Duke-Carolina: My take
If the better team wins tonight, Carolina ought to beat Duke.
But the better team does not always survive the emotion of this rivalry, especially in that smelly, steamy and claustrophobic cauldron they call Cameron.
Carolina still should take this one, unless Roy's Folks choose, as they do on occasion, not to play defense.
Carolina by 10.
Meanwhile, HBO premieres its Carolina-Duke documentary on Feb. 23.
Based on previous HBO specials -- and the can't-miss material -- it ought to be good.
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Good call, Allen. But you couldn't have foreseen the second half meltdown by Duke in which bricks were shot at an alarming rate, high-priced basketball shoes repeatedly failed to maintain contact with the floor, the defensive equivalent of warm butter was cut through by Ty Lawson's metaphorical sharp knife, and--despite quixotic chants of "Go Duke" with a double-digit game clock and deficit--the Cameron Crazies were reduced to the quietly simpering imbeciles that they ought to be all the time. Has Duke ever played a more inept 20 minutes of basketball in the Coach K era?
Posted on February 11, 2009 11:39 PM
And just to clarify, I don't mean to suggest that the Crazies should be simpering imbeciles, but that, since they are, they should be so quietly.
Posted on February 11, 2009 11:42 PM
Enjoyed it. Still cannot figure why all ACC good games come on at 9:pm.
Do they not realize working folks have to get up early. Not only that I had early tee times.
Posted on February 12, 2009 4:18 AM