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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 the Cavalier Room at the Marriott in Downtown Syracuse. 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.
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!
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: WGVA
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
1st Hour: “Coach, you’ve described the difficulty of re-training graduate transfers to play in your system. Our grad transfers scored 71 of our 100 points against NC State. What role, moving forward, will grad transfers play in this program? Will we be active in that market or will we focus on freshmen who can be more easily trained and could be here for four years? “
2nd Hour: “Coach, one trend we’ve had all season is that if the other team has an outstanding jump shooter, he’ll have one of his best games against us. I would think they would be our #1 defensive priority and we’re usually pretty good at shutting down one guy. Where are the breakdowns coming from?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject. 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 will 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.)
PART ONE
Matt asked how the team was feeling the day after a great win. JB: “We’ve moved on and are getting ready for Virginia….It was a game for the ages. Unprecedented. Spectacular. We needed every bit. It was almost not enough. They gave John threes and he was happy to take them…We made a lot of good plays on offense but were woeful on defense. We’d have a good possession and then an awful one. NC State is a good offensive team but we aren’t stopping anyone… There’s no reason we should be worse than last year. Tyler Lydon and Tyler Roberson were here last year. Andrew White is as good on defense as Malachi Richardson. The guard play has bene the problem…I heard that Ken Pom has had us no worse than 20th in the country in defensive efficiency over the last 8 years. Now we are 106th. (He paused). Incredible. I can’t get my arms around it. (Why would you want to get your arms around it?) We’ve spent more time on defense than normal. Extra preparation. Extra drill…We’ve had some really good defensive games at home. South Carolina and Connecticut weren’t too bad defensively. The others have bene woeful. We were good against the not so good teams and that saves us from being ranked #200. I’d be happy with the Top 20. If we are worse than 40th-50th, that’s not too good.“
I decided to switch the order of my questions since Coach obviously had defense on his mind. I asked him what he was seeing on film when we left guys open. “Every game is different. Sometimes we didn’t get back and they got an open shot. On one play both guards were back and they stood and watched as a guy scored. Sometimes a guy dribbled into the middle of the defense and gets a shot. We’re not challenging shooters. Against Florida State they were either 1 for 8 from three in the first half and then we stopped challenging them. They went 8 for 17 in the second half. Boston College had 100 threes against us in Boston, (actually 16 – it just seemed like 100). That freshman, (Ky Bowman), had 8 threes, (actually 7 in 8 attempts), and in the Dome we were up and challenging them and they got zero, (actually 8 of which Bowman had only 1 in 6 attempts). We haven’t got it done on a consistent basis. The offense is better. Pont guard is a whole lot better. The defense is not good enough. It was good in overtime. They should have gotten only two points. They got a four point play when we should have gotten the rebound. …We gave up too many high percentage three point shots and let the ball get inside, too. We can’t focus on just one spot. It’s both inside and out….The constant bashing of Trevor Cooney and, for a long time Michael Gbinije…People don’t understand that defense is ½ of the game. They were 1-2 in the league in steals. They knew the defense. Trevor was here for 5 years and Michael for four. They had experience in the front of the zone. That was over-looked….We are the same in back but nowhere as good out front, if you want to know the X’s and O’s of the thing.”
Liam in Pompey wanted to know where Gillon’s performance ranked in SU history. Jim remembered that Dave Bing scored 46 points vs. Vanderbilt and 45 vs. Cornell. “To make the last shot and on an incredibly tough shot…NC State is a good offensive team but they get beat badly when the shots don’t fall.” Gillon’s 43 points were the most by a Syracuse player since Gerry McNamara had that number against BYU in the 2004 NCA’s. Jim remembered “That was a close game – they had a shot at the end to win it and missed.” Matt said Gillon scored 20 Syracuse and 12 game points in a row at one point. He’d scored our last 13 points vs. Florida State. He also recalled that Alexis Peterson had had her 45 point game against the Wolfpack so they must be sick of our point guards.
