DBR Podcast Episode 178 - Wofford Recap, All Decades Game!

[blazindw]

Happy Holidays to all our listeners! We whupped Wofford and as a gift to you we have an extended conversation about the very best from Duke during the wonderful decade of the 2010s. For the decades segment we did, we want to hear your takes on them! Feel free to post in this thread your picks for All-2010s team, best game and best moment!!

https://soundcloud.com/dbrpodcast/dbr-podcast-178

Timestamps:
0:00 Welcome to a holiday edition of the Pod
2:15 Recap of Duke’s impressive win over Wofford, featuring much conversation about Joey “Buckets” Baker
17:45 Previewing our next game, against the Ivy League’s Brown Bears
21:10 Sam is hoping Duke fails to score 100+ points against Brown
24:15 Merry Christmas from the Byrd Campbell Law Firm
24:55 We play a game reflecting on the decade of the 2010s
26:00 Pick your best 7 man rotation for the 2010s… any player who played during the decade is eligible
43:00 Pick your best moment of the decade
46:50 Pick the best game of the decade
54:30 James Wiseman leaves Memphis… we must talk about it
1:08:15 Player of the week
1:09:35 Goodbye, happy holidays, and Duke band take us home
1:10:30 Holiday Bonus… post-pod conversation about the NBA accidentally recorded

[JasonEvans]

My all decade picks:


All Duke Team: Tyus, Scheyer, Ingram, Zion, and Bagley with Nolan and Kennard off the bench

Best moment: Grayson's minute of dominance in the 2015 national championship game

Best game: Duke's annihilation of Kentucky to kick off the 2018-19 season

-Jason "in retrospect, I wish I had taken an all-mid sized, do-everything team for the decade: Ingram, Singler, Zion, Winslow, Tatum, RJ, and Parker" Evans

[TevinDeagle]

Loved the podcast this week. Here are my All Decade Selections
PG- Jon Scheyer
SG - RJ Barrett
SF - Justice Winslow
PF -Zion Williamson
C - Marvin Bagley

Bench
Brandon Ingram
Andre Dawkins

Best Game
Duke @ Louisville 71-69 12 February 2019

Best Moment
AUSTIN RIVERS AT THE BUZZER TO BEAT UNC AT THE DEAN DOME!!!!

[delfrio]

Also loved the debate about the best of the decade. Think you've covered the best players, so here's my most loved team of the decade:

PG: Quinn Cook
SG: Nolan Smith
SF: Matt Jones
PF: Zion
C: Amile Jefferson

Bench 1: Andre Dawkins
Bench 2: Jon Scheyer
Bench 3: Marshall Plumlee

[JasonEvans]

Also loved the debate about the best of the decade. Think you've covered the best players, so here's my most loved team of the decade:

PG: Quinn Cook
SG: Nolan Smith
SF: Matt Jones
PF: Zion
C: Amile Jefferson

Bench 1: Andre Dawkins
Bench 2: Jon Scheyer
Bench 3: Marshall Plumlee

Your most-loved team is disqualified for not including Zoubek.

-Jason "and Matt Jones... ehhhh, not so sure about that pick" Evans

[Nrrrrvous]

I decided to create my own all-decade team.

It's called the "just let them shoot from anywhere team".

Curry
Dawkins
Ingram
Winslow
Carter

Bench -
Allen
Kennard
Kelly

Honorable Mention -
Marshall Plumlee

Defense? Who needs Defense???

[Nrrrrvous]

This is kind of fun...

My "Elmer's Glue Guy Team" from the decade...

Tyler Thornton
Matt Jones
Jack White
Lance Thomas
Amile Jefferson

Bench -
Jordan Goldwire
Josh Hairston
Javin Delaurier

Honorable Mention -
Marshall Plumlee

You mean we have to score to win?

[JasonEvans]

This is kind of fun...

My "Elmer's Glue Guy Team" from the decade...

Tyler Thornton
Matt Jones
Jack White
Lance Thomas
Amile Jefferson

Bench -
Jordan Goldwire
Josh Hairston
Javin Delaurier

Honorable Mention -
Marshall Plumlee

You mean we have to score to win?

Tony Bennett would kill to coach this team. Also, Tre Jones needs to be on this team.

[Bob Green]

An All Decade Team is extremely difficult to name:

PG: Tyus Jones
SG: Jon Scheyer
SF: Kyle Singler
PF: Brandon Ingram
C: Marvin Bagley

Bench: Justice Winslow
Bench: Amile Jefferson

[JasonEvans]

An All Decade Team is extremely difficult to name:

PG: Tyus Jones
SG: Jon Scheyer
SF: Kyle Singler
PF: Brandon Ingram
C: Marvin Bagley

Bench: Justice Winslow
Bench: Amile Jefferson

No Zion??!?!?!

[OZZIE4DUKE]

An All Decade Team is extremely difficult to name:

PG: Tyus Jones
SG: Jon Scheyer
SF: Kyle Singler
PF: Brandon Ingram
C: Marvin Bagley

Bench: Justice Winslow
Bench: Amile Jefferson


No Zion??!?!?!
Bob, you can’t have an all decade Duke team without Zion. You just can’t! LGD GTHc!

