DOWN GOES DUKE
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Houston "understood the assignment". 👍
I might throw $50 into their NIL fund, just as a thank you.
Their fanbase tried to tell us he was going to be a top3 lottery pick like 2 years ago and all he did was fall off. I might have to go find that thread and bump it lol.
And yeah northeast is BIG Duke country. Not even because any of those turds went to school there.. its mostly just bandwagon fans and a bit of a void in college basketball teams for NY, MJ, Mass. Etc.
We’ve had quite a few years like that too so welcome to the club Duke. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of @ssholes in the universe!
Simple answer: Coaching
Close calls down the stretch are a part of every tight game. Nothing egregious here IMO.
There is plenty of blame to go around for the Blue Devils on the court and on the bench, but the bottom line is: As a coach, you gotta be able to bring this one in for a landing. Posting a 14 point second half lead with 8 minutes+ to go...a 9 point lead with 2:15 to go....6 point lead with :047 on the clock....giving up a 9-to-1 run in the last 1:14...etc....etc.
This is all on HC Scheyer.
When you're down 1 with the ball and 0:17 to play; and (despite a history of late-game walks, trips, and fumbles), you design ANOTHER off-the-dribble ISO for Flagg when you have a shooter like Kneuppel as another option makes me chuckle as a UK fan.
This one will haunt Scheyer as badly as Cal's Memphis meltdown against Kansas in 2008...perhaps worse.
The finals are set. Now I can scout some red, white, and black gear in my closet to cheer on the Cougars on Monday as I think UF's HC Todd Golden presents some long-term challenges in the SEC. I don't want to see any more glory for the Gators.
Also, I live near the NC border and the Lumbee folks are celebrating as they watch one of their own (Kelvin Sampson) represent their tribe on a national stage.
Congratulations to Coach Sampson on a great win over Duke. Good Hunting for Gators on Monday!
GBB!
Close calls down the stretch are a part of every tight game. Nothing egregious here IMO.
There is plenty of blame to go around for the Blue Devils on the court and on the bench, but the bottom line is: As a coach, you gotta be able to bring this one in for a landing. Posting a 14 point second half lead with 8 minutes+ to go...a 9 point lead with 2:15 to go....6 point lead with :047 on the clock....giving up a 9-to-1 run in the last 1:14...etc....etc.
This is all on HC Scheyer.
When you're down 1 with the ball and 0:17 to play; and (despite a history of late-game walks, trips, and fumbles), you design ANOTHER off-the-dribble ISO for Flagg when you have a shooter like Kneuppel as another option makes me chuckle as a UK fan.
This one will haunt Scheyer as badly as Cal's Memphis meltdown against Kansas in 2008...perhaps worse.
The finals are set. Now I can scout some red, white, and black gear in my closet to cheer on the Cougars on Monday as I think UF's HC Todd Golden presents some long-term challenges in the SEC. I don't want to see any more glory for the Gators.
Also, I live near the NC border and the Lumbee folks are celebrating as they watch one of their own (Kelvin Sampson) represent their tribe on a national stage.
Congratulations to Coach Sampson on a great win over Duke. Good Hunting for Gators on Monday!
GBB!
This is absolutely devastating for them. Their chance of catching us in this lifetime is now ZERO.
Duke had a Jordan whistle all tournament. There is no way on earth Houston should have even been in a position to make the plays they did. Duke played tight, and they let Houston get back in the game. Duke lost to Clemson on the road and lost to us in similar late game circumstances.
It was a bad call to let Flagg run a dribble iso for the winning shot instead of working to find a better shot. Houston is a great defensive team, with tons of length and experience. Everyone watching knew that Flagg was going to dribble it down to the paint, spin to his left and take a fade away shot.
Duke could have gone against the late game Iso tendency and used screens and a ball reversal to set Kneuppel or Proctor up for a relatively open shot for the win.
It was a bad call to let Flagg run a dribble iso for the winning shot instead of working to find a better shot. Houston is a great defensive team, with tons of length and experience. Everyone watching knew that Flagg was going to dribble it down to the paint, spin to his left and take a fade away shot.
Duke could have gone against the late game Iso tendency and used screens and a ball reversal to set Kneuppel or Proctor up for a relatively open shot for the win.
I thought ian eagle was consistent during the melt down. Rafterry sounded sad and grant hill wasn't talking at all.
Now the team of proctologists can begin the process of extracting the sports media noses from Cooper Flagg's rear end.
It was during the sign offi noticed it the most.
Instead of showing that dumb Laettner shot every 5secs in March let them show that massive choke job by Slippery Pete and the mill gang.
And when they open their eyes, they realize it really happened.
Houston really beat them.
And then the pain returns like it did last night. Only after hard drinks and sleeping pills were these fans able to coerce their bodies to sleep. But now they have stirred in the early morning, their brains just barely sending the fully-awake messaging to the rest of their bodies that it really did happen.
And now...
The pain of a thousand "what ifs."
What if Proctor hadn't dribbled off his foot?
What if the ref hadn't called the over-the-back foul on Flagg?
What if Proctor had made those two free throws?
What if Flagg had made the game-winning pullup jumper?
And now that their eyes are open, they realize that the saints of the world rejoice at their misery and downfall.
They realize that worshipping all of those years at Satan's throne room of hell has its cost and taken its toll.
