Nothing like the seething hatred of Dookies. These quotes a bunch of garbage. Calling the kids on our team punks? They're literally delusional. Disconnected from reality.
No doubt this is true. However, what I find so hilarious is for Dook fans...DOOK fans of all people...to be throwing around the "favorable whistle" and "easy path in the NCAA" complaints about other teams. I could write a book about Dook's preferential treatment in both areas.Originally posted by Neue Regel:
You most certainly could. Let's not portray like everyone over here is wearing a golden halo while all the other fan bases are just horrible cretins.Originally posted by FiveStarCat:
That's a lot of awful opinions. At the same time though, you could pull up a Duke game thread from our board and see some of the same ridiculousness from our fans.
Hard to find a lot of neutral opinions on other teams when you are on a sports message board filled with die hard sports fans.
Funny...that must be how the Dukies smoked ND by 30 or more after losing to them earlier. They just "choked"...couldn't have been anything the Dukies did because we sure as hell know they can't/don't play defense.Originally posted by Smashcat:
It's nothing that UK did or does, they just choke.![]()
You should have lost at home to UNC (UNC blew it, but kudos to Jones for making plays down the stretch).Originally posted by Neue Regel:
You must not have seen the games where Duke was "punched in the mouth" got down by double digits and still came back to win. There have been several. This isn't last years team by any stretch of the imagination.Originally posted by Moss04:
I had a similar convo with a Duke grad last week. Basically, they disregard all of their losses and compare their wins to UK's. I had to stop him mid-sentence and remind him that you can't just throw out two blowout losses. If I were an opposing fan, I'd prefer that UK went into the tourney untested. This team is resilient and knows how to dig themselves out of a hole. If/when we get punched in the mouth later this month, we will know how to respond. Duke, on the other hand, will collapse like a house of cards.
BTW I think you can throw out two blowout losses. In College Basketball time, that was a lifetime ago. Duke has won 10 in a row and those two games were the beginning of January. They are not the same team. But really it doesn't matter, the tournament will tell it's own tale. I've seen some Duke teams enter the NCAA'S having lost 4 of 6 down the stretch or having been blown out in the league tournament only to end up in the Final Four and even win a National Title. I wouldn't hang my hat too hard on Miami and State just as I wouldn't read much into some close road wins in SEC play for Kentucky. That's what College Basketball is about, and when you go on the road these teams are going to give everything they have to beat you.
Okafor enjoys a whistle unseen for a freshman in a long, long time. He gets away with twice the contact afforded his defenders.Originally posted by CrazyHeel:
A deep bench and getting the other team in foul trouble has nothing to do with winning close ball games late. If yall wind up playing them in the tourney, get ready for the big one shoved up ya. the refs will call a foul on you if you breath on them.
I thought the OT win against a 10-20 Virginia Tech team was a huge step in the right direction.Originally posted by Neue Regel:
You must not have seen the games where Duke was "punched in the mouth" got down by double digits and still came back to win. There have been several. This isn't last years team by any stretch of the imagination.
BTW I think you can throw out two blowout losses. In College Basketball time, that was a lifetime ago. Duke has won 10 in a row and those two games were the beginning of January. They are not the same team. But really it doesn't matter, the tournament will tell it's own tale. I've seen some Duke teams enter the NCAA'S having lost 4 of 6 down the stretch or having been blown out in the league tournament only to end up in the Final Four and even win a National Title. I wouldn't hang my hat too hard on Miami and State just as I wouldn't read much into some close road wins in SEC play for Kentucky. That's what College Basketball is about, and when you go on the road these teams are going to give everything they have to beat you.
Hey, out of curiosity... who is the all time leader in free throws made?Originally posted by CrazyHeel:
A deep bench and getting the other team in foul trouble has nothing to do with winning close ball games late. If yall wind up playing them in the tourney, get ready for the big one shoved up ya. the refs will call a foul on you if you breath on them.
Agreed. Meeks just stands there with arms straight up, trying to hold his position. Okafor lowers his shoulder, knocks him backward, makes the basket and draws the foul. Nothing else Meeks could do except, I guess, flop. Then it would just be a no call.Originally posted by ktbug:
Saw JO lower the shoulder twice into Meeks to clear out, yet they call a foul on Meeks. How do you guard him other than getting out of his way to avoid a foul.