cville deac
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Last night sucked. Was following the Wake score while at JPJ. God I hate Duke. And the whole of this team doesn't add up to the sum of its parts. They should regularly crush UVA. Their bigs are too athletic for UVA's bigs. And you put Banchero on Gardner, and he has 4" on Gardner making it extremely difficult to shoot over him. Then just stay in the faces of the guards. Then whoever Stattman is guarding, you take him off the dribble. And you don't have to double anyone. Easy, right? Ratface had to call 3 TOs to yell at his players for leaving the UVA guards wide open from 3. The body of Kihea Clark was taken over by the ghost of Richard Morgan for a half. They just kept giving him open 3s and let UVA stay in the game until the final second. I don't think this Duke squad has a ton of heart, and I stand by my prediction that they don't survive the 1st weekend of the dance. That said, I think Ratface outcoached Tony in the 2nd half. First, Tony kept Franklin out too long in the 2nd half with 3 fouls. You're going up against a superior team with much better talent. They were regularly abusing Stattman and Caffaro - and started Caffaro who was woeful against Duke's bigs. And you're playing 4 on 5 with Stattman in the game. Then K started doing O for D subs with > 3:00 left, and he was getting mismatches on the offensive end. Griffin, who had 3 points for the first 36:00, got 10 in the last 4:00 because Tony first had Shedrick on him, then Stattman and finally made the correct adjustment with 1:00 left by putting Shedrick on Banchero and Gardner on Griffin. But it was too little too late. Stick a fork in UVA, but I just don't see Duke doing a lot of damage in the tourney.