This win is pretty meaningless if we don't win the rest of our games this season.
And this is why OGB is one of the best posters on here.
Let me guess, you've never played sports have you? This in NO WAY will save Manning's job and it was good to see the kids get an emotional win. For all the crap Brandon has had thrown on him here, tonight he cleaned all of it off as far as I'm concerned.
The only thing I see that's self-serving is this shitty post.Brandon needed to Shut the F--k up! That was a self serving moment.
Yeah, I thought Coach K looked almost disinterested last night on the bench. Makes you wonder if we're not nearing the end of his tenure. I'm sure he didn't mind having a chance to rip his players though and "build on the loss."
For as much as Childress heroball has sunk us, it was fun to watch him take the game over and actually win it. Neath looks like a real star in the making, great passes, solid driving skills, draws fouls - get Chaundee and a good spot up 3 point shooter to go along with Sarr and Mucius, could have a decent team next year with the right coaching.
The perception of Duke is so skewed as compared to reality.
Duke's last 1st place regular season ACC finish: 2010 (tie)
Duke's last outright ACC regular season title: 2006
During that 14 year span, no one has more McDonald's A-A's, more first round picks and more ridiculous hype. Last year's Duke team had the 1st, 3rd and 10th picks in the NBA draft, plus Tre Jones, who may be a 1st round pick next year. Yet, they could've/should've lost to UCF and VT, and did lose to Michigan State in the NCAAs. At this point, the Duke bench looks like a scene from Weekend at Bernies with Scheyer and Nate James propping up the corpse. Crazy the pass that program gets for wasting talent and for running kids through that essentially major in basketball for 8 months.
Are regular season titles even that important to Duke, especially with an unbalanced schedule? They have still won a natty in the last 5 years and made two other elite 8s and another sweet 16 and two ACC tournament titles.
I hate Duke, but that overall is elite program performance.
Plenty of reasons to loathe Coach K, but this is not one of them. K is crazy like a fox. He is making the NCAA tournament as a 3-seed or better and is making the ACC tournament as a 4-seed or better (guaranteeing two byes). A loss like this serves as a way to motivate his team. I guarantee he was the only guy on the Duke bench who really didn't care if they won or lost. A win and they build some character going down to an inferior team on the road and battling back to coast to the victory (when they were up 9 with 90 seconds left). A loss and he can chew their ass out in practice, make them work harder, and point out errors they made under pressure (like catching a pass).
Again, Duke is not a bubble team, they weren't really playing for anything but pride.
And... who was the team that scored more points on Duke than last night?
holy crap that was fun...I started out hoping that Duke was going to blow us out and put the nail in Danny's coffin, but it was so much fun to see this team actually do something right. And Childress...feel so happy for that kid. This is his moment right here. This is the game that he never forgets.
One thing I thought about at the end is that a potential new coach can watch this and see that Wake has some pieces in place, its just awful coaching that has doomed them for 6 years. I'm intrigued about Sarr, chaundee, Neath, Oguama , Muscius if I'm a coach thinking about a move to winston salem.