Jim Boeheim
Jim Boeheim
James Arthur "Jim" Boeheimis the head coach of the men's basketball team at Syracuse University. Boeheim has guided the Orange to nine Big East regular season championships, five Big East Tournament championships, and 28 NCAA Tournament appearances, including three appearances in the national title game. In those games, the Orange lost to Indiana in 1987, on a last-second jump shot by Keith Smart, and to Kentucky in 1996, before defeating Kansas in 2003 with All-American Carmelo Anthony...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityLyons, NY
best chance great guys help huge lesson lose mountain player practice rest step time win
When you lose your best player without any practice time or anything (to prepare), that's a huge mountain to overcome. I think this is a great lesson for the other guys, that they can win without Gerry. That'll help make them stronger, give us a chance to rest Gerry. Other guys know they can step up and make plays.
anybody great huge player quantify sure
He's been huge for us. I don't think you can even quantify it. He's probably been as important as any player we've had. We've had a lot of great players, a lot of important players, but I'm not sure that you could say anybody was more important than Gerry.
best came gerry huge lose mountain player practice time
Gerry went out, we were down five. He never came back. When you lose your best player without any practice time or anything, that's a huge mountain to overcome.
good
We feel that we can play with them, we feel we can play with anybody. They're as good as anybody.
ball bit care good hard high movement second trying unsure
We're not a high turnover team. We take care of the ball well in games. I think we're a little bit unsure offensively and everyone's trying too hard to make something happen. But we have to get better movement. In the second half, we got a little better movement and a little better spacing and we got some real good possessions.
level product schedule struggled until
We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our schedule than how we were playing. We really didn't play at the level we could until New York.
bad foul
We've got bad foul shooters, what can I say? We won.
beginning early games level shape tremendous year
We're happy. To be able to play these games early in the year is tremendous for our team. We're just beginning to try to shape our team. We won't be able to do things at the same level now as we will at the end of the year.
best days difficult few great proud ready sad six teams
We'll be alright. We need a few days off, we'll be ready to play. It's sad that you have to play such great teams back to back then you have six days off. It's not the right way to play your best basketball. I am proud of the way we've battled back though. This has been a very difficult way to start.
ahead east easy schedule seven six
Our schedule is difficult, we know that. We're not going into the Big East off six or seven easy wins. We've had to battle. Now we've got more of the same ahead of us.
active defense games job open
Our zone, we just weren't active enough. Our defense was terrible. Any of the games we've lost, our defense has struggled. They got open shots, and that's something we've got to do a better job on.
ball guys
Our big guys had 14 turnovers. We'll try and get the ball into them for a little while but not much longer.
biggest conference defending defense fortunate games people played playing problem stop time won year
Our biggest problem has been defending people. Offensively we played pretty well but it's pretty disappointing at this time of the year that we can't stop people on defense. We're fortunate we've won as many games in our conference as we have playing the defense we have all year.
challenge great pittsburgh top
I think Pittsburgh is a top 10 team. I always have all year. That's a great challenge for us.