SWC75
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- I’m sure Duke has some calls the refs made that they aren’t pleased with, (especially #5 on Parker which was obviously huge). But three calls at the end of that game cost us a chance to wrap this one up earlier and more comfortably. Jerami Grant was about to haul in a rebound when he got leveled. In the scramble for the ball, we were called for a foul. Later CJ was running after a ball in the corner and got shoved in the back and went sprawling to the ground. We got the ball out of bounds but there was no foul. Then CJ got absolutely mugged in the final seconds of overtime. A foul was called but it should have been a flagrant foul, giving us two free throws with 5.5 seconds left and possession. Instead we had to sweat out that last possession.
- If it took this to beat a Duke team in serious foul trouble in our place, what’s going to happen at Cameron or in the ACC tournament. We are on a big high right now, describing this as a game we’ll always remember but how memorable will it be if the Blue Devils beat us in those games?
- To beat Duke you’ve got to cover the three. They hit 15 of 36, 42%. A lot of them were wide open although Duke had to work to get them. I think part of the problem was fatigue. We had little depth and had to cover 3-4 shooters at all times. We stopped 6 for their first 7 attempts, (and I’m call them stops because it was about defense). The rest of the half they were 5 of 9. In the second half we stopped 5 of their first 7, then gave up 7 of 9 the rest of the way.
- JB got Tyler Ennis 5 minutes of rest to give him a break from the constant Duke pressure. He also had Cooney bringing the ball up much of the time. Good moves. But when he wasn’t in there, the offense ground to a halt. Nobody wanted to shoot the ball.
- This was a one-cheek game. I sit on the end of a row and when we have a capacity crowd, there’s always one more person in my row than is supposed to be there and I wind up with half a seat to try to sit on. Some inside info: one cheek is more comfortable than 1½ cheeks.
- Some cops walked past me to get to a couple of fans about 10 rows up whom the escorted form the arena. One was dressed in a Duke T-shirt and the other guy was all in orange. Like CTO says, you can disagree without being disagreeable.
- If it took this to beat a Duke team in serious foul trouble in our place, what’s going to happen at Cameron or in the ACC tournament. We are on a big high right now, describing this as a game we’ll always remember but how memorable will it be if the Blue Devils beat us in those games?
- To beat Duke you’ve got to cover the three. They hit 15 of 36, 42%. A lot of them were wide open although Duke had to work to get them. I think part of the problem was fatigue. We had little depth and had to cover 3-4 shooters at all times. We stopped 6 for their first 7 attempts, (and I’m call them stops because it was about defense). The rest of the half they were 5 of 9. In the second half we stopped 5 of their first 7, then gave up 7 of 9 the rest of the way.
- JB got Tyler Ennis 5 minutes of rest to give him a break from the constant Duke pressure. He also had Cooney bringing the ball up much of the time. Good moves. But when he wasn’t in there, the offense ground to a halt. Nobody wanted to shoot the ball.
- This was a one-cheek game. I sit on the end of a row and when we have a capacity crowd, there’s always one more person in my row than is supposed to be there and I wind up with half a seat to try to sit on. Some inside info: one cheek is more comfortable than 1½ cheeks.
- Some cops walked past me to get to a couple of fans about 10 rows up whom the escorted form the arena. One was dressed in a Duke T-shirt and the other guy was all in orange. Like CTO says, you can disagree without being disagreeable.