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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 is at Carrabba's Italian Grill at 550 Towne Drive, Fayetteville, NY. The first hour, hosted by Matt Park, the Voice of the Orange, is on their general network. The second hour, which usually begins with the conference season, is hosted by Gomez, a local radio personality.
Their schedule: The AmeriCU Jim Boeheim Show Begins Tonight! - Syracuse University Athletics
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 | Live News, Sports, Music, and Podcasts
The early shows tend to be in a one hour format. I'll post a summary of them the same night. If they go back to the 2 hour format, I may split it up between the items directly related to the team, which I will post that night and the other stuff, which I will post the next day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
1st Segment Question:
“Coach, we’ve won the first halves this season by a combined 381-330. We’ve lost the second halves by a combined 370-427. What’s happened to our defense in the second half of these games?”
2nd Segment Question:
“Coach, Joe Girard is having a fine season averaging 17 points and 5 assists per 40 minutes. Symir Torrance is averaging only 6 points but 9 assists per 40 minutes. Joe’s an excellent outside shooter but so are Buddy and Cole and also Jimmy, who is hitting 43% from the arc. What is the relative difference in having four shooters vs. Symir’s ability to set up shots for his teammates? Could the team benefit from playing Symir more to give Joe a rest or in tandem with Joe while whoever isn’t hitting sits?”
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.)
Jim showed up directly from practice, still wearing his whistle. He told Matt that he always has it on but he usually tucks it inside of his shirt. “We have to improve our defense. Against Georgetown we gave up 39 points in the middle of the zone. Our perimeter defense was much better but we gave up too many second chance points. We’re slower to the ball but we need to do a better job of getting there and be more physical. We aren’t shooting well but we’re scoring well so we need to shoot better. People blame one guy when a player is open but it’s never about one guy. They score on us, not on one guy.” Matt noted that Coach has “changed the zone from game to game and even from play to play”.
I called in my question about why our defense breaks down in the second half. JB: “If I knew the answer I would correct it. It’s not unusual for a team to score better against a defense in the first half than the second as they get a feel for it.” [They why don’t we do it?] “The only explanation is that our defense is not good enough. We’re a little slow. The front line is new. We’re giving up the baseline. Indiana and Villanova missed shots in the first half and made them in the second half. Florida State missed shots. We broke even on the boards against them and won. Our offense slipped a little in the second half. Our defense went from bad to worse. Georgetown got too many easy points. If we do anything with Muhammed. They made along, tough three at the end of the shot clock, we win. If you can’t control the middle with your center and have to help, you give up more on the outside. If we are to be successful it will our defense, (that improves to allow that to happen)”….it’s good to be home to get practice days in. Atlantis was the toughest (regular season) tournament we’ve ever played in. We’ve had a brutal schedule. With a normal schedule, we’d be 7-3 or better. The regular season ACC schedule is the key now.
Coach is very concerned about Covid. “The difference is this year there are no protocols and no remote classes. And in this league, if you can’t play, it’s a forfeit. Every team has somebody who’s got something. We could be in more trouble this year than last. This new variant might not be as harsh but it’s more easily transmitted. Five years ago we had 6 of 10 guys with the flu, which had worse symptoms. We still had to play. This kills old people. Young people survive. We could find out on Thursday that 4 guys can’t play in a Saturday game. If you can’t play, it’s a forfeit. That makes no sense to me. We’ve had all the shots and boosters but you can still get this.” On Cornell: “It’s hard to believe that they will make it. They’ve shut down their campus with over 500 cases. It depends on if the team has any cases. We won’t know until at least Sunday if that game will be played.”
Matt went over some of the recent results for ACC teams Florida State lost to South Carolina but easily beat David Lipscomb. Louisville, Wake Forest, North Carolina, Clemson and Duke each had easy wins. Boston College, who had been doing well, lost to Albany. JB: “They had a bad night. It happens. BC is way better. Wake if good. Clemson is good. Miami is playing better. We’re not a great team. We’ve lost to some good teams. We haven’t practiced, (enough). We’re looking better in practice but we need to do better in games.”
