Duke Basketball Report

0:10 Hello… it is early but we are mostly awake 1:50 Wake Forest recap – Donald was impressed with our heart and our shooting percentage late 5:20 With the season on the verge of collapsing, Jason thinks Grayson’s composure saved us 8:05 Sam wants to know if what we think about Duke’s recent rebounding success 12:15 Time to talk about Notre Dame, which was likely Duke’s best game and the stellar D played by Duke 16:00 Jason Evans has figured out what will make Jayson Tatum truly great 22:35 We all wax poetic on the absurd between-the-legs pass by Luke Kennard 27:20 Jason has a cool stat about Duke’s 2nd half shooting 29:10 Previewing Pitt, a game Sam will attend! 32:10 We marvel at how badly Pitt has gotten beaten lately, ACC record-breaking losses 36:00 Player of the Week – we split the vote 3 ways 40:00 Parting shots – Donald was kickin’ with a legend! 41:35 Parting shot – Jason talks the success of the K coaching tree at Marquette and Northwestern 45:40 Parting shot – Sam reflects on January this year and in recent years… some surprising similarities! 46:30 Duke band, take us home!

The trio (Donald, Sam & Jason) recap the wild win against Miami and the loss against NC State. We preview the upcoming road games against Wake Forest and Notre Dame and give our players of the week and parting shots.

00:10 Sam greets us and wishes a happy 50th birthday to Jason! 02:25 We recap a tough week, Duke lost both games to FSU and Lou and Donald talks about the importance of depth 08:10 Jason rants a bit about our poor interior D 13:45 We talk a bit about how Amile Jefferson is like Bill Walton… yes, Bill Walton! 20:30 Jason talks about one of his favorite statistics, Field Goal Attempts 22:00 Donald previews Miami, a team that has a nice record but who hasn’t beaten anyone very good 29:20 Jason tells us about NC State a team that is just awful on defense 33:00 Sam asks Jason the impossible question, how do you stop Dennis Smith? 38:50 Jason gives Sam and Donald the Duke trivia tenting quiz. It ain’t easy! 41:15 Question #1 - Name all the players on the team, their numbers, their hometowns, and their high schools 42:00 Question #2 – Give Duke’s ranking in the AP poll every week this season 42:45 Question #3 – Name all 6 members of the Duke coaching staff 44:35 Question #4 – Which Duke players were on the HOF preseason watch list 46:00 Lightning round… in which Sam takes a funny shot at Marquis Bolden 47:50 List all the 2017 recruits and their hometowns 49:25 We digress into a conversation about the history of K-Ville and the line to get into games 51:40 Player of the week picks, and a discussion of the guy who did not win it 55:30 Parting Shots – Donald with a shout out to the Duke women 56:30 Parting Shots – Jason on the Mickie Dees 58:25 Parting Shots – Sam says… relax. It will be fine. 1:00:15 Farewell and the Duke band

00:10 Welcome to episode #66! 00:35 Sam is playing through the pain of a nasty ski injury 01:40 Jason lays out the structure of this episode… and forbids us from talking about Grayson’s latest tripping “scandal” until later in the Pod 04:00 Donald starts the wrapup of all three games we played this past week. He says the Ga Tech game was the best Duke can play. 06:30 Sam “takes the dim view on this week” as he was unimpressed with the BC win 10:00 Jason says the poor 2nd half against BC was a result of us missing Amile, which morphs into an assessment of Bolden and Giles 14:00 Jason wants to talk about Grayson Allen, the new Duke point guard 18:20 Time for the Great Grayson Tripping Scandal – Part 4. Sam thinks it is stupid but Jason and Donald are worried it could really have an impact on Grayson’s game going forward 24:55 We blindly speculate about Amile Jefferson’s injury and his impact on the team 26:10 What do we think of Coach Capel? We are all happy that Coach K will still be connected and consulted, even if he won’t be on the sidelines 35:40 Sam previews the game at FSU 41:20 Donald previews the game at Louisville 44:00 Jason talks about the rest of the conference and we laugh at NC State’s utterly pathetic effort at UNC 52:45 Player of the week time and we do something silly as we wildly guess at who next week’s player of the week will be 56:10 Jason attempts to close the show, but he makes a terrible, terrible mistake… this is ugly 57:15 Before we go, Bama vs. Clemson, who you got? 1:02:50 Goodbye and the band plays us out

