Duke Basketball Report

0:00 Donald returns from the Caymans and Jason has internet again! 3:00 Duke played two games… we begin with Cal as Sam celebrates the Vernon Carey beast 8:10 Jason talks about the emergence of Wendell Moore 10:30 Donald wants to chat about the impressive offensive rebounding 15:30 Duke wins the 2K Classic by defeating Georgetown as Sam celebrates the demise of Patrick Ewing’s tie 18:30 It sure did not take long for K to shrink the rotation and we wonder about Matthew Hurt’s psyche 21:30 Donald wants to talk about floor slapping and the mental aspect of it 25:50 Jason gets back to Wendell Moore and talks about his ability as a one-on-one offensive player 31:00 We tip our hat to Byrd Campbell, our favorite sponsors 31:40 Jason previews Stephen F Austin 34:25 Jason makes an awful “dad joke” 35:30 Sam looks ahead to the game with Winthrop, a team that may surprise you 40:40 We need to take a few moments to talk about football… at least our kick return game was strong 48:45 The long awaited return of Player of the Week! 51:15 Parting Shots – Jason talks about Shane Battier making the college hoops HOF 54:20 Parting Shots – Sam starts a debate about James Harden 1:01:05 Parting Shots – Donald wants to talk about changing the NBA schedule 1:05:20 Parting Shots – Jason takes the rest of the ACC to task for lousy non-conference scheduling 1:08:45 Email us at DBRPodcast at Gmail.com and Happy Thanksgiving from the whole pod crew and Happy Birthday to Donald!

Duke is back to #1 in the polls as Coach K has now had a team ranked at the top in 20 different seasons. We discuss the games that got Duke there and look ahead at this week's trip to Madison Square Garden. Intro: Donald is in the Caymans 3:40 Duke beat Central Arkansas in a blowout 10:50 Duke beat Georgia State in a surprisingly close game. Tre Jones was the star. What's up the rotation? 23:20 Thanks as always to Byrd Campbell 23:50 Let's look ahead at the 2K Classic this week in New York. Duke should face Texas in the title game and Coach K will tell us about how great this event is to prepare the team for the postseason. 35:20 We return to "Who does Cassius Stanley remind us of?" 37:50 Duke Football flummoxes us. 44:50 Jason's parting shot brings us back to Duke being #1 in the polls again. The key here is "again." 48:50 Donald says farewell from the Caymans. He travels a lot. 49:30 Sam wants listeners to keep tabs on the James Wiseman situation at Memphis. 53:00 Jason has movie recommendations for the Thanksgiving holiday. So long, and Duke band take us home! Don't forget to email the podcast at dbrpodcast@gmail.com

The crew is back to discuss Duke Basketball's big Champions Classic win over Kansas and its win over Colorado State. They also preview this week's upcoming games against Central Arkansas and Georgia State, talk some recruiting, and recap Duke Football's loss to Notre Dame. Timestamps: 0:00 - Jason is hosting from the phone because U-Verse took his internet away 2:17 - We begin with basketball with some questions: 1. Who is Duke’s 2nd best player? 3:22 - Sam lands on Cassius Stanley, which is the consensus pick 5:10 - Donald agrees and cites his energy and him playing like he has something to prove 8:10 - Jason asks what we think our best lineup is so far 12:56 - Sam tells us who Cassius Stanley reminds him of, prompting a new game 15:53 - We recap the Kansas win, and it starts with defense 21:30 - The Duke offense wasn’t great 24:30 - Donald comments on Matthew Hurt’s shooting 28:24 - Thank you Byrd Campbell! 29:07 - We recap the Colorado State win 36:25 - Up next: Central Arkansas and Georgia State 41:24 - Donald wants to see improved 3 point shooting 42:37 - Duke gets a major recruit from the Class of 2021 that has a game similar to an all time great! 48:38 - Duke Football catches another L at the hands of Notre Dame 52:27 - Parting Shots - Donald took in 4 sporting events last week in 4 cities! 54:28 - Parting Shots - Sam congratulates Greg Paulus on becoming the Niagara head coach 58:00 - Parting Shots - Jason talks about Kyra Lambert’s great 3/4 court shot for Duke Women’s Basketball 1:00:45 - Parting Shots - Jason discusses the opening ACC games, including Virginia’s 48-34 victory over Syracuse 1:10:22 - Goodbye and Duke Band!

