In last year’s NCAA tourney, Belmont nearly took out the mighty Blue Devils in round one. In all my infinite wisdom, I had picked Belmont to win the game, believing that West Virginia would squash the Blue Devils in round two anyway. So I was half right, but man has Duke been vulnerable lately.

Coach K might be a sophisticated, tough, get everything you can out of the players kind of coach, but when it comes to recruiting, he has failed miserably in recent years. Duke has turned into a jump shooting, finesse type of team. One in which is pretty simple to prepare for. How about going out and getting some athletic bigs who know how to score and play defense down low. Final Four teams are always built around a diversely molded group of players who can collectively defend, shoot and rebound and score inside.

What did the 2001 Champion Duke team have? Well, yes, a lot of 3 point shooters, but they did have that one post player who could really affect the game. Carlos Boozer.

Some other good post players from NCAA champion teams in recent years include…

Al Horford, Joakim Noah, Sean May, Emeka Okafor, Darrell Arthur, Chris Wilcox, Hakim Warrick

Does Brian Zoubek or Lance Thomas strike fear in anybody?

Maybe a SWAC team.

I digress.

If you’re down in a game, just start dishing out cheap shots like Mr. Henderson

If you can’t play defense, just flop your way through the game like Paulus

Almost as bad as this Horry flop

I just get tired of always hearing about how good Duke is.

Stop it. They should be good. They get great players every year. Back it up more than once in awhile.

Post from: EveryJoe

I’ll never understand