Nice opportunity to play in the ACC tourny arena.
Awesome night. Congrats to Coach K but congrats also to the team. Coming off a second 9 Day Break, they were very sharp and focused. The team worked hard to put on a great performance tonight. Led by the 2 All American Seniors with the rest of the guys forming a great supporting cast.
Nolan and Kyle are my CO-Men Of The Match, with Miles Plumlee garnering Honorable Mention. 2 Posterizing slams, followed by the awesome reverse slam off the lob. Not sure we appreciate just how athletic a player has to be to pull that off at game speed. A great pass from Nolan as well.
Seth, Andre, Ryan, and Mason were all solid, and Josh and Tyler played well also. Just a really solid performance as a team.
Coach K really praised the crowd in his post-game comments and appeared to be humbled at the number of Duke fans that packed the place. Kudos to all who attended.
Nice opportunity to play in the ACC tourny arena.
Congratulations Coach K for a remarkable achievement. This was a great night for Duke Basketball, and I hope there are many more to come.
Hot off the press - Coach K audio from PC - http://bluedevilnation.net/2010/12/c...udio-from-bdn/
Good win. I attended, and it is remarkable to me that UNCG is winless. They seemed like a fairly skilled team. You couldn't tell they were winless by their fans either. They were very energetic even though they were greatly outnumbered. Miles played very well. Those dunks definitely had me on my feet! Nolan and Kyle were money the whole game. Too bad Nolan couldn't get a career high after 22 in the first half, but its OK because the focus was on pretty much everyone else except Kyle. Seth played well too. I'm still impressed with those crafty hands on defense. He had 3 steals but he got a hand on the ball several more times. Ryan just seems like he is so close to breaking out on offense. He missed 6 shots, but they were all this close to going in. One of these games, those are going to start falling, and its going to be exciting. I can't wait until Tyler and Jiggy are our senior leaders. Tyler is already very good at managing the offense and Jig is basically Lance with a better offensive game.
SportsCenter intro leads off with Miles' dunks and the call that said "I don't know if there's enough room on SportsCenter for Plumee's dunks" I love it!
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I didn't see the game, but Im so happy to hear that Miles played well tonight. Good job Miles and keep it up!
Congrats to Coach K and this remarkable milestone and thank you so much for making all this possible for us Duke fans! So happy you are the leader of our program. Woooo Hoooo!
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
He was at the Garden last night for the Carolina-Rutgers game (the trains were finally running yesterday.) I saw a note in the N&O saying that he was given permission to stay longer at home, since he wasn't able to practice.
I'm sure he was supposed to be at the game if normal travel was possible, but if he flew up to NJ for the holidays (rather than drive), then it's likely that he isn't going to get on a rescheduled flight back until Thursday or Friday at the earliest. NJ is better able to handle snow than NC, but 30+ inches of snow (with 50+ MPH winds Sunday and Monday) isn't easy for any DOT to handle quickly. I left NJ yesterday, and some of the interstates/major highways still weren't down to bare pavement and/or only had one lane passible, especially in the band in the eastern part of the state that got hit the hardest (which included Newark and East Orange.)
Just class, that's all!
Always has been!
I'm sure that Nolan would trade his stats to have Irving back but you have to imagine that if he can have a few more games like tonight he is going to start turning some heads in the nba. He is really demonstrating that he can run the offense and not just be a scorer.
So, good game! Nolan and Kyle were SICK... very quiet in a way (especially Kyle) but GOOD...active hands, good rebounds... Nolan was 8-12 (3-3 from three) for 26 pts along with 6 rebounds and 6 assists... Kyle was 10-13 (including 4 threes) for 27 pts. They were just merciless when there was still any question, but a real quiet merciless, if that is possible.
Seth Curry had a nice game... quick hands, good IQ, some nice passing, and some deadly three point shooting... was realistically 3-6 from three (actually 3-7 but the last was a long range, last second bomb at the end of the game.) I'll take it!
Mason was eh. He really needs to improve and get more aggressive. He did have four assists and five rebounds while shooting 2-3, but he just didn't look for it enough. He struggled getting good positioning it seemed. Interesting that K actively mentioned getting Mason more touches.
Miles played pretty well. He had three HIGHLIGHT reel slams... probably the three best slams of the year or so... one one-handed MONSTER dunk right on a guys face, and then another, and then a catch-and-reverse two-hander... Miles looked pretty good on D, hedged well... 5-5 for 11 along with 5 rebounds... pretty good game for Miles, glad to see him put two good ones together in a row.
