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Chapter 1: How did Duke perform against Syracuse?
Blue Devil fans, episode 799 of the Duke Basketball Roundup. Oh boy, did we have a good time last night. I'm Jason Evans in a hotel room in Durham. It's 8.30 in the morning. Donald Wine is joining me now. Donald, I have bad news.
My bad news is we have to do this a little faster than usual because – so after we did on Sunday the recap of the Clemson game, the guy who gives me the tickets, the guy who sits next to me at these games, he listens to everything we do. He's just – he's the best. He's awesome.
Yeah.
Front row seats. I mean, like, it's incredible. Anyway, he listened to our Clemson recap with his wife. And I saw them last night before the game because I was sitting with them at the game. And she's delightful.
Chapter 2: What were the standout moments from the game?
I love her to death. And she goes, why was your Clemson recap so long? She goes, it was a little too long. And I went, okay, I'll try and be a little bit faster on the Syracuse game. And then Duke goes out and has like one of the most fun games of my life against Syracuse. How are we going to, we got to somehow find a way to keep this baby to like, I don't know, maybe 45, 50 minutes.
Do you think we can do that?
I mean, it will start by just going to the headlines because we got 9 million of them. Exactly. And then we can talk about. But here's the thing, Jason. This is why I say on this pod all the time that I don't care about these close games. I don't care about learning stuff from close battles. I love blowouts. You know why?
Chapter 3: How did Duke's defense contribute to their victory?
Because blowouts are fun. And you know who agrees with me? The like 37 people who emailed us headlines to dbrpodcast.gmail.com in the five minutes after this game was over. Because this game was over basically by the under 12 TV timeout. They just waited for the final whistle. Thank you for doing that before they sent these in. But this was such a fun game, Jason. So let's get into it.
Yeah, exactly. Let's get to the headlines. First one. Now, we must have gotten 20 who did the Orange Crush kind of thing. So I'm just going to go ahead. This was the first one that used the words Orange Crush. This is from Quinn Rowe.
Chapter 4: What improvements are needed for future games?
Quinn said, Orange Crush, Duke beats the pulp out of Syracuse. Both those things, pulp and crush. We now have a moratorium on them.
We got so many of those. Yeah, we got a ton that either had crush or had something about beating the pulp out of it, beating the juice out of it, things through that. John Grantland obviously always writes us headlines after every game. He wrote, John knows we love alliteration. And Jason, another one, I have quite a few, but I'll start with this other one from Chris Emershine, who wrote,
Duke finishes his homework with a 101 for extra credit. I thought that was great.
Yeah, that was really clever. I like that. You say you like alliteration. How about this? Jared Strauss, orange, overwhelmed, outworked, and owned by ostentatious devils.
Chapter 5: Who were the key players in this game?
I love that one.
Chip Stern wrote, happy hour for Duke. Orange crushed with a lot of booze-er. And we made mimosas out of the orange. Also, Matt Bledsoe wrote, no excuses as devils drop a C note in defensive squeeze.
Did you say C note? Colin Hoogerwerf gave us this one. They're K's and C's in this one. Here we go. Common, Kahn, and Cooper courtside as Cameron clinically crushed his cues. Oh, my God, Colin.
We love that one. Yeah, that one was great. I have two more, Jason. One from Courtney Kruger, who wrote, Orange is the new L. Duke blacks out both Clemson and Syracuse.
Chapter 6: What insights did the players share post-game?
That one was clever. That's really good. And then the final one was just a simple question from Michael Slaughter. Syracuse. Orange, you glad that game's over?
I will close this out with a couple poems because I got a few people who had the rhyming thing going for them. First is Alex Ward. He gave us this. Syracuse has no excuse as Dukes lets loose with juice abuse. That's really good. And then Larry Chapman. This is a little bit longer, folks. All right. So bear with me. But this is worth it.
Chapter 7: How does the team prepare for the upcoming Michigan matchup?
Kill shot ends the half's slow burn. Autry's team scrambling with no return. Vice grip pressure and the threes cascade. Surgical surge, the separation made. And then Larry gets us into looking ahead a little bit and remember Duke's history with Michigan because here's where he goes. Now stands the nation's top-ranked force, a battle to chart a legendary course.
91 whispers, 92 in sight, seize the moment, claim the night. Very nice job, Larry. That is a sophisticated poem to wrap up our look at what the listeners gave us.
Yeah. So should we get into all the good that happened in this game? Because there's a lot of places we could start.
There's a lot. I want to really quick if I can. There's just two quick notes from being at the game before we get into the good.
Chapter 8: What is the significance of this victory for Duke's season?
I wanted to note, first of all, at one point during the game, I'm not sure if you guys caught it on TV. The students were chanting for one of the celebrities to come sit with them. Did you hear who they were chanting about?
Yeah. Kelly Flagg.
Yes, I love that. I'm like, Khan's here, Common's here, Cooper's here, Sian's here, and they're chanting, Kelly Flagg, come sit with us. They love the Queen of the Motherhood. That was great. The other thing was the National Anthem, Donald, one of the most inspiring, really beautiful National Anthems I've ever seen in Cameron.
It was performed by a young autistic man who played it on the violin, and the announcer said, his name was Ethan, the announcer said,
ethan has autism but autism does not have ethan and it was a just a beautiful moving rendition of the national anthem played on violin you could see this guy's face lighting up as he did it it was one of the best national anthems i've ever seen i just wanted to mention that before we get into a cascade of good from this game i'm gonna go ahead and start with this man um how about the offensive execution
Jason, I was going to lead with a stat. Can I lead it with a stat? Go ahead. So the stat is at the 13-20 mark of the first half, the score was 9-9. Duke outscored Syracuse 92-55 the rest of the way.
The floodgates opened, Jason. It's crazy. So I was going to say offensive execution, we had 52 points in the paint. 52. That's the most we had against any Power 5 team this season. Donald Duke had four turnovers. We had four turnovers the entire game. That's ridiculous. We scored 61 points in the second half. We hit 62.3% of our shots on the game, our best field goal percentage of the year.
But in the second half alone, we hit 71.9%. If I can be so bold, that is Villanova national title game kind of stuff. You just don't see that. Um, We missed our first shot of the second half. We then hit our next 13. 13 shots in a row. Duke scored on 20 out of 23 possessions in the second half. We hit 9 out of 12 threes in the second half. 9 out of 12 from three-point range? Just crazy stuff.
Our fourth 100-point game on the season. We could go on and on and on. The offensive execution was on a level you just don't see.
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