Harrow needs to play no less than 35 minutes a game. Javi is a turnover machine and we are just a horrible team with him on the floor.

1/20/2011 7:02:55 AM

I would prefer if Javi would just stop sucking. I worry that Harrow playing 35 minutes every single game as a freshmen could start wearing him down.

1/20/2011 7:07:47 AM

you worry too much

1/20/2011 7:10:04 AM

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"you worry too much "

1/20/2011 8:26:38 AM

I'm not going to say anything about the game because I'm sure it has all been said. But I have never been more disgusted with a fanbase in my life. The ONLY time we were loud or provided any energy at all was when we were in the middle of a run and cutting the score to 4 or 5 points. The moment duke would go up by 8 or 9 the entire student section would just deflate. The Student Wolfpack Club is the biggest freaking joke I've ever seen. They look like a bunch of frozen fish stacked in some chairs next to the court. "Down by 8 with 15 minutes left?! OH NO! We can NEVER come back from that. Let me just stand here with my hands in my pockets and not even make a peep." I swear we must have the lowest volume/capacity ratio of any stadium over 15,000 seats. We didn't have a single WOLF...PACK chant until 3 minutes left to go in the game. I tried multiple times to start one and people looked at me like I had leprosy. You WPC people need to get in someones ear! /rant

1/20/2011 9:41:27 AM

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"Duke's style of basketball is despicable. I seriously don't know how anyone who didn't go to that school can LIKE watching this ridiculous style of play. These people fall down at any sort of contact and act like they are being murdered. And seriously, Nolan Smith, I hope you break your leg you pansyass. Nice freethrow fall last night. That was Oscar worthy. Why, when Duke has so much talent, do they have to resort to soccer diving? It's a joke and the refs cater to it. Regardless, Duke was the better team last night. They outshot us and got the rebounds when it counted. I think that's what makes me so mad. The fact that Duke is such a good team but that they resort to a style of play that can only be described as "f*cking pathetic." Duke fans should be ashamed of this, not proud of it. It's an insult to the game."

[Edited on January 20, 2011 at 9:58 AM. Reason : amen]

1/20/2011 9:57:57 AM

^^ the energy (generally) was fine. Shut up.

how the fuck can you expect the crowd to get way into the game shooting 21%? Second half the crowd was great and very loud.

1/20/2011 10:03:12 AM

I just have one thing to say:



chick was doing some crazy shit with her eyes. i think we rewound and watched like 20 times at one point.

1/20/2011 10:21:57 AM

lol

1/20/2011 10:26:26 AM

could do the zoom thing with about everybody in that picture. aha.

1/20/2011 10:26:48 AM

^^^ahhhh that's got me rollin

send me a clip so i can make a gif

1/20/2011 10:31:13 AM

that pic was posted on 'backing the pack' for the triple facepalm but it's much more notable for the crazy eyes we were laughing at on and off for the whole game

1/20/2011 10:32:16 AM

The main thing is that our scheduling for ACC season has been very rough so far. I hope that this isn't a demoralizing and damaging loss.

it is not so surprising that we went 0-3 over the past three games.

[Edited on January 20, 2011 at 10:33 AM. Reason : sda]

1/20/2011 10:32:34 AM

It is surprising

We shouldn't have lost to BC, but really we're only a game behind where I think we should be for the season (realistically)

1/20/2011 10:36:17 AM

cj's putback

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG9i_zcySpY

1/20/2011 10:38:00 AM

this isn't a mismatch at all

1/20/2011 10:44:02 AM

on the bright side, there's a legitimate chance wake forest may not win another game this year

1/20/2011 10:44:15 AM

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"the energy (generally) was fine. Shut up."

Um, no it wasn't...it sucked. You shut up.

[Edited on January 20, 2011 at 10:50 AM. Reason : opinions]

1/20/2011 10:48:21 AM

I am hearing a lot of complaints about our defense last night, and I think you guys going off memory just tend to remember the plays more because they specifically made you .

We played really good defense for the most part that entire game. there were a few lapses, fast breaks, back door cuts, open 3's, but A LOT of the shots Duke was taking (and making) were contested, difficult to make shots. I forgot who posted it, but someone said it right when they mentioned that those few possessions where we lapsed were the difference in the score, but that means we were playing at a very high level against Duke.

Our shots were, mostly, not bad. They were high percentage, mostly open perimeter shots by our guards. the post man against two and three guys under the basket is typically a basket for us, we just weren't making the scores. Add that to the fast breaks and sweet cuts we were making to the basket sometimes, and we just couldn't keep up. A couple points in the %FG column would have made that game much different, and there's nothing to do about that but let the players get more comfortable.

[Edited on January 20, 2011 at 10:49 AM. Reason : PS - yeah I was the whole time Vandy was in...]

1/20/2011 10:48:48 AM

No offense has been more efficient this season against Duke than ours last night

Moral victory, how about that

1/20/2011 10:51:10 AM

^ And we still lost by 14. Yay!

1/20/2011 10:53:10 AM

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"Our shots were, mostly, not bad. They were high percentage, mostly open perimeter shots by our guards. the post man against two and three guys under the basket is typically a basket for us"

i can't agree with this. i saw a number of times where our guards would try to move inside, then when a hole closed up by 2-3 duke players they'd try to throw up a floater which would usually clang around and occasionally go in. the shot selection just wasn't there at those points, especially in the first half.

