SWC75
Bored Historian
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 34,525
- Like
- 67,279
Jim Boeheim’s radio show is on Thursdays from 7-9PM on ESPN Radio in Syracuse, which is AM1200 or FM 97.7 on the dial. The show originates from Delmonico’s Italian Steakhouse on Erie Boulevard in 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 Big East season, is hosted by Gomez, a local radio personality.
The first hour is eventually, (it can take weeks) podcasted on the SU Athletics website on this page:
http://suathletics.com/podcasts.aspx
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-437-7644. Or you can submit questions from this page:
http://www.suathletics.com/sb_output.aspx?form=4
I will be posting my rough transcript of the first hour the night of the broadcast and will probably do the second hour the following day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
First hour:
“Coach, it’s obvious that to compete for a title in the ACC, we will have to continue our strong recruiting. Fans argue about what is most important in recruiting: the type of school, academics, location, the high school ball in the state, facilities, a recent history of winning and putting players into the pros: the relationships coaches develop with recruits, their parents and high school coaches. Obviously, all those things matter. But what is most important to a recruit?”
Second hour:
“Coach, we are using the same three centers for the second year in a row. We all know that big men progress more slowly than players at other positions. Baye is a senior, Rakeem a junior and DaJuan a sophomore. Could you assess where each one of them are right now and what you hope to see form them by the end of the year?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject)
With Matt Park:
They talked about the field in Maui and coming home to play Indiana, who we’ve usually played in Maui. JB: “Maui is a great tournament. All good teams. We’ll get three really good games. They are games that will test us early and we want to play well and get better. The fact that’s it’s in Maui is not important. You get to play this kind of games early in the year. We’ll find out more of what we need to know about ourselves, what we need to do, especially with a new backcourt.” Our next opponent, Minnesota, features Andre Hollins, who is leading the Big Ten in scoring.” (It has always seemed to me that that designation should be based on conference games: it sounds weird to say he’s leading the Big Ten in scoring when he hasn’t played a Big Ten game yet.) “Richard Pitino has put in his father’s system. They are really playing well. They scored the last 15 in regulation at. Richmond.”
Matt noted that “Baylor is going for 4-0 tonight, (they got it, 69-64 over Charleston Southern), and so is Dayton, (who beat Georgia Tech 82-72). Dayton would be playing Gonzaga and Baylor will play Chaminade. If we get by Minnesota, we will play the winner of California vs. Arkansas.. JB: “Cal has some freshmen who are really good. They don’t have Crabbe but the other guys are back. You get four games out of it that don’t count. That’s why we played St. Francis, to get four games. Some tournaments you get two home games out of it, like next year when we’ll be in New York.”
They went on to the St. Francis game. “We had a great defensive effort in the final 4:10. We didn’t let the ball come inside and they were trying to get it there because they’d had success there. We were used to playing wide, spread out. They were the first team that went inside and we didn’t adjust. Our centers were not good. Jerami Grant got a great offensive rebound from way out of nowhere then he took away a dribble and got a great steal to Mike for a lay-up. Baye made two free throws with 5:16 left when we were down five. Then we were down 4 and Mike, Jerami and CJ scored at the line. The defense won the game. We didn’t allow a good shot. We took it away from them. St. Francis had a good team- they could be an NCAA team-but we can’t play at that level and accomplish anything. It’s early but we can’t play at that level even if it’s really early. But if we’d played well that still would have been a battle.”
Matt brought up the bad shooting of Tyler Ennis and CJ. Fair, who were 3 for 21 between them. JB: “Ennis was due to get in there and make one. We just have to start making god plays earlier. CJ got 13 great shots- they just went in and out. We got three offensive rebound baskets off of his misses. He’s drawing people to him and enabling us to get rebound baskets. “
DaJuan Coleman had a great offensive game and is playing better on defense. He had a very overlooked offensive game.” (By who, coach?) ”DaJuan can’t do that stuff in small town high school games- they call him for fouls. He learned not to use his body in high school and now he’s learning how to use it. It takes a while.”
