With 4:30 left in the opening half, Louisville had overcome.
Overcome a weekend of travel uncertainty because of weather.
Overcome having to fly to Tobacco Road on game day.
Overcome a torrid start by the Blue Devils in Cameron Indoor.
Overcome a scoring drought of seven minutes or so, when the Cards missed nine field goals in a row.
Then, a triple, followed by an old fashioned three point play, followed by another trey and . . .
. . . lo and behold, the scoreboard read Visitors 25, Home 24.
At which point, Cinderella’s evening at the Ball ran into Midnight.
Duke outpointed the Cardinals 14-3 to the half. Including 9-0 to end the stanza. During which lull, the Cardinals had another ofer run from the field, this time missing 8.
28-38 at the break.
Then the bottom really fell out.
Patrick Ngongba scored on each of Duke’s first five possessions of the 2d.
From then it was academic.
A lesson most severe.
The Louisville Cardinals fell apart like a cheap shirt from Goodwill.
The victors battered U of L on the boards, 47-26 .
Duke dominated U of L in the paint, 42-10.
The embarrassing final: Duke 83, Louisville 52.
— c d kaplan
By the 8 minute mark in the first half not a single Card had any confidence left. Went downhill from there. It’s going to take a lot to get it back.
They will keep beating the crap out of mediocre and bad teams, and keep getting the shit kicked out of them by legit contenders.
Again no adjustments when we get hit in the mouth. Same old stuff
Not sure there were any adjustments that could be made against a better, more talented team.
Final 4 team again, and 2nd tallest team in league, whose number 2 , curious,? Arizona ?
Hate to say it, but PK is basketball’s Satterfield. No adjustments, no plan. And where was Pryor? This team cannot beat a good team. Not going to change. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!
We’re not in the same league as Duke ‼️ wait / yes WE are unfortunately for us .. Scheyer is a tremendous coaching talent – and his players not too bad either ..
Kelsey is … the coach we’ve got. We can’t look at any numbers of our team’s super analytics ratings as there’s no bottom for our performances against relatively good teams –
Reminds me of Sean Payton on 4th & 1 Sunday – analytics might say GO -but to quote the great Mike Wilbon :
“the analytics can’t take into account whether the QB on 4th & 1 is 9th string backup or Joe Montana “ ✅
We can only hope he realizes he needs to do things differently if he wants to compete for a title.
It’s disturbing to me to see 6’10” guys running around outside the three point line on offense, and jacking up low percentage 3’s. Rooths has taken right at 50% of his shots from three point range (38 of 78). He has hit only 7 of 38 for 18.4%. He’s 27 of 40 for 68% on two point field goals. Half his shots are literally bad shot selection the second he lets them go.
Denny is spinning
I don’t understand that coaching
This little man gimmicky three ball offense is a joke. It’s not big boy basketball.
Yes, next year’s roster makeup will be telling. New assistant(s) for new voice(s) in his ear.
There are not many adjustments that can be made to overcome lack of speed, length particularly when playing against 4 and 5 star players with those attributes. Experience and maturity cannot overcome when playing a team with all of the above. Criticize roster construction perhaps but Fru would probably be a good 4 if we had a legit 5 and Aly means well but he is the tallest slowest guard in the country but not a offensive or defensive asset in the paint. Playing Z is an indicator of how Pryor plays in practice Khani’s absence is awfully long for flu in an otherwise healthy young man
I have a doctor friend, big fan, who hypothesized it might be some unstated debilitating illness.
Better ingridients, better coaching, better pizza, Pappa Dukes.
PK, this is the “big leagues”. You need coaching schemes and personel.