0:00 Devil with the Blue Dress 0:30 Sam and Donald are celebrating the Nationals World Series title 2:25 Duke’s second exhibition game was a big win as Joey Baker came to play! 5:50 Jason likes Matthew Hurt’s form on his long-distance shooting 8:00 Sam says there are a lot of possibilities of the rotation this year 9:10 Jason on Duke not having any sure-fire NBA prospects on the team 11:30 Previewing the Kansas Jayhawks - Jason says they have a dynamic duo who could cause us big problems 17:10 Donald talks about the tremendous big man depth for Kansas 19:00 Sam talks about Kansas’s experience versus Duke’s youth 20:50 Jason is pessimistic about the early season schedule 21:45 Recruiting news- Sam welcomes 7-0 center Mark Williams to the Brotherhood 28:00 Our sponsor, Byrd Campbell has a message for former Dukie Bruce Bell 29:00 Duke legend Jim Spanarkel with a quick message for his former teammate Bruce Bell 30:00 The annual Duke Basketball Stats Prediction Game! 31:10 Most points, we all expect a certain Dukie to put a Hurting on the opposition 31:40 Most rebounds, who will Carey Duke in that category? 31:55 Blocked shots, finally a disagreement! 32:25 Most assists, we are just Jonesing to pick the same guy 32:50 Most steals, Donald is mining for Gold here 33:45 Highest FG percentage 34:45 Highest 3-point percentage 35:40 We attempt to predict Tre Jones’ 3-point percentage this season 37:45 How many games will Jordan Goldwire start this season? 39:00 Time to project Joey Baker total minutes 40:15 Vernon Carey made three pointers (in honor of Jason thinking Bolden would hit a dozen three pointers last season) 41:45 Total points scored by walk-ons this season 43:45 We predict how deep K will go this season by projecting how many players will play 150 minutes this season 45:00 How many games will Duke win this season? 45:50 How many true road games will Duke win this year? 46:45 How many ACC teams will make the Big Dance? 48:05 The Donald Wine Category – How many 100 point games will Duke have? 49:35 The tie breaker… What will be Duke’s defensive ranking on KenPom? 52:45 Parting shot – We all talk about the NCAA decision on allowing players to get money for their name and image (endorsements). This will not be a short conversation! 1:07:05 We are so excited for the season to start as we say goodbye!! 1:08:25 Donald announces that we are now on Spotify!

It was a weekend of a frustrating football loss and a concerning basketball (exhibition) win. 0:00 - Sam welcomes us to a podcast to recap a weekend we did not enjoy2:25 - How did Duke do in the first exhibition game? Jason says this will not be a Duke team that peaks early in the season.8:30 - Donald is worried about our FT shooting.12:00 - The D did look good in this exhibition game.14:00 - Donald tells us what to look for in Duke's next exhibition game.17:30 - A shout-out to the great DBR sponsors, Byrd Campbell 18:10 - Time to talk about the Duke-UNC football game and the insane ending of that game19:35 - Jason does not understand why we were even in that formation at the end of the game22:20 - Donald cannot figure out why we were doing something so gimmicky 25:00 - Jason says all the blow outs this year made Duke unprepared for a close game26:40 - Sam says the team needs a reset on offense29:20 - Jason says the offense in the 4th quarter was not good enough to win the game30:40 - Donald points out we still have a shot to turn this into a pretty darn successful season32:40 - Parting shots: Donald on the world series in DC34:20 - Parting shots: Jason on the shocking NBA transition of Justise Winslow38:40 - Parting shots: Sam says goodbye to the basketball careers of Kyle Singler and Luol Deng40:50 - Before he says goodbye, Sam has a couple more comments on the Nats making the World Series43:00 - Thanks again,. Byrd Campbell... and Duke band, take us home

