I'm not reinvested in the sense that I think we're gonna end up in the F4. More that I wasn't planning to pay much attention to college basketball in the next week or so if we lost this one and now I will.
Game Thread [2019-20] #12 Duke vs. North Carolina
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I'm not reinvested in the sense that I think we're gonna end up in the F4. More that I wasn't planning to pay much attention to college basketball in the next week or so if we lost this one and now I will.
Obviously y’all are focused on the positives for Duke but jeez Cole Anthony sure liked to talk then 4-14. Worst defensive PG I’ve ever seen.
Top 10 team for sure, dude. What a prick.
First sweep of UNC since 2015. Feels good.
I'm pissed at myself for forgetting to make a pick for this game. I had decided earlier this morning that I was going to go with logic instead of pessimism and pick Duke by 11-20.
Yeah, I mean I get that we're not great and they're shitty, but we spend so much time thinking about them, and how we would match up with them. It's nice when we can sweep them. I don't foresee us meeting in the ACCT championship game. We'd have to win 2 in a row, probably against State and FSU, and they'd have to win 4 in a row.
Moore played like Ass and Hurt played like Hurt and we still whooped the Holes!
Yeah, I found this much more enjoyable than the first game, no matter how dramatic that was. That was just a turd of a performance salvaged by luck. The fact that we covered the spread today means we played a decent game.
I agree. I was nervous before the game because I thought we would lose (I always do), but I was never nervous during the game. That was the most enjoyment I've had in a while during a Duke game.
Cole Anthony is one of the most selfish players I’ve ever seen. He signed up to play with that trash and then has the nerve to whine and pitch fits.
Worst Duke team to sweep a UNC team in like, 70+ years or something?
Along the same lines as the feeling being expressed here, what this wire to wire win means to me is that I can go back and enjoy watching highlights of the miracle plays from the first game. Those wouldn’t have been enjoyable to rewatch at all if Duke had not dominated this game.
Anyways, better team winning the 2nd game is now something absurd like 15-2 or 16-1 since Roy came to Carolina. And it usually is wire to wire, too.
06 is the only exception I can think of. 2014 Duke was better than UNC overall, even though they advanced one round further in the NCAAT, and 2019 UNC was obviously superior to Duke sans Zion.
One of those 50s teams for sure, so only Farmer would know.
And just yikes going 22 years between sweeps. Glad I wasn't alive for that level of futility.
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I see that Justin Robinson was the reason. It’s good to have your best players stepping up in the biggest games
Best sequence, and the one where we finally put enough breathing room between us and UNC, was getting from 72-67 to 80-67:
-Carey Dunk
-Anthony garbage shot
-Tre Jones miss
- Brooks missed layup, Duke (Robinson) finally gets a defensive rebound, gets pumped as hell about it
- Robinson hits a semi-contested 3 with the shotclock running down, crowd goes nuts
- Anthony bricked 3
- Stanley hits corner 3, crowd goes nuts
- TO Roy
-Carey Dunk
-Anthony garbage shot
-Tre Jones miss
- Brooks missed layup, Duke (Robinson) finally gets a defensive rebound, gets pumped as hell about it
- Robinson hits a semi-contested 3 with the shotclock running down, crowd goes nuts
- Anthony bricked 3
- Stanley hits corner 3, crowd goes nuts
- TO Roy