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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 conference 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
(Update: the last podcast is a preview of the first Duke game from last year so maybe they have stopped podcasting the show. )
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-4424-8599. Or you can submit questions from this page:
http://cuse.com/sb_output.aspx?form=4
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: http://tunein.com/radio/WGVA-1240-s29191/
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, everyone is talking about the mysteries of the jump shot. We’ve seen Trevor Cooney hit jump shots and we know Ron Patterson, BJ Johnson, Kaleb Joseph and even Michael Gbinije can hit them. I can think of several reasons why a play might miss a jump shot: closely guarded, out of his range, rushed it, off balance, not squared to the basket, poor form, lack of confidence, too much pressure, etc. As you watch these guys, do they all seem to have the same problems or are they missing for different reasons?
Second hour:
Coach, I remember Arinze Onuaku’s attempts to make free throws. He’d throw the ball practically into the rafters and it would come down at the basket with the velocity of the comet that killed the dinosaurs. I’ve noticed that Chris McCullough has a high trajectory with his shot and is struggling at the line. It’s been argued that a high trajectory is good because the basket gets narrower if you come at it from the side. But it also seems to cause the ball to bounce violently away from the rim if the shot isn’t dead on. Is there an ideal trajectory for a jump shot or a foul shot?
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject)
They talked about having a week off at this point in the season. “For a veteran team, a week off is too much time but if you have a lot of things to work on, it’s good. The goal of this part of the season is to get as good as you can. You want to win the tough games- we’ve won, lost a couple of others, so we’ve got even more to work on. We haven’t been good defensively. We’ve have built up good stats against the bad teams but haven’t played well on defense against the good ones. “
I called in my first question about the problems the various players have had hitting from outside. “We haven’t rushed or forced anything, although Trevor is like Kobe Bryant. He can make the tough ones.”
(I’ll let that one sink in for a minute before we proceed.)
“I’m at a loss as to why we aren’t shooting better. We’ve had wide open threes. We can make a better percentage. Ron Patterson, BJ Johnson and Kaleb Joseph are shooting 18% between them and they all can hit in the 30’s. Kaleb’s pretty good and Ron and BJ were recruited to shoot and score. We’ve addressed that in our recruiting. Three of the four guys coming in can shoot it well. They haven’t been making a lot of threes in practice game situations. They need to make more to get their confidence for games. If you can’t do it in practice you can’t do it games. Trevor must put the ball on the floor more. People think he shouldn’t play but he’s the best shooter we’ve got. If somebody else was shooting well, we’d have him in there. We also need to defend better. You can have bad shooting and still win if you play good defense.“
Matt Park compared Trevor to a clean-up hitter in baseball who “is expected to hit all the home runs”. JB: “You shouldn’t define yourself as just a three point shooter. You have to be able to put the ball on the floor, too. Trevor and Mike can be better scorers and with those two and the two big guys we’d have plenty of scoring.”
Gomez later brought up the same issue of shooting. JB: “We’re not shooting well but can do better and hopefully, we will. When you’re not shooting, you have to some other way to win. Last year we had some big games where we made 7-8-9 threes and some where we got 3-4.” Gomez asked if “you can over-think it?” JB: “In a game you can’t worry about missing. I don’t take guys out for missing threes, as long as they are playing defense and doing other things. The guys have pretty good confidence. I don’t tell them not to shoot or else they won’t shoot. I remind them they can put the ball on the floor. But it has to be the player’s decision. Whatever way you score is fine. I thought from the beginning it would take time.”
Matt asked how many of those late threes St. John’s hit were defensive lapses. “The first one was a lapse from the forward spot.” (You hear that, Chad Ford?!?). “We were on schedule to limit them but they got two open looks.” Matt asked if the momentum changed with the near brawl that broke up, since we hardly scored after that and they went on a run, (2-17 in fact). JB: “We just didn’t play well. We got a couple of stops and had a couple of chances to extend the lead and didn’t do it. I don’t put much stock in momentum.”
