DBR Podcast #101 - Recap A Week of Fun

[blazindw]

Episode 101 of the DBR Podcast is here, and we had a blast recording it! We recap the 3-0 week, talk about Austin Rivers causing fights in locker rooms, some 2-way NBA news, and of course, we wrap with Players of the Week and Parting Shots. Enjoy on this wonderful Wednesday morning!

Timestamps:
0:00 Welcome to the prodcast… wait, what?!?! Oh, and by the way, we still love Byrd Campbell.
0:55 We can’t stop laughing… it was a good week for Duke.
2:15 Donald talks about MLK and Jason finds everything funny.
4:20 Jason talks about gambling and his son playing 21 on his 21st birthday.
7:55 Sam wants to talk about the Pitt game, but Donald wants to gloat about beating Miami.
9:40 Jason has some interesting stats about the Pitt game and begins a theme of Duke’s impressive bench play this week.
15:30 Donald talks about the way the rest of the team reacts to Justin Robinson
19:40 Sam prods Jason to talk about the D against Wake… and Jason’s thoughts on how Capel coaches the team versus the way K does it.
23:20 Jason dives head first into his Alex O’Connell love.
27:30 Sam compares this year’s Duke team to past Duke champions, and talks about depth.
31:10 Finally!! We get to the Miami game and how good that comeback felt.
34:05 We spend some time gushing about Wendell Carter’s game and especially his blocked shots... and Donald wins the prize for best pop culture reference.
38:00 Sam quotes a great Matt Norlander article about “Zombie Duke.”
39:40 Jason is amazed that we won despite getting killed in his favorite statistical category.
43:40 Jason talks about how weird it was to know Duke’s offensive drought was coming.
48:00 Sam wants to talk about all the ways Grayson Allen is helping the team that does not involve scoring.
56:30 While Grayson has struggled from 3, Trevon Duvall is suddenly shooting really well from outside.
59:00 We recount the saga of Austin Rivers against the Houston Rockets hitmen.
1:05:10 Jason talks about some big developments in the careers of MP3 and Amile Jefferson.
1:08:25 Player of the Week… we got three different picks.
1:10:00 Parting Shots – Jason is not a fan of JJ Redick and Kyrie Irving’s conspiracy theories.
1:16:10 Parting Shots – Donald on Marvin Bagley, the hip-hop artist
1:19:00 Parting Shots – Sam on the latest court storming incident and the problems of players and fans getting too close.
1:26:30 Goodbye and Duke band

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[JasonEvans]

Prodcast... I'm still laughing about that.

[Dev11]

19:40 Sam prods Jason to talk

I think it's official now.

[kAzE]

Nice work, guys. One minor correction: the Wendell Carter block that he grabbed from the Miami player was actually on Dewan Huell, not Bruce Brown. But really, Huell was the guy who had been dunking on us all night (he had a great game with 18 points and 13 rebounds), and he's an athletic 6'11" forward, so the block (or does it count as a steal? Bleal?) was even more impressive than had it been on Brown.

[UrinalCake]

Regarding Kyrie and the flat earth conspiracy, I believe he is on record as admitting he was just trolling reporters when he first started claiming he believed in it. After he first mentioned it publically, a reporter asked him if he really believed the earth was flat. His response was to the effect of “what would it mean to you if I said yes?” He later described the entire situation as a social experiment in which he wanted to study the level of influence that athletes have.

I only know all of this because a bunch of my UNC acquaintances started spouting off recently about how Duke athletes are idiots and how it’s even worse than not going to class because we teach them to be morons. So I did a little research into what Irving actually said/did in order to respond.

[JasonEvans]

Regarding Kyrie and the flat earth conspiracy, I believe he is on record as admitting he was just trolling reporters when he first started claiming he believed in it. After he first mentioned it publically, a reporter asked him if he really believed the earth was flat. His response was to the effect of “what would it mean to you if I said yes?” He later described the entire situation as a social experiment in which he wanted to study the level of influence that athletes have.

Do you recall where you saw this? I’d love to verify your recollection.

[juise]

Do you recall where you saw this? I’d love to verify your recollection.

Kyrie’s Wikipedia page led me here.

[juise]

And as fun as hyperbole is, Kyrie/JJ talked conspiracy and the commotion surrounding flat earth for 10 minutes (out of 51). The DBR podcast talked about it for 6 minutes. So really, that topic didn’t really eat up JJ’s podcast too much.

[UrinalCake]

A google search for “Kyrie Irving troll” yields dozens of articles similar to the one above. Of course, my UNC friends claim he simply got caught realizing how dumb he was and now this is just an excuse he made up, saying he was trolling to cover his own stupidity. So, people will believe what they want, which I guess was his intention to begin with.