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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, Monday, 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, in the wins over Boston College and Virginia Tech, Howard Washington played 29 minutes, scored 4 points and had 4 assists. Yet his plus/minus was a total of +39 points. Does that mean that the plus/minus stat is over rated or do the conventional stats underrate Howard?”
Second Hour:
“Coach, against Notre Dame every started had at least 4 rebounds and we got 7 more from the bench. Everybody hit the boards and out-rebounded Notre Dame 41-34. I’ve noticed in other games that sometimes when our players shoot outside shots, they tend to drift back down court after releasing the shot. Would you prefer the shooter to position himself for a possible rebound or would you rather they go down court to prevent a fast break?”
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 on ND: “Another one of those games. They made some circus shots: a banked shot form the corner, a half-court shot. We made our free throws. It’s good to get some wins after the slow start.”
Matt Park said that it was an exciting game and the fans are enjoying these types of games. JB: “People like it. It’s entertaining. But it’s not the best basketball.” (Coaches!) “Our defense isn’t where it needs to be. It’s marginally better. Our rebounding is better but we aren’t playing the monster teams. Mooney is great but Durham isn’t really a rebounder and the rest of their team is sub-par. We’re still learning the rotations. Quincy didn’t play last year and just shot it in AAU ball. It’s really the first full year for Bourama. Howard didn’t play last year. Marek played behind Oshae. Elijah wasn’t the main option. The rest are freshmen….In some ways we played better at home in the games against Notre Dame and Virginia Tech when we lost. The defense improved vs. Virginia but they can’t shoot. Scoring 20 points in 5 minutes against them is unheard of.” (I’ll be we did that in 2016.) “We normally can’t score 20 points in 10 minutes against them.”
I called in my first question about +/- and Howard Washington. JB: “I don’t think it means anything. Howard was fine but he had 1 assist while Buddy was scoring 18 points in a row. You have to look at sequences to understand what happened… Howard is not a stat guy. He’s a good, smart player. He shoots 20% for three and 30% from the field, he has a 2-1 assist to turnover ratio which is good but not much different than our other guards. All of our guards are average on defense... Brycen is a better shooter. In three minutes Brycen made two good defensive plays, grabbed two rebounds and made a three pointer. He affected the game in a positive way. He’s bene shooting well in practice. It’s hard to score if you haven’t made it in a game. He calmed down. The injury set him back.” (Actually it seems to have improved him.) “He played point guard in high school and he’s still figuring out when to go…. We’re not going to stop a lot of people. We have to score. All of our perimeter players have to score. Joe’s numbers are great. People are talking about taking him out. If a coach did that, they should be wondering “What’s he doing?...Howard didn’t practice today. He’s a maybe for Saturday.”
Matt described the history of the +/- stat. he said it began as a hockey stat. then the NBA started keeping track of it. This year the colleges has changed their software and have several new stats in the box score, including the number of fouls drawn and the number of shots blocked. He said that it becomes a more meaningful stat if you keep track of it over a long period of time. (That’s true of most stats.) The all-time leaders in hockey are guys like Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr, Ray Bourque and Bobby Clarke. (Actually the all-time leader is Larry Robinson:
NHL All-Time Plus-Minus Leaders ) Matt thinks that if we had a stat like that before this year “Tyus Battle might be the all-time leader” In the Notre Dame game, Joe Girard was +2 and Brycen Goodine +3. Brycen played 4 minutes, Joe 40. Both joe and Elijah Hughes were +2 because they played the whole game that’s what we won by. Quincy Guerrier played 18 minutes and was +12. Was he better than Hughes?
Ryan called in to ask about the situation at the very end of the game, where Joe handed TJ Gibbs the ball. JB: “Who knows what Gibbs said to him? I wish Joe hadn’t given him the ball but at least he didn’t throw it. Gibbs chased after him. I thought that was more egregious. Joe should have just put the ball down and walked away.“
On Bourama Sidibie’s new found confidence: “It’s simple. He made quick moves around the basket. I told him not to over-think it. He’s been capable all season. it was the difference in this game. We wouldn’t have won with his usual 4 points. Notre Dame can score. We can score. They can get the ball into the post. They can score the three. Their bench played a lot better.”