0:00 Welcome to the ACC Preview Pod… featuring Donald educating us about Kujichagulia 3:40 Preview #1 – Sam looks at Duke vs. Virginia Tech, there’s a real chance Duke could lose this game 14:10 Preview #2 – Jason on Ga Tech, a team that really needs more talent 18:25 Jason goes off-topic to talk about high school recruiting in the state of Georgia 24:00 A discussion of whether Grayson will come back for the Ga Tech game ensues 26:05 Preview #3 – Donald on BC, the trainwreck of the ACC 32:20 Biggest surprises and disappointments in the ACC thus far, it all begins with Jason being really impressed with Notre Dame 38:00 Sam has fun with some stats on Virginia’s defense 44:35 Donald’s surprise is how good almost everyone in the ACC is (except for the bottom few teams) and he can’t help but love on the Miami Hurricanes 48:50 Thoughts on Duke’s non-conference performance – MVPs thus far: Sam and Jason say Amile while Donald picks Luke 55:50 Donald surprises us by asking for Duke’s best game of the year thus far. The one thing we agree upon is that our best game is still to come! 1:01:00 Good bye and Happy New Year!

0:10 Welcome! Sam, Donald, and Jason have a Christmas gift for you… a new podcast! 2:15 Donald attended the Tenn. St game and gives us a quick review of some of the changes Cameron has undergone recently 5:00 Time to quickly talk about the actual games against Tenn State and Elon, two games where the post-exam malaise really stood out 8:50 We continue to avoid talking about Grayson Allen, but still express real concerns about team chemistry. Luke Kennard’s post-Elon game comments scare the heck out of us 11:30 Jason is worried… are we cursed? How can we be this good and yet this worried? 15:45 Sam says it is time to talk about Grayson Allen! Did we really procrastinate for 15 minutes before we got to this? 18:45 Donald says the media deserves more than a little bit of blame for blowing this out of proportion 21:45 Jason talks about Grayson’s reaction on the bench and that Grayson knew at that moment how much he had just lost and how this tripping incident will stick with him FOREVER! 28:00 We all feel K was right to impose an “indefinite suspension” and we hope the team will come together and bond over their collective struggles 37:20 Amateur psychiatrist time… we think the “phantom foul” controversy may have caused Grayson to boil over against Elon 43:40 Time for UNC and the latest on the cheating scandal. 24 words have sealed Carolina’s fate 51:25 We can’t believe the hubris of the UNC AD for his pathetic defense and Jason just rips him, “Bubba Cunningham, have you no shame?!?!?!” 53:45 Donald can’t believe how long this whole thing is taking and feels it is so unfair to current Carolina students and players who will bear the brunt of this punishment 59:30 Jason says harsh penalties are coming and Donald says UNC is going to sue the NCAA 1:04:00 Time to wrap things up with Christmas presents for the Duke team. Jason gifts health to the team, Donald’s present is Luke Kennard continuing to shoot lights out all season long, and Sam’s gift is a massive blow out of Virginia Tech to set the tone for the ACC season 1:08:15 Jason brings it all full circle, he reflects on the last time it felt like Duke was cursed… and how that season turned out 1:10:05 Sam says good bye as the Duke band plays us out

0:00 Jason and Sam are here, but where is Donald? 1:00 In Donald’s place, we are joined by Bleacher Report’s Jordan Brenner, former of ESPN The Magazine 2:15 Recap of the Florida victory, starting with Jordan who was at the game 3:50 Sam says the most impressive player on the floor was Amile Jefferson 6:00 Jordan talks about Duke’s depth and what he saw from the big men when he visited with the team during preseason practices 10:00 Jason and Jordan start talking about PGs and Duke’s ability to move the ball 19:50 Jordan has a warning, the team D needs to get better 23:55 Let’s reflect on the Michigan St game, and the greatness that was Matt Jones’ D 27:55 Jason marvels at how we got to 7-1 with only 6 players 30:45 Why are we talking about the Maine game? Because it was our fist look at Tatum and Bolden! 34:05 Jordan says Luke Kennard is, “pretty good at basketball.” 35:00 UNLV preview. This is not the UNLV of the past. 40:35 Jason interviews Jordan. First question – how is the sausage made? 43:20 Jordan riffs on the notion of paying athletes, but he can’t really decide how to fix the broken system 48:30 Jason and Jordan talk about the reality of players being paid under the table 55:00 Jordan talks about his Giant Killer project at ESPN and how to figure out who is going to bust your bracket in March 1:00:40 Player of the week… you only have 2 choices! 1:05:30 Parting Shot – Sam loves to party with Dukies, Jordan actually wants to do this with us again some time, and Jason marvels at Klay Thompson