With Jason still on vacation, Donald and Sam are here to recap Blue's 47-38 victory over White and all of the Countdown to Craziness spectacles! Timestamps: 0:00 - Hello! Donald’s hosting, Sam’s in Chicago, and Jason is still on vacation 1:15 - Thank you Byrd Campbell! 1:30 - We start the Countdown recap with the basketball - Blue beats White 2:19 - Sam discusses how Vernon Carey is a surefire starter 3:05 - Sam: Tre Jones seems out of sorts, but didn’t look great 4:22 - Donald talks about Vernon Carey’s motor 6:23 - Donald and Sam are concerned about the outside shooting 9:10 - Donald: Cassius Stanley is smooth around the rim 10:30 - Sam switches to defense and the necessity for improvement 12:21 - Justin Robinson dunks, and Donald talks about a J-Rob dunk being his phone lock screen 13:39 - We discuss the intros! We begin with Javin DeLaurier going “old school” 14:50 - Sam wasn’t impressed with the dancing, but the best intro was Tre Jones and his mom 15:35 - Donald: Ante Up is one of the greatest hype songs EVER! 16:30 - J-Rob came out to Don’t Stop Believing 16:58 - Donald and Sam opine as to whether Jason is still listening 17:15 - Donald was excited Wendell Moore came out to the hottest rapper out right now 18:05 - Sam and Donald discuss the poster and how it was made 19:36 - Finally, discussion on the beautiful jerseys that were worn! 22:00 - Byrd Campbell means business!! 22:26 - Programming note: we’ll discuss football and preview basketball next time when Jason is back 22:50 - Parting Shots: Sam (and Donald) are excited at the Washington Nationals making the World Series! 24:55 - Parting Shots: Donald wishes Zion Williamson well after he suffered a knee injury with the New Orleans Pelicans 26:13 - Goodbye and Duke Band!

With Jason traveling somewhere in Europe, Donald and Sam do the show this week as we preview Countdown to Craziness and recap Duke Football's win over Georgia Tech. We close this shorter show with Parting Shots. Timestamps 0:00 - Welcome! Donald and Sam are excited about #DCSports, while Jason is on vacation and absent this week 2:30 - Thank you Byrd Campbell! 2:48 - Sam learns that I RickRoll everyone on Uberconference! 4:02 - We start with Countdown to Craziness! 4:19 - Sam is excited to see the new jerseys, as is Donald! 4:40 - Sam is also looking forward to seeing the freshmen for the first time 7:12 - Sam is not excited about the player intros, but Donald definitely is 7:39 - Sam wants to see the evolution of Tre Jones’ game 8:16 - Donald is excited to have something to talk about with regards to who plays with whom 9:22 - Donald likes that the player intros allows the players to show their personality (just don’t flip cups or bottles!) 11:03 - Sam discusses the fact we don’t really know who eventually will start - lot of competition for playing time 12:48 - Donald will be looking out for the official poster and pregame hype video 15:46 - Byrd Campbell means business! 16:20 - Duke Football handled Georgia Tech! Sam starts by discussing the offense and the running game 18:42 - Sam - “Duke was swarming on defense” 19:57 - Donald - the defense was getting off the field quickly, which gave offense more time on the field 21:17 - We play Virginia this weekend. Sam hopes Duke can move the ball. Donald thinks the running game needs to be great 25:42 - Parting Shots - Sam discusses Coach K’s comments on recent proposed changes to college basketball compensation 30:53 - Parting Shots - Donald salutes a friend of his and Sam for being a part of the Washington Mystics’ championship winning staff 32:35 - Goodbye and Duke Band…Go Nats!

0:00 Welcome to this week’s edition of the global warming podcast 3:20 Duke gets a surprising new recruit for the class of 2020 7:45 We talk about how this recruiting class is a bit different from some other recent Duke classes 9:00 How the Brakefield recruiting reminds us of a classic scene in Trading Places and Grey’s Anatomy 12:00 The depth of the 2020 class means Duke will be well-stocked with players for a while 16:00 Our weekly shout out to our wonderful sponsors, Byrd Campbell 16:40 A special interview with former Dukie, 2 time national champ, Kenny Blakeney 18:25 Kenny talks about his long coaching career and gives us a great story about coaching with Lefty Dreisell. 25:00 Kenny tells us what it is like now that he is a head coach and discusses hiring Dukie Tyler Thornton as an assistant coach 29:15 A bit about what Kenny hopes to accomplish at Howard 32:00 Donald notes that Kenny will play his former bosses Mike Brey and Tommy Amaker this year 35:50 Jason asks Kenny about the state of college basketball and the pay-the-players debate 38:15 Kenny reflects on his recruitment and winning titles at Duke 43:00 Kenny was on the bench for the Duke-Kentucky game in 1992… his perspective on the greatest game ever played 45:50 Kenny talks about practices with the 1992 championship team 49:25 Who was the best player Kenny played against? 52:30 Kenny’s best Coach K story is all about going after loose balls 55:25 Jason reflects on how the Kenny Blakeney interview came about 58:00 We discuss our highlights from the interview 1:03:45 Again, our thanks to Byrd Campbell 1:04:15 Some thoughts on how California is shaking up the NCAA 1:18:00 Football with a heartbreaking game against Pitt 1:24:25 Parting Shots – Donald on the Bayou Brotherhood 1:27:50 Parting Shots – Jason on a crazy poker cheating scandal 1:32:00 Parting Shots – Sam on how stressful the MLB playoffs are if you care about the teams 1:33:35 Parting Shots – Sam also talks about the demise of Sports Illustrated 1:35:45 Goodbye from a long long long podcast!