I later called in my second question. I did get in the line about the comet that killed the dinosaurs and both JB and Gomez laughed at it. “Trajectory is important. The higher you go the bigger the hoop is. I was never good at physics, but I know that. Chris was pretty good before St. John’s. He just had a bad game. He just missed a couple, lost confidence.” Gomez suggested it was like a golf swing- everybody has their own unique way of doing it. JB: “Some have a low trajectory, some high. It’s better to err on the side of a high arc instead of a low arc. You don’t want ti real flat. It makes the rim smaller. High increase your chances of making it.”
I still think it matters how far the shot has to fall because that determines how hard it bounces. (Pouts)
They talked about Louisiana Tech, where Karl Malone played years ago. “Karl Malone and John Stockton ran the bets pick and roll in the history of the game…They are very good. They press, run, have a shot-blocker inside, can score from the perimeter, all you need. Some of their games have been high scoring, some not. They have veterans who have run a lot of rod games. Speedy Smith can score but he does what a point guard has to do- he gets the ball to people and he makes plays.” Matt pointed out that Tech hasn’t made the tournament since 1991. JB: “They deserved to be in last year”, (when they won 29 games). Jim watched them in their loss to Louisiana-Lafayette, (86-94), in which two guys, (Alex Hamilton and Eric McCree totaled 52 points). Louisiana Tech is one of three teams we have played who are favorites to win their conference, (with Hampton and Holy Cross).
Will Michigan’s losses hurt our RPI or is it too early? “It can. You always want the teams you play to do well. Michigan was good, not great. They didn’t play well. They made threes to beat us. Eastern Michigan is a little better than they’ve been, a lot better defensively. Everybody plays 5-6 guarantee games where you get a home game and they get a lot of money. Sometimes those teams turnout to be pretty good.”
The player of the game for the week, (the POG?) was Rakeem Christmas. “He’s been really consistent in every game. He’s shown huge improvement.”
They briefly looked ahead to the Villanova game. “Illinois is good and Villanova ran away from them. They have guys who’ve started for 3-4 years. That’s what it takes.”
I think you can read between those lines.
The first hour is eventually, (it can take weeks) podcasted on the SU Athletics website on this page:
http://suathletics.com/podcasts.aspx
(Update: the last podcast is a preview of the first Duke game from last year so maybe they have stopped podcasting the show. )
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-4424-8599. Or you can submit questions from this page:
http://cuse.com/sb_output.aspx?form=4
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: http://tunein.com/radio/WGVA-1240-s29191/
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, everyone is talking about the mysteries of the jump shot. We’ve seen Trevor Cooney hit jump shots and we know Ron Patterson, BJ Johnson, Kaleb Joseph and even Michael Gbinije can hit them. I can think of several reasons why a play might miss a jump shot: closely guarded, out of his range, rushed it, off balance, not squared to the basket, poor form, lack of confidence, too much pressure, etc. As you watch these guys, do they all seem to have the same problems or are they missing for different reasons?
Second hour:
Coach, I remember Arinze Onuaku’s attempts to make free throws. He’d throw the ball practically into the rafters and it would come down at the basket with the velocity of the comet that killed the dinosaurs. I’ve noticed that Chris McCullough has a high trajectory with his shot and is struggling at the line. It’s been argued that a high trajectory is good because the basket gets narrower if you come at it from the side. But it also seems to cause the ball to bounce violently away from the rim if the shot isn’t dead on. Is there an ideal trajectory for a jump shot or a foul shot?
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject)
They talked about having a week off at this point in the season. “For a veteran team, a week off is too much time but if you have a lot of things to work on, it’s good. The goal of this part of the season is to get as good as you can. You want to win the tough games- we’ve won, lost a couple of others, so we’ve got even more to work on. We haven’t been good defensively. We’ve have built up good stats against the bad teams but haven’t played well on defense against the good ones. “
I called in my first question about the problems the various players have had hitting from outside. “We haven’t rushed or forced anything, although Trevor is like Kobe Bryant. He can make the tough ones.”
(I’ll let that one sink in for a minute before we proceed.)
