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Don't worry the refs got this.
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And they did.
Duke lacks some depth beyond Boozer. If Evans is cold, they have a hard time finding points outside of him. They’ve finally sent Foster to the bench for little Boozer.
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Eh. If GT hit the front ends of their 1-and-1s in the last 2 minutes, different game.
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Well at least people in the media are starting to notice.
Duke opened ACC play Wednesday with an 85-79 win over Georgia Tech. So the Blue Devils are now 12-1 on the season; that's great. But it was hard not to notice -- after Duke had to overcome a seven-point deficit in the second half to avoid being upset at home as a 27.5-point favorite -- that the Blue Devils allowed their opponent to shoot above 53% for the second straight game, and that's obviously not sustainable for any team with real national-championship aspirations.
Man-to-man, Duke couldn't guard.
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If the staff is as focused and obsessed as they were with JC at the helm, you can bet they are watching every game played by the teams they believe we might face deep in the tournament.
I recall JC talking about it, especially regarding Duke's games. No need at that time to spend time on Ohio State's games because Jim (can't beat UConn) O'Brien was their coach.
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The blue index cards. I wonder if JC still has them.
"When coach [Jim] Calhoun has a show horse, he watches who else is going to be in the race throughout the year," Connecticut assistant coach Tom Moore said. "We always keep an eye on Duke. It didn't come up at meetings specifically, but we talked about them a lot."
Calhoun was a bit obsessed about Duke in 1999 when the Blue Devils were the consensus favorite to win the title. Moore said Calhoun had blue cards made up with notes about a potential matchup with the Blue Devils.
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Q. Could you give us the keys to your game plan, also could you explain why you let one threat... (Inaudible)
JIM CALHOUN: Well, game plan, starting somewhere in November, I started to just watch games and take notes. I took notes on Cincinnati, who I thought for a long time was the best team with Duke and so on. I got these blue cards out, I think some of you guys have seen the blue cards I always carry around. We started preparing ourselves if we had a chance to meet one of these teams down the line somewhere. And our plan was simply to try to, A, put ball pressure on them to make Langdon bring the ball up the court, not Avery, which would get us into offense quick. B, was to double big-to-big. Elton Brand is a great basketball player, then don't rotate but only have the same guys rotate to the same spot so it would be much more zone. Sometimes if you have other people coming at them, you get confusion. We had no confusions. We knew where our spots were. Then we tried to do everything we could, pick and roll any time one of their bigs played us, that was an automatic rule for us to bring them out and try to exploit that by driving to the basket. We felt that we saw some things, as great as Duke was, that we could use. Yesterday, we had a shoot around, not a practice. We had talked to a couple coaches who had been here before, our kids had done so much for us. The only thing we needed to tell them was what they needed to do to beat a great Duke team, and they did it to perfection obviously. So I think those were the keys. Yesterday we tried to do everything humanly possible to give them a couple things to hang on to but in turn have a light shoot around. That's unusual for us, by the way.
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