DBR Podcast #149 (Beat NC State, Preview GTHC)




Duke Basketball Report show

Summary: We’re back with Episode 149 early on a Monday morning! On this episode, we recap the victory over NC State, we re-visit the comeback win against Louisville, and we preview the big games against UNC and Syracuse. As usual, we got Player of the Week honors and Parting Shots as well. Timestamps 0:00 - Hello! Sam is hosting this week and it’s real early 0:39 - Donald had trouble getting home from Nebraska, which is why we’re recording stupid early on a Monday 1:19 - Jason is sneaking this podcast in from work 1:57 - Thanks to Byrd Campbell and GTHCGTH.com, appropriate sponsors this week! 2:50 - Enter the code “DBR” at GTHCGTH.com to get 20% off your orders! 3:17 - We recap the victories over NC State and revisit the Louisville comeback 4:49 - We start with the NC State recap 5:10 - Donald wants to start with RJ Barrett with the 4th triple double in Duke history 6:15 - Donald touches on another incredible Zion Williamson performance 8:17 - Sam is impressed with Barrett’s triple double featuring no turnovers 8:54 - Jason has no idea what NC State was doing to stop Zion 13:07 - Jason also shows love for Marques Bolden’s performance against NC State 13:33 - Sam thinks NC State was invested in this game, but didn’t have the talent level 14:35 - Jason thinks Jack White had a good game 16:24 - Donald shouts out Javin DeLaurier for having a great defensive effort 17:08 - Sam wants to go back to the Louisville game because he was only on the lost recording 17:44 - Sam gets on a tangent about “uninspiring” Dino Gaudio 18:20 - Sam comments on the comeback and how the Louisville crowd was essentially silenced by Duke 20:12 - Jason gets his thoughts in about the Louisville comeback 22:42 - Jason recalls that Louisville almost blew an 8 point lead in under a minute against Clemson on Saturday 24:06 - Donald discusses what went wrong for Duke against Louisville before the comeback 25:00 - Donald says this comeback will be remembered in every detail just like Gone in 54/Miracle Minute 26:16 - Donald says he thought Duke would win when Cam hit the 3 to tie it 27:57 - Sam comments that Cam Reddish has been at the center of two great moments for Duke this year 28:15 - Jason recalls a great stat about Cam’s 3 point shooting when we’re up and when we’re behind 30:37 - Donald notes it’s very rare for a team to come all the way back from a huge deficit and then lose 31:35 - Thank you GTHCGTH.com! Again, you get 20% off all orders with the promo code “DBR” 32:44 - We begin the preview of UNC 33:00 - Jason talks about Coby White and how UNC is great at rebounding, scoring, and shooting 3s 38:23 - Sam agrees with Jason, but also notes that Duke is great in rebounding and scoring as well 40:24 - Donald thinks the rebounding matchup is the most important and can determine the game 42:08 - Donald - we need to make it where Cameron is the X-factor and we’re winning every 50/50 battle 43:21 - We preview the rematch against Syracuse 43:55 - Donald - shot selection and limiting Tyus Battle and Elijah Hughes is the key to beating the Orange 46:06 - Jason - Syracuse is going to have a tough time the rest of the season, and we want revenge to close out our gauntlet 48:40 - Sam thinks Syracuse will need this win to separate themselves from the pack 49:52 - Thank you Byrd Campbell! ByrdCampbell.com 50:28 - Player of the Week! Jason - RJ Barrett; Donald and Sam - Zion 52:40 - Parting Shots - Donald attended the Nebraska-Northwestern basketball game, and it was very mediocre 55:47 - Parting Shots - Jason talks about the new 20-game ACC schedule 57:00 - Parting Shots - Jason recaps the NBA All Star Game skills competitions and Jayson Tatum winning the Skills Challenge 59:41 - Parting Shots - Sam loved all the former players who came back to Cameron for the game 1:00:48 - Goodbye and Duke Band!