0:00 Welcome to podcast #62. Do we really have to talk about that football game? 1:30 Recap of the Kansas game. We lost but aren’t despondent over the result. Jason was really impressed with Josh Jackson; Sam talks about the rebounding and the strange flow of the game; and Donald is relieved that we got the undefeated pressure off our back nice and early. 14:30 Time for something more fun, the wins over Penn St and Rhode Island. We were quite impressed with Hassan Martin of Rhode Island. 18:10 Sam has a hysterical story about how he experienced the Penn St. game 20:10 We are really getting sick of everyone getting injured 23:05 Jason has a shocking statistic he wants everyone to know about that he pulled right from the rules of basketball 29:20 Donald starts the, “Grayson needs to get healthy” conversation which Jason morphs into his weekly man-love for Luke Kennard and then Sam morphs into a discussion about who is going to get minutes once we finally get healthy. It takes a while for us to talk about minutes. 40:30 Recruiting news- Wendell Carter will choose this week between Duke and Harvard. Amazingly, even though we really want this stud player, we all think it would be kinda cool if he picked the Crimson. 45:30 We recap the absolute beat down Pitt put on our football team 48:30 Time to look at the scenarios that get us to a bowl game at 5-7 51:30 Player of the week. It is a 2 man race and we split our votes. 56:00 Parting shots – Sam has a funny story about Marshall Plumlee’s path to his first NBA game 58:15 Parting shots – Jason is here to praise Tony Bennett 1:01:40 Parting shot – Donald goes back in time exactly 2 years… to the very first DBR podcast. 1:03:25 We give thanks at Thanksgiving and say goodbye!

The gang has a lot on their plate this week. Basketball season has begun, we preview the big game with Kansas, we chat with former Duke great and current NBAer Ryan Kelly, and revel in a victory over UNC on the football field. Timestamps 0:00 Welcome to a jam packed podcast!! We begin by wondering about the fate of the victory bell 2:50 Hey, the basketball season started. We talk a bit about the Marist and Grand Canyon games 17:05 We present a preview of Kansas. We are worried about their physical guards. 31:10 Jason interviews former Duke great and current Atlanta Hawk Ryan Kelly 38:40 Jason asks the question we are all dying to know -- Kobe or Austin, who passes more? 42:40 The big question from every Duke interview -- tell us your greatest Coach K story 46:40 We react to the interview and how much we loved Ryan's story about Coach K 53:50 Recruiting news - Gary Trent Jr. is the newest member of the Blue Devil family 59:10 Football roundup - Down goes the Tarheels! 1:10:00 Player of the week - Donald likes the freshman, Jason likes the soph, and Sam picks a senior... put another way, none of us chose Grayson Allen. 1:14:35 Parting shots - Jason rants about Coach K getting no respect 1:18:40 Parting shots - Donald thinks Kentucky is soooo jealous of Duke 1:25:20 Parting shots - Sam with a shout out to the Duke field hockey team on their strong season 1:26:20 Good bye!

Jason, Sam, and Donald reflect on everything we learned in the preseason and give their predictions as we get ready for the college basketball season to begin!

Donald, Sam, and Jason are joined by DBR mainstay Mark Newton, who went to a recent Duke practice and also was in house for Countdown to Craziness. The four of them dissect what we know about Duke coming into the season. We also look at the NBA one-and-done rule and reflect back on the carer of one of Duke's all-time greats.

The DBR Podcast trio break down Duke Football's historic 38-35 victory over Notre Dame in South Bend! Sam was there, Donald and Jason were not, but we get to look back on an impressive victory and everything associated with that incredible day.

The guys dissect what happened with the Blue Devils against Northwestern and talk about why Coach K decided to put his team on display for NBA scouts.

Jason, Sam, and Donald take on three big topics this week... the football team's lackluster performance versus Wake, the ACC basketball schedule being released, and the NCAA's decision to get out of North Carolina because of HB2. Oh, and be sure to stick around until the end to hear us talk about "elaborate sausages."

Donaldis AWOL so Sam and Jason get DBR's resident football expert Bob Green to join them for a preview of the pigskin season. But, because we love basketball so much, we can't avoid talking about the newest Blue Devil and what we saw at the Olympics.