DBR Bites #142 - How To Get Back On Track Against Pitt

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What happened in the recent Duke vs. Carolina game?

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Jason 0:14

All right. Did you miss us, folks? DBR Bites, episode number 142 coming at you, Jason and Donald. It is, you know, about a little more than 24 hours after we recorded the very, very long episode that was our recap of the Carolina game. The same way the Duke team needs to, you know, as soon as the game is over, change its focus to the next opponent. We are here to do the same. Is that correct, Donald?

Donald 0:43

Yeah, I mean, we'll talk one last bit about some stuff that happened at the end of the UNC game, but after that, it's full steam ahead. Pitt is awaiting us, and they're not going to sit back and allow us to wallow in Saturday's defeat. They're going to come and try to right their season, as we'll talk about.

Jason 1:02

Yes, that is entirely accurate, and we'll be talking – about the Pitt Panthers in just a moment. But as you said, we want to sort of finish the conversation, so to speak, with some comments from John Shire about the court storming incident that happened. There has been a lot of folks talking in the media, in the college basketball world, about the court storming that happened at the end of the Duke Carolina game, about John Shire coming in the interview room and very calmly not in an angry kind of way, saying, yeah, member of the team, member of my staff got punched in the face, got assaulted. The other thing that happened was in the wake of the postgame was former UNC player Theo Pinson saying on video that he had roughed up, that he had taken – he said, I got a free shot in, saying that he had punched someone on the Duke team.

Jason 1:57

I guess a little unclear if maybe he was the one who punched the – member of john shire's staff he might have punched a member of the staff rather than a member of the of the team although theo pinson is now saying i was just joking i was just kidding around Um, I would, I would say that anyone who thinks it's a joke that we should laugh and, and, and poke fun at the fact that, that we committed assaults on an opposing team that was a visitor in our arena. Not quite sure what, I'm not quite sure what's wrong with you to think that that's funny. That's something to joke about. Ha ha. I committed assault. Ha ha. I tried to start a riot. I mean, what is Theo Pinson even thinking, but he's come out and apologized.

Jason 2:34

So I guess we all just need to move on. Right.

Donald 2:36

Well, look, I'll push back slightly on the fact that John Shire was calm. I mean, calm is not the right way to describe it. Was he in control? Absolutely. Was he passionate about defending his team and his staff? Absolutely. And his family even more so. I know that's kind of what you were going with, but I want to make that clear that it wasn't that he came in and calmly said, oh, well, you know, our guys were hit, but, you know, it's going to be fine. He was passionate about it. He wanted to make sure it was known that that was not okay, that this was not what the rivalry is about. It's not what any game should be about.

How does Duke plan to refocus after their loss?

Donald 3:09

And the fact that UNC's AD came out and apologized in spite of people saying that, oh, this wasn't true, he came out and immediately apologized because he knew it was true. He saw some of the video that you and I have seen, Jason, out there about Bottles being thrown at players and just the overall unsafeness of what happened, not once but twice. It should be noted that UNC was fined for it. They weren't fined twice. Correct. But they were fined once for it, the $50,000 for a first offense at the ACC happens. And like we kind of talked about, it does not go to Duke. So it's not like we're made whole by this, but it's more of a, hey, at least something happened here.

Jason 3:53

Yeah, and so like we said, we want to get to John Shire had a news conference earlier today. He, along with all the other ACC basketball coaches, Donald, you were on that news conference, and the very first question that was asked of him was about the court storming and about the condition of the member of the staff. Let's have a listen really quickly to what John Shire said about how his team was treated and the condition of one of his staffers in the wake of Carolina's assault on the Duke team at the very end of that game.