I know there are likely too many Duke threads already... but I wanted to weigh in on what I thought was a blatant and consistent Duke habit that really bothered me. On any call against Duke, the player in violation (sans M. Jones as I recall) would aggressively approach the ref. and complain at length about the call. Many players make a comment to a ref, but this was another level imho. First the aggressive approach - lots of players would get T-d up. Second the continued badgering - even you and down the court. Third getting very close the official - almost at times in their face. If the refs didn't have a problem with it, I guess I shouldn't, but man - it looked very bad to me. For the portion of the game I watched, which was in the second half, the biggest violators were A. Jefferson, R. Sulaimon and J. Winslow. Even Okafor a times. Anyway - just an observation that I felt many others would not get away with - not that many times and as aggressively. Two others - of course the Winslow flop - that crap has got to start being penalized, and last the big guy from NCS flexed big after a huge and one dunk on Okafor and man... did her get a huge warning... wonder if the ACC will equally warn the king of flex Trezzzzz. Impassioned game, I get that, but I thought Duke's gripping to the refs was very bad.
Up to this point I had thought Duke looked pretty tough, and still think they are good, but it was the first game I have seen a team try to double up on Okafor, but they did not always do so. IMHO that is what is hurting UK's offense now - the other teams are very effectively doubling all of our bigs - rotating to help quickly. We need to solve that. Toward the end of the A&M game I thought Lyles was figuring it out by getting the ball to Dakari once he himself drew attention.
Too long a post - sorry - Go CATS! At the end of the day a UK win is a win, and a Duke loss is a loss.
Up to this point I had thought Duke looked pretty tough, and still think they are good, but it was the first game I have seen a team try to double up on Okafor, but they did not always do so. IMHO that is what is hurting UK's offense now - the other teams are very effectively doubling all of our bigs - rotating to help quickly. We need to solve that. Toward the end of the A&M game I thought Lyles was figuring it out by getting the ball to Dakari once he himself drew attention.
Too long a post - sorry - Go CATS! At the end of the day a UK win is a win, and a Duke loss is a loss.
