Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hey there, Duke fans. Welcome to DBR Podcast, Duke Basketball Roundup, DBR Bites, episode number 157. Jason and Donald with you here. It's been a few days. I don't think we've gone this long without a podcast. It's been a while.
Yeah, it's been a while. I didn't even catch up on any sleep. We didn't get to rest or anything like that. We just had other stuff that we were doing, and Jason, I think you were probably going to mention this, so I'm going to steal your thunder. The stats game is coming. That was also part of the, we got to get four schedules for that one, so check your feeds very soon for that.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So yeah, we took a few days off after the end of the season for the Duke Blue Devils. We're recording this right at 10am on Friday morning, the 3rd of April. We will over the weekend, be also providing you with the season wrap up as in the stats game. reflecting on all the predictions we made at the beginning of the year and how very, very wrong most of them were.
So we'll have that for you over the weekend. We're not doing, obviously, very much Final Four content. Good luck to all those teams. They are not Duke Blue Devils in my interest, Donald. My interest is low. But we do have some Duke stuff we need to get through for you just so everybody's aware of what's going on out there.
First of all, postseason awards are coming in and a lot of hardware, a lot of hardware headed to Durham. Let me let me see if I can get through all of these really quick. So John Shire.
has been named nabc coach of the year by the way sorry i should start off by saying this it's worth noting that the sort of the biggest name awards which in my opinion are the ap awards the naysmith and the wooden awards those are like the the ones that everyone really really focuses on not to say that the ones we're about to go through are not important but those are the really big ones those are all probably going to come not probably those are all going to come this weekend
in and around the final four. They do ceremonies and the such there. And I think that probably a number of the names that we're talking about here are also going to show up there.
Well, also, Jason, as we've kind of mentioned, even we had this discussion last year with Cooper Flagg because there was obviously like, OK, who would be named consensus All-American between him and Jani Broome? And we mentioned that there are six awards, six major national player of the year awards that one can win.
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Chapter 2: What recent awards have Duke players received?
if a team doesn't cover or whatever else it may be. So a lot of what Caden's getting is gambler abuse. And a lot of it, I think, is just regular trolls, people who have nothing better to do with their time than be jerks. And jerks is a very tame word.
But I'm certain, even though this article didn't talk about it extensively, I'm certain because, Donald, frankly, you and I have seen and heard some of the – some of the abuse from Duke fans who are mad at Caden. I'm certain that some of the messages Caden has gotten on his social media and elsewhere is from people who are Duke fans.
And by the way, I should back up and say that's Duke fans in quotation marks. Frankly, if you are someone who is going to send hateful messages to a Duke player because you didn't think he played well or because he made a mistake, you're not a Duke fan. You're an asshole. And we don't want any part of you in our community. I read this article.
It made me viscerally angry because these kids don't deserve anything close to that. And honestly, if you are a fan of a team and of players, if you're a sports fan who supports your team, that doesn't mean that you support them only when things go well. And when things go badly, you start badmouthing them. It means that you're there for them regardless of the result.
I find it reprehensible that someone would call themselves a Duke fan, that someone would pretend to be a Duke fan and would have criticism for Caden Boozer or for anyone on the team. A guy misses a free throw and you're going to criticize him, whatever else it may be. It's entirely inappropriate.
Donald, it's the reason that we term the part of the podcast where we have things that we didn't like in a game, we talk about it as things to work on. I can't say strongly enough how awful this is. And I'll go ahead and add this last item to it.
I hope there are Duke fans out there listening to my voice right now who will attempt to reach out to Caden, whether it be Instagram or whatever social media platform it may be that you find him on. Tell him he's still beloved. Tell him that you still root for him every damn day. And Just give all these guys all the support that they deserve. They gave us countless hours of pleasure.
And the fact that things didn't end the way we wanted them to doesn't diminish that in any way, shape or form.
Jason, I didn't read that article because I didn't need to. I saw it online and I can say this that's in a way that you can't. There was some stuff on there that wasn't abuse anymore. It trended beyond that. And let's just say people know to attack different things about a person when they are of color. I saw a lot of that as well. And like you said, it wasn't, I don't even know who they were.
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Chapter 3: What were the highlights from the McDonald’s All-American Game?
And even that mistake didn't cost the season because you still needed a miracle. And we said that in the aftermath of everything when we saw just how painfully he was taking it. And I just want to say to Caden, you were not the reason we lost. We win as a team. We lose as a team. And we includes me and you, Jason. We take this together. We're not hurting nearly as much as they are.
