And what is with this weak out of conference schedule? We beat Cal. They just beat Arizona. We beat Minn., they beat some good B1G teams. We beat baylor. They just beat Okie st I think. Nova is top 10. There is no say what you want about Syracuse.LOL, except he starts it with "Say what you want about Syracuse..." What is being implied here? I'm telling you, if we stay undefeated a few more weeks the daggers will come out. Remember all that manufactured "throw a dart at the rule book" garbage? I see that getting dusted off earlier than selection sunday this year.
Gee, a rising elbow to Christmas's face is not a foul on which planet? And the guy with the two hand push to CJ Fair's back was actually going for the ball as the referees call it. The problem with Duke is not the fouls called on them but all the no-calls and favoritism. Check out Cooney getting clobbered by Hood and there was no foul called:
Someone I know said (that was at the game) it looked like Hood pretty clearly punched Cooney in the groin on that play - still can't tell for sure from the vid posted though.
I don't think so. I think he essentially tried to go through Cooney's shoulders and that's why Cooney doubled over. There's a shot from the baseline where it looks like the arm of the Duke player comes around Cooney but never goes lower than Cooney's chest. And Cooney's already bending down.
Sheesh, this is like picking apart the Zapruder film. I think it's time to move on.
lol at Zapruder film. Can you imagine if we actually lost the game?
That's because Dave Bing was so much better than him.I switched over to the Mizzou - UF game so I didn't catch this, but it doesn't surprise me. I don't remember Len Elmore ever having a lot of good to say about Syracuse in the past when he called our games.
"Selling some fouls" and actually getting fouled arent mutually exclusive. I thought that was exactly what Rakeem did. What's the big deal?
My boy blue! All heart.F Duke
We will come to Cameron and we will take from them the will to continue playing basketball.
It saddens me that players actually have to sell fouls in order for the whistles to actually blow. I guess it's too much to ask for the refs to actually call the game, but in reality it's probably moving too fast for most of them.
We really did well to bring attention to the fouls... we did not, however, sell a damn thing. Parker doesn't want called for throwing an elbow? Perhaps he shouldn't have thrown it for for the 8th time. How on Earth would Rak have known that was coming if that was the first time it happened all night? Same thing with Jefferson hooking his arm when he was going out to set a screen. If you haven't seen it before, how in the hell would you looking for it?
I just rewatched the game agin and anyone that thinks Syracuse got majority of the close calls is out of their mind. After watching Parker elbow into keita spin and fade away and end with and and 1 where keita never touched him, the almost 4 point play where the duke player fell untouched after the shot, and the two hand shove on cj at the end among others its obvious that duke got extremely beneficial treatment in their favor more than not.
Someone I know said (that was at the game) it looked like Hood pretty clearly punched Cooney in the groin on that play - still can't tell for sure from the vid posted though.
Only took half a dozen posts to learn the Len Elmore was responsible for this.
Since he's the most dishonest person on television (and this includes the cable news/opinion channels), this should come as no surprise.
Very happy we haven't had to listen to him during a Syracuse game this season.
I've often wondered "Who the hell is this guy?" during games and it's turned out to be Elmore, and certainly not just in SU games. I don't know that he's dishonest so much as incompetent. Seems he's seeking validation by inventing things to say that are different, as though it makes him somehow smarter than the rest. I've even muted the broadcast a few times.