Maliq Brown to Duke

[Cusefan69]

I hope he doesn't get injured after that I could care less if he is good or not. I hope Duke takes a loss in every game.

Bad take

 

[Cusesky8214]

 

[phil77]

Bad take

Why is it a bad take? I hope he doesn't get injured after that I could care less if he plays well or not?

 

[PeteCalvin]

I don’t begrudge Maliq at all. I wish him well at Duke, except for when they play us. I hope we block every shot he takes, I hope we posterize him a few times, and at the end shake hands. He obviously didn’t like losing his bud, JT, and he clearly didn’t want to play a sixth man role for us.

I just hope, for his sake, he doesn’t get Krzyzewski’d by Scheyer. They have a lot of talent coming in, and if he doesn’t offer an outside threat, he could lose time over the course of the season. Starting and getting yanked isn’t really what any player wants.

We will be just fine without Maliq, despite the doom and gloom.

 

[Cusefan69]

Why is it a bad take? I hope he doesn't get injured after that I could care less if he plays well or not?

Initially you said he should be injured. I saw you edited after. That is cool, was just responding to your original comment.

 

[phil77]

Initially you said he should be injured. I saw you edited after. That is cool, was just responding to your original comment.

Yup I caught that and while I was editing it someone quoted it now it is living on the internet forever LOL I did edit it before you quoted it LOL There is an edited version and an unedited version. I now deleted it so the confusion will grow LOL

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Lol I'll see Coach K in Hell.

 

[Bulldog04]

Hard to see but good on him

Yeah exactly. He’s an amazing kid and a bright young man and anyone wishing anything bad on him needs to look in the mirror and grow up. Sure cheer against Duke and whatever, but this kid repped Cuse as good as anyone has in recent time. Stop with the ill will. It’s cringy for those of you doing it

 

[Sherman20]

Sad.

 

[djcon57]

We will be just fine without Maliq, despite the doom and gloom.

Will we? We haven’t made the tourney in 3 years so I think doom and gloom is pretty well warranted here.

To me, the only positive takeaway is Maliq wasn’t a on a tourney team here. Do I think he was the problem? Obviously not. I think he makes any team better. But he wasn’t getting us in the tourney himself. Maybe one of his replacements can do it. We’ll see

 

[Lukeyloo]

Intra-conference transfers suck.

 

[Marsh01]

We didnt win with him. Best of luck.

 

[Day2]

Hard to see but good on him

He’s a damn traitor.

 

[CousCuse]

We didnt win with him. Best of luck.

Don't win half the games they won last year without him.

 

[Day2]

Yeah exactly. He’s an amazing kid and a bright young man and anyone wishing anything bad on him needs to look in the mirror and grow up. Sure cheer against Duke and whatever, but this kid repped Cuse as good as anyone has in recent time. Stop with the ill will. It’s cringy for those of you doing it

He didn’t rep Cuse as good as anyone has in recent time. He just transferred to Duke. He’s worse than Girard.

I was one of the first on the Maliq Brown bandwagon. He’s dead to me now.

 

[CuseCPT]

Really hope football pans out because we are basketball has beens.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Yeah exactly. He’s an amazing kid and a bright young man and anyone wishing anything bad on him needs to look in the mirror and grow up. Sure cheer against Duke and whatever, but this kid repped Cuse as good as anyone has in recent time. Stop with the ill will. It’s cringy for those of you doing it

I don’t wish ill will, but the applauding and happiness for him is excessive and over the top pathetic. I don’t remember the same thing for Joe and Jesse last year and they actually played 4 years here.

 

[cusealways]

I’m being serious when I say you’re not a fan if you aren’t booing him at the dome. After all the loyalty he preached, he’s a traitor imo. I honestly don’t care if it’s the right decision for him.

 

[qdawgg]

PeekHe’s not going to Duke. A former poster who runs a twitter account that likes to stir the pot saw some Duke fan tweet that he liked Maliq as a player and said twitter handle ran with it. Ridiculous and very 2024.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I was wrong. Won’t be the last time.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I’m being serious when I say you’re not a fan if you aren’t booing him at the dome. After all the loyalty he preached, he’s a traitor imo. I honestly don’t care if it’s the right decision for him.

Oh believe me I’m sure people will lecture everyone who does after it happens.

 

[Day2]

Initially you said he should be injured. I saw you edited after. That is cool, was just responding to your original comment.

Yeah, no one should wish he gets injured. But we can all wish for him to rot on the end of their bench.

 

[qdawgg]

I was wrong. Won’t be the last time.

Just busting on you. I saw your post after that that he was your favorite player. Same here. This new era is going make me care less about the players, maybe even watching college sports in general. When I have a favorite player on a pro sports team I’m likely going to get to see them play for at least 3-5 years. Not so in college anymore.

 

[DoctorBombay]

I've tried to stay out of this discussion, due to my disappointment about Brown's departure, and the fact that he's my favorite player on the team these past two years.

But I think some of it has to do with some posters not recognizing what he brought to the table, and how unique his skill set was. He's a unicorn. An amazingly versatile player, who passes much better than a big man should be able to, defends in a unique way for a player his size, and has a preternatural hoops IQ that always allowed him to think one step ahead and be in the right place at the right time.

The trap that a lot of posters seem to fall into is looking at him and saying -- eh, he only scored ~9.5 ppg -- that's replaceable. Or concentrating on him not being ideal for a center in certain situational matchups. Or look at incoming Freeman, and rationalize that we're better off with him at the 4 than Maliq anyway.

But when I look at those advanced stats on BOTH sides of the ball...

When you watch the kid play and see how impactful he is, doing things that most big men can't...

I just don't think that many fans recognize what a unique talent Maliq was. I mean, this season he accomplished something that's only been done in the NBA something like 10 times in the last 25 years. Maliq's skills set is so different, so diversified, so unusual, that people under-value the package.

Sickens me that he's potentially going to be bringing those skill sets to Duke. As I said when the announcement first came out that he'd entered the portal, he could start for any team in the country -- and he's the type of player who might not be a team's focal point, but who could elevate a contending team and put them over the top. And that appears to be how things are playing out.

Sickening.

This^^^
It's a major loss, no doubt about it. And honestly I just can't figure out why some keep downplaying or denigrating Maliq's special skill set. He's a unique and exceptional player, and we will miss him.
Also, I hope Freeman steps right in and contributes right away. But color me jaded about any freshman not named Carmelo Anthony having a major impact on the team. We shall see

 

[atlanticuse]

I hear you. The last 2 years have just been rough watching the best players leave

Until forever, or unless the rules change.