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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4164358, member: 289"] PART 2 Gomez suggested that “This is the grind it out part of the season”. JB: We got one day off this week but we’ve got a whole week after Saturday. Then we’ve got 5 games in 8 days. It’s crazy.” How fast will these guys adjust to not having Jesse in there? JB: “I think we’re capable of handling it. Frank rebounds. Bourama can play 15-20 minutes if needed. I’m hoping Benny and John Bol can help us. Players look for opportunities. Marek was a forward. He was really better for us at center. He did things our big guys couldn’t do. Lawrence Moten played guard and small forward. Michael Gbinije came here as a 3 man and wound up playing point. We’ve had extensive practices We work with the first unit, then the second, then mix them up so they get the same practice time. Bourama has worked with the first and a second group. It’s not like in football where the 3rd string quarterback doesn’t get many reps…. Jesse went down at the end. He told Brad (Pike), it was a little sore. It was shocking.” “75% of the fans at the BC were Syracuse fans. It’s like at Cornell where the hockey team sells out but their basketball team plays before 50 people. When you lose, fans lose interest. People were wearing masks in Boston in the restaurants.” Jim then returned to the subject of kids in school. “After all those scare tactics, there’s bene no long-lasting Covid problems for young people. Kids are dropping out. You don’t learn at home.” John in Syracuse combined a bad connection with incoherence. Something about how we used to “run our centers” and that Buddy could play point guard. JB said he had no idea what John was saying. John then said that craig Forth “was a great screener. Gerry used to run around him and shoot over him.” Jim: “We’ve tried that with Jesse but he’s not quite as wide. Jesse took advantage of seams and Jimmy got in there, too. I was shocked they let Jesse roll, catch and dunk. A couple of teams were caught looking to get outside. BC was right there for Jesse and he didn’t finish. Centers tend to foul out early in their careers. This is essentially his first year playing.” They talks about how well Rutgers was doing lately, beating #13 Michigan State and #16 Ohio State in consecutive games. JB: “They’ve played well at home. There are a lot of good teams out there who can beat people. There’s 7-8 really good teams and 40-50 pretty good teams.” Arkansas beat Auburn and Auburn complained about them using strobe lights as their players were trying to leave the court. JB: “You’ve got to be careful about that stuff.” Indian lost 5 players to suspension and lost by 8. JB; “That’s not fun.” IUPUI is in such bad straits that they are holding open try-outs for the team. All you need is a student ID and proof of insurance. [Nothing about vaccinations?] the Connecticut women lost their first conference game in 9 years to Villanova, (who used, basically 6 players: [URL="https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401378392"]Villanova vs. UConn - Box Score - February 9, 2022 - ESPN[/URL] ) “They didn’t have the best player in the country, who was out. When she comes back, they will be one of the favorites for the national championship.” Jason called in to say that his wife was at Carrabba’s but was too shy to come forward and ask a question. Jim asked her name, (Amy), and urged her to “come right up”. She was embarrassed. “You’re husband said you should come up here. Don’t blame me.” Can Benny play at the 5? “he’s still trying to learn to play forward.” They went to Twitch and discussed a Dailey orange article about Jim daughter Jaime, whose team won 3 straight state titles in high school but opted not to continue her basketball career in college at Rochester. “She was a natural. She got hurt at Rochester and didn’t want to go through all the work. It wasn’t fun anymore. She wanted concentrate on her studies. She played because she was good at it.” [URL="https://dailyorange.com/2022/01/how-jamie-boeheim-fell-out-of-love-with-playing-basketball/"]How Jamie Boeheim fell out of love with playing basketball[/URL] What will it take to make golf more popular? JB: “It takes so long. Younger people are into their phones. Jimmy and Buddy didn’t really get into golf until the pandemic.” Jim said he likes to play 9 holes at night. He can do it in about an hour. [My suggestion would be to create more 9 hole and par three courses. 18 holes is hard work for somebody’s who’s not very good at the game.] Jim said that one key to speed is to not go looking for the ball when you hit it off the hole. He once played behind Alice Cooper at Turning Stone and Cooper, “a good player, spends his summers looking through the woods for balls.” [My dad used to consider it a successful round if he had more balls at the end than he started out with.] They got back to the center situation. “Frank is the most experienced. He will be in at the beginning. Then Bourama and then the three forwards.” Then they were back to nonsense. Coach has become a huge fan of Wordle. He plays it every day and posts the result on-line. He plays against his daughter in Montana. The whole family plays. Now you know that and your life is complete. Somebody remember Jim as a counselor at a camp in the Adirondacks in the 1960’s. Jim remembered being one at a place on Lake George and also at Dolph Schayes basketball camp from 1968-71. Another chat room member wondered how good a coach GMAC would make. Jim thinks he’ll be a fine coach someday and so will Adrian Autry and Allen Griffin. Sorry, no news there. Somebody named Ish Smith set an NBA record by being traded for the 13th time. But he was traded back to a team he played for before, the Wizards so he’s still tied for playing for the most teams. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/smithis01.html[/URL] {Baseball used to have a player named Harry “Suitcase” Simpson. Then there was Harry Chiti who was traded “for a player to be named later”. He turned out to be the player to be named later..] JB: “He came out of the G-League.” Which led to speculation that Elijah Hughes, who came out of the G-league, too, would do well in Portland, with CJ McCollum gone and Damien Lillard on the shelf. Gomez turned the tables and asked Jim if he had a question for ‘Cuse Nation’. {Which means that Gomez was out of questions himself.] Jim had no questions, just a tribute to the fans. “I know it’s tough with the masks. They are doing what they can. We’ve got overall support from the huge majority. 75% of the fans at Boston College were Syracuse fans. And, admittedly, it’s been a down year.” Gomez said that somebody had planted an SU flag on Mount Kilimanjaro. Jim said he saw SU gear when he was in Bejing for the summer Olympics. He said there must have bene 100,000 student who have graduated from SU “who have spread around the globe and many of them still go to our games.’ [Orange Nation is conquering the world!] Has Coach been watching the Winter Olympics? “I watched Nathan Chen and Chloe Kim win their gold medals with spectacular performances. I saw Mikaela Shiffrin fall. I don’t why they are one and done. Why not let them do 2-3 runs and take the bast time, especially when the slopes are not good?” Will SU ever play St. Bonaventure and Buffalo again? JB: “We’re not going to go there. And I had an issue with Buffalo the last time we played them and I didn’t like the way it was handled.” He didn’t elaborate but recalled when they went to Buffalo to play Canisius years ago. “The bus went to the school and the game was at the Aud. The bus driver didn’t know where he was going.” With that Jim left, saying that he had to bring home dinner for Jimmy and Buddy. [/QUOTE]

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