Duke Bball Alumni

[rome8180]

And Farmer, Hurley not only had bad shot selection, he was also a fairly poor decision maker. His assist to turnover ratio was never that great and it came from doing things like trying impossible outlet passes or driving way too deep into the lane.

For that reason, I never got behind the idea that Cook was a bad decision maker. When compared to our two "greatest" point guards ever, he took much better care of the ball and wasn't any worse with his shot selection. And that's talking about his first three years. This year, he was obviously a stats-nerd's wet dream.

 

[childress22]

Boozer actually had the proper usage, as well.

I'd argue that if you have a guy with a 130 ORtg, like Boozer in 2002, 30% usage for him would have been preferable to the 24% usage he got. Especially when you have Williams with a 111 ORtg and 29% usage.

 

[DrKlahn]

 

[rome8180]

Not like he was in bad shape at Duke. If nothing else, you've got to admire his offseason discipline. He shed a lot of fat from high school to college.

 

[deepdarkblue]

Not like he was in bad shape at Duke. If nothing else, you've got to admire his offseason discipline. He shed a lot of fat from high school to college.

He was no Tony Porker.

 

[aiw]

Or Jabari Porker

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

 

[rome8180]

Is there a bigger badass than Laettner? So a politician describes his candidate as the "Christian Laettner of Kentucky politics."

Laettner tweets back:

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

Probably not.

From a college bball perspective, never going to see someone like that again, but as freshmen, Winslow and Tyus each had some key Laettner-like attributes that probably would have blossomed to an even greater degree had they stayed 4 years like the players of Laettner's era.

I realize Tyus only played one season and the sample size is relatively small, but I can't really think of many athletes that are able to make such substantial leaps in the biggest moments of games like what we saw from Tyus this year.

I think of guys like David Ortiz and Reggie Miller, and that's pretty much what we saw from Tyus this year as a freshman in a pretty damn good year for the sport.

 

[rome8180]

Winslow had the attitude. Tyus had the clutch factor.

 

[DurhamSon]

Winslow produced some of the best freeze frames in Duke history. The squat after Cook's shot at UVA, the wide mouthed expression he made after hitting that the dagger against the Zags, and his bench reaction after the Plumthree in the first game.

 

[deeyoukayeee]

Is there a bigger badass than Laettner? So a politician describes his candidate as the "Christian Laettner of Kentucky politics."

Laettner tweets back:

C Laetts is nice.

Incredibly, the dude who very well may be the next Governor - Jack Conway - is a '91 Duke grad, and has had to become Bilas-like in his disavowal of his alma mater to succeed in local politics. He picked UK to win it all in 2010 and Duke to lose in the second round to Louisville (although he had the Ville losing soon after - state-wide they carry no weight) in a bracket he put on his campaign website - back then for Senator.

I wonder if this guy brought up the subject early to cast aspersions at Jack later in the campaign.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

After a couple days worth of rumors, tonight the Clippers went and traded Reggie Bullock (their backup small forward), Chris Douglas-Roberts (a little used shooting guard/small forward), and a second round draft pick to the Celtics for Austin Rivers. To make room for Rivers, they’re working on a buyout of backup point guard Jordan Farmar.

It is hard to overstate how insane this deal is. Austin Rivers is simply not playable in the NBA.

Strictly on its merits, this is a moderate risk/low reward trade for the Doc Rivers, and of course every front office top dog has a few blots on their resumé. But in a year-and-a-half Rivers has now given up Bledsoe, Butler, Dudley, Farmar, Bullock, Douglas-Roberts, a first round pick, and a second round pick, and all he has to show for it is J.J. Redick and now Austin Rivers. Front Office Rivers has mortgaged part of the Clippers’s future to correct his own mistakes in an attempt to help Coach Rivers out, and now it’s down to his own son to bail him out.

 

[aiw]

Luke Russert has people talking about his dead dad after that tweet.

 

[ChibCU]

JJ and Rivers shot a combined 21-27.

 

[childress22]

The number of people responding to Russert's tweet that missed his sarcasm makes me want to kill myself.

 

[DurhamSon]

Ugh, either Okafor or Winslow is going to end up playing for that terrible franchise the next seven years

 

[DurhamSon]

Daniel III
@papin_official
Assumptions are the Mother Of all fuck ups #kugrad

 

[rome8180]

The idea of Scheyer and Nolan hanging out and laughing at UNC makes me happy.

 

[ChibCU]

So good.