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Chapter 1: What happened in the final moments of the Duke vs. UConn game?
all right hey there duke fans um episode 815 815 of the duke basketball roundup um officially the last episode of the season I'm Jason Evans. I'm here with Donald Wine. It's 930 on Sunday, the 29th of March. Shitty day. Really, really shitty day. We're going to try and talk you all the way through it. A brutal, brutal, brutal... Can I just keep saying that, Donald? Brutal loss.
Let me jump in.
Chapter 2: How did Duke build a 19-point lead in the first half?
Brutal. Brutal. Brutal. I'm stunned. I mean, being there, it hurts. I know everybody out there is hurting. Jason and I are
gonna try and feel our way through this but you know dude i i wish i didn't care this much yeah you know it's funny i was kind of thinking to myself i i drove to the arena and and so i had like a nice little 10 minute drive home i could have i could have taken the metro i didn't want to deal with people and um i i just was thinking like man if we didn't care this would be much easier but i think it's the fact that we all do care so much that this is so painful
Let me do something here. I wrote some things down, and I want to be clear.
Chapter 3: What factors contributed to UConn's comeback against Duke?
I want to start by saying, and this is before we get to headlines. We'll get to all that other stuff in a minute, but I had some thoughts, and so I wanted to relay them. I want to start by saying I know that folks are mad and angry and frustrated. I am too. This sucks. It feels you want to be like, this is inexcusable. This was stupid.
We'll get into a million things about the end game and all the other kind of stuff. I know folks are questioning John Shire and some of the decisions made by him and the team. I am painfully, brutally aware that in the past year, Donald, oh God, I can't believe it.
Chapter 4: What were the standout performances from Duke players in this game?
In the past year, Duke has lost exactly four games and we had 14 plus point leads in every damn one of them. We will never, I think as Duke fans, we will never feel safe or comfortable ever again. But I want to remind everyone of a few things. First of all, we've said this before, but Duke doesn't always blow it down the stretch. This season alone,
Florida, Michigan State, Florida State twice, Virginia. Those were one-point games in the final three minutes, and Duke won every one of them.
Michigan, St.
John's. I forgot.
Chapter 5: How did the refereeing impact the final outcome of the game?
Michigan as well. One-point game in the final three minutes, and they won them. We even trailed in the final minutes of some of those and pulled them out. Just two days ago, Donald, two days ago, we had a game against St. John's where Isaiah Evans takes a step back three with less than four minutes to go to give Duke the lead.
what are we talking about we found a way to win we don't always blow the game so i've seen a lot of stuff online we've gotten a lot of emails people who are like they're they're idiots out there calling for john shires like calling for john shires head have you lost your ever loving mind but i also want to point out this
unlike the Houston game a year ago and some of these other losses that have been really tough to take. I don't think this Duke team didn't totally fold down the stretch. In the final two minutes, Patrick Gungba made a big free throw. He missed the other one, but he made a big free throw.
Chapter 6: What went wrong for Duke in the second half of the game?
Cameron Boozer made two tough, tough baskets in the paint, including like in the final minute and a half. We got a major stop at one point. They weren't just coming down and scoring at will on us every time. We made some plays. We just didn't quite make enough. And then we fell victim to a ridiculous, to call it a miracle doesn't even do it justice. I'm not even talking about the shot.
I'm talking about the pass. I mean, like, it took an insane confluence of stuff for Duke to lose. And I want to remind everyone, this Duke team just went 35-3 on the season.
Chapter 7: What lessons can Duke learn from this season's performance?
We won the ACC regular and tournament championships for back-to-back seasons. This Duke team did things. We went back decades, decades to find comparisons for this Duke team. It was the first time in Duke basketball history that Duke teams won 35 games in consecutive seasons in back-to-back years. Folks, how greedy are you?
Are you really going to lament a lost season or something like that in a year where we won 35 games and hung multiple banners? If winning a national championship is the only thing that matters to you, if the final destination is all you care about, then you're missing a hell of a ride along the way. There are great, amazing, once-in-a-generation teams that fail to win it all.
Chapter 8: What are the future implications for Duke basketball after this loss?
Are you really going to say that you didn't love those seasons? It happens. And we keep coming back, Donald. We keep coming back for hope that the next year will be different. And you know what? Sometimes, someday in the future, it will be different. And we will enjoy it all the more because we know it could have ended like this or like last year instead.
I mean, I think part of the reason why it hurts so much is, one, it's UConn. For me, I mean, I went back to San Antonio 2004. That was my final game in college. I hate UConn. I said it when we did the bracket selection. I was like, I hate that this bracket is going to include Spartans and Huskies in D.C. and we would have to go through one of them.
I just didn't... I didn't like... Of course, after the game, they presented the reasons why I don't like being around UConn fans. But I also think... it hurts because as you mentioned, all of them have been close, right? They, we're not being blown out. The last time we got like blown out of the gym was what? Three years ago. every game that we've lost has been those heartbreakers.
Yeah, we've talked about this, man. Yeah.
It's been incredible.
It's incredible on one hand, but also you try to sit there and look at your heart and say, I'm sorry, man. I didn't want to put you through this yet again. But here we are. And I think that's what hopefully you guys all understand that our hearts are strong. Our hearts will rebound. In a couple of days, we will be ready to be heard again.
But in the immediate aftermath, a couple hours after that, it stinks. And it stings for me, myself, being in the building two years in a row when that happens. I hate it. I know people who were there hate it. I know people who watch it at home hate it just the same. But this one is going to sting. And because of who it was against, at least for me, it's going to take a minute to recover from it.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. I'm going to get I'm going to get to the headlines. I read everything folks have sent us so far. We've we've gotten a lot. It's only been a couple hours since the game ended. Obviously, we've gotten a ton. So many of the emails.
are people thanking Donald, you and I, saying that they're sad there won't be more podcasts about this year's team and how much they appreciate what we do. Folks, we appreciate what all of you do as well. I know that, for the most part, what you do is stick earbuds in your ear and listen to the two of us prattle on and on. But we do really, really appreciate it.
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