I’ll never understand
I will never fathom why so many sports fans have decided to jump on the Duke Blue Devil bandwagon, having never had any affiliation with the school in any way. I feel the same about the New York Yankees. Why do so many fans flock to such underachieving and arrogant teams such as the Yankees and Blue Devils?
In last year’s NCAA tourney, Belmont nearly took out the mighty Blue Devils in round one. In all my infinite wisdom, I had picked Belmont to win the game, believing that West Virginia would squash the Blue Devils in round two anyway. So I was half right, but man has Duke been vulnerable lately.
Coach K might be a sophisticated, tough, get everything you can out of the players kind of coach, but when it comes to recruiting, he has failed miserably in recent years. Duke has turned into a jump shooting, finesse type of team. One in which is pretty simple to prepare for. How about going out and getting some athletic bigs who know how to score and play defense down low. Final Four teams are always built around a diversely molded group of players who can collectively defend, shoot and rebound and score inside.
What did the 2001 Champion Duke team have? Well, yes, a lot of 3 point shooters, but they did have that one post player who could really affect the game. Carlos Boozer.
Some other good post players from NCAA champion teams in recent years include…
Al Horford, Joakim Noah, Sean May, Emeka Okafor, Darrell Arthur, Chris Wilcox, Hakim Warrick
Does Brian Zoubek or Lance Thomas strike fear in anybody?
Maybe a SWAC team.
I digress.
If you’re down in a game, just start dishing out cheap shots like Mr. Henderson
If you can’t play defense, just flop your way through the game like Paulus
Almost as bad as this Horry flop
I just get tired of always hearing about how good Duke is.
Stop it. They should be good. They get great players every year. Back it up more than once in awhile.
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5 opinions for I’ll never understand
Cherie
Jun 11, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I have to be honest. I jumped on the bandwagon earlier this decade. I had a crush on Jason Williams. But yes, they have sucked as of late.
ryan
Jun 13, 2008 at 7:04 pm
I guess that’s somewhat acceptable, as long as it wasn’t Shelden Williams
Flbluedevil
Jun 22, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I have been told any idiot can have a blog and have it published. Seems to be true.
Jared
Jul 3, 2008 at 4:14 pm
What’s true is the fact that Duke’s roster is full of McDonalds All-Americans and yet they can’t win more than one NCAA tournament game in the last two years. And yeah, they’re a bunch of sissy floppers. I would be embarassed to play for that team. Makes me think of the first Mighty Ducks movie.
Ryan Pravato
Sep 12, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Mike K should really think about focusing more of his energy towards the program, you know, try and get them to the sweet 16 or something
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