Maybe but Jaxson, Carr and Lamont were all healthy back then and we went toe to toe with everyone. Both Duke and Florida have had losses/close calls the last few weeks. The Jaxson injury will always be a big what-if.....he was absolutely on fire the last few games before he got hurt. He was a big piece to the puzzle.
[roll]Slipped on an undried floor. That’s precious. Did Flagg also push off with his off arm every single time he drove the ball in those games? Yes. Yes he did.
I'm not sure we beat Duke in our game if Malucah doesn't go out cramping or dealing with the injury in 2nd half. Dude is a man child.
Absolutely a bad matchup and I distinctly remember both you and I pointing that out when they won their elite 8 game right up to the game while others were talking about how we'd beaten them the year before with a worse team. They seemed to forget Randle, Young and Poythress were the major factors of winning that game and they were gone. The revenge factor was very present. All the Wisconsin players came back to beat us. They head pictures of them dejected while our whole team was celebrating behind them as their social media avatars from the summer till we played.
This is absolutely correct! Malucah has developed into a very effective player as the season progressed. Combined with Flagg, Duke has a 2 headed 7' team that Florida alone can match up against.
I think that Florida and Duke are a bad inside matchup for Auburn- and both teams are equally good at shooting threes and dribble penetration.
In addition to that, Sion James (another manchild) hurt his shoulder and didn't play the final 12 minutes of the game. Sion is a dog on defense and doesn't make mistakes on offense.
You’re right. I don’t believe we would have either. I think we were down 12 or 13 before he went out if my memory serves.
We will see. Flagg was bad against Alabama (for his standards) and Duke still won by 20. I wouldn't put much stock into Duke's turnovers near the end of the Bama game, that game was over, Duke's defense shut the water off, and Duke went into stall ball instead of attacking which made them a bit too careless.
Would you put much stock into the 4 turnovers in the final 3 minutes in the UK loss or the 2 turnovers in the final 45 seconds of the Kansas loss by the freshmen? Trust me UK fan's know all to well how the pressure of the survive and advance format of the NCAA tournament can get to freshmen and the Duke freshmen aren't immune no matter how good you think they are.
No. I wouldn't put much stock into November games when we start 3 freshman and play 5 freshman overall. None actually. This is a completely different team than November or even December when they only scored 68 points against George Mason.
So you had an excuse for those games because they were so long ago and you had an excuse for a game that just happened over the weekend. Sounds like you have excuses for everything.
I didn't have @Son_Of_Saul dragging a fellow Rupp Rafterian on my bingo card for this week. Gotta admit, the evidence is pretty damning.
I hope that your Oweh thread turns out like this one lol.
I would really like to have a conversation with @DukeDallas9192011015 about my comments that the Duke freshmen would choke and not get it done in a close game with the pressure on but he has apparently not figured out how to get back to Cats Illustrated. He made a lot of braggadocios comments that Duke was going to win it all and made every excuse under the sun of why they had lost earlier games but just can't seem to muster the guts to come back and eat his crow like a man.
Man, let me tell you, if you make the spreadsheet you're under the microscope for a long time.I didn't have @Son_Of_Saul dragging a fellow Rupp Rafterian on my bingo card for this week. Gotta admit, the evidence is pretty damning.
There's a spreadsheet? Here I am using post-it notes like a schmuck.
