Official game day thread- ACC Quarterfinal- Duke vs GT
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Missing the ACC's 2 best defenders. Mal and Proctor need to bring their A game.
But we did come back from a big deficit after Coop went out. I think the team is rallying around the”we’re still damn good without Cooper” mantra. We clearly are not as good without Cooper as we were with him, but the rest of the team isn’t exactly chopped liver. I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about tomorrow facing UNCheats without Flagg.
Duke needs everyone to step up on defense . Scoring will come . Big Pat and Mal need to slow down Lubin and Washington. Gillis and Evans need to keep Wiethers from getting hot . Powell will be on Kon . The bench will be needed to defend and score that includes Foster. Tar Heels are fighting for their NCAA birth and the will smell blood in the water with out Flagg and Brown .
I love the optimism, but I just don't see it. But I hope we win, all the same.
I know better to think that it means something that they've played an extra game in a row. They could get tired or they could hit a groove.
I was not pleased with how our bigs played in CH. Mal and Malik had two buckets in the paint between them. I get it. We've certainly won with small ball at times throughout the last 30+ years. When our advantage includes bigs, though, I like for us to impose that on the other team, rather than for them to force us away from it.
We've played all but a game and a half without Malik down the stretch and whipped them all. We know we can win without him. We've also mounted comebacks against GT today, UNC last week, and someone else I am forgetting with Coop on the bench, so we know we can do that, too, in short stretches. I think it's really important to get Mal and Pat involved tomorrow and keep Lubin and Washington from having good games.
I was not pleased with how our bigs played in CH. Mal and Malik had two buckets in the paint between them. I get it. We've certainly won with small ball at times throughout the last 30+ years. When our advantage includes bigs, though, I like for us to impose that on the other team, rather than for them to force us away from it.
We've played all but a game and a half without Malik down the stretch and whipped them all. We know we can win without him. We've also mounted comebacks against GT today, UNC last week, and someone else I am forgetting with Coop on the bench, so we know we can do that, too, in short stretches. I think it's really important to get Mal and Pat involved tomorrow and keep Lubin and Washington from having good games.
Stars seem to be alligning for the Heels. Please end them tomm
Think they'll try to pick and roll us to death. Maliq gave us an extra quick defender out there for us against that. Just don't see Pat and Mal being able to defend that. Can't remember the numbers but with Maliq out there in the two games against the Cheats we were +32. We were no where near that with Pat and Mal out there
Delusional. Straight up delusional
That the two guys that carried us in the second half of the second half of the game in Chapel Hill won't be playing. So they set the margin insultingly low.
I’ll be rooting for Duke like crazy tomorrow at the game!
Guess we find out if we can beat the Tar Heels without Brown and Cooper. Kon having a good game is essential. Starting 0 for 10 from 3 like we did today is not advisable.
With the two injuries I will not be watching today's game.
Beating them without Cooper and Brown would be the ultimate nut punch.
Beating them without Cooper and Brown would be the ultimate nut punch.
I meant I will not be watching the GT game which I missed while working as I don't want to see the injuries.
If it weren't after midnight, it wouldn't be so hard for my dumb brain to see what you were saying.
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