I called in my question and he had the impression I was saying that we needed to upgrade our basketball recruiting to compete for the ACC title. He took it as an affront toward the Big East, which “was the best basketball conference in America the last 3-4 years”. (JB is ever the Big East loyalist.) I agreed and said we needed to continue our high level of recruiting: what were the keys to doing that? He said that everything I mentioned was key. “Playing time, facilities, sometimes location- do they want to stay home or go away- coaching, coaching staff, former players. Every bit is important. I’ve seen players list the pros and cons. A lot of them come here and like the Dome. They don’t worry about the pros. If they are good they’ll get drafted wherever they are. You try to get what you want in every area. Some kids have followed you and just wanted to come to Syracuse. Local kids like Brandon like to come here. Dion came here because Scoop was here. “ (I’m going to ask Scott Shafer the same question tomorrow night.)
Phillip in Albany asked about replacing Michael Carter-Williams and Brandon Triche, two “long and big guards” with smaller guards. JB: “I can’t give them four more inches. Michael had both length and anticipation. He’s probably the best defensive guard in the zone we’ve had here. Triche was very good- very strong. We were better on defense than offense last year. This year our guards are good but can get better, as can the entire team. Mike could drive and get to the basket on any team. That’s where our problems are. When you aren’t scoring you have to work harder on defense.”
Matt said “Forget the first week- you’re not what you’re going to be.” He asked about the level of play in college ball this year. JB: “It’s way up. There are more good teams and players by a lot. They, (the NBA), didn’t even want to draft anybody last year. Toronto drafted a Canadian guy. (Actually it was Cleveland who drafted UNLV’s Anthony Bennett, who is from Toronto). This year the first 6-7 picks in the draft will be freshmen: Parker, Wiggins, Randle, Young, Gordon. This is maybe the best freshman class ever. Marcus Smart is probably the best all-around player in college when he’s shooting well. That UNLV point guard got 40 points.” (He meant Arizona State’s point guard, Jahili Carson, who got 40 points against UNLV.) “The top 7-8 teams this year are better. Kentucky has 3 top 10 draft picks and two more who will be drafted 10-15th. Matt said a lot of the top draft picks last year were “projects”. JB: “I’m not sure any of them could help anybody. Oladipo is good but isn’t going to turn a team around. I didn’t think Otto Porter was a great player but I thought he could do something. He’s not playing.” Matt checked and saw that Porter “had no minutes and no points in any game so far.”(In the background you could hear Gomez saying “Neither did I.”) JB: “Last I never watched a game where I thought a team was better than ours- and we weren’t that great. This year we’ve got to get a lot better to be within range of the Top 10-12. The top teams this year- Louisville, Michigan State, Kentucky, Arizona, Arizona State, Gonzaga- would beat all the teams from last year.”
James called in to ask if JB would be doing any surfing in Hawaii. The answer to that was “No.” Then he asked his real question, which was about rebounding. JB: We are better on the boards than we’ve been in a long time. Normally we are out-rebounding our early opponents by about 4 and this year it’s 14. We need better offense- we are shooting about 42-343% with a lot of lay-ups. We need to get up to 47-48%. We are also forcing turnovers- + 6 per game. We need to push it down the court better and execute better in the half-court. We are shooting better from the 2 but not as well from the three. We are playing really good three point teams. Mockford got 4 good looks and made 3. A pump fake, a dribble and a three- almost nobody makes that. When a three is the first shot of the game, it almost always misses, (Anthony White of St. Francis didn’t). The Cornell guy, (Nolan Kressler) is a really good shooter. He was making 25 footers. We usually have a team go 3 for 20 against from three point range but no one has yet. You can’t make them miss but if you pressure them, they are more likely to miss.
They discussed the Knicks and their injury problems. “Tyson Chandler was the focal point of their whole defense. Last year they had a couple of older guys who did some things. Felton is hurt. JR Smith had a great year last year but he’s hurt. That’s a lot to overcome.”
Matt said he’d been watching the SU women’s team practicing. So has JB. “They get after people. They have great team speed. Last year they had bigger players. They are a very entertaining team to watch.”