Gomez said that everybody in town is in a good mood now that we are winning. JB, (laughing): “Everybody except me. We’re doing some things better. There’s not a lot of difference in the Notre Dame and Virginia Tech wins and losses. I’m disappointed that we can’t get more stops on defense. It’s good offensive basketball but you need some defense in there. We’ve had to make a lot of great offensive plays to win.”
Joe Girard is doing less than he’s had to do in his basketball life. In high school he was a point guard. He brought the ball up. He was triple-teamed. Gerry was the same. Life is easier here.”
Gomez asked him to expound on the subject of assists. JB: “We’re running ISOs because they are up on Buddy and Jo. Nobody can guard Elijah over 30 feet. Buddy can get pull-ups or drive to the basket. It’s not how you get the shot that counts- it’s the shot itself.”
Gomez also went back to the plus/minus issue. JB: “One guy for Notre Dame was +6 because he only played in the last minute.” Gomez came up with another stat from KenPom: We are 14th in the country in keeping guys in the game with two fouls. JB: “I always have. We can protect them with the zone. sometimes the centers can get in foul trouble. Buddy got those three fouls in the first half and didn’t get any the rest of the game.”
On Quincy Guerrier’s two free throws: “I wasn’t confident that he’s make them but he did. I didn’t think we’d need them. But we did, after they made those long threes.”
I called in my second question about what he wants shoots to do after they release their shots. “When we aren’t playing a team that runs a lot I want them to take a step forward. We don’t do that as much as I’d like. Last night there were a lot of long rebounds which bounced out to the guards. We still had trouble around the basket due to Mooney. Normally the guards are good for 2-3 rebounds a game.” Gomez said that derrick Coleman told him that you have to “go for rebounds like they were your last meal.” JB: “Go after everyone. If you go after 10 of them you might get just two. If you go after 20 of them you might get 6 or 8”.
On his comments about Mooney and Elijah not getting proper recognition: “The more we, (and Notre Dame), win, the more recognition they will get. Mooney has 12 double-doubles. He’s a good shooter and passer.” Gomez noted that Denis Rodman used to look at films and follow the flight of the ball to assist him in his rebounding. JB: “He was thinking about rebounding- and nothing else- coming down-court.”
Pat called in to praise Hughes, saying that he had adjusted to his new role on the team and was a top ten player in the country. JB repeated that winning was needed for recognition. “In the old Big East, There were teams with tremendous players who didn’t enough to get them recognition. We won and our players were all-league.” Pat tried to compare him to Quincy Guerrier. JB: “Quincy’s a high school player. Elijah played a year in college, then came here. He practiced with us for a year. He didn’t score more last year because he was the 3rd or 4th option. His numbers are better than most but we need to win to get him recognition.”
“The turn-around has been due to better offense. The defense is slightly better – not great. That’s where we have to improve. We are doing the little things we have to do to win- get a big rebound, not make a big turnover, make our free throws, etc.”
Gomez asked about the confrontation between Joe Girard and TJ Gibbs. JB: “I don’t like it. We try to tone it down. Confrontations like the one between Kansas and Kansas State used to happen all the time in the old Big East. What stopped it was that the league started suspending players for it. Then it stopped.” He did recall a game against Cornell where a 6-4180 Cornell player wanted to go at it with derrick Coleman. “You’re supposed to be smart if you’re going to Cornell.” (He should know.) “Players are more friendly overall these days. They play together in the AAU and the Olympics. They move around more.“
On our recruiting: “I’m, happy with the guys we’ve got but we are still working on it.”
Tom called in to laud Jim: “You never gave up on your guys.” JB: “You never give up. You’ve got to keep fighting. There’s always bad stretches in life… We had a hard non-conference schedule. We’ll keep battling and fight our way back… We are getting better.” “Big Bill” called in to say that he was a second generation Boeheim fan and professed his love for the coach. “You keep going, coach!” JB: “People are very nice. Critics never come up to you. There will always be negative people. You need to stay away from them.
