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Message: [QUOTE="Inyatkin, post: 3223885, member: 2174"] I almost hate when the '99 title game comes up on this board, even though it was my favorite memory as a sports fan. It inspires so many people to imply that Duke wasn't that good, as if the rest of the world was making things up. They were great. We were great, too, but if we played 10 times we probably don't win more than a handful of times because you can't expect us to shoot 53 percent as a team while holding Duke to 41 percent and win by three points. That 53 percent takes into account a just-OK 10-22 from Rip and 5-12 from El-Amin, which shows how far out of character everyone else was -- 6-10 from Ricky, 3-4 from Mouring, 2-2 from Wane, etc. None of which matters in the slightest. They don't play a series, they play a game, and we won, and it was the best thing ever and I don't get why people try to minimize it by saying Duke was overrated. [/QUOTE]