RIP Duke Blue Devils hoops
Long stay outside the top 25Booyah. Now beat UVA
They play Pitt tomorrow afternoon but based on what I've seen about the last month Duke will beat UNC by 6-10 points on Wednesday and probably go on to win the league. They're two teams going in the opposite direction.
When they're not making threes Duke will shoot a ton of FTs on Allen/Ingram drives like Notre Dame did last Saturday b/c UNC's guards can't keep anybody in front of them and their bigs are all foul prone, and Duke will probably play zone mostly and force Carolina to make shots, which they don't do with any consistency, especially Paige the last several games and Jackson the entire ACC slate.
Game is over with Plumlee basically done as he can't play hard with 4 fouls rest of the game, Jefferson hurt as he has been past 3 months, Jones hurt and out. We're playing 4 real players, of which 3 are freshman (1 of which should be in high school), a sophomore and a practice squad guy freshman. Hopefully it will be two healthy teams for the game later this season.
He ain't a great recruiter any more.It's time for Roy to go. He's been an awful in-game coach for years. He's a hell of a recruiter, but that's it. To get a rebound down 1 with 18 seconds to play and not call timeout is inexcusable.
He's losing players because of the cloud that's been hanging over the program regarding cheating. He's getting to the final round with players and then they are choosing to go elsewhere - who wants to potentially miss the postseason?He ain't a great recruiter any more.
That's one way of looking at it - the other way is his anachronistic two bigs, no floor spacing/driving offense isn't what elite kids want to play in. You guys run the offense kids see NBA teams running, high ball screens, space the floor, lots of room to drive and kick.He's losing players because of the cloud that's been hanging over the program regarding cheating. He's getting to the final round with players and then they are choosing to go elsewhere - who wants to potentially miss the postseason?
Thanks, that's what it feels like from this side of the rivalry - thankful that we have the better coach.Congrats guys. UNC got outplayed and badly outcoached the last six minutes but it's what this "rivalry" has become.
Of UNC's 12 wins, 6 were in the Hansbrough era (UNC went 6-2 in those 4 years). So Duke is 26-6 in non-Hansbrough games. That's a beat down.It's turned into old-time Yankees/Red Sox with Duke having a 28-12 record v. UNC over the last 40. "Rivalry," indeed!
Roy is 4-17 against Duke sans Hansbrough. 1-3 before and 3-14 since, including a remarkable 2-7 at the Smith Center since he graduated.Of UNC's 12 wins, 6 were in the Hansbrough era (UNC went 6-2 in those 4 years). So Duke is 26-6 in non-Hansbrough games. That's a beat down.
The praise would flow much easier if Duke had lost. The Blue Devils, already down to six players in their rotation, lost one of their starters a dozen minutes into the game. The remaining five were out there, alone–the last vikings in the battle, the smoldering ashes of their boats on the shore behind them. They were fighting impossible odds: On the road, against a top-five team, missing two of their three captains and having no one dependable that they could sub in.
The five players finished the final 7:43 of the first half and went back out for the second half. They spent nearly 14 consecutive minutes on the floor. When Marshall Plumlee picked up his fourth foul with 14 minutes left, he went to the bench, leaving Duke without all three of its captains, and with four freshmen and a sophomore on the floor.
We hear it from coaches all the time–We had injuries. We had foul trouble. We’re young. Duke suffered from all three problems at once. Plumlee returned with nearly 11 minutes left, and the same five Blue Devils that had been out there most of the night finished the game, playing 10:55 without a sub. Coach Mike Krzyzewski, who two years ago subbed five players at a time on a regular basis, changing the entire lineup on the floor, made two subs in the entire second half.
He's been their most consistent offensive player by far this year. Defensively he's not as good as he could be and he lacks a mid-range game.At UNC they say Brice being Brice, like Manny. He's an airhead who picks and chooses when he wants to get involved.