Josh in Boulder said that, against Georgetown “Joe Girard looked like the only guy who wanted to win. Is he becoming a leader on offense?” Coach cleared his throat. “Everybody’s playing hard. Everybody wants to score. We’re getting good shots. When they went up four, the play was for Joe to drive, score and get to the foul line., He did but didn’t make the foul shot. It’s the defense. You don’t even need to look at the stats but they are screaming it…. Buddy is getting hit but it’s not being called. For him to have no free throws for two games is ridiculous.”
Lehigh is 1-8 but “They are not bad. They have been in every game. They were ahead of Rutgers late. Everybody ahs players. It’s pretty good teams and really good teams.”
The women’s team “is playing really, really good. They are hard working and they play together. They have a really nice team.”
In the pros, Oshae Brissett continues to play well. He’s averaging 8 points and rebound in his last 7 games. “He started the year playing a lot then had a couple of bad games and didn’t play at all. Then somebody got hurt and he got another chance and has been playing well.”
Steph Curry “was 6-3 and 160-170 pounds when he first came with us in the Olympics. The Olympics is more physical than the NBA and he had a lot of trouble. His evolution was in strength. He make the hardest shots, often shooting 3-4 feet behind the line. He’s probably had about 1,100 of his threes off the dribble. Steph is a show. If you like the game at all you have to watch him play.” Matt pulled up, (but I could not find) a “digital represent ion of where Steph Curry’s three pointers came from.” He described what was a apparently a chronological representation because Matt said that it showed that his threes have come from farther and father out as his career progressed. Coach said that Steph “Is on the right team. They don’t have a traditional center. They have Draymond Green. Every player on that team is a play-make
On Deon Sanders snatching the #1 recruit away from his alma mater, possibly due to a ‘NIL’ deal: Jimbo Fisher said it best: ‘We’re doing the same things we’ve always done but now it’s legal.’ The NCAA didn’t know who to make rules about recruiting for this….Buddy isn’t making what people think he is. Somebody said it was 6 figures. It isn’t even 5.” One guy transferred from Texas to Ohio State and then went back to Texas. “He was there for four months. All these people wanted this and it would be Ok if it were done normally, (market-driven), it would be OK but it’s manufactured. A top program will have $2-3 million available. Top players will get it but what about the 60-70 other guys?” On coach’s salaries: “Coaches hare 60 years old. They’ve worked up to that.” [That’s the exact age J. K. Simmons’ coach in ‘National Champions’ says he is: had JB seen the movie?] “Tom Cruise makes $200 million a picture and the other guys get union scale. This isn’t socialism. Most football players will never get a dime. On every top 20 tam their top players will have Instagram posted where they say ‘I shop at Whole Foods every day’ and he’ll get money for that.”
They got to Urban Meyer as the music to end the first hour was playing. “Some coaches can make the adjustment. Some can’t. A lot of college coaches wind up with the worst teams.”
Gomez came on and they talked about the weather – 67 degrees in December. Jim laughed “No global warming… I can’t remember even making the 40’s in December. Twenty years ago it would be 5-10 degrees. When I was in the eastern League we had 20 straight days where it was below zero. I was so happy if the car started. The ice was so thick you couldn’t scrape it off. You had to warm up the car.” [And he had to walk 10 miles in a blizzard to get to the schoolhouse…] “it’s a little better now living here weather-wise.” [And we still have SU basketball even when it is cold.]
Against Georgetown “We had a slow start to the second half offensively. We dropped a pass and missed a shot, then didn’t get a foul call. If Buddy and Cole had made just one more shot we would have won the game. We’ve played some pretty good defensive teams. We aren’t forcing that many turnovers.” [The parallels with the football season keep on coming.] “We’re 7 feet, 69 and 6-9. It should be that easy for a 6-5 guy to score inside. We aren’t physical enough. We don’t have physical strong, tough guys. We have finesse guys. Marek was skinny but he was physical. Gerry was tough as nails. Josh Pace was nice but he was tough. Carmelo was nice but tough. With our lack of physicality, we have to make up for it on offense. But getting better on defense is the real key…Atlantis was three games in a row. Then we had to come home for Indian, travel to Florida State, then Villanova in New York City and a road game against Georgetown. We had about 7 practices in 17-18 days.”