Jim in Central Square thanked the coach for remembering Trevor Cooney. His question was about players who score on one end but give up points on the other. JB: “If you don’t have depth, your options are limited. Andrew White isn’t necessarily guarding Rowan so you can compare his output to Rowan’s. Everybody gives up something. Tyler Lydon is out best player because he scores and he stops people. Last year Mike and Trevor covered people, got steals and tipped balls. This year the two guards are first year players….Baye Moussa Keita didn’t score much but he dominated the middle on ‘D’. if we had a guy like him we’d have a great record. (I thought Tyler Lydon was one of our best defensive centers- doesn’t that make him “a guy like that”?), Paschal was going to be that guy. He had 2 blocks a game playing 10 minutes. if he could play 20 minutes he’d have 4 blocks. With a few rebounds and a couple of lay-ups, we’d be happy with him.“
Matt suggested that the press “in small doses” was effective. JB laughed and said the success of the press was ”almost a matter of luck”. Smith fell down. I think we got two turnovers. I don’t remember how they came about.“ Matt suggested that there was a foul deficit in State’s favor and the refs were doing some make-up calls and that helped the comeback. JB: “Because we play zone, we should commit fewer fouls. WE were driving. Getting to the line is a big part of the game. If we’d bene just good shooting free throws we’d have lost 3 in a row rather than winning three in a row.
Pat called in to ask about our slow starts. We always seem to give up 15 points in the first five minutes. Then we put Tyler Lydon in the middle. JB: “Tyler Lydon is out best middle defender but we’ve gotten off to good starts with Taurean in there. When Tyler Roberson plays well, he’s our best defensive forward. “
Pat was also concerned that Gillon didn’t have the size to match up against Virginia’s London Perrantes, (who is listed at 6-2). JB: “We haven’t matched up well against them before. Now they have more shooters and better ball handlers. Louisville is beating everyone at home by 30 and Virginia beat them there and had a 20 point lead. They beat Notre Dame by 15. They’ve been the best team in the league for four years and they are the best this year, too.
Jim on Onondaga Hill said that “This was the first year you said how great our team was going to be.“ JB: “That was in the summer and I was talking about the parts we had available. I didn’t say we would have a tremendous team. I said we’ve got as much talent as we’ve had. Talent doesn’t always work out. Paschal got hurt and our defense really struggled. “
Jim also wanted to know “why the shortest person on the team doesn’t play defense with his hands up.“ JB: “It’s not just him. I haven’t gotten it across to them. It’s hard to move with your hands up. The zone is more effective when players have their hands up but when you move from side to side you usually have your hands down for balance. A player’s hands are usually down for most of the game.“
Matt read an E-mailed question from Roger in Boston asked about what the coaches were doing during the replay review of the out of bounds play at the end of regulation. He noticed that Mark Gottfried used that time to plot out his inbounds play- did JB do anything in that time? Yes he set up his defense, but “I hate that…I hate it. Players should go to midcourt. It’s an awful abuse of a rule and nobody seems to care. Tyler Roberson left his positon but it turned out to be a good thing. I think he bothered the shot a bit. I didn’t want a lob to the rim. It’s unfortunate we ticked the ball. We would have had it under our own basket.” Could Roberson have guarded the inbounds pass? “Roberson followed the ball under the basket . I wanted no lay-up. If they throw it into the corner, that’s a tough shot.
Matt brought up the Grant Hill to Christian Laettner play and noted that we duplicated it with Mike Hopkins to Conrad MacRae on the same floor the next season. “The had a good shooter and we had a bad one but he made it.”
Vito in Syracuse congratulated the coach on “a nice run”. He said he likes watching the coach’s reaction to a big shot like Gillon’s – the ’English’ he puts on it. JB: “I wasn’t’ sure he’d get the shot off but when it got halfway there I thought it had a chance to go and it did. The odds aren’t good on that kind of shot.“ How are they going to guard London Perrantes? Vito noted “he has a quick release- like Curry’s” Can Gillon guard him? JB: “It doesn’t matter whose side he’s on. Some of the shots against us have come from the forward positon, some form the guards on either side. . Some have been against John and some against Frank. Perrantes is a funny player. He’ll get 26 one night and 4 the next. They have more shooters, a couple of freshmen and a couple of upperclassmen.” He’s averaging 2 treys out of 5 per game. “2 for 5 would be bad against us.”
