probation. “They had too much staff on the football side. They’ll get a three year probation and ‘show cause’ for Kevin Stalling.” Around the country: Auburn is 5-0 in overtime. Matt mentioned that he checked a couple years ago and Jim was 20-3 in overtime games at the Dome, (I have them at 22-6). Iowa was beating Ohio State, which they did as Luka Garza scored 24 points, his average. “The best offensive big man in the country. They lost that guard who scored 20 on us, (Jordan Bohannon, who scored 17). I wish he’d been out when we played them. ” Marquette was nice enough to invite Lawrence Moten to be present when Markus Howard broke his Big East scoring record. Washington continues to slump. “Mike has lost 3-4 game she would have won with his point guard. It’s not that hard to remain eligible. You just have to do a little bit in the first semester. The whole team gets let down if one guy doesn’t do what he’s supposed to.” Jim has some experience with that. I do wonder: if you are doing ‘a little bit’ in the first semester to remain eligible, are you a student-athlete or an athlete-student? Coach doesn’t like the “Elam ending” for regular games but thought it was great for the All-Star game. “it was great. It really worked. But it’s not good for the regular game. With a 10-12 point lead, you control the game. It’s not the right way to play. It negates what you accomplished in the first 30 minutes. Coach liked the preliminary competitions, especially when Aaron Gordon jumped over Tacko Fall to dunk. Too bad the judges screwed up the scoring, trying to create a tie. He reminisced about how Julius Erving basically created the dunk contest when he was in the ABA. “He had long arms and large hands” The women’s team was winning their 5th game in a row, (59-46 over Clemson). Muffet McGraw, the highly successful Notre Dame women’s coach, is suffering through a losing season as is Roy Williams at North Carolina. She commiserated by tweeting a photo of the two of them together: [URL="https://thespun.com/acc/north-carolina/photo-of-muffet-mcgraw-roy-williams-going-viral"]Photo Of Muffet McGraw, Roy Williams Going Viral[/URL] Jim said they could have included Steve Kerr. (But is Jim Boeheim can get three more wins, he doesn’t have to join the picture.) The Basketball Tournament is coming back in the summer. “They’ll have to see who is in town.” This prompted a discussion of SU’s overseas players. Arinze Onuaku is in Bahrain. “He was a really good inside player his last couple of years here.” CJ Fair is in Dubai. Andy Rautins and Wes Johnson are playing in Greece for Rick Pitino. Matt suggested they had the best team in Europe. Jim felt they had the beat in Greece but had not down well in the European championships. On John Beilein: “When you go from college to the NBA, you’re likely to go a team that’s going to lose. In college you go over and over stuff. In the NBA the players get tired of that after 30+ games. Andre Drummond tried to score over three guys. John told him that they had two good shooters that were open. Drummond went right to the general manager and said that he wasn’t going to take orders from a college coach. Collin Sexton said that he didn’t think he needed anybody managing him.” He said that Beilein went to the NBA because he was tired of recruiting so he doesn’t think he will go back to college. “John is a frugal guy and they owe him $18 million….if you have the right team, you can coach them. Brad Stevens isn’t a better coach than John Beilein.” Could JB have made it in the NBA? “I’m not a micromanager. I let the players play. I never wanted to go. You don’t have to recruit but it’s hard to be successful if it’s a crappy job, which is what you are likely to get at the entry level. They don’t fire the players. They fire the coach. Whoever takes over the Cavalier sis going to lose. Most coaches fail in the NBA because they are taking jobs that are not that good.” Matt noted that pro sports owners often prefer coaches who have bene assistants to successful coaches such as Greg Popovich or Bill Belichick. JB: “Just because you work for a good coach it doesn’t mean you are one.” He said that Roy Williams had bene a “part time coach” under Dean Smith when he got the Kansas job. (?!?) One the baseball controversy about stealing signs: “Commissioner Manfred should issue suspensions but not take away championships. Everybody steals signs these guys did it better. It’s the Lance Armstrong defense: everybody cheats. I just did it better. If they punish it enough, it will stop. The Big Eats used to have 10 fights a season until they started issuing suspensions. Then it stopped. “ Coach talked with Doug Marrone when in Florida for the FSU game. “He’s a good friend. He’s been saved for another year. They lost too many layers. The players didn’t dislike him. They disliked management. Matt suggested that disappointed Syracuse fans could think about spring, which is coming around the end of March. He told Jim “your job is to give us a bridge to spring and make it exciting for the people.” Coach: “Spring is a long ways away.” [/QUOTE]

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