Boeheim Quotes Louisville
Syracuse Head Coach, Jim Boeheim
February, 12, 2011
“Well, we had a bad end to the first half. We talked about not letting (Kyle) Kuric and (Preston) Knowles shoot and those were the two guys that we let shoot. The second half, we did a good job fighting them and then letting other guys score and getting right back in the game and made a great effort to come back, but it’s tough when you’re 19 (20) down on the road to come all the way back. We made a great effort and got our offense going and did some good things on the defensive end, but you can’t get that far behind.”
On Louisville’s passing through the zone
“Yeah, we know they do that. They do a great job, but that wasn’t the problem. We really got hurt in broken situations when we came back in and they penetrated. They were still going to kick it out in the broken situations and those were the ones that probably hurt us the most.”
On Syracuse’s defense in the second half
“Well, we wanted to do that the whole game and we didn’t do it. That cost us the game.”
On Louisville handling Rick Jackson
“Well, they doubled him and we knew that and we got good shots. He got the ball out and we got good shots and played off him. And as long as they (Louisville) doubled him, we got great shots because two times he got his passes out of the basket and Kris (Joseph) was in the run too. And Kris and C.J. (Fair) didn’t finish and when you don’t finish, that leads to a fast break out. You have to finish those. I didn’t think we were tough enough in those situations and I was disappointed in that.”
The mood of the team after the game
“Well, you know it was disappointing. We left too big of a hole for ourselves to get out of.”
On Fab Melo not playing
“He missed practice so he’s not playing.”
Why did he miss practice?
“That’s it. He missed practice. He’s done playing for now.”
How did you feel Brandon (Triche) and Scoop (Jardine) played?
“I thought they got open shots and they can make them. They got some good looks and they can make those shots. They’ve got to play that way and play aggressively offensively. I thought especially Scoop played well the whole game and in the second half, Brandon got going too.”
Can you talk about the foul near then end that was changed from a one-and-one to a two shot foul?
“Well, the first guy called the foul a one-and-one, so he made the call. The other official came in and made it a two-shot call and you cannot do that. The guy that made the call … it’s his call. And he called a one-and-one. It’s not like he did not know what he called – he knew he called a one-and-one. The other guy came in and changed it. I don’t think you can do that. I don’t think it’s possible to do that. The kid might have made it anyways, who knows. You can’t do that, bottom line.”