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, Monday, 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, in the wins over Boston College and Virginia Tech, Howard Washington played 29 minutes, scored 4 points and had 4 assists. Yet his plus/minus was a total of +39 points. Does that mean that the plus/minus stat is over rated or do the conventional stats underrate Howard?”
Second Hour:
“Coach, against Notre Dame every started had at least 4 rebounds and we got 7 more from the bench. Everybody hit the boards and out-rebounded Notre Dame 41-34. I’ve noticed in other games that sometimes when our players shoot outside shots, they tend to drift back down court after releasing the shot. Would you prefer the shooter to position himself for a possible rebound or would you rather they go down court to prevent a fast break?”
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 on ND: “Another one of those games. They made some circus shots: a banked shot form the corner, a half-court shot. We made our free throws. It’s good to get some wins after the slow start.”
Matt Park said that it was an exciting game and the fans are enjoying these types of games. JB: “People like it. It’s entertaining. But it’s not the best basketball.” (Coaches!) “Our defense isn’t where it needs to be. It’s marginally better. Our rebounding is better but we aren’t playing the monster teams. Mooney is great but Durham isn’t really a rebounder and the rest of their team is sub-par. We’re still learning the rotations. Quincy didn’t play last year and just shot it in AAU ball. It’s really the first full year for Bourama. Howard didn’t play last year. Marek played behind Oshae. Elijah wasn’t the main option. The rest are freshmen….In some ways we played better at home in the games against Notre Dame and Virginia Tech when we lost. The defense improved vs. Virginia but they can’t shoot. Scoring 20 points in 5 minutes against them is unheard of.” (I’ll be we did that in 2016.) “We normally can’t score 20 points in 10 minutes against them.”
I called in my first question about +/- and Howard Washington. JB: “I don’t think it means anything. Howard was fine but he had 1 assist while Buddy was scoring 18 points in a row. You have to look at sequences to understand what happened… Howard is not a stat guy. He’s a good, smart player. He shoots 20% for three and 30% from the field, he has a 2-1 assist to turnover ratio which is good but not much different than our other guards. All of our guards are average on defense... Brycen is a better shooter. In three minutes Brycen made two good defensive plays, grabbed two rebounds and made a three pointer. He affected the game in a positive way. He’s bene shooting well in practice. It’s hard to score if you haven’t made it in a game. He calmed down. The injury set him back.” (Actually it seems to have improved him.) “He played point guard in high school and he’s still figuring out when to go…. We’re not going to stop a lot of people. We have to score. All of our perimeter players have to score. Joe’s numbers are great. People are talking about taking him out. If a coach did that, they should be wondering “What’s he doing?...Howard didn’t practice today. He’s a maybe for Saturday.”
Matt described the history of the +/- stat. he said it began as a hockey stat. then the NBA started keeping track of it. This year the colleges has changed their software and have several new stats in the box score, including the number of fouls drawn and the number of shots blocked. He said that it becomes a more meaningful stat if you keep track of it over a long period of time. (That’s true of most stats.) The all-time leaders in hockey are guys like Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr, Ray Bourque and Bobby Clarke. (Actually the all-time leader is Larry Robinson:
NHL All-Time Plus-Minus Leaders ) Matt thinks that if we had a stat like that before this year “Tyus Battle might be the all-time leader” In the Notre Dame game, Joe Girard was +2 and Brycen Goodine +3. Brycen played 4 minutes, Joe 40. Both joe and Elijah Hughes were +2 because they played the whole game that’s what we won by. Quincy Guerrier played 18 minutes and was +12. Was he better than Hughes?
Ryan called in to ask about the situation at the very end of the game, where Joe handed TJ Gibbs the ball. JB: “Who knows what Gibbs said to him? I wish Joe hadn’t given him the ball but at least he didn’t throw it. Gibbs chased after him. I thought that was more egregious. Joe should have just put the ball down and walked away.“
On Bourama Sidibie’s new found confidence: “It’s simple. He made quick moves around the basket. I told him not to over-think it. He’s been capable all season. it was the difference in this game. We wouldn’t have won with his usual 4 points. Notre Dame can score. We can score. They can get the ball into the post. They can score the three. Their bench played a lot better.”