At this point I called in my second question. First it referred to Gomez’s statement last week that “When Syracuse and Georgetown get together you can throw out the rule book”. He meant the record book. I commented that I’d seen some Syracuse-Georgetown games where I thought they’d thrown out the rule book. Both Gomez and JB laughed heartily. I wanted them in a good mood for my question, which brought up memories of the Kadary issue last year.
JB: “The problem is, I don’t know who’s not hitting. A good shooter could suddenly hit his next four shots. I’d like to play Symir more but he’s not playing as well as I want in practice or in games. He played well vs. Georgetown so now he’ll play more….Cole has not shot well. He’s in a new role. He’s like a freshman. I want ed Ben and Symir to both play about 16 minutes and for Frank to play about 12. But they haven’t earned it yet. It’s hard to take Joe or Buddy out to but Symir in. We need those guys more.” [So I guess the answer to my question is that having a fourth shooter out there gives Jim one more chance to have somebody his 4 threes in a row and that’s more important than Symir’s assists and defense.]
Gomez said “So the 3-4 minutes a player gets in a game isn’t the whole picture – you have to see what they are doing in practice.” JB: High school doesn’t matter. If a coach doesn’t see it in practice it’s hard to play him. Last year Robert Braswell was not playing well early and Alan griffin was being very productive. Griffin fell off and Braswell was playing 30 minutes. Griff struggled so much mentally that his offense was bad and then he struggled on defense. We were a better defensive team with Marek because he covered the middle better. Trevor Cooney was probably the MVP of our team because of his defense and because he was our only outside threat. Generally the starting line-up is pretty obvious and doesn’t change. Usually it’s not close. If we play 7-8 guys and those guys hurt you and we don’t win I can’t play them. A minority of people want to second guess it. I’m much more concerned with the 20,000 people who come to the games than the ones who don’t and complain.”
Their schedule: The AmeriCU Jim Boeheim Show Begins Tonight! - Syracuse University Athletics
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 | Live News, Sports, Music, and Podcasts
The early shows tend to be in a one hour format. I'll post a summary of them the same night. If they go back to the 2 hour format, I may split it up between the items directly related to the team, which I will post that night and the other stuff, which I will post the next day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
1st Segment Question:
“Coach, we’ve won the first halves this season by a combined 381-330. We’ve lost the second halves by a combined 370-427. What’s happened to our defense in the second half of these games?”
2nd Segment Question:
“Coach, Joe Girard is having a fine season averaging 17 points and 5 assists per 40 minutes. Symir Torrance is averaging only 6 points but 9 assists per 40 minutes. Joe’s an excellent outside shooter but so are Buddy and Cole and also Jimmy, who is hitting 43% from the arc. What is the relative difference in having four shooters vs. Symir’s ability to set up shots for his teammates? Could the team benefit from playing Symir more to give Joe a rest or in tandem with Joe while whoever isn’t hitting sits?”
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.)
Jim showed up directly from practice, still wearing his whistle. He told Matt that he always has it on but he usually tucks it inside of his shirt. “We have to improve our defense. Against Georgetown we gave up 39 points in the middle of the zone. Our perimeter defense was much better but we gave up too many second chance points. We’re slower to the ball but we need to do a better job of getting there and be more physical. We aren’t shooting well but we’re scoring well so we need to shoot better. People blame one guy when a player is open but it’s never about one guy. They score on us, not on one guy.” Matt noted that Coach has “changed the zone from game to game and even from play to play”.
