Official game day thread- Duke vs Louisville II- ACC Championship
- By christophero
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Florida has the most ridiculous sports facilities. And this was in 1990.
We did not play near the schedule that Florida or Auburn did. Florida is hands-down worthy of the number one seed based on their record and schedule. And they dominated great teams. Statistically, they are the best team. They went 14-4 in the SEC and won the tournament in arguably the greatest Single-season basketball conference in college basketball history. 5-1 vs the other three top teams in the SEC all of whom will be a 1 seed and 2 2 seeds.Louisville may be a 7 seed but they were also ranked #13 which does mean something. I expect Duke to get the 1 overall but the committee does whatever they want…. Looking at you bubba
Could there be an argument that Florida gets a 1 seed in the east instead of Auburn? Auburn has lost 3 of their last 4 albeit against some good teams and Florida beat them head to head.
100%. Shoot a couple hundred a day.Procter needs to get some extra free throw practice in this week.
Could there be an argument that Florida gets a 1 seed in the east instead of Auburn? Auburn has lost 3 of their last 4 albeit against some good teams and Florida beat them head to head.
Yup. But they are for sure not as good as years past. Watched them a few times. Sweet 16? Sure, just not ideal 2nd roundUconn as an 8 is a nightmare.
I get it. You complain about Duke's offense year in and year out. It's unending.Jesus Christ
congratulations, again I was talking about a certain time frame of the game last night 🤡. Do you not understand that the game is ever changing? When I posted that comment, it was obvious our ball movement died. In fact several other posters commented about it, wasn’t just me.
In this certain time frame 4:12-0 we scored 5 to Louisville’s 10.
We were elite when you look at the game as a whole , just not that sequence
not sure how you’re still lacking comprehension here. I’ll give you an example, proctor a good ft shooter was hitting 75% before last night. At the end, he went 1-5. Although he’s been solid all year, last night he was bad from the stripe. Do you understand now? 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Florida looks really good. Big strong dudes with experience and deep.
Uconn as an 8 is a nightmare.Hopefully they end up a 1 and on the complete opposite side. Also, I keep seeing UConn as the 8 in east. They are certainly not as good as last two years, but still do not love them in 2nd round.
Jesus ChristDuke scored 1.26 points per possession last night. That's elite by any standard.
Also, you hate having injuries at this time of year but they also allow opportunities for other players. Now Scheyer has more players he can trust before the injuries which will allow Duke to play many different styles. This team is very versatile. You never want to be without your best player because after the Round of 64, each round gets tougher and tougher. Playing a deeper bench allows us to pressure other teams since we will be fresher. That wears down other teams after 40 minutes.
EVERYBODY shortens their bench during the tourney, and we are all very used to K doing that through much of the regular season, whether we agreed with him or whether we were wrong.
But this year, we have successfully integrated a deeper rotation -- depending on match-ups -- with little drop-off. There is no reason to shorten the bench just for the sake of it. Caleb and Pat's play down the stretch warrants maintaining a 9-man rotation once Coop is back.
Malik ain't coming back this year.Two things I think you need to win it all is veteran guards and frontcourt depth. We have Proctor and Sion, and the emergence of Pat gives us nice depth. I am not holding my breath on Brown coming back, he seems a bit snake bitten with injuries this year.