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    Favorite THR Quotes....

    As a RR guy, let me put it like this. We can't get anyone on the board to admit to calling the guy or making a threat (yes, some regulars admitted to silly reviews like "Higgins came to my house, clogged my toilet, and hit on my 11 year old son instead of fixing my roof..."). In other words...
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    Well, As Much As I Despise It - I'm a UK Fan Tomorrow

    Due for a dud doesn't apply to him as much as to normal players, considering he hardly shoots - he lays it up, dunks, and gets to the free throw line. That can be replicated pretty consistently. As can defense.
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    Well, As Much As I Despise It - I'm a UK Fan Tomorrow

    I'm not sure how you quantify discipline, but aside from their comfortable wins and having already beaten Carolina before their current substantial improvement, the cats have also come back from three different double digit deficits in second halves, have won playing fast and slow, have 6...
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    Tatum and Fox final sales pitches to Bolden

    The kind of guy who uses silly derogatory nicknames for rival fanbases is the exact same guy as the one who goes all sour grapes on a prospect who chooses another school. The maturity level is the same. There were precious few on rafters who've had anything bad to say about Bolden beyond "why is...
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    Jordan Brand Classic...

    I'd hope that a Duke-affiliated person would have the logical wherewithal to account for both the input and the output of a system. Going by sheer number of incoming five star/burger boy level guys, UK's teams have been over twice as talented as Duke's over the past 7 years. Do you really...
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    Bolden trending for Duke

    We haven't heard one thing pro-UK in nearly a month. Seems pretty clear to me that if he were to pick now, he'd go Duke. I do think he'd play for us, and have a reasonable chance of starting, depending on who comes back, but his minutes would surely be cut thinner than almost anywhere else. So...
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    And now Malik Monk to UK as well.

    Right - the point is that those timeframes (both Crank's and mine) both paint really incomplete and inaccurate pictures of the CBB universe. UCONN and Florida are obviously not among the top 5 greatest programs in the sport. Duke looks good no matter what era you use - which is why it's so...
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    And now Malik Monk to UK as well.

    Well, then you might as well discount all the titles before about '86 or so, when in a year span, both the 64 team format and the three point line were introduced. If we're introducing arbitrary cutoffs, that one is as good as any, seeing as how that combo revolutionized and changed the game as...
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    And now Malik Monk to UK as well.

    ?? He came in weighing 185 soaking wet as a D1 big and then sat for two years behind a bunch of future lottery picks like WCS, Towns, and Randle. Not sure how much it was reasonable to expect of him out the gate. Now that he's featured and has packed on some muscle (still a slim guy, but not a...
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    Duke VS UK

    Of course we would rather have the trophy. We'd swap seasons in a second. But that is to say that we'd rather have the second or third best team in the country, but who happens to win the championship, rather than the best team in the country, which happens to fall short. Some of your...
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    Duke VS UK

    Not going by MOV, MOV against ranked opponents, W/L record, Kenpom, BPI, Sagarin, Massey, etc.. And yes, as someone pointed out, we slid by our 3 seed (ND) and could've lost there. But there are such things as up games and down games - you guys beat your five seed by 6 points, we beat ours by...
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    Harry Giles picks Duke!!!

    Congrats from a UK fan. Hope he heals up.
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    Calipari "goal was not to win national title". Well then mission accomplished!

    Not all 5 stars or burger boys are Jah or Towns level. Not even close. If you want to take away Wall, Cousins, Davis, Towns, Okafor, Kyrie, Ingram type players, that's fine. There were also Rivers/MKG types who were uber elite recruits but had some major hole in terms of NBA desirability, and...
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