The team is back to discuss Media Day and some interviews Sam conducted with the players, some recruiting news, and Duke Football's demolition of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. The team closes, as always, with their Parting Shots. Timestamps 0:00 - Welcome and Happy Rosh Hashanah! 1:37 - Thank you Byrd Campbell! 1:50 - We start with Duke’s annual Media Day. Sam was there! 2:45 - Sam catches us up with some memorable Coach K quotes 5:16 - Sam got to speak to a lot of the players 6:16 - Cassius Stanley speaks on mentorship and the rest of the team 12:58 - Jason is worried that Game of Thrones will consume all of Stanley’s time, but Donald isn’t concerned 13:39 - Wendell Moore speaks on his best friend on the team as well as his favorite video games 15:28 - Vernon Carey on the Duke big man that’s most influential for him 18:10 - Carey says the place he’s most looking forward to play is one that’s very early in the season 19:04 - Jordan Goldwire on the freshmen coming in as well as his defense 20:11 - Matthew Hurt on summer in Durham versus Minnesota 21:14 - Jason indicates there were other interviews, but they weren’t as good 22:39 - Donald likes that Sam was able to get information about the players’ personalities 25:53 - We have some recruiting news to cover: DJ Steward and Henry Coleman III commit, Walker Kessler doesn’t 30:54 - Sam jumpstarts the discussion of players who Duke are still going after 34:02 - Thanks to our sponsors…Byrd Campbell means business! 34:33 - Time for football, and Duke Football DESTROYED Virginia Tech! We all have great things to say 47:54 - We quickly preview what to watch for against Pitt on Saturday. 52:44 - Parting Shots - Sam’s friend is on the new Duke Blue Planet video this week 53:45 - The discussion shifts to Sam being in an Instagram story singing in the Fuqua Band! 56:17 - Parting Shots - Jason discusses the NCAA police with regards to Kansas and Georgia Tech 1:06:15 - Parting Shots - Donald gives a shoutout to the Duke Men’s Soccer team for coming back to beat UNC 1:07:37 - See ya! Tune in next week for an interview with Kenny Blakeney!

The podcast crew celebrates the release of the 2019-20 schedule with a pod full of funny moments. 0:00  Jason welcomes us to the pod... if he can remember how to host 2:00  We can see each other and Donald is making faces 2:30  The full basketball schedule is here, Sam thinks it shapes up nicely for Duke 7:00  Jason picks the toughest part of the schedule... and he can't really find one 9:50  Donald is looking at the days of the week that we play 12:15  Duke and UNC both games on Saturdays... what does it mean? 15:20  How the schedule relates to the birth of the ACC Network 17:10  Everyone else in the conference opens their season with an ACC conference game 21:00  The team has new uniforms!! 27:20  Sam reminiscences about 1999, a team he was barely old enough to remember 28:20   Thanks to Byrd Campbell, out wonderful sponsors 29:10   Football wins x2! We recap a couple blowouts 35:00   Previewing the next football game with Va Tech 41:15   Parting shots - Sam on the grad campout including a Justin Robinson story 44:50   Parting shots - Donald is travelling again including a Demarcus Nelson story 48:30   Parting shots - Jason rants about the FIBA World Cup and Team USA's 7th place finish 1:02:40  Good bye, email us at DBRPodcast at gmail.com

Live from the parking lot at Mercedes Benz stadium, the podcast crew gives us their take on the Alabama game... complete with a locker room interview with Duke QB Quentin Harris. 0:00 The gang is all here... in ATL... for a podcast brought to you by Byrd Campbell and sorta by Miller Lite 1:40 Sam doesn't even know the score of the Duke-Bama game 2:40 Jason say Duke met expectations for success against the Tide juggernaut 3:50 Donald on whether we should have gone for it on 4th down in the first quarter 5:00 A conversation about the struggles of the Duke offense 7:05 The Duke defense was pretty good.. considering we were playing Bama 9:15 Sam sings the praises of the new Mercedes Benz stadium in Atlanta (and free Chick-fil-a!!) 11:00 Jason's Locker room interview with Duke QB Quentin Harris 13:40 Reaction to Harris's post-game comments 16:00 Thanks to our wonderful sponsors Byrd Campbell 16:40 A brief conversation about the shortest NBA career of all time... just 3.9 seconds 21:20 Goodbye from the gulch and thanks to our fans!!

