***DUKE VS NORTH CAROLINA OFFICIAL GAMEDAY THREAD***
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Tough loss. The silver lining is we are building towards next year and should be a lot better. it's not like we are getting blown out. If we were another team we would be saying watch out for them next year. This year is just tough. I did not watch the game; because in all honesty I thought we would lose and I don't enjoy watching us lose. Esp. that game. But guys are getting experience and slowly improving. Coleman seems to have replaced Brakefield in the rotation, unless it was just for yesterday. This team does not have the consistency to win the ACC tournament, so barring some drastic turnaround I will hope our guys come back and improve, which they should. Other than Hurt and Johnson. We need to learn how to win close games but I think that comes with experience.
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He should have continued holding them accountable. It was only competing because we were playing a team who has equally as bad fundamentals. They played hard, but does that matter when you are making mistake after mistake while playing hard? He can say we played hard, but still deserved to lose. Now they think it'll be fine to keep making boneheaded mistakes if they think that low bar performance is worthy of "winning". I understand your point, but just see it different.
I agree. The silver lining is that the players who showed up last night will still be with us next year with a year under thier belt.
It looked like a teammate was wide open in the lane. He was going up for the shot, but then saw the teammate at the last second.
Other than the holes going 13-22 from the free throw line, they played great. They had 3 guys that didn’t miss, going 13-13, with one of them 4-4 from 3’s. As a team, they shot over their head, 10-15. The only stat that isn’t surprising is they out rebounded us 38-31.
Duke only shot 7 free throws, going 4-7, and also got a subpar game from Matt Hurt. A loss is a loss, but if you see the stats, you’d think Duke got blown out, yet they had a chance to tie it at the end.
Duke only shot 7 free throws, going 4-7, and also got a subpar game from Matt Hurt. A loss is a loss, but if you see the stats, you’d think Duke got blown out, yet they had a chance to tie it at the end.
UNC had 16 turnovers. I wouldn't say they played great. Shot well because of our poor perimeter defense on them but they didn't play great.
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To be fair, I did like and feel good that they didn't destroy us in the post and we held our own. The flipside is we let the shooters get good shots and UNC was having a good night with open shots. At the end of the day maybe our gameplan just backfired.
I think that was it. We, rightfully, wanted them to beat us hitting outside shots. They just hit them, uncharacteristically.
My biggest gripe is the turnovers. So frustrating. And Wendell, you might want to go ahead and lay it in the basket. Otherwise I liked the effort and thought Johnson, Moore, Roach, and Baker played pretty well.
It is a shame the game ended the way it did for Moore. Had played a really solid game up until that point.
They aren’t making them because they think they are ok. for whatever reason, they just have not clicked. being out of synch with your teammates leads to a lot of sloppiness.
Cry me a damn river. Had K said his players suck, that be a problem too (which he recruited btw lol) Some things are just common sense and are better left unsaid. Over here wanting K to hold 18 kids responsible in public..FOR WhAT. What’s the point? your satisfaction lmfao gthoh
My only thought was his intent was to drive in...suck in the defense and kick out for a three...got in so deep unexpectedly probably and just confused his own self...???
What he says to the press and what he says to the team privately are likely two very different things (and decibels).
Very true Jeffrey. K had plenty of time to prepare for this game. The disciplined and calm responses in the presser doesnt necessarily mirror the message to team about this game. IMO after the loss at Miami, he probably figured the UNC game as start of season maker or breaker....K pretty much knows hes got to run the table at this point, or have no more than one loss.
OFC
For your benefit or the benefit of the team? K doesn’t give two shits what either of us think.
As someone else said, I don’t think K questioned their effort Saturday night. Against Miami their effort was embarrassing and he called it out.
Throwing shade on his team publicly isn’t really a trait K has adopted much over his 40+ years at Duke. Unlikely it will all of a sudden start now. Multiply the amount of frustration you and I have exponentially and that’s what K is feeling.
This is beginning to remind me of that season in the mid 90's where we seemingly lost every game on the last play.