Matt noted that they were going for their 56th consecutive non-conference home win and that it looked pretty good as they were up 55-11 on Maryland Eastern Shore. Matt said that “a majority of precincts have reported in”. JB said “You could call that one even if it was only 1%”.
Matt asked about policing violence in pro football. I thought he was going to talk about fan misbehavior like the guy in Buffalo but he meant violent actions and injuries involving players. Ahmad Brooks is being fined $16,000 for hitting Drew Brees in the helmet. Ray Lewis volunteered to pay half of that. JB: “If a quarterback ducks 6 inches he’s going to get hit in the head. Brees isn’t tall any way. It’s hard as a defensive player to know where to hit a guy. It’s a tough, tough with bigger and faster athletes. There’s nothing you can do to legislate it. That’s why they have helmets. Any 50 year old former NFL player who isn’t a quarterback- except players like Brett Favre or Jim McMahon who weren’t normal quarterbacks, is pretty sore.” Matt said that Floyd Little gets around pretty well these days. JB: “But in a lot of pain.” Dan noted that Dan Dierdorf says he’s retiring as a commentator because he has two artificial knees and two artificial hips and that “plane flights were beating him up”. JB: I wouldn’t want my kids playing football these days. I wouldn’t have said that years ago.” Matt said a lot of people are making the same decision. JB: “Football is popular. I don’t think it’s not going to happen.” Matt suggested basketball may be the beneficiary since football players are too big to play baseball, (but baseball players look more like football players these days). JB: “Lacrosse is a great game.”
Rick in DeWitt wanted Jim to discuss his relationship with Tom Coughlin. “I’m glad the Giants are playing better after a bad start. I first saw him during my senior year in high school. He was a pretty good basketball player and his team was the 3rd or 4th best in our league. But we were really good and beat his team by 30, which I remind him of from time to time. I was his resident advisor in college. He was the most mild mannered, quiet guy- one of the nicest guys in sports. I was shocked he became this hard-nosed football coach. He works hard for charity.”
One final comment on Maui: “The families love it when we go there. The coaches spend their time in their hotel rooms, looking at film. The temperature in those rooms is the same as it is here.”
The first hour is eventually, (it can take weeks) podcasted on the SU Athletics website on this page:
http://suathletics.com/podcasts.aspx
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-437-7644. Or you can submit questions from this page:
http://www.suathletics.com/sb_output.aspx?form=4
I will be posting my rough transcript of the first hour the night of the broadcast and will probably do the second hour the following day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
First hour:
“Coach, it’s obvious that to compete for a title in the ACC, we will have to continue our strong recruiting. Fans argue about what is most important in recruiting: the type of school, academics, location, the high school ball in the state, facilities, a recent history of winning and putting players into the pros: the relationships coaches develop with recruits, their parents and high school coaches. Obviously, all those things matter. But what is most important to a recruit?”
Second hour:
“Coach, we are using the same three centers for the second year in a row. We all know that big men progress more slowly than players at other positions. Baye is a senior, Rakeem a junior and DaJuan a sophomore. Could you assess where each one of them are right now and what you hope to see form them by the end of the year?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject)
With Matt Park:
They talked about the field in Maui and coming home to play Indiana, who we’ve usually played in Maui. JB: “Maui is a great tournament. All good teams. We’ll get three really good games. They are games that will test us early and we want to play well and get better. The fact that’s it’s in Maui is not important. You get to play this kind of games early in the year. We’ll find out more of what we need to know about ourselves, what we need to do, especially with a new backcourt.” Our next opponent, Minnesota, features Andre Hollins, who is leading the Big Ten in scoring.” (It has always seemed to me that that designation should be based on conference games: it sounds weird to say he’s leading the Big Ten in scoring when he hasn’t played a Big Ten game yet.) “Richard Pitino has put in his father’s system. They are really playing well. They scored the last 15 in regulation at. Richmond.”
