Field of 68 Rob Dauster: Duke would have won the game if…….

[jwphelps]

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If's really, if's, hell UK under Cal could have won a ton of games if this or if that. The fact is Duke lost.

 

[KAB Cats]

Agree with all of that.
I think if we played Duke 10 times, they win 6, maybe even 7 of them. But we won this one.

probably accurate

 

[Cats192]

We won the game because our conditioning was better, and our veterans played better down the stretch.

The cramping was because they were being run so hard. The missed open shots was because they couldn't get much leg into the shots. Maluach played more minutes vs Kentucky than he played in any other game to that point. And he did that without playing a big chunk of the 2nd half. So he was playing a lot early. He was on pace for 30+ minutes. His body wasn't ready.

I think part of Pope's plan was to use conditioning to win. It worked.

Scheyer should have better developed the bench and spread Maluach's minutes out more. Sucks to suck.

 

[Mulder14]

How in the world is that a fair take they’re basically saying if Duke would’ve scored more points they would’ve won…brilliant!

And they get paid for that brilliant analysis

 

[Cats192]

I'll add: We didn't play a perfect game. It's not like we played perfect and they were bad.

There are a ton of "If's" that can go both ways.

Jaxon Robinson scores 10 points: We win by a lot.
We make more free throws: We win by a lot.
In the 2nd half, we did a great job vs their pick and roll. If we played it the same way in the 1st half, we win by a lot.

If Maluach plays the 2nd half and Robinson still gives us nothing, they win.
If Flagg doesn't turn it over on back to back possessioins, they win.
If Flagg rebounds that missed free throw, maybe they force overtime and win it.

If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump it's arse when it jumped

 

[ralphdaltonfan]

Always can tell the difference between media/coaches. If you coach, you don't focus on "ifs" unless you play the same opponent later in the season-as you use the "ifs" as part of building team psychology. For the short term after, you focus on areas of improvement and where you got your ass kicked. You also look at decisions you made as a staff you need to evaluate. Publicly you give full credit to your opponent and take the L.

That was a game that I think wrong things are being discussed by the media but hope they continue to deflect. It was lost because Scheyer coached like a dickhead. His job is to put the team in best place to win and he failed his team. Period.

I'll also add this--Dauster and crew correctly have bashed Calipari's awful coaching the last half decade. They were 100% correct. Tell me that game last week wasn't Scheyer pulling a "Cal"? That was a textbook close Cal loss the past 5 seasons. Talent. More then opponent at some positions. Just living off the talent and not coaching it. No strategy at all to win the game-just give the ball to player X--get out of the way and let him make a play---45 secs left--tied up-you get 1 shot attempt in 3 possessions when you had advantage--2 turnovers from best player--and that lone shot attempt is when you inbound to throw a desperation heave after game was decided because your best player got lazy and assumed a FT would be made-oh you also had 0 timeouts even if he grabbed the miss.

Cal special. They correctly bashed. Instead we get excuses made for Scheyer for some reason. It's tired and gets old but end of day-keep praising that guy because as long as he hears it wasn't his fault, etc....he'll never change how he does things and same results will happen when facing teams who can compete against his team.

 

[Creed Bratton]

If, arguably our best player, had scored his average instead of 1 point, the we blow them out.
If, the refs hadn't' let the Great White Hype foul like a mofo the 2nd half, without calling a single one of them on him we blow them out.
If, Duke had a coach who hadn't let the PF try to run the offense the last 6 minutes, and blew a 9 point lead they squeak out the win.
If, if, if, if, if......

Sounds like a lot of bs excuses for Duke to me.

 

[WeWant9]

Always can tell the difference between media/coaches. If you coach, you don't focus on "ifs" unless you play the same opponent later in the season-as you use the "ifs" as part of building team psychology. For the short term after, you focus on areas of improvement and where you got your ass kicked. You also look at decisions you made as a staff you need to evaluate. Publicly you give full credit to your opponent and take the L.

That was a game that I think wrong things are being discussed by the media but hope they continue to deflect. It was lost because Scheyer coached like a dickhead. His job is to put the team in best place to win and he failed his team. Period.

I'll also add this--Dauster and crew correctly have bashed Calipari's awful coaching the last half decade. They were 100% correct. Tell me that game last week wasn't Scheyer pulling a "Cal"? That was a textbook close Cal loss the past 5 seasons. Talent. More then opponent at some positions. Just living off the talent and not coaching it. No strategy at all to win the game-just give the ball to player X--get out of the way and let him make a play---45 secs left--tied up-you get 1 shot attempt in 3 possessions when you had advantage--2 turnovers from best player--and that lone shot attempt is when you inbound to throw a desperation heave after game was decided because your best player got lazy and assumed a FT would be made-oh you also had 0 timeouts even if he grabbed the miss.

Cal special. They correctly bashed. Instead we get excuses made for Scheyer for some reason. It's tired and gets old but end of day-keep praising that guy because as long as he hears it wasn't his fault, etc....he'll never change how he does things and same results will happen when facing teams who can compete against his team.

I had a duke fan tell me “we’re living in Scheyer’s world now.” I just laughed and rolled my eyes, they then proceeded to get trashed by Tenn.

I have not bought any stock in his hype as a coach.

 

[Rockfly78]

Our best player and scorer didn’t score. What about that?

If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle.

 

[know1]

There are some really dumb sports talking heads out there. And this Dauster person (not sure I'd heard of him before about a week ago) is certainly one of them.

 

[KentuckyCat420]

We won the game because our conditioning was better, and our veterans played better down the stretch.

The cramping was because they were being run so hard. The missed open shots was because they couldn't get much leg into the shots. Maluach played more minutes vs Kentucky than he played in any other game to that point. And he did that without playing a big chunk of the 2nd half. So he was playing a lot early. He was on pace for 30+ minutes. His body wasn't ready.

I think part of Pope's plan was to use conditioning to win. It worked.

Scheyer should have better developed the bench and spread Maluach's minutes out more. Sucks to suck.

Watch “The Journey” video, before the game in the huddle Mark Fox keeps telling everyone “we have more guys, we have more guys”

Our staff knew we could wear them down, and we did, that’s good coaching.