Gomez took over for the second hour. He wondered what happened after halftime. JB: “In the second half missed 2-3 threes and got no offensive rebounds and no stops. That’s what’s happened all year. If you can’t get stops sooner or later you’re going to stop making jump shots. John made four straight threes . But that’s not the recipe. I’m happy we won but I’m so disappointed in the way we won, although we were good in overtime. Rowan had a good night but went 8 for 18. 9 for 10 is unheard of. …Rowan’s shot was hard but not as hard as John’s. He’s a stationary shooter. They don’t normally make it on the move…it was a miracle three with a great overtime. Our defense isn’t good enough. That’s the story of the year. St. John’s and Boston College were the two worst. We’ve always bene good at limiting the top guy. We’re not recognizing him. We’ve had 2 freshmen and 2 new guys. That’s what upsets me the most. “
Jim in Utica wondered about DaJuan Coleman- how is he handling not playing? JB: “I watch him in practice and he’s not able to move as well as he did last year. He might be OK on offense but he can’t cover ground or get off the ground on defense. It’s painful not to be able to use him. He was struggling to get off the bus last night. That’s the one thing I don’t like about coaching. People talk about recruiting or whatever. I don’t like when I have a great kid who has worked hard and can’t play him. He supports his teammates and they are bitterly disappointed for him.” Jim, 9the caller), said “Syracuse loves him.” Jim (the coach) said “And they should.”
Brad in Lysander asked about home court advantage. JB: “Crowd noise matters. The players move more quickly and get inspired. I try to use it as a motivation on the road I tell them to make good plays and quiet the crowd. They will settle down. It’s a talent. Some teams play better on the road than at home. We had one team that was 4-5 at home and 5-4 on the road. We led the Big East in road wins by a mile. We won 61% and no one else was at 50%.“ Brad suggested “strong leadership from the bench helps”. Coach laughed and said “Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. Playing good defense helps, too.”
Gomez admired how Gillon “took charge” down the stretch of the game. JB: “They left him open. I don’t know what they were thinking. It takes him a long time to get his shot off and they gave him time. He was in perfect rhythm.” Jim was asked if he could remember a better performance at the foul line. He recalled that Johnny Flynn was 16 for 16 in the 6OT game – and we needed every one of them.
I called in my second question, (actually my first) about the future use of grad transfers. He said it was a good question. “There’s a place for grad transfers. We were going to take one and then Andrew became available and you have to take him. He was a highly productive player playing in a major conference. We are still recruiting for next year. We will get 1-2 more guys. There were about 100 grad transfers available last year and there will be again this year. We’re all right on the front line but could need somebody in the back court. It’s hard to know for sure. (It’s interesting that he doesn’t seem to be worried about the front line: is Tyler Lydon staying?)
Gomez wondered what the recruiting guidelines were for grad transfers. “Once he declares and gets a signed release, you can talk to him. You hear about these players through the grapevine. You make contact with people who know him, like his high school coach. Ideally you’d be set and wouldn’t need a grad transfer. If Malachi Richardson had come back we wouldn’t have recruited Andrew White. We’d have just taken Gillon. Once Mal left, we were looking for someone else.”
Jim was asked for his “time out philosophy”. “Under ten seconds, it’s better to go. if we’d taken a time out, they might have reminded their players to foul. We were hoping to be tied or only 2 down. But we needed the three. “
Pat called again. “We’re shooting threes 3% better than last year. but shooting less of them.” He wants Gillon to “push the ball more” bringing it downcourt. So does JB. “Sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes you can’t and you’ve got to run your offense.” We made a little more of a point of shooting threes last year because we had four guys who could do it. It turns out we’ve got four guys who can do it this year, too.”
Drew in Syracuse congratulated the coach on “a great win and said the team is understanding how to play together. What do we do to focus on Virginia.” JB: Virginia “will not go under screens like NC State did. They will push up. We’ll have to go to the basket and then throw it back out. They are the best defensive team in the league and much better on offense.”