I called in my question about why our defense breaks down in the second half. JB: “If I knew the answer I would correct it. It’s not unusual for a team to score better against a defense in the first half than the second as they get a feel for it.” [They why don’t we do it?] “The only explanation is that our defense is not good enough. We’re a little slow. The front line is new. We’re giving up the baseline. Indiana and Villanova missed shots in the first half and made them in the second half. Florida State missed shots. We broke even on the boards against them and won. Our offense slipped a little in the second half. Our defense went from bad to worse. Georgetown got too many easy points. If we do anything with Muhammed. They made along, tough three at the end of the shot clock, we win. If you can’t control the middle with your center and have to help, you give up more on the outside. If we are to be successful it will our defense, (that improves to allow that to happen)”….it’s good to be home to get practice days in. Atlantis was the toughest (regular season) tournament we’ve ever played in. We’ve had a brutal schedule. With a normal schedule, we’d be 7-3 or better. The regular season ACC schedule is the key now.
Coach is very concerned about Covid. “The difference is this year there are no protocols and no remote classes. And in this league, if you can’t play, it’s a forfeit. Every team has somebody who’s got something. We could be in more trouble this year than last. This new variant might not be as harsh but it’s more easily transmitted. Five years ago we had 6 of 10 guys with the flu, which had worse symptoms. We still had to play. This kills old people. Young people survive. We could find out on Thursday that 4 guys can’t play in a Saturday game. If you can’t play, it’s a forfeit. That makes no sense to me. We’ve had all the shots and boosters but you can still get this.” On Cornell: “It’s hard to believe that they will make it. They’ve shut down their campus with over 500 cases. It depends on if the team has any cases. We won’t know until at least Sunday if that game will be played.”
Matt went over some of the recent results for ACC teams Florida State lost to South Carolina but easily beat David Lipscomb. Louisville, Wake Forest, North Carolina, Clemson and Duke each had easy wins. Boston College, who had been doing well, lost to Albany. JB: “They had a bad night. It happens. BC is way better. Wake if good. Clemson is good. Miami is playing better. We’re not a great team. We’ve lost to some good teams. We haven’t practiced, (enough). We’re looking better in practice but we need to do better in games.”
Josh in Boulder said that, against Georgetown “Joe Girard looked like the only guy who wanted to win. Is he becoming a leader on offense?” Coach cleared his throat. “Everybody’s playing hard. Everybody wants to score. We’re getting good shots. When they went up four, the play was for Joe to drive, score and get to the foul line., He did but didn’t make the foul shot. It’s the defense. You don’t even need to look at the stats but they are screaming it…. Buddy is getting hit but it’s not being called. For him to have no free throws for two games is ridiculous.”
Lehigh is 1-8 but “They are not bad. They have been in every game. They were ahead of Rutgers late. Everybody ahs players. It’s pretty good teams and really good teams.”
The women’s team “is playing really, really good. They are hard working and they play together. They have a really nice team.”
In the pros, Oshae Brissett continues to play well. He’s averaging 8 points and rebound in his last 7 games. “He started the year playing a lot then had a couple of bad games and didn’t play at all. Then somebody got hurt and he got another chance and has been playing well.”
Steph Curry “was 6-3 and 160-170 pounds when he first came with us in the Olympics. The Olympics is more physical than the NBA and he had a lot of trouble. His evolution was in strength. He make the hardest shots, often shooting 3-4 feet behind the line. He’s probably had about 1,100 of his threes off the dribble. Steph is a show. If you like the game at all you have to watch him play.” Matt pulled up, (but I could not find) a “digital represent ion of where Steph Curry’s three pointers came from.” He described what was a apparently a chronological representation because Matt said that it showed that his threes have come from farther and father out as his career progressed. Coach said that Steph “Is on the right team. They don’t have a traditional center. They have Draymond Green. Every player on that team is a play-make
On Deon Sanders snatching the #1 recruit away from his alma mater, possibly due to a ‘NIL’ deal: Jimbo Fisher said it best: ‘We’re doing the same things we’ve always done but now it’s legal.’ The NCAA didn’t know who to make rules about recruiting for this….Buddy isn’t making what people think he is. Somebody said it was 6 figures. It isn’t even 5.” One guy transferred from Texas to Ohio State and then went back to Texas. “He was there for four months. All these people wanted this and it would be Ok if it were done normally, (market-driven), it would be OK but it’s manufactured. A top program will have $2-3 million available. Top players will get it but what about the 60-70 other guys?” On coach’s salaries: “Coaches hare 60 years old. They’ve worked up to that.” [That’s the exact age J. K. Simmons’ coach in ‘National Champions’ says he is: had JB seen the movie?] “Tom Cruise makes $200 million a picture and the other guys get union scale. This isn’t socialism. Most football players will never get a dime. On every top 20 tam their top players will have Instagram posted where they say ‘I shop at Whole Foods every day’ and he’ll get money for that.”