Matt noted that “Baylor is going for 4-0 tonight, (they got it, 69-64 over Charleston Southern), and so is Dayton, (who beat Georgia Tech 82-72). Dayton would be playing Gonzaga and Baylor will play Chaminade. If we get by Minnesota, we will play the winner of California vs. Arkansas.. JB: “Cal has some freshmen who are really good. They don’t have Crabbe but the other guys are back. You get four games out of it that don’t count. That’s why we played St. Francis, to get four games. Some tournaments you get two home games out of it, like next year when we’ll be in New York.”
They went on to the St. Francis game. “We had a great defensive effort in the final 4:10. We didn’t let the ball come inside and they were trying to get it there because they’d had success there. We were used to playing wide, spread out. They were the first team that went inside and we didn’t adjust. Our centers were not good. Jerami Grant got a great offensive rebound from way out of nowhere then he took away a dribble and got a great steal to Mike for a lay-up. Baye made two free throws with 5:16 left when we were down five. Then we were down 4 and Mike, Jerami and CJ scored at the line. The defense won the game. We didn’t allow a good shot. We took it away from them. St. Francis had a good team- they could be an NCAA team-but we can’t play at that level and accomplish anything. It’s early but we can’t play at that level even if it’s really early. But if we’d played well that still would have been a battle.”
Matt brought up the bad shooting of Tyler Ennis and CJ. Fair, who were 3 for 21 between them. JB: “Ennis was due to get in there and make one. We just have to start making god plays earlier. CJ got 13 great shots- they just went in and out. We got three offensive rebound baskets off of his misses. He’s drawing people to him and enabling us to get rebound baskets. “
DaJuan Coleman had a great offensive game and is playing better on defense. He had a very overlooked offensive game.” (By who, coach?) ”DaJuan can’t do that stuff in small town high school games- they call him for fouls. He learned not to use his body in high school and now he’s learning how to use it. It takes a while.”
I called in my question and he had the impression I was saying that we needed to upgrade our basketball recruiting to compete for the ACC title. He took it as an affront toward the Big East, which “was the best basketball conference in America the last 3-4 years”. (JB is ever the Big East loyalist.) I agreed and said we needed to continue our high level of recruiting: what were the keys to doing that? He said that everything I mentioned was key. “Playing time, facilities, sometimes location- do they want to stay home or go away- coaching, coaching staff, former players. Every bit is important. I’ve seen players list the pros and cons. A lot of them come here and like the Dome. They don’t worry about the pros. If they are good they’ll get drafted wherever they are. You try to get what you want in every area. Some kids have followed you and just wanted to come to Syracuse. Local kids like Brandon like to come here. Dion came here because Scoop was here. “ (I’m going to ask Scott Shafer the same question tomorrow night.)
Phillip in Albany asked about replacing Michael Carter-Williams and Brandon Triche, two “long and big guards” with smaller guards. JB: “I can’t give them four more inches. Michael had both length and anticipation. He’s probably the best defensive guard in the zone we’ve had here. Triche was very good- very strong. We were better on defense than offense last year. This year our guards are good but can get better, as can the entire team. Mike could drive and get to the basket on any team. That’s where our problems are. When you aren’t scoring you have to work harder on defense.”
Matt said “Forget the first week- you’re not what you’re going to be.” He asked about the level of play in college ball this year. JB: “It’s way up. There are more good teams and players by a lot. They, (the NBA), didn’t even want to draft anybody last year. Toronto drafted a Canadian guy. (Actually it was Cleveland who drafted UNLV’s Anthony Bennett, who is from Toronto). This year the first 6-7 picks in the draft will be freshmen: Parker, Wiggins, Randle, Young, Gordon. This is maybe the best freshman class ever. Marcus Smart is probably the best all-around player in college when he’s shooting well. That UNLV point guard got 40 points.” (He meant Arizona State’s point guard, Jahili Carson, who got 40 points against UNLV.) “The top 7-8 teams this year are better. Kentucky has 3 top 10 draft picks and two more who will be drafted 10-15th. Matt said a lot of the top draft picks last year were “projects”. JB: “I’m not sure any of them could help anybody. Oladipo is good but isn’t going to turn a team around. I didn’t think Otto Porter was a great player but I thought he could do something. He’s not playing.” Matt checked and saw that Porter “had no minutes and no points in any game so far.”(In the background you could hear Gomez saying “Neither did I.”) JB: “Last I never watched a game where I thought a team was better than ours- and we weren’t that great. This year we’ve got to get a lot better to be within range of the Top 10-12. The top teams this year- Louisville, Michigan State, Kentucky, Arizona, Arizona State, Gonzaga- would beat all the teams from last year.”