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!
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: WGVA
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
1st Hour: “Coach, you’ve described the difficulty of re-training graduate transfers to play in your system. Our grad transfers scored 71 of our 100 points against NC State. What role, moving forward, will grad transfers play in this program? Will we be active in that market or will we focus on freshmen who can be more easily trained and could be here for four years? “
2nd Hour: “Coach, one trend we’ve had all season is that if the other team has an outstanding jump shooter, he’ll have one of his best games against us. I would think they would be our #1 defensive priority and we’re usually pretty good at shutting down one guy. Where are the breakdowns coming from?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject. 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 will 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.)
PART ONE
Matt asked how the team was feeling the day after a great win. JB: “We’ve moved on and are getting ready for Virginia….It was a game for the ages. Unprecedented. Spectacular. We needed every bit. It was almost not enough. They gave John threes and he was happy to take them…We made a lot of good plays on offense but were woeful on defense. We’d have a good possession and then an awful one. NC State is a good offensive team but we aren’t stopping anyone… There’s no reason we should be worse than last year. Tyler Lydon and Tyler Roberson were here last year. Andrew White is as good on defense as Malachi Richardson. The guard play has bene the problem…I heard that Ken Pom has had us no worse than 20th in the country in defensive efficiency over the last 8 years. Now we are 106th. (He paused). Incredible. I can’t get my arms around it. (Why would you want to get your arms around it?) We’ve spent more time on defense than normal. Extra preparation. Extra drill…We’ve had some really good defensive games at home. South Carolina and Connecticut weren’t too bad defensively. The others have bene woeful. We were good against the not so good teams and that saves us from being ranked #200. I’d be happy with the Top 20. If we are worse than 40th-50th, that’s not too good.“
I decided to switch the order of my questions since Coach obviously had defense on his mind. I asked him what he was seeing on film when we left guys open. “Every game is different. Sometimes we didn’t get back and they got an open shot. On one play both guards were back and they stood and watched as a guy scored. Sometimes a guy dribbled into the middle of the defense and gets a shot. We’re not challenging shooters. Against Florida State they were either 1 for 8 from three in the first half and then we stopped challenging them. They went 8 for 17 in the second half. Boston College had 100 threes against us in Boston, (actually 16 – it just seemed like 100). That freshman, (Ky Bowman), had 8 threes, (actually 7 in 8 attempts), and in the Dome we were up and challenging them and they got zero, (actually 8 of which Bowman had only 1 in 6 attempts). We haven’t got it done on a consistent basis. The offense is better. Pont guard is a whole lot better. The defense is not good enough. It was good in overtime. They should have gotten only two points. They got a four point play when we should have gotten the rebound. …We gave up too many high percentage three point shots and let the ball get inside, too. We can’t focus on just one spot. It’s both inside and out….The constant bashing of Trevor Cooney and, for a long time Michael Gbinije…People don’t understand that defense is ½ of the game. They were 1-2 in the league in steals. They knew the defense. Trevor was here for 5 years and Michael for four. They had experience in the front of the zone. That was over-looked….We are the same in back but nowhere as good out front, if you want to know the X’s and O’s of the thing.”
Liam in Pompey wanted to know where Gillon’s performance ranked in SU history. Jim remembered that Dave Bing scored 46 points vs. Vanderbilt and 45 vs. Cornell. “To make the last shot and on an incredibly tough shot…NC State is a good offensive team but they get beat badly when the shots don’t fall.” Gillon’s 43 points were the most by a Syracuse player since Gerry McNamara had that number against BYU in the 2004 NCA’s. Jim remembered “That was a close game – they had a shot at the end to win it and missed.” Matt said Gillon scored 20 Syracuse and 12 game points in a row at one point. He’d scored our last 13 points vs. Florida State. He also recalled that Alexis Peterson had had her 45 point game against the Wolfpack so they must be sick of our point guards.