They got to Urban Meyer as the music to end the first hour was playing. “Some coaches can make the adjustment. Some can’t. A lot of college coaches wind up with the worst teams.”
Gomez came on and they talked about the weather – 67 degrees in December. Jim laughed “No global warming… I can’t remember even making the 40’s in December. Twenty years ago it would be 5-10 degrees. When I was in the eastern League we had 20 straight days where it was below zero. I was so happy if the car started. The ice was so thick you couldn’t scrape it off. You had to warm up the car.” [And he had to walk 10 miles in a blizzard to get to the schoolhouse…] “it’s a little better now living here weather-wise.” [And we still have SU basketball even when it is cold.]
Against Georgetown “We had a slow start to the second half offensively. We dropped a pass and missed a shot, then didn’t get a foul call. If Buddy and Cole had made just one more shot we would have won the game. We’ve played some pretty good defensive teams. We aren’t forcing that many turnovers.” [The parallels with the football season keep on coming.] “We’re 7 feet, 69 and 6-9. It should be that easy for a 6-5 guy to score inside. We aren’t physical enough. We don’t have physical strong, tough guys. We have finesse guys. Marek was skinny but he was physical. Gerry was tough as nails. Josh Pace was nice but he was tough. Carmelo was nice but tough. With our lack of physicality, we have to make up for it on offense. But getting better on defense is the real key…Atlantis was three games in a row. Then we had to come home for Indian, travel to Florida State, then Villanova in New York City and a road game against Georgetown. We had about 7 practices in 17-18 days.”
At this point I called in my second question. First it referred to Gomez’s statement last week that “When Syracuse and Georgetown get together you can throw out the rule book”. He meant the record book. I commented that I’d seen some Syracuse-Georgetown games where I thought they’d thrown out the rule book. Both Gomez and JB laughed heartily. I wanted them in a good mood for my question, which brought up memories of the Kadary issue last year.
JB: “The problem is, I don’t know who’s not hitting. A good shooter could suddenly hit his next four shots. I’d like to play Symir more but he’s not playing as well as I want in practice or in games. He played well vs. Georgetown so now he’ll play more….Cole has not shot well. He’s in a new role. He’s like a freshman. I want ed Ben and Symir to both play about 16 minutes and for Frank to play about 12. But they haven’t earned it yet. It’s hard to take Joe or Buddy out to but Symir in. We need those guys more.” [So I guess the answer to my question is that having a fourth shooter out there gives Jim one more chance to have somebody his 4 threes in a row and that’s more important than Symir’s assists and defense.]
Gomez said “So the 3-4 minutes a player gets in a game isn’t the whole picture – you have to see what they are doing in practice.” JB: High school doesn’t matter. If a coach doesn’t see it in practice it’s hard to play him. Last year Robert Braswell was not playing well early and Alan griffin was being very productive. Griffin fell off and Braswell was playing 30 minutes. Griff struggled so much mentally that his offense was bad and then he struggled on defense. We were a better defensive team with Marek because he covered the middle better. Trevor Cooney was probably the MVP of our team because of his defense and because he was our only outside threat. Generally the starting line-up is pretty obvious and doesn’t change. Usually it’s not close. If we play 7-8 guys and those guys hurt you and we don’t win I can’t play them. A minority of people want to second guess it. I’m much more concerned with the 20,000 people who come to the games than the ones who don’t and complain.”
