Game Thread [2023-24] North Carolina

[DurhamSon]

No one is mad at those Roach possessions if he doesn’t cough up the ball three times on freshman looking turnovers and scores within two feet of the rim. That’s not a strategic failure but one of execution. He’s always done this, and would in year ten

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Duke will be happy to move on to the no-Ignite OAD Era next season.

 

[DUKERULES14]

Teams used the portal to fill gaps on their roster. We used the portal to increase the team GPA.

That's the last two years in a nutshell

 

[dukebluedevils05]

Inexcusable. I hate my life and this team and this program for having me by the balls.

 

[Devilsforlife]

Just so fucking sick of not getting it done against UNC when something is on the line. 0 for fucking 10 against them with RS/national title stakes going back 20 seasons now. The ACC Tournament has proven to be the only exception to this.

 

[dukebluedevils05]

I will not look back fondly on Filipowski’s two years at Duke. So glad this is it for him.

 

[dukeboy911]

What an atrocious game. Wire to wired. Again.

 

[DurhamSon]

We’re so much better than the rest of the non-UNC ACC it’s hard for me to see the third game not happening. So we do get one more crack for Roach to redeem himself

 

[rome8180]

This really puts a damper on the season for me. I was generally pretty pleased before this.

Hubert Davis is now 4-3 against Duke. Fuck. He's done this while not ever having a noticeably better team.

 

[dukebluedevils05]

I would rather chew glass while walking on flaming hot coals than live through this Duke team playing this UNC team again.

 

[rome8180]

Still don’t see why we’re such favorites, even at home.

Because we're better in every metric. And we've been significantly better over the last five weeks.

Just envisioning RJ shitting down our throats with another Bacot “too small” celebration. Tell me I’m wrong.

I can't predict the future. That could easily happen.

But your "envisioning" is driven purely by pessimism and not anything rational. The Vegas odds are more likely to reflect reality.

Lmao

Fuck you, you piece of shit. Everyone hates you here.

 

[Devilsforlife]

This really puts a damper on the season for me. I was generally pretty pleased before this.

Hubert Davis is now 4-3 against Duke. Fuck. He's done this while not ever having a noticeably better team.

Yeah I REALLY wanted to finally kill the later K bugaboo of never beating UNC or coming from behind to win the regular season.

 

[mkvl04]

We wouldn’t have Ryan Young if not for the COVID rule. (Thread reply)

I don't want Ryan Young

 

[Devilsforlife]

1 regular season title in 14 years and 2 in 18 is such a massive underachievement for this program. I don’t even want to know how many UNC has in that timeframe. Has to be nearing fucking 10.

 

[mkvl04]

I will not look back fondly on Filipowski’s two years at Duke. So glad this is it for him.

I hate to agree

 

[DUKERULES14]

1 regular season title in 14 years and 2 in 18 is such a massive underachievement for this program. I don’t even want to know how many UNC has in that timeframe. Has to be nearing fucking 10.

Only Kentucky has done less with more since 2015.

 

[rome8180]

This honestly took me from pretty optimistic about the rest of this season to completely out. If you can't win a game this important against a good but not great team at home after losing to them on the road, you don't have a shot in the tournament.

Sort of hoping to lose before we face UNC in the ACCT.

 

[Devilsforlife]

This honestly took me from pretty optimistic about the rest of this season to completely out. If you can't win a game this important against a good but not great team at home after losing to them on the road, you don't have a shot in the tournament.

Sort of hoping to lose before we face UNC in the ACCT.

Can’t forget the fact that the second Duke-UNC game is always prophetic, either.

 

[torontoduke]

UNC really isn't that good...cannot see them doing anything in postseason.

Nevertheless - I think this forum has to conclude that Hubert is better than K.

 

[JimboJones]

Sure it looks shitty now but I don't think we're in THAT different of a position than we were in 22 before ripping off a F4 run.