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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2485901, member: 289"] PART 2 Gomez asked Allen Griffin if he preferred to be called Coach and Allen said he likes being called Griff. How is coaching at SU different than coaching at Dayton? “Coach Miller was a good mentor for me but coming back to join Coach Boeheim’s staff was a dream come true.” Gomez noted that when Griff got the job at SU he showed up at the radio station with boxes full of donuts for everybody. Gomez is a Griff fan! Malachi Richardson has been traded from Sacramento to Toronto. Griff: “He will now get a shot to show what he can do….Tyler Ennis has played well but now they’ve got Isaiah Thomas out there. ..Tyler Lydon has played in a couple games ([I]actually in one game for two minutes[/I]). It’s so hard to stick up there. “ Gomez told Coach Boeheim that Jaylen Adams of St. Bonaventure had scored 40 points against Duquesne and then 44 against St. Louis.(he hit 18 of 26 treys in those two games: en fuego!) The only other Bonnies to score 40+ in consecutive games were Tom Stith and Bob Lanier. JB: “I wonder how many people listening to this show know who Bob Lanier was. Nobody knows who Tom Stith was. But they were both great players.” [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lanier_(basketball)"]Bob Lanier (basketball) - Wikipedia[/URL] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stith"]Tom Stith - Wikipedia[/URL] The Cavs “gutted their team” per Gomez. JB: “They helped their team. (George) Hill and (Jordan) Clarkson are really good guards. Hill can bring it up and Clarkson can play off the ball. (Isaiah) Thomas needs the ball all the time and so does LeBron. (Dwyane) Wade doesn’t have it any more. Putting shooters around LeBron changed their team. The younger guys have contracts in place. They also have an early pick form the nets. They needed to do something to make it look good for LeBron to stay. I don’t know exactly where he would go. He can win the East but not in the West. “ Ed called in to say that he’d take the SU-Georgetown rivalry and even the SU- St. John’s rivalry over the Duke-UNC rivalry. JB: “They were pretty good rivalries. It was a great era.” Ed said that he was the coach of a youth baseball team and he’s disgusted to see 10-11 year old kids arguing with umpires. JB: “They watch too much NBA. Kids learn to yell at the refs. Frank had a bad technical for us but we tell our kids not to tlak to the refs. My kids would come back home complaining about the refs and I told them that you just have to play through it.” Do players today work as hard as they did in the old days? JB: “It’s a myth that players don’t work hard today. Our players do more individual work than they’ve ever done. They have gym work, weight room work and shooting practice. Kids do a lot more work on their own than they used to. Baseball is a year around game now, too. Kids have to specialize to be good enough. “ [/QUOTE]

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