Jim in Central Square thanked the coach for remembering Trevor Cooney. His question was about players who score on one end but give up points on the other. JB: “If you don’t have depth, your options are limited. Andrew White isn’t necessarily guarding Rowan so you can compare his output to Rowan’s. Everybody gives up something. Tyler Lydon is out best player because he scores and he stops people. Last year Mike and Trevor covered people, got steals and tipped balls. This year the two guards are first year players….Baye Moussa Keita didn’t score much but he dominated the middle on ‘D’. if we had a guy like him we’d have a great record. (I thought Tyler Lydon was one of our best defensive centers- doesn’t that make him “a guy like that”?), Paschal was going to be that guy. He had 2 blocks a game playing 10 minutes. if he could play 20 minutes he’d have 4 blocks. With a few rebounds and a couple of lay-ups, we’d be happy with him.“
Matt suggested that the press “in small doses” was effective. JB laughed and said the success of the press was ”almost a matter of luck”. Smith fell down. I think we got two turnovers. I don’t remember how they came about.“ Matt suggested that there was a foul deficit in State’s favor and the refs were doing some make-up calls and that helped the comeback. JB: “Because we play zone, we should commit fewer fouls. WE were driving. Getting to the line is a big part of the game. If we’d bene just good shooting free throws we’d have lost 3 in a row rather than winning three in a row.
Pat called in to ask about our slow starts. We always seem to give up 15 points in the first five minutes. Then we put Tyler Lydon in the middle. JB: “Tyler Lydon is out best middle defender but we’ve gotten off to good starts with Taurean in there. When Tyler Roberson plays well, he’s our best defensive forward. “
Pat was also concerned that Gillon didn’t have the size to match up against Virginia’s London Perrantes, (who is listed at 6-2). JB: “We haven’t matched up well against them before. Now they have more shooters and better ball handlers. Louisville is beating everyone at home by 30 and Virginia beat them there and had a 20 point lead. They beat Notre Dame by 15. They’ve been the best team in the league for four years and they are the best this year, too.
Jim on Onondaga Hill said that “This was the first year you said how great our team was going to be.“ JB: “That was in the summer and I was talking about the parts we had available. I didn’t say we would have a tremendous team. I said we’ve got as much talent as we’ve had. Talent doesn’t always work out. Paschal got hurt and our defense really struggled. “
Jim also wanted to know “why the shortest person on the team doesn’t play defense with his hands up.“ JB: “It’s not just him. I haven’t gotten it across to them. It’s hard to move with your hands up. The zone is more effective when players have their hands up but when you move from side to side you usually have your hands down for balance. A player’s hands are usually down for most of the game.“
Matt read an E-mailed question from Roger in Boston asked about what the coaches were doing during the replay review of the out of bounds play at the end of regulation. He noticed that Mark Gottfried used that time to plot out his inbounds play- did JB do anything in that time? Yes he set up his defense, but “I hate that…I hate it. Players should go to midcourt. It’s an awful abuse of a rule and nobody seems to care. Tyler Roberson left his positon but it turned out to be a good thing. I think he bothered the shot a bit. I didn’t want a lob to the rim. It’s unfortunate we ticked the ball. We would have had it under our own basket.” Could Roberson have guarded the inbounds pass? “Roberson followed the ball under the basket . I wanted no lay-up. If they throw it into the corner, that’s a tough shot.
Matt brought up the Grant Hill to Christian Laettner play and noted that we duplicated it with Mike Hopkins to Conrad MacRae on the same floor the next season. “The had a good shooter and we had a bad one but he made it.”
Vito in Syracuse congratulated the coach on “a nice run”. He said he likes watching the coach’s reaction to a big shot like Gillon’s – the ’English’ he puts on it. JB: “I wasn’t’ sure he’d get the shot off but when it got halfway there I thought it had a chance to go and it did. The odds aren’t good on that kind of shot.“ How are they going to guard London Perrantes? Vito noted “he has a quick release- like Curry’s” Can Gillon guard him? JB: “It doesn’t matter whose side he’s on. Some of the shots against us have come from the forward positon, some form the guards on either side. . Some have been against John and some against Frank. Perrantes is a funny player. He’ll get 26 one night and 4 the next. They have more shooters, a couple of freshmen and a couple of upperclassmen.” He’s averaging 2 treys out of 5 per game. “2 for 5 would be bad against us.”