Ryan Kelly looked very good to me. He only shot 4-10, but a few of them were all the way down and popped back up... could easily have been 6-10. Moved pretty well, nice passing, good active hands on D... his game didn't show up in the box score. That one blocking foul he was whistled for with 12 to go in the second felt like maybe the first time this entire YEAR one of our bigs got busted for that, which just highlights how good their feet are!
Dre was quiet for most of the game, but then opened up near the end. Still not in love with his body language at times, as he sometimes gives in to being just a touch of a pouter... but still, smooth and a good leaper... shot 4-5, so it is hard to say anything bad, but they all came in the last quarter of the game.
Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton both got minutes, and both looked good. Josh was real active, good D... I enjoyed what he did... Tyler made a few VERY aggressive moves that didn't go down, but played good D and played within himself... also picked up four assists with no turnovers... honestly, both freshmen looked good, give their limited stats.
Overall a pretty solid game!
And congrats of COURSE to Coach K... We are blessed to have Mike Krzyzewski as our head coach at Duke. He represents us all with class, heart, determination, loyalty, and that little bit of spicy humor that all Dukies have come to know and love. He recruits good kids and he always does his best to make sure they stay part of the Duke family, and he focuses on a team-first, defense-first, get your hands dirty in the RIGHT way approach. Oh, and he wins like a mad man!
Thank you, Coach K, and here is to a BUNCH more before you retire to get more play time with the grandkids and more beach bocce time with the wife!
My family and I are just getting home from our very first Duke game. The trip from Fayetteville was very smooth as I love that 421 is now 4 lanes from Sanford to Greensboro. Lots of police on hand to get us off the streets and into the colisieum. A very nice facility to watch a game and lots of vendor available to service your needs.
It had to be really disheartening for the UNCG players to look up into the stands and see that wall of blue. We had to outnumber the Spartan fans by at least 20:1.
I was shocked that Nolan didn't shatter his career high, especially after netting 22 in the first half. Kyle picked up the pace and carried the team in the second half. I was beginning to wonder when the rest of kids were going to chip in and eventually Seth and Dre got it going. Ryan was steady from start to finish and Miles had some monster jams.
Seth has some really, really and I do mean really quick hands.
Ryan for whatever reason seems to be leaning forward on his jumpers. No matter he just seems to do everything really well, especially feeding other players down low.
Nolan and Kyle showed us what seniors are supposed to do.
Dre continues to show that he is more than just a sharpshooter. The kid has no fear going to the hoop.
We were in Section 208, which gave us the perfect vantage point to see Miles awesome backwards slammer jammer. He's definitely upped his game from last year.
Tyler is definitely a keeper. The kid is a pest on defense and was aggressive taking the ball to the hole. He did pass up a wide open 3 and the crowd let out a massive groan when he did.
Mason got some nice minutes tonight, granted a lot of them were at the end of the game. He did have one really nice move to the basket tonight.
Josh continues to bring the energy. He definitely appears to be ahead of Lance at this stage of his career and it will be fun watching him grow as a player.
All in all a great experience, one which I'll try to do again as I had kept this a secret from the family until today. After the game the wife said she really enjoyed it and wanted to go again, my son, well he prefers the circus.
It does bother me a bit that we were actually out-rebounded by UNCG, a very bad team and probably the weakest team we will have played all season, by 4. On the flip side, we did only have 7 TO's while forcing 23. I like those kind of stats.
"Just be you. You is Enough."
Congrats to the G.O.A.T. Here's Crazie-Talk's thoughts on tonight's win:
http://www.crazie-talk.com/2010/12/3...n-17-k-rising/
Thanks! Airowe had just said, "He should be cheering on Rutgers tonight as they take on the Heels and will be back on the bench tomorrow evening." So I just wanted to make sure everything was ok since I didn't see him.
Fun game, but Coach K is right - this team needs to be focused on "acievements" as defined by growing into a team that plays well enough to win championships. Not getting outrebounded by an 0-12 SoCo team and getting Mason going are just 2 places to start. Much more will be evident about our team once the ACC gets going, and I can't wait to see them continue to grow and get better.
Did I miss something? Why no appearance by Todd Zafirovski or Casey Peters last night? What a treat to be able to tell the grandkids "I played for Duke the night Coach K passed Dean Smith..." Especially after UNCG emptied their bench???