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Duke Post Game Thread

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I'm on Maui for spring break. We were stopped at a red light on Saturday in Kihei when a guy comes flying around the corner on a skateboard with a half rack of Rolling Rocks under his arm and a piece of fried food (possibly a wing) crammed in his mouth. I turn around to my kid in the back seat and say, "that, my son, is an omen". Fast forward to Sunday, watch most of the game but we have a lunch reservation and need to leave half way through the second half. As we arrive my son blurts out, "Dad, UConn won, 73-72". I'm pretty sure he believes in mojo now.
 
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Samoo said:
I'm on Maui for spring break. We were stopped at a red light on Saturday in Kihei when a guy comes flying around the corner on a skateboard with a half rack of Rolling Rocks under his arm and a piece of fried food (possibly a wing) crammed in his mouth. I turn around to my kid in the back seat and say, "that, my son, is an omen". Fast forward to Sunday, watch most of the game but we have a lunch reservation and need to leave half way through the second half. As we arrive my son blurts out, "Dad, UConn won, 73-72". I'm pretty sure he believes in mojo now.
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The mojo is real - the number 7774 had shown up several times this past week - mojo
 
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I have been watching basketball for lots and lots of years and I've never seen this before...or I just wasn't pay attention.
Question for you all: With 4.5 seconds left on the shot clock, and Duke has 5 seconds to inbound on the base line, why didn't Duke just hold on to the ball?
My husband thinks that could have been the game winner. I say no. I have $$ riding on this.
Boneyard rule experts? What say you?
 
RowdyFan said:
I have been watching basketball for lots and lots of years and I've never seen this before...or I just wasn't pay attention.
Question for you all: With 4.5 seconds left on the shot clock, and Duke has 5 seconds to inbound on the base line, why didn't Duke just hold on to the ball?
My husband thinks that could have been the game winner. I say no. I have $$ riding on this.
Boneyard rule experts? What say you?
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The clock doesn't start until the ball is inbound. That's why sometimes at the end of the game you see a player roll the ball rather than toss it to someone. it doesn't start until the ball is touched in bounds.
 
RowdyFan said:
Question for you all: With 4.5 seconds left on the shot clock, and Duke has 5 seconds to inbound on the base line, why didn't Duke just hold on to the ball?
My husband thinks that could have been the game winner. I say no. I have $$ riding on this.
Boneyard rule experts? What say you?
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You both lose the bet on principle
 
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osceola48 said:
Braylon's game winner is reported as 35 feet. But he was off to the side and at least as far as the start of the mid-court logo. Half-court is 47 feet. Anybody else think the shot was longer than 35 feet?
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The distance between Braylon and the midcourt line looks like it was about a smidge more than one Braylon long if you laid him down. He's 6'6", so if you call it seven feet, that makes 40 ... but the basket is four feet in front of the baseline, so that gets you 36.

Since he isn't in the center of the court, the a-squared, b-squared + c-squared would give you an extra couple feet
 
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Horatio said:
If they were smart, Duke would try to schedule us in the near future to try to cleanse themselves of this trauma. Hopefully Hurley won’t do it for about 5 years. Lol. Let it marinade
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Doesn't work that way. A regular season win, even a bunch of them, can't undo the regret of a loss in a playoff game or a championship game scenario. The stakes have to be at least comparable.
 
HailUConn said:
My mind is blown. This is some miracle Dookie dang

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I've said this many times about how Duke and Coach K, as good a coach that he was, was so overrated. He did so much less with more, while JC did more with less, in reference to the overwhelming number of highly ranked recruits and Burger AAs they've had compared to UConn. The same still seems to be the case with Hurley vs Scheyer.

Hurley is bringing in the right combination of HS and portal transfers, but boy does he and his staff coach them up and instill a winning culture. Now he's not perfect, misreading the tea leafs with not adding the type of #1 PG needed last season, though they came up a bucket short of beating UF last year...boy did they miss a ton of open uncontested 3s that game, but I digress.

I would never want a team predominantly built on one-year wonders. I'm fine if we add one or two, but I love rooting for a team that has a bunch of multi-year players the staff develops into tough minded winners. That's what UConn is all about.

I know the portal is a reality and is here to stay. It will be interesting to see what roster construction will prevail this year:

Zona is built on a combination of uber-talented freshman where likely 2 of them will enter this upcoming draft, some transfers who are in at least their second season and some multi-year homegrown HS recruits.

UM is led primarily by highly payed Transfers.

Illini has 1 lowly ranked HS recruit who turned out to be the B10 Freshman of the year, plus a bunch of 1 and 2 year transfers.

UConn is made up of a bunch of homegrown multi-year HS recruits (AK, Ross, Stewart, Reibe) , 1 possible 1-and-done highly ranked freshman (Mullins), likely 2 year Transfers (Reed & Demary) and 1 one-year backup, but very important, Transfer (Smith). I like our roster construction.

Getting ahead of myself here: Next season, depending on who leaves and who returns, they'll likely look in the Portal for 1 or 2 talented and physical front-court players to replace Reed & AK, add a backup and possible future physical PG with good positional size, and maybe a 2/3 combo wing who can hit the 3 and attack the rim. This also, depending on what they can afford and who fits that are out there and interested in coming to UConn that aren't looking for the highest bidder. Based on what they have and hopefully will accomplish this pre-tournament and tournament seasons, I think there will be some solid viable options in addition to a solid number of core returning players.
 
HW611 said:
Where is the replay available to watch?
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CBS Sports Tournament Rebound. It was on last night and this morning too. There is one on at 6:00 and 8:00 tonight but my guide doesn’t say if it’s the UConn game or not.
 
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