“I love it. Coach, when we came here, we had a three-hour meeting about the core values. If you really represent the core values, it means diving on the floor, sacrificing your body for your teammates, no matter how much you’re up by or how much you’re down by, always playing hard.” -- Zion
I have to confess (Confess! Confess!) that I was on the Young > Lively bandwagon until now. I did not think Lively could show that great an improvement on rebounding, and that was a significant advantage Young used to have on him. Also, Lively has become a second hand offensive threat, and I didn't see that coming. In the UNC game, Proctor got into the lane multiple times, knowing that no big would dare leave lob threat Lively to stop him. Proctor seemed to be able to get a mid-lane floater whenever he wanted. And Roach used the same weakness to get the critical layup with under a minute left.
The one time they did leave Lively to stop Roach, he just bounced it high off the glass for a put back dunk, which counted as a missed shot, but was really a righteous assist.
Lively was the only one really keyed in tonight too, even with the stumble.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
I'm glad the announcers actually showed the freeze frame of our guys missing Dereck Lively wide the F open in the paint with nobody even looking in his direction. It's been like that many times this season. Not sure why we almost never look for the roller on screens. Proctor does when he's playing well, but he was just awful tonight.