Did anyone see? I missed it. Did we have a blow by or did he grow a spine for half a second?
Handshake Line
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Hubert shook his hand and went on to the next handshake which was fine
I liked it. Didn’t try to hug all over K.
I liked it. Didn’t try to hug all over K.
K wanted a hug though..... He was expecting him to kiss his feet
Only Wendell moore and coach k looked like they shook hands. The Rest of the players went to locker room
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Goodbye K. Just retire and be gone.
Respect how Wendell Moore handled himself after the game. I loved that Hubert shook his hand and didn't give him the "post game verbal BJ" that so many have to give this guy or he goes nuts. Especially after the ***** move from Carrawell and Smith after he beat their *** in Durham. So what was their issue tonight? He shook Coach K's hand prior to the game and that was supposedly their problem last time? What was it tonight?
Can you imagine how a Kentucky team that lost walking off the court would be viewed? Or if UNC did the same if they lost tonight? It would be heresy to not bow down to the all timer.
Hubert Davis dropped his coaching "nuts" in Durham and then dropped them on K's head tonight. Impressive.
Can you imagine how a Kentucky team that lost walking off the court would be viewed? Or if UNC did the same if they lost tonight? It would be heresy to not bow down to the all timer.
Hubert Davis dropped his coaching "nuts" in Durham and then dropped them on K's head tonight. Impressive.
There is a video on YouTube. Quite a few actually shook hands
Walk-ons
Wendell Moore was the only guy who played tonight and went through the handshake line.
Thank your Heels for doing basketball god's work tonight KerwinWaltonsafro.
Some of our players walked off the court after the 2015 loss due to the extreme pain of the loss. They just lost their 38-0 streak and a chance at history and didn't wanna shake hands. https://thespun.com/sec/kentucky-wi...ff-court-without-shaking-hands-with-wisconsin
That's BS from WCS. You man up after losing. As a coach you had time to prepare your team/players/coaches had 40 minutes to do something about that outcome and if your opponent gets it done, you deal with defeat like a man. You don't have to hug/yuck it up, but you owe your opponent the respect of acknowledging their performance. Did Wisconsin shake UK's hands after suffering as painful of a defeat in '14?
Yeah I agree with it. But at the same time you have to imagine the pain of the loss. 38-0.
I have Grey hairs in my beard that weren't there 5 hours ago.
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying. But how long are you supposed to wait for the opposing team to line up to shake hands? Without going back and looking, I remember the UNC players pouring on the court, understandably so, and going to celebrate in front of their fans. Is Duke supposed to just stand there and wait? Same thing with UK and Wisconsin in 2014. There was a huge and dogpile and Poythress even got injured in it. If they chose to walk off in that circumstance then I don’t blame them.
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I for the ne am glad I don't have to see K on my tv anymore. I just think he's a fraud. As far as a handshake line, I don't really see the purposes. If A player is really saying inside, "I'll shake your hand but I don't want to". I don't see the good in that. I don't see the big deal either way.
I’ve been a proponent of getting rid of the handshake lines. If players want to shake hands bc they are buddies, have at it but if guys just want to head to locker room, that’s cool too. These are college kids. The game is nearly professional level at this point. Let’s stop acting like we’re teaching them sportsmanship. These aren’t little kids.
save the handshake nonsense for Little League
save the handshake nonsense for Little League
That was the only time I’ve ever defended not shaking hands.
That was a heartbreaking loss, losing a prefect season, after Whisky talked garabage all week, the entire NATION was rooting against us, we got Higginsed as well.
That amounts to having to send thank you cards after a funeral man. It’s awards, cruel, and it’s just awful to force someone to do.
Call them up, message them a couple days later. Fine.
Coach K shook everyone’s hand last night following the loss and went through the line rather slowly taking his time with each player. It was probably the most gracious in defeat by a wide margin I had ever seen him. Maybe because it was his last game and he just wanted to make it last s bit longer or maybe this was just the type of impression he wanted to leave people to Remember him and talk about as the type of coach he was which is a mirage. Rarely, throughout his career, did you ever see him gracious in defeat, rather the opposite.
Splinter is a master at the blow by, if he weren't retiring after last night's game you would have seen one of those classic blow By's from the one who did it best. The world was watching and wanted to be seen as a gracious losing coach the last time out. Most of the time that's how people remember you. Then he probably ransacked the locker room and beat his wife afterwards.
That's a very fair comment/point. But that being said, when on a euphoric high of watching a person who I've despised exit and a sesaon that was all about him end last night......my comments weren't as well thought out as that response.
Will say having lost some tough games and watching opponents dogpile and celebrate--it sucks to have to wait to do it--but you do it. We tell our team to huddle up and talk together and then we'll get them when it's over to go through the handshake line but then again it's HS--we're dealing with life lessons/growth as well as basketball because so many guys who you coach never play after that level.
So you are 100% correct and appreciate that take/point of view that I didn't consider in my celebration of the K era ending.
That's more than fair and I explained my euphoria over K's victory lap being crashed......so appreciate the take that didn't take into consideration. Especially at that level or above HS. I do believe no matter what happens at a HS level game you shake hands. But at the CBB/NBA level...can understand your take even more.
At the high school level you’ll probably still play another game. Maybe not at a high level, but you’ll probably play in college somewhere.
I mean. For Mintz, this All Star game coming up may be his last game. Ever. At least competitively speaking.
Can you imagine being forced to say “Good game” after watching your future being crushed? Me either.
Sure in a couple of games. Call ‘em up.
But yeah, at the lower levels? Absolutely agree.
Honestly I don't give a fk. Teenagers gonna teenage.
I agree with this 100%. It is just a different world that I grew up in today. Nothing wrong with shaking hands with an opponent after you get defeated. People today get their felling hurt to much today.
The bench did walkout before the game was even over at Arkansas. We haven't been in a hand shake line in a minute have we?
Who cares if they didn't shake hands? Duke just lost in a Final Four to their Archrival in Rat Face's last game. NBA doesn't do it, MLB doesn't do it.
It's covid. There are many cases where the ball boy's have it. They don't even play but still give it to someone..
To answer your ?-Duke's program cares. They made an entire issue out of the fact Hubert Davis didn't come shake Coach K's hand BEFORE the game in his last home game, when reality was they were pissed he didn't take a dive/lay down and make it easy for them, just as he/his staff didn't in Greg "GG" Jackson's recruitment which they should land this week as well.
When you call someone out, then you best back up your talk. The fact their program is ALWAYS PREACHING how to conduct yourself during the game (remember the infamous Coach K/Dillon Brooks of Oregon confrontation?) and after and now before....well you better not even do anything in the slightest to draw attention to not following through.