Coach Boeheim Quotes
Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh
March 1, 2008
Syracuse, N.Y. – Carrier Dome
Statement:
“In the last 32 years, I’ve never been involved in a bigger game where our team has played better in every phase of the game except turning the ball over. The whole game, we just kept making bad decisions and bad turnovers. When we didn’t, we scored. We played absolutely the best game that we could play at every level, but we turned the ball over the entire game. It was 12 in the first half. We got a little bit better in the second, until the end. We had timeouts left.
“Young guys are going to make mistakes. They knew we had timeouts. Donte’ [Greene] didn’t call it when he threw the ball to [Ronald] Ramon. He had timeouts and plenty of time to make the call. At the end, we got the ball to Paul [Harris] and he gave them the ball. We just have to hold on to the ball, get fouled, and go to the foul line.
“This was the most disappointing game I’ve ever been involved with – because we really haven’t played well in a long time, to play that well against a very good defensive team is a tremendous accomplishment. But the entire game we kept turning it over. At the end, when we had the lead and just had to take care of the basketball, we made three unbelievable turnovers and that’s the game.”
