Duke and UConn men's basketball postgame press conferences Elite Eight

[Husky Alien]

1. Do we really need young men to be forced to answer stupid questions after a loss like this? I know it increases the value of the contract and is meant to maximize publicity, but it’s hard to watch a young man who plays his heart out (as Boozer did with little help past halftime from any other Duke player or coach) have to deal with that publicly.

2. Scheyer is acting like a nepo baby who has his job because of who he is rather than what he accomplished. Yes, I get you’re broken hearted also, but you’re an adult getting paid huge money to be ready for these situations. You can’t mumble a lukewarm congratulations to the other team? You can’t blame yourself for the loss, whether you think it was your fault or not, to try to take some of the load off your players there? Instead, he’s caught like a deer in the headlights. (Which, in fairness, is how he coached the second half.)

It’s definitely tough to watch young athletes in that situation no question. Those postgame questions can feel pretty tone deaf when a kid just left everything out there. But at the same time, this is part of the deal now. Players like the Boozer brothers are getting paid real good money and they’re prepped for this stuff, media training, communication classes, all of it. Doesn’t make it easy in the moment, but it’s not like they’re thrown in blind.
As for Scheyer… yeah, that part stood out. You don’t have to give a speech and or justify your efforts but at least acknowledge UConn and what they did in that second half. ( not even a mumble) That’s just basic respect and honestly, part of the job.

 

[UConn Dan]

Respect Scheyer? I thought he sounded like an a —-.

Absolutely 100%. Dude did not know how to take the L. Didn't have anything positive to say about UConn. Total entitled pos

If he's going to stick around needs some media training and so do his players. But even then, not sure you can fix him.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Gotta respect Scheyer, not saying it was any one play. Thank God he didn't cry

Like a couple others, I'm on the other side of the fence. It takes no great courage to spread the blame and say the obvious. The courage would be to show some grace in defeat and at minimum congratulate UConn, but he couldn't muster the cajones for that. I didn't hear him mention UConn, Danny or any players at any point during the presser. To him, we didn't win the game, they just lost it. Boozer was the only one of the 2 to show actual courage. He did that just by being out there and answering extremely difficult questions.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

As much as they look like they should be running crypto schemes out of a condo in Brickell with Clavicular, I have to say both of the Boozer kids came across really well, and much better than their coach. I'm a fan of both of them. And Cam was an absolute load. I'm glad we got the last shot because I did not want to see him with the ball in his hands up top with 5 seconds on the clock.

One of the things that bugs me generally about Duke is that the whole culture that they all talk about seems so phony and manufactured. "The Brotherhood" is corny as hell and I thought Evans talking about how "connected" they are relative to other teams just seemed like wishing something into existence.

 

[Flipside]

 

[HooperScooper]

As much as they look like they should be running crypto schemes out of a condo in Brickell with Clavicular, I have to say both of the Boozer kids came across really well, and much better than their coach. I'm a fan of both of them. And Cam was an absolute load. I'm glad we got the last shot because I did not want to see him with the ball in his hands up top with 5 seconds on the clock.

One of the things that bugs me generally about Duke is that the whole culture that they all talk about seems so phony and manufactured. "The Brotherhood" is corny as hell and I thought Evans talking about how "connected" they are relative to other teams just seemed like wishing something into existence.

Nailed it with this post. "The Brotherhood " seems like something developed by a marketing firm.

 

[Kolumbo]

Scheyer is the biggest d bag out there. maybe I'm wrong but I don't think he once gave UConn credit. Oh poor boozer has a little black and blue mark. Come on man. Scheyer lost this game more than anyone else because all he knows how to do is recruit 5 stars and let them run rampant over a weak acc. what a loser

 

[BFieldHusky]

Didn't Scheyer say one of his staff got hit after the UNC game at Chapel Hill, and the DA said he there was no evidence of it and that Scheyer was basically full of ?

The narrative is out there that he can't close games out.