1/20/2011 10:53:55 AM

If you're talking about Harrow, that floater is pretty much his shot

1/20/2011 10:57:53 AM

Also, how many fucking times is harrow going to try and pull an NBA move on a 1 on 1 break against a taller defender? PASS THE FUCKING BALL!

1/20/2011 10:58:23 AM

Because of ^^ he's been successful doing ^ pretty much all year

Also, though I thought our defense looked good for the large part of the game (not the first few minutes and not towards the end when we couldn't get any stops), it was our second-least efficient game this year; only Wisconsin was worse.

1/20/2011 10:59:14 AM

I'm not sure if you consider 4 for 13 successful, but I wasn't just talking about harrow.

1/20/2011 11:03:26 AM

I'm not sure where you think I said Harrow was successful shooting the ball last night.

1/20/2011 11:04:31 AM

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"I worry that Harrow playing 35 minutes every single game as a freshmen could start wearing him down."

n. smith has played every minute of every acc game so far this year. harrow is 18 and has barely hit puberty. i think he is fine playing 35 minutes of a game.

1/20/2011 11:04:58 AM

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"If you're talking about Harrow, that floater is pretty much his shot"

or, he could be talking about the floater Javi missed horribly in the first half, lol.

1/20/2011 11:05:01 AM

Yeah, I consider baseline floaters that miss the rim by two feet to be poor shot selections.

Pretty much any shot by Javi is a bad idea, though.

1/20/2011 11:06:48 AM

javi used to be a master at the end-of-game meaningless 3 pointer

1/20/2011 11:08:41 AM

He's still a master at the WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOIng good shot, Javi three

1/20/2011 11:10:07 AM

^ said that exact phrase several times with the same inflection

1/20/2011 11:11:22 AM

ive always hated the way his legs look like he's putting all his might into his 3-pointers

he looks like when hansbrough would shoot a midrange jumper while being defended

1/20/2011 11:11:52 AM

Yeah, it's his weird-ass open leg shot that always throws me off

1/20/2011 11:13:17 AM

I love watching his little legs kick forward and open and close like scissors. That's the only time he makes those shots.

1/20/2011 11:21:21 AM

Don't worry guys! We'll get them in Cameron!

1/20/2011 11:21:25 AM

When was the last time we won in Cameron (serious question)? That place has killed us for as long as I can remember.

1/20/2011 11:46:43 AM

I don't think Duke has lost more than 25 games in Cameron in their history.....

1/20/2011 11:53:55 AM

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"When was the last time we won in Cameron (serious question)? That place has killed us for as long as I can remember."

Les Robinson beat them @ Cameron on January 18, 1995. 77-60.

Wahoo Go pack!

1/20/2011 12:07:43 PM

do yall remember how Duke won in Reynolds that year? ... nc state shit occurred

1/20/2011 12:10:28 PM

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"1 The Dukies Duke basketball hasn't been a flop in the record books -- the Blue Devils won the NCAA tournament in 2001 and made the Final Four in 2004. But the Blue Devils have been a flop on the court in the most literal sense possible. This is the decade in which the word "flop" became synonymous with Duke hoopsters' overzealous attempts to draw offensive fouls. The technique drew national ire first with Shane Battier in the early part of the decade, then J.J. Redick came along with his "offensive flop," in which he kicks his legs out on a jump shot. But even Redick had to make way for the master, Greg Paulus (pictured). Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/2000s/12/18/decade-flops/index.html#ixzz1Bb3a7PvP "

1/20/2011 12:18:09 PM

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"Les Robinson beat them @ Cameron on January 18, 1995. 77-60."

Wasn't that the Pete Gaudett year that they went something like 2-14 in the ACC??

1/20/2011 12:20:42 PM

[Edited on January 20, 2011 at 12:28 PM. Reason : .]

1/20/2011 12:22:16 PM

it was the pete gaudet year, but i dont know what their record was

i think the win at Reynolds was their first in the ACC that year, after starting off with a lot of ACC losses

1/20/2011 12:22:28 PM

yes 2-14

1/20/2011 12:27:16 PM

The crowd was fine last night. I hate hearing people bitch about that. Whenever we made a run to cut their lead the place was loud and supporting the team. The only time it wasn't good was when Duke made their first half run to push their lead from 1 to 13 in something like a 2 minute span.

1/20/2011 1:19:19 PM

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"Also, how many fucking times is harrow going to try and pull an NBA move on a 1 on 1 break against a taller defender? PASS THE FUCKING BALL!"

i know what break you're talking about, and he got that shot off easy. it rimmed out, but the layup went up w/o trouble.

1/20/2011 1:19:38 PM

the pittsburgh crowd vs syracuse was electric the other night ... they looked better than cameron most of the time

i just kinda lol when i watch a full state student section standing still during defense

1/20/2011 1:21:26 PM

Sitting smack dab in the middle of the SWC section, I can say without hesitation that the crowd was horrible. That goes for students and everyone else. SWC seriously needs more organization, and needs less pouty bitches talking about how we need to put in Josh Davis...

As Andy Katz tweeted last night, the atmosphere would occasionally be good, but what is it going to be like when the opponent isn't Duke? Compared it to when Kentucky played at Bama...

1/20/2011 1:30:02 PM