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What are the Dukies saying?

Not sure if anyone will agree with me but I thought Scheyer made a mistake by not setting up Flagg at the end and preferring to let him create his own shot. Yeah, he is a great player but he is also only 17. That is a LOT of pressure.
Well, he had done everything up to that point pretty well... even hitting a 3, so it was prolly an easy decision to let him go create...

#1 projected NBA pick...

If he had tried something else that didn't work, ... say... Flagg got double-teamed and never saw the ball, and Duke lost, he would have been questioned about not letting him handle the rock, last play...
 
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I have a good friend who is a Duke fan. He has been very loud and proud the last few years. Last night I had to actually text him and make sure he was okay since he was being so quiet.
 
I don’t know where to find their free content. I was just curious what they said about the game and thoughts about Pope in general.
One of the things they're saying on their free message board..... Duke Hoops Open Forum..... Is that if Calipari was still coaching UK that he would have found a way to lose the game by double digits. And that Pope is an upgrade over Calipari.
 
My son sent me some screen caps of one of their boards. The consensus seemed to be that Sheyer got out coached and didn't use his bench.
 
On the rivals board some of them are saying K went to iso ball his last 7 years and Sheyer is simply continuing that. They compare themselves to UK under Cal in that they don't run any plays. Just give someone the ball and clear out. Saying they got outcoached and that if Cal was still here they would have won easily. The most amazing thing to me was their game discussion was only 6 or 7 pages compared to 55 here.
 
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Time to go work out for the new Star Wars movie!
star wars kid GIF
I’ve never seen that with the blaster effects! Hahaha classic.
 
A lot of PMSing (fans). Cramps and what not. Was so glad the backward hat wearing, bearded GAF's night was ruined. They showed him multiple times flexing and popping his Duke shirt. Poor fella, had to dry his eyes with the shirt afterwards. Saw several Duke fans with the backward hat, WTF is up with that ? Thier fan base always struck me as too stuffy for that trend,,,, that went out in early 2000's. Grown ass men (over 40) wearing their hat backwards was NEVER in style, but there he was on national tv. SO happy for him.
 
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The NCAA Selection Committee:
“Since Duke players cramped on and off this season, we are taking away any L in which the lil beaches cramped. Thus, Duke is the overall number 1 seed.”
The NET will adjust accordingly as well.

:flush:
 
Because Shyler had no timeouts, when Duke inbounded with ten seconds left, Shyler couldn't set up anything, so he was probably fine with Flagg bringing the ball up. If he had a time out I'm sure he might have drawn something better up. I thought he got his team to play hard for 38 minutes. And i'm hoping we don't have to play them again.
 
None of the Duke fans I know are sold on Scheyer. He's done well enough in guess.. but we'll enough does t cut it when you have the elite talent every year.

Objectively, if Duke fans can say we won because of some very mild cramps, they must also acklowledge they only beat Houston last year because of Shead being out (their best player). But weirdly, you don't hear that from them..
 
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True but they did miss a LOT of open 3's. That may turn out to be their Achilles heel.
I don't really think that's a weakness for them since they'd been great from 3 going into this game. I think it was a combination of the ball they weren't used to and fatigue(Pope played his starters a lot less minutes) and UK playing pretty good defense.
 
I know what I'd be saying if I were a Duke fan, though I have never been and will never be one of those. I'd say we knew we weren't going 40-0 and we weren't going to beat Kentucky every game for eternity and we've got a real good team. As a UK fan who thinks we have a Final 4 chance, I'd rather not play them again this year.
 
On the rivals board some of them are saying K went to iso ball his last 7 years and Sheyer is simply continuing that. They compare themselves to UK under Cal in that they don't run any plays. Just give someone the ball and clear out. Saying they got outcoached and that if Cal was still here they would have won easily. The most amazing thing to me was their game discussion was only 6 or 7 pages compared to 55 here.
Duke doesn’t actually have fans, just guys who like to say they’d Duke fans. Because they saw 2pac wearing a Duke jersey once.
 
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