They were expecting a title in Coach K's last year, and yet the Devil gave them Mark Williams' missed free throws.
They were expecting a title the year with Zion, and yet the Devil spawned a missed free throw by RJ Barrett.
And now they were surely expecting a title with Cooper Flagg, but once more the Devil, of whom the Dukies named their mascot to honor, ironically allowed the dark magic of the last 30 years, magic that allowed thousands of refs to provide favorable whistles to the Dukies, to reverse it's spell and turn on the Devils.
What's this?
An over-the-back foul on Cooper Flagg himself.
And to ice the devilishness of it all...a 62% free throw shooter from Houston calmly stepping up to the free throw line and making the front-end of a one-on-one, followed by swooshing his second free throw for the lead.
Yes, as the morning sun spills light, all of this haunting imagery now scurries through the collective minds of Satan's children, and they shutter once more for now they know that the Prince of Lies has once again foiled them and that the cost for Cooper coming to Durham is this infinite, insufferable pain. This relentless maddening pain...
Wakey, wakey, ye little shaky babies. If you listen closely, you can hear your Dark Master giggling in the shadows.
Houston really beat them.
And then the pain returns like it did last night. Only after hard drinks and sleeping pills were these fans able to coerce their bodies to sleep. But now they have stirred in the early morning, their brains just barely sending the fully-awake messaging to the rest of their bodies that it really did happen.
And now...
The pain of a thousand "what ifs."
What if Proctor hadn't dribbled off his foot?
What if the ref hadn't called the over-the-back foul on Flagg?
What if Proctor had made those two free throws?
What if Flagg had made the game-winning pullup jumper?
And now that their eyes are open, they realize that the saints of the world rejoice at their misery and downfall.
They realize that worshipping all of those years at Satan's throne room of hell has its cost and taken its toll.
They were expecting a title in Coach K's last year, and yet the Devil gave them Mark Williams' missed free throws.
They were expecting a title the year with Zion, and yet the Devil spawned a missed free throw by RJ Barrett.
And now they were surely expecting a title with Cooper Flagg, but once more the Devil, of whom the Dukies named their mascot to honor, ironically allowed the dark magic of the last 30 years, magic that allowed thousands of refs to provide favorable whistles to the Dukies, to reverse it's spell and turn on the Devils.
What's this?
An over-the-back foul on Cooper Flagg himself.
And to ice the devilishness of it all...a 62% free throw shooter from Houston calmly stepping up to the free throw line and making the front-end of a one-on-one, followed by swooshing his second free throw for the lead.
Yes, as the morning sun spills light, all of this haunting imagery now scurries through the collective minds of Satan's children, and they shutter once more for now they know that the Prince of Lies has once again foiled them and that the cost for Cooper coming to Durham is this infinite, insufferable pain. This relentless maddening pain...
Wakey, wakey, ye little shaky babies. If you listen closely, you can hear your Dark Master giggling in the shadows.
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EVERYBODY hates Duke. Their fans just don't realize this.
My son in law, who's a Gator fan, told me this morning at his son's bday party, "Here's my list in order of the Final Four teams I want to win the title: 1. Florida 2. Auburn 3. Houston."
Apparently they don’t deal with Doug Shows much in the regular season.
I thought Duke fans all returned to their coffins and crypts at sunrise.
Like all the worst losses I've had for my teams.. you at least go to bed still in a frenzy of it all (and still probably some alcohol in you).. but that first wake up and thinking for a nanosecond "wait did that happen?". And realizing "yep, it did".. is an all time gut punch.
For the stage this game was on, it has to be the worst collapse and choke job in 20 30 years.
For the stage this game was on, it has to be the worst collapse and choke job in 20 30 years.
I’m glad Duke had their 2015 UK moment. Maybe it will haunt them forever like Wisconsin’s shot clock basket haunts us.
But you can’t swallow the whistle when there is a foul. Period. Been a ref for 49 years and have never done it once.
Houston prevented a UT final four and a Duke championship. They earned it!
And yes, I am going IN on all my Duke fans. Started at 7 am. Let's gooooooo!
I have a bach party coming up with some of them. I haven't decided on what shirt to make, either a frowny face Cooper Flagg or the picture of their win probability plummeting.
One of my friends is also a Pats fan (go figure) and he tried to say this wasn't the same thing as the Pats coming back 28-3, and we all just laughed at him lol.
I have a bach party coming up with some of them. I haven't decided on what shirt to make, either a frowny face Cooper Flagg or the picture of their win probability plummeting.
One of my friends is also a Pats fan (go figure) and he tried to say this wasn't the same thing as the Pats coming back 28-3, and we all just laughed at him lol.
The Field of 68 guys raking Scheyer over hot coals for the bad play calling at the end.
And someone tag that Blueheart duke fan that runs here. I can't seem to find his name.
Flagg 0-3 in close games vs good teams.
Going into the game undefeated and the odds on favorite to win made it a collapse IMHO.
In that regards, sure. But it still wasn't being a 99% chance to win with 33 seconds left. Duke might not have been undefeated, but they were ALSO the odds on favorite to win the title, and they lost in embarrassing fashion. People will sparingly remember how Kentucky lost to Wisconsin (obviously us UK fans will).. but EVERYONE will forever remember just how embarrassingly bad last nights choke job was. I mean this goes beyond college basketball.
