tommy
03-25-2011, 03:36 PM
Arizona played much better than we did on both ends of the floor in the second half and obviously deserved to win. There are many x's and o's reasons, psychological reasons, and other reasons directly tied to what was going on in that game.
But I can't help thinking that maybe we had some negative karma working against us. I just feel like a lot of Duke fans, and obviously a lot of posters on these boards spent almost the entire year looking over our collective shoulders. We were waiting, waiting, waiting for news on Kyrie, we were wondering, wondering, wondering if he'd make it back and if so, when? Between them, those threads had thousands of posts on them. We -- or at least a lot of us -- weren't able to really live in the moment, enjoy the team as it was without Kyrie, and actually feel like sure, it would be great if he came back, but I'm not going to worry about it and just enjoy this team without him because this team is a great team in its own right. In fact, a team capable of going all the way, even without him.
So then, by some kind of medical miracle, Kyrie makes it back. He gets his game back in shape seemingly overnight once he was cleared to practice. But the karma is bad. Instead of simply propelling us to another level, his presence makes our All-American guard, who has carried us all year, unsure of what he should be doing, where he should be. And he looks lost out there. Our leader is looking lost and playing lost, and this discombobulates the whole team, understandably.
Not an argument against Kyrie coming back. Not at all. But I just wonder if all the hand-wringing that was done for 3 1/2 months about it didn't just cosmically come back to bite us.
But I can't help thinking that maybe we had some negative karma working against us. I just feel like a lot of Duke fans, and obviously a lot of posters on these boards spent almost the entire year looking over our collective shoulders. We were waiting, waiting, waiting for news on Kyrie, we were wondering, wondering, wondering if he'd make it back and if so, when? Between them, those threads had thousands of posts on them. We -- or at least a lot of us -- weren't able to really live in the moment, enjoy the team as it was without Kyrie, and actually feel like sure, it would be great if he came back, but I'm not going to worry about it and just enjoy this team without him because this team is a great team in its own right. In fact, a team capable of going all the way, even without him.
So then, by some kind of medical miracle, Kyrie makes it back. He gets his game back in shape seemingly overnight once he was cleared to practice. But the karma is bad. Instead of simply propelling us to another level, his presence makes our All-American guard, who has carried us all year, unsure of what he should be doing, where he should be. And he looks lost out there. Our leader is looking lost and playing lost, and this discombobulates the whole team, understandably.
Not an argument against Kyrie coming back. Not at all. But I just wonder if all the hand-wringing that was done for 3 1/2 months about it didn't just cosmically come back to bite us.