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Buzzooka Joe

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I made this exact same thread a few years ago and you would have thought I asked "Which Duke Player Do You Wish Would Die?".. It got closed quick..

Glad to see the site has lightened up a little since then

But to answer the question.. Greg Paulus was definitely the most frustrating playing to watch.
 
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Seems like everyone likes "Laettner-cocky" and most don't like "River-cocky". I think that as players are not staying all 4 years we never get to see them develop or mature. It would have been interesting to see what Rivers would have done with one more year at Duke. There are no more Koubeks, Clarks, Thomas Hills, Brian Davises,

Winslow, Okafor, Jones represented Duke very well, but Capel, Collins, and Langdon represented Duke just as well if not better.

Can't wait until there is a change in the NBA 19 year-old age limit. Just let the kids try for the NBA if they think they can hack it. I want kids that want to be at Duke. Kids that "think" they want to go to Duke and then realize that they really didn't -- no issue really. The kids that are dipped in stupid batter, fried in inflated egos, and served with entitlement sauce....no so much.
 
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Buzzooka Joe said:
I made this exact same thread a few years ago and you would have thought I asked "Which Duke Player Do You Wish Would Die?".. It got closed quick..

Glad to see the site has lightened up a little since then

But to answer the question.. Greg Paulus was definitely the most frustrating playing to watch.
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I think the title of the thread lighted up since then as well...
 
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I will think outside the box a little and say JJ. He was too cocky in my opinion. I do not hate him, but I never cared for him...
 
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There are two players I am glad I never have to watch play for Duke again and they came in the same class. It was pretty hard to watch them.

That's all I got.
 
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Ricky Price....so inconsistent and sooo frustrating. I could have sworn he would be a beast. .Cherokee Parks a close second
 
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Gerald Henderson for setting off tsunami alarms everywhere when he made Hansbourgh cry alligator tear out his gigantic eyeballs.
 
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The first name that comes to mind is McRoberts. I never liked his attitude. Shavlik Randolph also drove me crazy. Injuries definitely held him back, but then he left after his junior season when he averaged 4 and 4 and I was like....huh??

People keep talking about Paulus, but I can't say I disliked him at all. He played his *** off for Duke, he was just rated too highly coming out of high school and never lived up to it. Also, his numbers as a PG were inflated during his freshman year when he had Shelden and J.J. helping him rack up assists. He never looked like an all-ACC point guard after those two graduated.
 
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I don't know if I have a least favorite but McClure drove me nuts because he would pass up so many open looks, some that even seemed point-blank.....
 
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Yep thankfully he was right in front of the hoop after a great pass! Was clutch that game; Duke almost blew it.....
 
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hoosurdukie said:
I don't really have a least favorite, but a most frustrating. And to me that was Josh McRoberts, guy had all the talent in the world but did not seem like he wanted it all that much.
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This might come as a shock to the rest of Blue Devil nation but my least favorite Duke players are Austin Rivers and Jabari Parker. I say this because going into those two seasons I was excited to have those guys and then watch both seasons end in just utter disappointment especially after getting Jabari Parker and then losing to Mercer. After the Mercer loss I slept the rest of the day and did not watch anymore of the NCAA tournament. That's how disappointed I was!!
 
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Rasheed Suliamon since he didn't live up to the standards for a Duke basketball player and for transferring to Maryland. McRoberts for the reasons another poster said (talented, never really put it all together).
 
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kwyjibos13 said:
I will think outside the box a little and say JJ. He was too cocky in my opinion. I do not hate him, but I never cared for him...
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BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shav, Paulus, and Mcbob annoyed me.

I love Austin. He just played on a crap team by Duke standards. Still they had 4 current NBA players suiting up nightly on that squad.

The thing people do not remember is that Ryan Kelly was hurt vs Lehigh. If healthy that team is sweet 16 bound if not more. I think he got hurt in ACCT that year and it was Dukes 1st game without him.
 
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Personally, I hate when Greg get's thrown into conversations like this. He was obviously quite frustrating to watch -- particularly when matched up against UNC. But it really wasn't his fault. He just didn't have the talent to be the starting PG at a program like Duke. IMO, he was a victim of recruiting rankings deluding fans into thinking he was the next Bobby Hurley + Coach K identifying Greg as the future of the PG position at Duke. Greg would have been a fine PG at a mid-major program or a lesser ACC rival. But he just didn't have the footspeed, size, athleticism, and ball handling to be a lead PG on a team that wanted to compete with the likes of UNC for conference titles --- particularly while playing on a roster that didn't have a lot of size / athleticism to cover for Greg's weaknesses. For instance, while I think Greg would have had problems on any Duke team, it certainly didn't help that -- after his freshman year -- we had absolutely no length / rim-protection to cover him when guys got in the lane.
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He started for a little over 3 years, so you could make the case that K was right about the future of the PG position at Duke...
Like a lot of players who have made this thread, how the team does has an effect on how we view the player. Quinn, Zoubs, and LT are all great examples. They'll go down as some of the all-time sentimental favorites in Duke history b/c they are national champions.
 
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kwyjibos13 said:
I will think outside the box a little and say JJ. He was too cocky in my opinion. I do not hate him, but I never cared for him...
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I thought his attitude was almost entirely in response to the "Duke White player hate" he got everywhere. Some guys -- like Kyle Singler -- just ignore that. JJ got it worse than any player I have ever seen (Laettner was pre-Internet, which fuels a lot of it). JJ also backed it up on the court, so it wasn't like he was Marshall Henderson or anything. And finally, JJ was vulnerable, too. I'm sure many of us cringed when he read poetry on TV b/c we knew what opponents would do w/ it (and if we're honest, it's what we'd have done, too... and have done), but there was a naivety and sincerity about JJ in moments like that that were pretty endearing, too.
 
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