Gomez said that everybody in town is in a good mood now that we are winning. JB, (laughing): “Everybody except me. We’re doing some things better. There’s not a lot of difference in the Notre Dame and Virginia Tech wins and losses. I’m disappointed that we can’t get more stops on defense. It’s good offensive basketball but you need some defense in there. We’ve had to make a lot of great offensive plays to win.”
Joe Girard is doing less than he’s had to do in his basketball life. In high school he was a point guard. He brought the ball up. He was triple-teamed. Gerry was the same. Life is easier here.”
Gomez asked him to expound on the subject of assists. JB: “We’re running ISOs because they are up on Buddy and Jo. Nobody can guard Elijah over 30 feet. Buddy can get pull-ups or drive to the basket. It’s not how you get the shot that counts- it’s the shot itself.”
Gomez also went back to the plus/minus issue. JB: “One guy for Notre Dame was +6 because he only played in the last minute.” Gomez came up with another stat from KenPom: We are 14th in the country in keeping guys in the game with two fouls. JB: “I always have. We can protect them with the zone. sometimes the centers can get in foul trouble. Buddy got those three fouls in the first half and didn’t get any the rest of the game.”
On Quincy Guerrier’s two free throws: “I wasn’t confident that he’s make them but he did. I didn’t think we’d need them. But we did, after they made those long threes.”
I called in my second question about what he wants shoots to do after they release their shots. “When we aren’t playing a team that runs a lot I want them to take a step forward. We don’t do that as much as I’d like. Last night there were a lot of long rebounds which bounced out to the guards. We still had trouble around the basket due to Mooney. Normally the guards are good for 2-3 rebounds a game.” Gomez said that derrick Coleman told him that you have to “go for rebounds like they were your last meal.” JB: “Go after everyone. If you go after 10 of them you might get just two. If you go after 20 of them you might get 6 or 8”.
On his comments about Mooney and Elijah not getting proper recognition: “The more we, (and Notre Dame), win, the more recognition they will get. Mooney has 12 double-doubles. He’s a good shooter and passer.” Gomez noted that Denis Rodman used to look at films and follow the flight of the ball to assist him in his rebounding. JB: “He was thinking about rebounding- and nothing else- coming down-court.”
Pat called in to praise Hughes, saying that he had adjusted to his new role on the team and was a top ten player in the country. JB repeated that winning was needed for recognition. “In the old Big East, There were teams with tremendous players who didn’t enough to get them recognition. We won and our players were all-league.” Pat tried to compare him to Quincy Guerrier. JB: “Quincy’s a high school player. Elijah played a year in college, then came here. He practiced with us for a year. He didn’t score more last year because he was the 3rd or 4th option. His numbers are better than most but we need to win to get him recognition.”
“The turn-around has been due to better offense. The defense is slightly better – not great. That’s where we have to improve. We are doing the little things we have to do to win- get a big rebound, not make a big turnover, make our free throws, etc.”
Gomez asked about the confrontation between Joe Girard and TJ Gibbs. JB: “I don’t like it. We try to tone it down. Confrontations like the one between Kansas and Kansas State used to happen all the time in the old Big East. What stopped it was that the league started suspending players for it. Then it stopped.” He did recall a game against Cornell where a 6-4180 Cornell player wanted to go at it with derrick Coleman. “You’re supposed to be smart if you’re going to Cornell.” (He should know.) “Players are more friendly overall these days. They play together in the AAU and the Olympics. They move around more.“
On our recruiting: “I’m, happy with the guys we’ve got but we are still working on it.”
Tom called in to laud Jim: “You never gave up on your guys.” JB: “You never give up. You’ve got to keep fighting. There’s always bad stretches in life… We had a hard non-conference schedule. We’ll keep battling and fight our way back… We are getting better.” “Big Bill” called in to say that he was a second generation Boeheim fan and professed his love for the coach. “You keep going, coach!” JB: “People are very nice. Critics never come up to you. There will always be negative people. You need to stay away from them.
