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Don’t get used to it. Or, to put it in more positive terms, enjoy it while you can. The statistical dimensions of what Cameron Boozer has achieved so far this season are seldom matched, certainly not on any squad with a variety of talented players. Even if it did happen with a Duke squad that […]
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In Wednesday’s ACC Action, Virginia canned Cal 84-60, Clemson held on against SMU 74-70, Miami survived Wake Forest 81-77 and Stanford just nipped Virginia Tech 69-68. The Hokies set limiting turnovers as a goal and they accomplished that. Too bad they couldn’t limit Stanford’s freshman star Ebuka Okorie (that just auto-corrected to Ebuka Okra), who […]
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So someone made a request on X to post Duke highlights of Nolan Smith and that wish was granted. When he was at Duke, Smith improved dramatically. Along with Jon Scheyer, he formed one of Duke’s more underrated backcourts. We still talk about the Johnny Dawkins/Tommy Amaker backcourt, the Bobby Hurley/Thomas Hill backcourt and the […]
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In the second half of Duke’s win over Louisville, the Blue Devils really cranked up the defense. Duke just turned off all the options against Pat Kelsey’s three point-centric machine like a boa constrictor slowly choking out a Cardinal. At a certain point, Louisville was still there, but functionally hopeless. A lot of it had […]
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What is with Duke and comebacks in the Yum! Center? Duke’s comeback at Louisville in 2019 was shocking because it happened really fast. Duke was down 23 with 9:58 to play. That comeback was basically basketball blitzkrieg. It wasn’t quite that extreme here. Duke was down 47-38 at the half and finally tied the game […]
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In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Syracuse took care of Georgia Tech 82-72 and NC State survived Boston College, 79-71. We were curious about how Cuse’s Naithan George would perform going up against his old team. Well he did just fine with 17 points and 5 assists. On the downside, he had just 2 rebounds and 6 […]
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The win was so stunning, we needed to collect our breath! After the vibes check episode, Donald and Scott Rich return to give a full recap of the Louisville game on Episode 785, with discussion on each of the halves and what made them what they were. The second half was the good, featuring the […]
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It’s really kind of amazing just how much Duke Basketball is now part of the overall sphere of basketball, if you’ll forgive the pun. In college, you see a number of coaches – Jeff Capel, Johnny Dawkins, Bobby Hurley, Greg Paulus and Nolan Smith come to mind. The NBA has executives like Elton Brand, Trajan […]
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A few years ago, we saw a post saying that only (maybe) four players had ever blocked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Sky Hook, but we keep finding other guys who did it. As far as we can remember, Bill Willoughby did it, though it was called goal tending, Bill Walton got one from behind and Wilt Chamberlain […]
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What a game! Duke overcomes a terrible first half and comes back to win it in the second as they defeat Louisville on the road 84-73. With Donald and Scott Rich on hand and Jason recording from a lavatory 35,000 feet above the Atlantic, we just give out the vibes on Episode 784! Caleb Foster […]
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Louisville won the first half but Duke won the second and with that, the game, winning 84-73. The first half against Louisville really didn’t start very well for Duke as Ryan Conwell hit his first three three point attempts and finished the half with four. Louisville was ridiculous from behind the line. Backup big man […]
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Date 1/6 || Time 7:00 || Venue KFC Yum! Center || Video ESPN Next up for Duke is a date with Louisville in the Yum! Center, and that’s not as easy as it used to be. After Rick Pitino was forced out in 2017 following one too many scandals, David Padgett had a year as […]
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The ACC Network was occupied, its scheduled showing of the ACC opener between Duke and Georgia Tech delayed by a rivalry game within the state of Virginia. UVa, ranked #21 in the nation at the time, traveled to Virginia Tech to engage in the 162nd meeting between the public universities dating to 1915. By the […]
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No one playing on Tuesday (other than the highlight game of Duke-Louisville) has less than five losses, but both games have compelling storylines. In the 7:00 game between Syracuse and Georgia Tech, Naithan George returns to Atlanta, which should be interesting. Syracuse hasn’t played a true road game yet, believe it or not and Georgia […]
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The NBA started in the late 1940’s, so if you take the league’s official starting point as 1946, with the BAA which merged with the NBL to make the NBA, it is 79 now and will hit 80 later in the year, presumably at the start of next season. That’s a long time and incorporates […]
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After a pair of wins against the bottom tier of the ACC Duke faces a much different conference rival on Tuesday. The Blue Devils will face the team everyone says is the second best in the league, the Louisville Cardinals. One key question for this game is the health of superstar freshman PG Mikel Brown, […]
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For 10 games, Duke looked the part of a top-tier National Championship contender. Over the last four games, the Blue Devils have looked more like a team whose flaws might keep them from such lofty expectations. Who is Duke really? The Blue Devils’ next big test—at Louisville Tuesday night—will go a long way towards establishing […]
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Duke won its sixth straight game with Sunday’s 82-68 win over #18 Notre Dame. Duke took control early and while Notre Dame only used six players, Duke only went seven deep, so it’s not really that big of a difference. Depth wasn’t an issue when Duke ripped off a 13-0 run in the first quarter. […]
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Duke is now 2-0 in the ACC and 13-1 on the season after winning their first ACC road game of the season against Florida State. Donald and Jason recap the win on Episode 783! The Blue Devils had some great shooting, especially from the free throw line, to defeat the Seminoles, who also shot well […]
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Ideally, any basketball coach would like to have at least one quality big man, some long defenders, some guys who can shoot and someone to run the team – a coach on the floor as people like to call it. Those are ideals but just as in life, basketball rosters are rarely ideal and one […]
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If people had questions about the ACC being back, Saturday should have sorted that out. Aside from the close Duke-Florida State game, Virginia clubbed NC State, 76-61, Wake first slipped by Virginia Tech 81-78, Clemson escaped Pitt 73-68, Georgia Tech got by BC 65-53 and SMU upset UNC 97-83. It’s hard to understand what happened […]
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When Leon Redbone showed up on the music scene in the early 1970’s, no one knew quite what to make of him. Bob Dylan said he could be anywhere from 25-70 and that if he started a label he would certainly sign him. Redbone, who was born in Cyprus before ultimately moving to Canada with […]
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Welcome back, ACC. We missed you. Sort of. Over the last few years and especially last year, the conference has been pretty weak but in Duke’s first two games, first against Georgia Tech and then Saturday against Florida State, two of the weaker teams in recent years played very, very well, with both giving the […]
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Sometimes being wrong isn’t the worst thing in the world. Take Louisville at Stanford. While we have a healthy respect for Kyle Smith though. He’s clearly a very sharp guy and he’s likely to get as much as possible out of his analytics approach. Still, we didn’t think Stanford had much of a chance here. […]
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The coolest thing anyone on Duke’s team last year said was when someone asked Cooper Flagg what he would take to a desert island. He said “some food, a gun…Kon Knueppel.” They are very good friends and were roommates at Duke. Now, they’re the two primary candidates for NBA Rookie of the Year and now, […]
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