James called in to ask if JB would be doing any surfing in Hawaii. The answer to that was “No.” Then he asked his real question, which was about rebounding. JB: We are better on the boards than we’ve been in a long time. Normally we are out-rebounding our early opponents by about 4 and this year it’s 14. We need better offense- we are shooting about 42-343% with a lot of lay-ups. We need to get up to 47-48%. We are also forcing turnovers- + 6 per game. We need to push it down the court better and execute better in the half-court. We are shooting better from the 2 but not as well from the three. We are playing really good three point teams. Mockford got 4 good looks and made 3. A pump fake, a dribble and a three- almost nobody makes that. When a three is the first shot of the game, it almost always misses, (Anthony White of St. Francis didn’t). The Cornell guy, (Nolan Kressler) is a really good shooter. He was making 25 footers. We usually have a team go 3 for 20 against from three point range but no one has yet. You can’t make them miss but if you pressure them, they are more likely to miss.
They discussed the Knicks and their injury problems. “Tyson Chandler was the focal point of their whole defense. Last year they had a couple of older guys who did some things. Felton is hurt. JR Smith had a great year last year but he’s hurt. That’s a lot to overcome.”
Matt said he’d been watching the SU women’s team practicing. So has JB. “They get after people. They have great team speed. Last year they had bigger players. They are a very entertaining team to watch.”
Matt noted that they were going for their 56th consecutive non-conference home win and that it looked pretty good as they were up 55-11 on Maryland Eastern Shore. Matt said that “a majority of precincts have reported in”. JB said “You could call that one even if it was only 1%”.
Matt asked about policing violence in pro football. I thought he was going to talk about fan misbehavior like the guy in Buffalo but he meant violent actions and injuries involving players. Ahmad Brooks is being fined $16,000 for hitting Drew Brees in the helmet. Ray Lewis volunteered to pay half of that. JB: “If a quarterback ducks 6 inches he’s going to get hit in the head. Brees isn’t tall any way. It’s hard as a defensive player to know where to hit a guy. It’s a tough, tough with bigger and faster athletes. There’s nothing you can do to legislate it. That’s why they have helmets. Any 50 year old former NFL player who isn’t a quarterback- except players like Brett Favre or Jim McMahon who weren’t normal quarterbacks, is pretty sore.” Matt said that Floyd Little gets around pretty well these days. JB: “But in a lot of pain.” Dan noted that Dan Dierdorf says he’s retiring as a commentator because he has two artificial knees and two artificial hips and that “plane flights were beating him up”. JB: I wouldn’t want my kids playing football these days. I wouldn’t have said that years ago.” Matt said a lot of people are making the same decision. JB: “Football is popular. I don’t think it’s not going to happen.” Matt suggested basketball may be the beneficiary since football players are too big to play baseball, (but baseball players look more like football players these days). JB: “Lacrosse is a great game.”
Rick in DeWitt wanted Jim to discuss his relationship with Tom Coughlin. “I’m glad the Giants are playing better after a bad start. I first saw him during my senior year in high school. He was a pretty good basketball player and his team was the 3rd or 4th best in our league. But we were really good and beat his team by 30, which I remind him of from time to time. I was his resident advisor in college. He was the most mild mannered, quiet guy- one of the nicest guys in sports. I was shocked he became this hard-nosed football coach. He works hard for charity.”
One final comment on Maui: “The families love it when we go there. The coaches spend their time in their hotel rooms, looking at film. The temperature in those rooms is the same as it is here.”