Gomez took over for the second hour. He wondered what happened after halftime. JB: “In the second half missed 2-3 threes and got no offensive rebounds and no stops. That’s what’s happened all year. If you can’t get stops sooner or later you’re going to stop making jump shots. John made four straight threes . But that’s not the recipe. I’m happy we won but I’m so disappointed in the way we won, although we were good in overtime. Rowan had a good night but went 8 for 18. 9 for 10 is unheard of. …Rowan’s shot was hard but not as hard as John’s. He’s a stationary shooter. They don’t normally make it on the move…it was a miracle three with a great overtime. Our defense isn’t good enough. That’s the story of the year. St. John’s and Boston College were the two worst. We’ve always bene good at limiting the top guy. We’re not recognizing him. We’ve had 2 freshmen and 2 new guys. That’s what upsets me the most. “
Jim in Utica wondered about DaJuan Coleman- how is he handling not playing? JB: “I watch him in practice and he’s not able to move as well as he did last year. He might be OK on offense but he can’t cover ground or get off the ground on defense. It’s painful not to be able to use him. He was struggling to get off the bus last night. That’s the one thing I don’t like about coaching. People talk about recruiting or whatever. I don’t like when I have a great kid who has worked hard and can’t play him. He supports his teammates and they are bitterly disappointed for him.” Jim, 9the caller), said “Syracuse loves him.” Jim (the coach) said “And they should.”
Brad in Lysander asked about home court advantage. JB: “Crowd noise matters. The players move more quickly and get inspired. I try to use it as a motivation on the road I tell them to make good plays and quiet the crowd. They will settle down. It’s a talent. Some teams play better on the road than at home. We had one team that was 4-5 at home and 5-4 on the road. We led the Big East in road wins by a mile. We won 61% and no one else was at 50%.“ Brad suggested “strong leadership from the bench helps”. Coach laughed and said “Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. Playing good defense helps, too.”
Gomez admired how Gillon “took charge” down the stretch of the game. JB: “They left him open. I don’t know what they were thinking. It takes him a long time to get his shot off and they gave him time. He was in perfect rhythm.” Jim was asked if he could remember a better performance at the foul line. He recalled that Johnny Flynn was 16 for 16 in the 6OT game – and we needed every one of them.
I called in my second question, (actually my first) about the future use of grad transfers. He said it was a good question. “There’s a place for grad transfers. We were going to take one and then Andrew became available and you have to take him. He was a highly productive player playing in a major conference. We are still recruiting for next year. We will get 1-2 more guys. There were about 100 grad transfers available last year and there will be again this year. We’re all right on the front line but could need somebody in the back court. It’s hard to know for sure. (It’s interesting that he doesn’t seem to be worried about the front line: is Tyler Lydon staying?)
Gomez wondered what the recruiting guidelines were for grad transfers. “Once he declares and gets a signed release, you can talk to him. You hear about these players through the grapevine. You make contact with people who know him, like his high school coach. Ideally you’d be set and wouldn’t need a grad transfer. If Malachi Richardson had come back we wouldn’t have recruited Andrew White. We’d have just taken Gillon. Once Mal left, we were looking for someone else.”
Jim was asked for his “time out philosophy”. “Under ten seconds, it’s better to go. if we’d taken a time out, they might have reminded their players to foul. We were hoping to be tied or only 2 down. But we needed the three. “
Pat called again. “We’re shooting threes 3% better than last year. but shooting less of them.” He wants Gillon to “push the ball more” bringing it downcourt. So does JB. “Sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes you can’t and you’ve got to run your offense.” We made a little more of a point of shooting threes last year because we had four guys who could do it. It turns out we’ve got four guys who can do it this year, too.”
Drew in Syracuse congratulated the coach on “a great win and said the team is understanding how to play together. What do we do to focus on Virginia.” JB: Virginia “will not go under screens like NC State did. They will push up. We’ll have to go to the basket and then throw it back out. They are the best defensive team in the league and much better on offense.”