[Bob Green]

No Zion??!?!?!

He didn’t demand the ball at crunch time. I’ve stuck him over in the corner with Ralph Sampson.

[JasonEvans]

He didn’t demand the ball at crunch time. I’ve stuck him over in the corner with Ralph Sampson.

But Justice and Amile... those were the epitome of "give me the ball and get out of my way" players in the final few minutes of the game. Yup, that works ;)

[delfrio]

Your most-loved team is disqualified for not including Zoubek.

-Jason "and Matt Jones... ehhhh, not so sure about that pick" Evans

Yeah, Matt was my not-sure pick. I needed a SF and wasn't sure Scheyer or Andre fit the bill. Maybe going with Zion at SF, Amile at PF, and Zoubek at C would have brought it home.

[jv001]

My attempt at this:
Positionless Team :confused:

Zion
Kyrie
Tatum
Winslow
Grayson

Bench
Jon
Singler
Nolan

GoDuke!

[Papa John]

Let's throw some tall guys who can pretty much all handle the ball, score, shoot from outside, and defend well out there and wish any opposing team good luck...

PG: Ingram
SG: Scheyer
SF: Tatum
PF: Zion
C: Carter

Bench: Singler, Winslow

(weakest link defensively here is likely Tatum... to be honest, Bagley, RJ, and Kyrie are REALLY hard to keep off an all-decade Duke team)

How about an all one-and-done team of the decade?

PG: Kyrie
SG: RJ
SF: Ingram
PF: Zion
C: Bagley

Bench: Tatum, Winslow [Okafor, Carter, Tyus ... this is just an obscene embarrassment of riches, when you think about it ...]

[DukeTrinity11]

Here's mine:

Scheyer (G)
Nolan (G)
Winslow (F)
Zion (F)
Bagley (F)

This is the one that immediately came to mind when thinking of the starting 5 that would best complement one another and be positioned to have the most team success.

Some of my friends suggested Kyrie or Tyus over Scheyer, Jabari/Ingram/Tatum/Barrett over Winslow and Carter/Okafor over Bagley. I think Scheyer is a better defender than the other 2 PGs and Winslow's swiss knife skillset just complements the other studs better.

Who do you guys have?

[fuse]

There’s been a bit of this floating around the interwebs this week.

Hardest question to answer is where does the shooting come from?

Zion
Bagley
Winslow

would be my locks.

Who do you choose from Tyus, Kyrie, Scheyer, Kennard, Ingram, and maybe Grayson and Singler? Where do Tre and Vernon fit in? RJ? Carter?

I guess I’d go with Tyus and Scheyer.

The most fun starting five certainly was last years.

Lots of heartburn leaving off Kyrie and Singler.

Best part about this discussion is so many versatile players to choose from. Even a top ten or fifteen players would create a team for which there would be no real competition.

Ask me again tomorrow and I’d probably come up with a list of different names and reasons why.

[ice-9]

Tyus for leadership, defense and clutchness.

Luke for sweet, sweet 3 point shooting.

Tatum for buckets and broken plays.

Zion for Zion.

Carter as a big who can play inside and out, rebound and defend.

Bench would be Ingram, Winslow and Bagley since Coach K won't go more than 8 deep.

[ndkjr70]

1. Kyrie Irving

2. Nolan Smith

3. Brandon Ingram

4. Zion Williamson

5. Jahlil Okafor

[DavidBenAkiva]

1. Nolan Smith
2. Grayson Allen
3. RJ Barrett
4. Zion Williamson
5. Marvin Bagley III

That's 5 guys that can get you a bucket and have the athleticism to recover. And I think Bagley at the 5 would have been less of a defensive liability. Grayson was at his best when he was off the ball. An alarmingly athletic group of players.

[JNort]

PG: Tyus Jones
SG: Jon Scheyer
SF: Kyle Singler
PF: Zion Williamson
C: Marvin Bagley

Bench: Justice Winslow
Bench: Brandon Ingram

If we allow Kyrie in then he easily takes Tyus down to the bench. Kyrie just seemed too easy

[DavidBenAkiva]

An interesting twist on this is having an all-decade multi-year and all-decade one-and-done team.

The all-decade multi-year team:

PG: Nolan Smith
SG: Grayson Allen
SF: Kyle Singler
PF: Amile Jefferson
C: Mason Plumlee

The all-decade one-and-done team:

PG: Tyus Jones
SG: RJ Barrett
SF: Jayson Tatum
PF:Zion Williamson
C: Marvin Bagley III

Some tough choices there on both teams. It was really hard to leave off Quinn Cook, Ryan Kelly, and Luke Kennard from the multi-year teams. And for the one-and-done teams, I had to leave off Jahlil Okafor, Brandon Ingram, Justise Winslow, Jabari Parker, Wendell Carter, Jr., and others.

[gep]

I came across this Youtube video... top 10 Duke games of the decade. Nice memories...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1d_qJQNUO8

I think some of these games were mentioned in the podcast....