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Is this another "team of the century" year for Duke?!

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Article in The Athletic today about how good Duke is and how Scheyer is coach of the year:
www.nytimes.com

The case for Duke’s Jon Scheyer as college basketball’s national coach of the year

Not even a top-15 team that entered 25-3 and winners of nine straight could hold a candle to the scariest team in college basketball.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
He does give props to Hurley as a candidate as well, but it's still good bulletin board material.
I'm hoping for a rerun of '99. I was in St. Pete and bought tickets from a Duke student so I was a 50 year old guy sitting in the middle of the Cameron crazies. Would love to repeat that experience in Indy. (And yes, I've already booked the flight).
 
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AdamaNation said:
The calamari doctrine.
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Hey, we wouldn’t turn away many of their players given the chance. Scheyer hasn’t created anything new he’s continued on K’s recruiting coattails at one of the top universities in America, in a major conference. A conference where Duke talent wise is the Globetrotters playing the Generals.
 
jibsey said:
Hey, we wouldn’t turn away many of their players given the chance. Scheyer hasn’t created anything new he’s continued on K’s recruiting coattails at one of the top universities in America, in a major conference. A conference where Duke talent wise is the Globetrotters playing the Generals.
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Dirty little secret none of the talking heads are mentioning is how bad the ACC is this year
 
Hurley will have plenty of BB material for this run, no shortage.

I will say this - this Duke team feels different, starting with Boozer. Kid had a reputation of a winner coming in and it's transcended. At the college level, he's a better player than Flagg. They are the team to beat in my book - would scathe at the idea of them winning it. Last year's team felt younger as they were lead by three freshmen. This year their second and third best player are sophomores with a year in the system.

It would be fun to get a shot, we're due as it's been awhile.
 
I watched them lose to NC State in Dallas E8 (delightfully) when they had Flip and McCain and choked.
I watched them on TV lose to Houston (delightfully) when they had Flagg and Kon etc.
I will gladly watch them lose to any team this year who can get Boozer in foul trouble and hit shots.
 
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TroyHall98 said:
I think our depth is a solid advantage against both teams.
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which piece, exactly? reibe and smith have generally proven to be pretty big downgrades from the starters as the season has worn on and seen few minutes.

Ross and Stewart have been good pieces, but inconsistent.

I'm not suggesting duke is loaded on the bench or anything, but our depth hasn't exactly been what's carried us in conference play.
 
RuffRuff said:
Hurley will have plenty of BB material for this run, no shortage.

I will say this - this Duke team feels different, starting with Boozer. Kid had a reputation of a winner coming in and it's transcended. At the college level, he's a better player than Flagg. They are the team to beat in my book - would scathe at the idea of them winning it. Last year's team felt younger as they were lead by three freshmen. This year their second and third best player are sophomores with a year in the system.

It would be fun to get a shot, we're due as it's been awhile.
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Boozer isn't a better player than Flagg and you have 3 or 4 teams to beat depending on your mood and how they played the day before.
 
superjohn said:
Boozer isn't a better player than Flagg and you have 3 or 4 teams to beat depending on your mood and how they played the day before.
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Flagg, Kon and Maluach are pretty good.
 
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uconngb said:
Dirty little secret none of the talking heads are mentioning is how bad the ACC is this year
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Oh just stop. We are in a 3 bid conference. The ACC is projected to get 8 or 9. After the top 4 the NewBE will be lucky to have a team over .500. We have the worst SOS of the 1 or 2 seeds despite playing a brutal non-conference schedule. Any if the top half of the ACC would finish in the top 3 in the NBE I suspect.
 
freescooter said:
Oh just stop. We are in a 3 bid conference. The ACC is projected to get 8 or 9. After the top 4 the NewBE will be lucky to have a team over .500. We have the worst SOS of the 1 or 2 seeds despite playing a brutal non-conference schedule. Any if the top half of the ACC would finish in the top 3 in the NBE I suspect.
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What is NewBE?
 
freescooter said:
Oh just stop. We are in a 3 bid conference. The ACC is projected to get 8 or 9. After the top 4 the NewBE will be lucky to have a team over .500. We have the worst SOS of the 1 or 2 seeds despite playing a brutal non-conference schedule. Any if the top half of the ACC would finish in the top 3 in the NBE I suspect.
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When did I say anything about the Big East? I was talking about one of the so called P4 conferences.
 
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freescooter said:
Oh just stop. We are in a 3 bid conference. The ACC is projected to get 8 or 9. After the top 4 the NewBE will be lucky to have a team over .500. We have the worst SOS of the 1 or 2 seeds despite playing a brutal non-conference schedule. Any if the top half of the ACC would finish in the top 3 in the NBE I suspect.
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You may be right but I know I'd pay dearly to see Duke play Seton Hall in a 1 v 16 game - wouldn't you?
 
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