The guys are ready for a big weekend in Atlanta again the Alabama Crimson Tide and they also talk to a NY Giants Podcaster about the early success of Daniel Jones at QB. :00 Devil With a Blue Dress :15 Donald welcomes us to a mostly football pod 2:20 Bring on Bama! 3:20 Donald puts Jason on the spot… and he does not like it 5:10 Jason explains how Alabama’s talent is just off the charts 7:20 What would it take for Duke to say, “well, that was a good game” 8:40 Sam gives us a history of Duke playing the best programs 12:20 Donald talks about the last time we played Bama 15:00 Byrd Campbell, our favorite Dukie sponsors 15:45 A conversation about Daniel Jones with NY Giants Podcaster Ed Valentine 17:00 Ed wants to know when we can start engraving Jones’ Hall of Fame plaque 18:20 A reflection on the Giants taking Jones at #6 21:25 Giant fan reaction to Jones thus far 23:05 What has impressed Ed the most about Jones so far 26:40 Ed talks about the transition from Eli Manning to Daniel Jones 30:30 What kind of relationship do Eli and Daniel have so far? 32:40 Our reactions to Ed Valentine’s comments on Daniel Jones 39:20 Jason tells us about the Duke legend of Mike Junken 43:55 Parting Shots – Jason talks about Team USA at the FIBA World Cup, featuring 2 Dukies! 52:10 Parting Shots – One Sam remembers what he is talking about, we chat about Duke Blue Planet 54:20 Parting Shots – Donald on the chicken sandwich wars (featuring Sam doing an incredible Yoda impression and then blowing us away with his Coach K impression) 1:01:15 Good bye and Duke band

The guys are back with a download of all the action from a summer of hoops and a preview of the football season coming up. 0:00 The Duke Band welcomes us to pod #162 0:20 Jason welcomes us as Donald and Sam recap some of their summer travels 2:50 What have we seen from the Blue Devil basketball team in the videos that have leaked from summer basketball play. 9:15 Summer recruiting news, Jalen Johnson headed to Durham 16:40 Sidebar about the best high school basketball teams in the country, including some talk about LeBron James Jr. 19:25 Ken Pomeroy ranks the top college hoops programs of the past 23 years... and guess who he says is the #1 team? 26:20 Would Jay Wright take the Duke job if it was offered to him? 29:30 Other teams with rankings that intrigue us (with extensive conversation about Texas and Virginia) 35:00 Duke football preview including an invitation for you to hang out with the DBR podcast crew at the Duke-Alabama game!! 43:45 Byrd Campbell, the best lawyers you will find who bleed Duke blue 44:30 Parting Shots - Jason begins with the NBA summer and the peril of players being too much in control 54:20 Parting Shots - Sam has a new hat and is excited for his second year at Fuqua 55:40 Parting Shots - Donald loves the LLWS and other baseball/softball stuff 57:15 Parting Shots - Jason rants about the NCAA, the SEC, and the ACC being cowards about the UNC scandal 1:04:40 Goodbye and Duke Band

Everything you could want to know about Dukies in the Draft and more! Featuring Sam and Jason live and Donald on tape from France... yes, on tape from France. We go to the ends of the Earth to make this the best podcast around!

0:00 Donald welcomes us to the pod and thanks our sponsor, Byrd Campbell 1:00 Jason talks about his weekend... watching his son graduate from college and Sam has a new summer job on the left coast 4:40 NBA Draft lottery and the likely destinations of the Duke freshmen, Zion, RJ, and Cam. With a lot of conversation about Anthony Davis, the New Orleans Pelicans, and their new GM, Trajan Langdon 22:20 Sidebar about how trash the Knicks are and a debate about the last good free agent they got 24:35 Javin and Marquis and the NBA Draft 33:30 Dukies in the NBA playoffs 41:10 Thanks to Byrd Campbell for being true blue! 41:45 Duke gets a 2020 recruit, PG Jeremy Roach and loses a 2019 recruit, Boogie Ellis 52:15 Duke Lax and Women's Golf be winning and winning 54:20 The passing of a hoops trailblazer 56:40 We close with praise for Robert Smith, a great philanthropist 1:00:10 Good bye and Duke band