MBB: Louisville 80, Duke 73 OT Post Game Thread

[hustleplays]

[QUOTE=rsvman;1341380]You are a star. Board rules won't allow me to comment further.


That was tacky, and a reach for sure!

[rsvman]

[QUOTE=hustleplays;1341746]

You are a star. Board rules won't allow me to comment further.


That was tacky, and a reach for sure!

You may be the only one who caught it!

[Phredd3]

You may be the only one who caught it!

Nah, we were just letting that jibe pass.

[hustleplays]

Nah, we were just letting that jibe pass.

Sorry, I can't luff that go. That deserves a stern dressing down.

[Ultrarunner]

Tommy, I know, I'm with you. It seems to be an important concept for K. I hadn't focused as much on the surprise factor for the players, but I agree with you that it's surprising that by now, our players can't match the physicality even if they are surprised. But, as you say, how could our players be surprised at this point? Pardon my naïveté, but can't our practices simulate high physicality to a large degree?

Yes, how about us doing the knocking back. At least just play tough, together and poised. I'm really hoping for our best game, W or L, but of course would love the W.

We likely cannot match that physicality in practice for the simple reason that we don't have players that are that mature. We have athletes who are giving away 10-30 pounds of effective and trained muscle mass and hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of neurological conditioning due to their youth. The only player on the roster plays significant minutes that would meet the necessary development criteria would be Goldwire, and he's not that big nor terribly athletic (not to demean Goldwire - he's done as good a job maximizing his abilities as any player at Duke.) Roach and Steward, compared to Goldwire, are wafer-thin and still skinny on their frames, as Hurt was last season.

So, we take under-developed youths, pit them against grown men, and then we amp up the intensity from practice levels to game levels. This leads to the second shock - the equivalent, if you will of the rude awakening that first hit during a football game. It's a sudden change in psychology and matching the change of intensity of do-or-die game pressure in practice is probably not possible. I'm sure the coaches try, but there's only so much they can teach, and the kids can learn, in a single disrupted season.

Not really trying to make excuses but counseling patience.

[Ultrarunner]

Sorry, I can't luff that go. That deserves a stern dressing down.

I bow to all of the punsters' prowness!

[Utley]

Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

We likely cannot match that physicality in practice for the simple reason that we don't have players that are that mature. We have athletes who are giving away 10-30 pounds of effective and trained muscle mass and hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of neurological conditioning due to their youth. The only player on the roster plays significant minutes that would meet the necessary development criteria would be Goldwire, and he's not that big nor terribly athletic (not to demean Goldwire - he's done as good a job maximizing his abilities as any player at Duke.) Roach and Steward, compared to Goldwire, are wafer-thin and still skinny on their frames, as Hurt was last season.

So, we take under-developed youths, pit them against grown men, and then we amp up the intensity from practice levels to game levels. This leads to the second shock - the equivalent, if you will of the rude awakening that first hit during a football game. It's a sudden change in psychology and matching the change of intensity of do-or-die game pressure in practice is probably not possible. I'm sure the coaches try, but there's only so much they can teach, and the kids can learn, in a single disrupted season.

Not really trying to make excuses but counseling patience.

[uh_no]

[QUOTE=hustleplays;1341746]

You are a star. Board rules won't allow me to comment further.


That was tacky, and a reach for sure!

[QUOTE=rsvman;1341773]

You may be the only one who caught it!

sheet, that was a good one. rsvman is a true mast-er of punnery.

[throatybeard]

A wise man said, everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.

My favorite "knocked back" is even better than the Tyson quip. Our own CWell said of NC State, "They came out all rah-rah. We knocked them back. After that, there was no more rah-rah."

[BlueDevilStop]

Game recap and five observations. This one was painful.

https://bluedevilstop.com/duke-loses...-georgia-tech/