By registering with us, you'll be able to discuss, share and private message with other members of our community.
SignUp Now!Yeah, I was high on Kentucky's roster all year this year. But he rarely has enough shooting. Looking back through his teams since 2015, they've only been inside the top 100 in 3pt shooting once. Duke has been inside the top 100 five times in that same span. And we've still thought we didn't have enough shooting recently.The 9-16 team he fielded last year made 2021 Duke look like a Final Four contender in comparison. I actually thought Cal assembled a nice team this year, but their shooters all went cold down the stretch, and TyTy and Wheeler(?) fell off after mid-season injuries. Felt similar to many Duke seasons.
I know Duke was probably by plurality already the biggest brand in 2007 before DukeBluePlanet, but spending a decade and a half building it up before NIL was even conceived of, hell before you could even make money on social media, was both genius and an incredible stroke of luck that’s now just starting to portentously pay huge dividends. Just a massive head start in cultivating one area that now is probably more responsible for landing elite recruits than any other single factor. Like buying cheap land in early to mid 20th century Bay Area California long before silicon valley was a thing.
Especially when the recruits have millions of followers on various platforms.It surprises me how little other programs have seemed to understand the value of social media as a recruiting tool.
I hope they die tooIt was a good season. Any other team there today and it would have been fine. In any case, UNC fans that decide to say something are no better than MAGAs and I hope they all die.
they scored on a lot more of their offensive reboundsI didn't realize UNC had only 2 more offensive rebounds than we did. It felt like a lot more than that. They also had 10 turnovers to our 4.