“I’m at a loss as to why we aren’t shooting better. We’ve had wide open threes. We can make a better percentage. Ron Patterson, BJ Johnson and Kaleb Joseph are shooting 18% between them and they all can hit in the 30’s. Kaleb’s pretty good and Ron and BJ were recruited to shoot and score. We’ve addressed that in our recruiting. Three of the four guys coming in can shoot it well. They haven’t been making a lot of threes in practice game situations. They need to make more to get their confidence for games. If you can’t do it in practice you can’t do it games. Trevor must put the ball on the floor more. People think he shouldn’t play but he’s the best shooter we’ve got. If somebody else was shooting well, we’d have him in there. We also need to defend better. You can have bad shooting and still win if you play good defense.“
Matt Park compared Trevor to a clean-up hitter in baseball who “is expected to hit all the home runs”. JB: “You shouldn’t define yourself as just a three point shooter. You have to be able to put the ball on the floor, too. Trevor and Mike can be better scorers and with those two and the two big guys we’d have plenty of scoring.”
Gomez later brought up the same issue of shooting. JB: “We’re not shooting well but can do better and hopefully, we will. When you’re not shooting, you have to some other way to win. Last year we had some big games where we made 7-8-9 threes and some where we got 3-4.” Gomez asked if “you can over-think it?” JB: “In a game you can’t worry about missing. I don’t take guys out for missing threes, as long as they are playing defense and doing other things. The guys have pretty good confidence. I don’t tell them not to shoot or else they won’t shoot. I remind them they can put the ball on the floor. But it has to be the player’s decision. Whatever way you score is fine. I thought from the beginning it would take time.”
Matt asked how many of those late threes St. John’s hit were defensive lapses. “The first one was a lapse from the forward spot.” (You hear that, Chad Ford?!?). “We were on schedule to limit them but they got two open looks.” Matt asked if the momentum changed with the near brawl that broke up, since we hardly scored after that and they went on a run, (2-17 in fact). JB: “We just didn’t play well. We got a couple of stops and had a couple of chances to extend the lead and didn’t do it. I don’t put much stock in momentum.”
I later called in my second question. I did get in the line about the comet that killed the dinosaurs and both JB and Gomez laughed at it. “Trajectory is important. The higher you go the bigger the hoop is. I was never good at physics, but I know that. Chris was pretty good before St. John’s. He just had a bad game. He just missed a couple, lost confidence.” Gomez suggested it was like a golf swing- everybody has their own unique way of doing it. JB: “Some have a low trajectory, some high. It’s better to err on the side of a high arc instead of a low arc. You don’t want ti real flat. It makes the rim smaller. High increase your chances of making it.”
I still think it matters how far the shot has to fall because that determines how hard it bounces. (Pouts)
They talked about Louisiana Tech, where Karl Malone played years ago. “Karl Malone and John Stockton ran the bets pick and roll in the history of the game…They are very good. They press, run, have a shot-blocker inside, can score from the perimeter, all you need. Some of their games have been high scoring, some not. They have veterans who have run a lot of rod games. Speedy Smith can score but he does what a point guard has to do- he gets the ball to people and he makes plays.” Matt pointed out that Tech hasn’t made the tournament since 1991. JB: “They deserved to be in last year”, (when they won 29 games). Jim watched them in their loss to Louisiana-Lafayette, (86-94), in which two guys, (Alex Hamilton and Eric McCree totaled 52 points). Louisiana Tech is one of three teams we have played who are favorites to win their conference, (with Hampton and Holy Cross).
Will Michigan’s losses hurt our RPI or is it too early? “It can. You always want the teams you play to do well. Michigan was good, not great. They didn’t play well. They made threes to beat us. Eastern Michigan is a little better than they’ve been, a lot better defensively. Everybody plays 5-6 guarantee games where you get a home game and they get a lot of money. Sometimes those teams turnout to be pretty good.”
The player of the game for the week, (the POG?) was Rakeem Christmas. “He’s been really consistent in every game. He’s shown huge improvement.”
They briefly looked ahead to the Villanova game. “Illinois is good and Villanova ran away from them. They have guys who’ve started for 3-4 years. That’s what it takes.”
I think you can read between those lines.
