DBR Podcast Episode #73: A Late Season Swoon

[Dev11]

We recorded Monday morning before the Sirk news. Everything else should be relevant.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Welcome to the Oscar Controversy Report… I mean, the Duke Basketball Report
1:35 Time to talk about the loss at Syracuse. Jason pulls out the Bootsy to describe this game.
8:35 What happened against Miami? Did anyone play well for Duke? Maybe Frank Jackson.
14:10 Our preview of Florida State and UNC contains a warning about Duke’s fate in the ACC standings
17:40 Some comments about senior night and whether Allen and Jefferson should play or rest. Donald predicts Amile will have a big final game.
23:45 The key to beating UNC, Donald wants us to be strong on D and on the boards to keep UNC from getting too excited on their senior night.
30:50 The ups and downs of college hoops… remember a week ago when we thought Duke was surging?
32:20 Sam points out some of the nobodies who will play on UNC’s senior night
33:55 Player of the week… we can barely pick anyone.
35:10 Parting Shots – Jason talks about JJ Redick on Bill Simmons podcast and also reflects a bit on Carolina’s recruiting woes in recent years
39:40 Parting Shot – Donald with a shout out to Michigan St. and a very senior day celebration
41:20 Parting Shot – Sam reflects on the years when Duke kept on winning titles in the ACC… something that has not happened in a long time.
45:30 Before we go, Donald with a shout out to the Duke women for a beatdown of the UNC women… and the Duke band plays us out.

[Saratoga2]

We recorded Monday morning before the Sirk news. Everything else should be relevant.

Links:

iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dbr-podcast/id954964236?mt=2)
Google Play (https://goo.gl/app/playmusic?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ikxgkr6wboxnehrbaoqd47vw4gq?t%3DDuke_Basketball_Re port)
Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/dbrpodcast)
Stitcher (http://app.stitcher.com/browse/feed/58077/details)

Timestamps:

0:00 Welcome to the Oscar Controversy Report… I mean, the Duke Basketball Report
1:35 Time to talk about the loss at Syracuse. Jason pulls out the Bootsy to describe this game.
8:35 What happened against Miami? Did anyone play well for Duke? Maybe Frank Jackson.
14:10 Our preview of Florida State and UNC contains a warning about Duke’s fate in the ACC standings
17:40 Some comments about senior night and whether Allen and Jefferson should play or rest. Donald predicts Amile will have a big final game.
23:45 The key to beating UNC, Donald wants us to be strong on D and on the boards to keep UNC from getting too excited on their senior night.
30:50 The ups and downs of college hoops… remember a week ago when we thought Duke was surging?
32:20 Sam points out some of the nobodies who will play on UNC’s senior night
33:55 Player of the week… we can barely pick anyone.
35:10 Parting Shots – Jason talks about JJ Redick on Bill Simmons podcast and also reflects a bit on Carolina’s recruiting woes in recent years
39:40 Parting Shot – Donald with a shout out to Michigan St. and a very senior day celebration
41:20 Parting Shot – Sam reflects on the years when Duke kept on winning titles in the ACC… something that has not happened in a long time.
45:30 Before we go, Donald with a shout out to the Duke women for a beatdown of the UNC women… and the Duke band plays us out.

Not much said here with regards to Giles and Bolden who may be the key to us making a run in the tourney, especially if Jefferson continues to be hobbled. Also, nothing at all said about Jeter. He is a 6'10" McDonalds All American in his second year in the program. I know there was an injury but would have thought he deserves some mention along the way unless he is being held out for other reasons.

[Billy Dat]

I appreciated Sam commenting about Duke's lack of regular season/ACC tournament titles over the past 6-7 years. I think he is correct that most of the rest of the nation doesn't really care and I think there are reasons for it. One, now that the regular season schedule is so unbalanced, the regular season title doesn't carry the same weight. Also, the 2005 - present era included a lot of years where Duke would win either the regular season or conference tournament and then under-perform our seed in the NCAAs. From 1986 - 2004, if we won either the regular season or the conference tournament, we'd usually back it up with a run to the Final Four. I think the two titles, but especially the 2015 title (because in 2010 we shared the regular season and won the tournament) has kind of left people to judge us only on Final Four runs. What I think is particularly revealing is that over the past 5 tournaments, we've only managed to get to the final game once. The Heels have been 4 of 5 years. It's like the script flipped in 2010...we started hauling in all the one-and-done recruits and not winning ACC titles and UNC has been building veteran teams who do.

[JasonEvans]

Not much said here with regards to Giles and Bolden who may be the key to us making a run in the tourney, especially if Jefferson continues to be hobbled. Also, nothing at all said about Jeter. He is a 6'10" McDonalds All American in his second year in the program. I know there was an injury but would have thought he deserves some mention along the way unless he is being held out for other reasons.

Well, we spoke a lot about Bolden and Giles in the pervious episode ;)

As for Jeter, I suspect he may not play at all the rest of the season. Little has been mentioned about him beyond saying he had a herniated disc back in mid-January. He has not played at all since then (11 games) and it is hard to see him coming back and playing a role with even Bolden and Giles struggling to get more than a handful of minutes per game. I mean, even if he were healthy and in shape, Jeter is probably our #4 center at this point. Not a lot of minutes for that role.

-Jason "this has been Duke's worst injury year in... well, maybe the worst ever" Evans