But we're hurting pretty damn much about this game. And it's because of a comedy of things. It's just a bunch of different things put together that led to that moment. And so, sure, people are going to look at that moment. I'm sure when one shiny moment happens, he's going to be in it in a negative way. And I hope that the abuse doesn't tick up because of that.
But I think people need to watch what they say online to people. It's obviously stuff they wouldn't say to their face. And I think that can affect how people view our fan base. And so I want that to stop immediately. And I just want Caden to know that he is beloved. He is the man. We hope that, as I said on Sunday, I hope that he comes back and
has a year that we look back and we go see told you he was going to come back and he was going to dominate i want that for him um almost probably as much as he wants it for himself and so yeah i hope he's i hope he's in a better place to you know today than he was a few days ago i know we all are in in many different ways but i hope that he looks through that or at least ignores it because and i know it's hard to uh for some of these comments that i saw
It was hard for me to ignore it. So I know it's hard for him. I hope that he's in a better place where he can kind of look back and go, I had a successful year. I improved from day one till now. And now it's time to focus on my offseason and get ready for next season.
100 percent. Absolutely. Hey, I want to get to one other thing and then we're going to take a quick break. And on the other side of the break, we're going to talk about. Some stuff about Duke's roster for next year, which I know a lot of people are very eager to hear about. Don't dwell on the past, look to the future. That's what all us Duke fans are all about.
But I wanted to mention very quickly, The Athletic did a poll. of 51 coaches around college basketball, most of the major college coaches, both head coaches and assistant coaches. They asked every one of them to pick a top five. What are the five best jobs in all of college basketball? And there was a runaway, unbelievable winner. It wasn't even close. The Duke job, the job currently
held by Mr. Jonathan Shire, is considered far and away the top job in all of college basketball. Of the 51 coaches who were surveyed, 37 of them picked Duke number one, said Duke was absolutely the best job. Additionally, every single one of the coaches that were surveyed put Duke in their top five. There is no other school
where there was 100% agreement that this is one of the five best jobs in all of college basketball, which I think is really fascinating. So Duke was the runaway winner. They had a point system. Duke had 233 total points. You have to go all the way back to 143 points for the second place team. Second place was actually a tie between Kentucky and Carolina. UNC had five first place votes.
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Chapter 4: How has online abuse affected Duke player Cayden Boozer?
It's really hard, by the way, to be a pass first kind of player in the McDonald's All-American game, even though these guys, you know, they practice together for like four or five days. You're not.
don't get the knowledge of where your teammates are going to be what kind of plays you're going to run it's just it's not nearly the same as you get even you know even like in the blue white game these two guys know each other 10 times as well as the guys know each other at the mcdonald's all-american game uh and i also the last thing on rippy is i want to mention i think it's significant that he was the starting point guard for his team
and that he played the second most minutes of anyone on his team. That shows that the coaches, again, in limited time seeing these players, recognize this is the guy that we want the ball in his hands. And it is super exciting to see what he's going to do coming to Duke next year.
watching Rippy and seeing some of the stuff before the McDonald's all America game, it was like, people were kind of saying like his game is, uh, Kyrie Irving meets Derek Rose. Like as far as like handles plus explosiveness. Now, again, we're not saying that there, that he's, you know, two future hall of famers. Um, But he has that kind of game in his bag.
And I think that is what excites Duke fans the most is being able to add that element, his ability to get to the lane, his ability to make that good pass. You mentioned, Jason, very sneakily, his ability to get rebounds. We love point guards who can rebound as well because long shots equal long rebounds. A lot of times you want... everyone to be involved on the glass.
So I didn't get to see a lot of him play the few minutes I was covering a soccer game on Tuesday night, so I wasn't able to see what he could do. I'm sorry, on Wednesday night. But I love the fact that He has those kind of handles. That's what excites me. I was at that Michigan State game, Jason, when Kyrie went off for 30. And at that point, we're like, oh, we're going undefeated.
We're winning a national championship.
Don't even get me started.
Yeah, that team right there, they're one of two posters that hang on my wall because I thought that team had it all. But yeah, I think De'Ron excites me in that way to see what he can do. So I'm really looking forward to getting Duke jersey on him, throwing him on the court and seeing what he can do.
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