DBR Podcast #146 - Duke's D Dominates!!

[JasonEvans]

https://soundcloud.com/dbrpodcast/dbr-podcast-146-dukes-d-dominates-st-johns

0:00 Donald welcomes us to the pod and thanks our sponsor, Byrd Campbell
2:45 Recapping the destruction of St. John’s… Jason cannot stop talking about how great Tre’s defense was on Shammorie Ponds
7:00 Sam takes the job of talking about how ridiculous great Zion was… again!
10:50 Donald takes a moment to praise Marques Bolden’s defense
12:45 Duke’s Achilles heel, 3 point shooting
17:25 ByrdCampbell.com the place Dukies go for their legal needs
17:55 Previewing the upcoming week of games… starting with a weak BC team
22:45 Looking way ahead, Duke has a brutal 6 game stretch after the BC game
25:40 For the next ten minutes, we preview the UVA game… can you tell we are excited?
33:40 Jason notes that Virginia is also entering a very tough stretch of games
35:40 Player of the week, in which Jason gets into a discussion of the best players in all of college hoops… Zion is #1 but guess who comes in at #11?
37:50 Parting shots – Jason talks about a funny typo and then he gets into Zion’s fandom for Naruto
40:25 We become badly diverted and talk about watching Game of Thrones out of order… which almost causes Jason to have a heart attack
44:20 Parting shots – Sam has no updates on his war with the grad student ushers in Cameron
45:00 Parting shots – Sam gets us into a discussion about NC State’s offensive ineptitude against Va Tech this weekend
48:35 Parting shots – Donald on Bill Belicheck’s coaching career
50:05 Donald implores you to subscribe to the pod, to write to us at DBRPodcast@gmail.com, and he says goodbye

[JasonEvans]

By the way, here is the NC State shot chart that we laughed about for a good bit around the 46:00 mark of the pod.

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[niveklaen]

Looks like the perfect shot selection chart - only 1 shot that is neither a 3 nor at the basket. but why are there a couple of o's marring the beautiful distribution of x's?

[roywhite]

Looks like the perfect shot selection chart - only 1 shot that is neither a 3 nor at the basket. but why are there a couple of o's marring the beautiful distribution of x's?

The chart is classic. There is a just a bit of a "sweet spot" from 18 to 21 feet from the basket directly above the key, where there were 2 made 3-pointers and 2 made long 2-pointers.
In the lane -- terrible
3 points from the left wing and left corner -- zero
3 points from the right wing and right corner -- zero
mid-range shots from the elbow or side of the lane -- virtually none taken; part of their strategy, not efficient offense?

Were there any reports which have surfaced that would give some potential reason for this dismal performance -- you know, a flu epidemic or food poisoning?