Where's Wojo?

[kako]

https://twitter.com/DukeMBB/status/9...nt-went-oscars

Seems like a big miss. Perhaps also Avery. Anyone else? Also not quite sure who the player lower right with the reversed jersey is - Duhon, Hill, Nelson? You'd think they could have photoshopped it correctly.

Hope this was a student project, but I like the idea.

[mkirsh]

https://twitter.com/DukeMBB/status/9...nt-went-oscars

Seems like a big miss. Perhaps also Avery. Anyone else? Also not quite sure who the player lower right with the reversed jersey is - Duhon, Hill, Nelson? You'd think they could have photoshopped it correctly.

Hope this was a student project, but I like the idea.

I think Avery is at the bottom right. The reversed jersey is Duhon, and it looks like he's on the there twice (top center), unless that is DeMarcus? Seems that all recent coaches - Wojo, Collins, Capel - are missing, but JD and Amaker are there

[IrishDevil]

I think Avery is at the bottom right. The reversed jersey is Duhon, and it looks like he's on the there twice (top center), unless that is DeMarcus? Seems that all recent coaches - Wojo, Collins, Capel - are missing, but JD and Amaker are there

Yep, that looks like Nelson above JJ.

[BD80]

https://twitter.com/DukeMBB/status/9...nt-went-oscars

Seems like a big miss. Perhaps also Avery. Anyone else? Also not quite sure who the player lower right with the reversed jersey is - Duhon, Hill, Nelson? You'd think they could have photoshopped it correctly.

Hope this was a student project, but I like the idea.

The title is 1st round pick guards

[Ian]

The title is 1st round pick guards

1st round pick or all-american.

[HereBeforeCoachK]

FYI, I went to that Twitter home page...this is AWESOME video, slightly less than 5 minutes.

No, those were not tears. Something in my eye....
https://twitter.com/DukeMBB/status/970012953435979777

[stingy]

1st round pick or all-american.

Wojo was an honorable mention all-American so I think they have it right to omit him in this case.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Wojo was an honorable mention all-American so I think they have it right to omit him in this case.

Wojo gave us four fun and memorable years. I'd happily trade Rivers on that poster with Wojo.

[CDu]

Wojo gave us four fun and memorable years. I'd happily trade Rivers on that poster with Wojo.

But that image isn't intended for our (read, 30-somethings and older) benefit. It's marketing for current high school guards whom Duke may be recruiting. Austin Rivers is way more relevant for their target market with that image.

Also, I think it's fair to say that Rivers gave us a pretty fun memory. And Wojo's years weren't exactly the team's best years.

[kAzE]

Awesome poster!

Only thing they got wrong is that Gerald Henderson still had hair last time he put on a Duke jersey

[killerleft]

Wojo was an honorable mention all-American so I think they have it right to omit him in this case.

Yeah, who would want a National Defensive Player of the Year on such an important poster?

[kako]

And Wojo's years weren't exactly the team's best years.

There's a place for a guy like Wojo on any Duke team I'd suit up.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Also, I think it's fair to say that Rivers gave us a pretty fun memory. And Wojo's years weren't exactly the team's best years.

I'll take Wojo's team years over Rivers' one moment any day. There's a reason I have the Wojo/K hug cemented in memory for life. (It now sits on a shelf in my brain right next to Grayson's. )

[accfanfrom1970]

Where can you buy the poster? Cool...

[CDu]

I'll take Wojo's team years over Rivers' one moment any day. There's a reason I have the Wojo/K hug cemented in memory for life. (It now sits on a shelf in my brain right next to Grayson's. )

Well, I would definitely take Wojo’s senior year team results over Rivers’ team results. But his 1995-1997 teams? Those were some lean years.

I was in the stands for that 1998 game. It was my first UNC game. Amazing moment, and still the greatest game I have ever seen in person. But Wojo wasn’t what made that moment amazing.

But again, we are not the target demographic for that poster. It isn’t intended to be a piece of nostalgia for us adults. It is a sales pitch for recruits. Rivers has cache with recruits. Wojo doesn’t.

[HereBeforeCoachK]

But again, we are not the target demographic for that poster. It isn’t intended to be a piece of nostalgia for us adults. It is a sales pitch for recruits. Rivers has cache with recruits. Wojo doesn’t.

Correct on all counts. And adding to that, the Rivers shot at Chapel College remains a YouTube sensation...Wojo never had a moment quite like that one.

[BD80]

Correct on all counts. And adding to that, the Rivers shot at Chapel College remains a YouTube sensation...Wojo never had a moment quite like that one.

I don't know about that. Count how many times this month a kid will run back on D after his team makes a big play and reaches down and slaps the floor to get his team fired up to play D. Pure Wojo.


(I know he wasn't the first, but he is the quintessential example)

[HereBeforeCoachK]

I don't know about that. Count how many times this month a kid will run back on D after his team makes a big play and reaches down and slaps the floor to get his team fired up to play D. Pure Wojo.


(I know he wasn't the first, but he is the quintessential example)

I love Wojo, and follow him now as a head coach, and yes he was certainly one of the quintessential floor slappers on defense - no doubt. I also have mixed feelings about Rivers overall - but man, his 3 to shock the cheats at the buzzer in the Dean Dome? That's a play that lives in the video world today. The heartbreak alone in the Dean's Myth Center is world class. Wojo had more of a career at Duke, by far, but Austin's shot was "a moment."

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

I don't know about that. Count how many times this month a kid will run back on D after his team makes a big play and reaches down and slaps the floor to get his team fired up to play D. Pure Wojo.


(I know he wasn't the first, but he is the quintessential example)

This seems as good a place for this question as any... Can anyone trace back the genesis of the floor slap? My rickety brain feels like it started in the mid to late 80s and peaked in the mid 90s. I am thinking based on style of play, perhaps Tommy was the first to slap the floor?

[kako]

This seems as good a place for this question as any... Can anyone trace back the genesis of the floor slap? My rickety brain feels like it started in the mid to late 80s and peaked in the mid 90s. I am thinking based on style of play, perhaps Tommy was the first to slap the floor?

I clearly remember King yelling at teammates to "Touch it! Touch It" in reference to the floor during a game in Cameron, but the action started earlier. I'm sure this was discussed in practice as a method of getting low. It could have even happened before Amaker. But when Duke was getting shellacked back then, they probably didn't have time to slap the floor when Worthy, Sampson, etc. was driving past them to the hole. If someone sees Engelland at the NCAAs (he's often there), they should ask him if he ever was told to slap the floor.

And for the record, I wouldn't trade the Rivers shot for anything. I still would have liked to see Wojo on the poster.

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