I will repeat, I have nothing at all against Coach K...he is one of the best...
but....just saying how quotes can be taken out of context by others...
Coach K: “I’m not blaming the referees or anything. But it’s just — it’s disruptive.”
Q. Coach, Wendell Carter gets the three fouls in the first half, then he’s playing in foul trouble in the second half. What challenges does that present to you with Wendell being in foul trouble all night?
DUKE COACH MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: Well, it’s the way the game
I will repeat, I have nothing at all against Coach K...he is one of the best...
but....just saying how quotes can be taken out of context by others...
Coach K: “I’m not blaming the referees or anything. But it’s just — it’s disruptive.”
Q. Coach, Wendell Carter gets the three fouls in the first half, then he’s playing in foul trouble in the second half. What challenges does that present to you with Wendell being in foul trouble all night?
DUKE COACH MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: Well, it’s the way the game is. Obviously you have a kid that’s averaged a double-double the whole year and he just wasn’t able to play his game. I’m not blaming the referees or anything. But it’s just — it’s disruptive.
Couldn't Self say the same about Azubuike ?
So, to the Duke fan... Coach K was simply stating how it was disruptive to his game plan to have a star player in foul trouble....
To those outside he was indeed whining about the calls... to preface by saying "I'm not blaming the refs or anything" is doing exactly that.
Even if he was complaining about the calls, you can at least make a case that "IF" the game was called unfairly against you, it cost you the win.
To say that you lost because the refs called too many fouls on the OTHER team is just brain dead. Not the same thing.