Duke Basketball Report Has To Shut Down Message Boards After NCAA Loss

07-08 Basketball Fans118

Duke Basketball Report had to shut down their message board after today’s loss against West Virginia. I am not sure if you guys ever had the misfortune of reading “Carolina Blue” back in the 80’s and 90’s, but DBR’s propaganda would make John Kilgo blush. We can’t wait read their post game recap from the West Virginia game. Get ready for Coach Kool Aid.

We’re turning the board off for a bit. Some of you are out of control.

We will be back.

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118 Responses to Duke Basketball Report Has To Shut Down Message Boards After NCAA Loss

  1. BoKnowsNCS71 03/23/2008 at 12:03 PM #

    The DBR quotes are interesting:

    “Folks, if you think DBR is the right place to come vent your frustrations and bash on the team or on the coaching staff for how the season went and/or ended, then you are thinking wrong.”

    The owners of this site have made it clear that bashing the team/coaches is not allowed – that if you’re going to criticize, it needs to be done constructively.

    The mods are very busy right now deleting lots of posts and handing out infractions for folks that are obviously upset about the end of the season – understandably so – but that are expressing themselves via posts at a terribly in appropriate time or in terribly inappropriate ways.”

    Is the CIA running that Blog? The next thing I would expect would be for the Duke Brownshirts to raid the dorms and beat up bloggers to deliver their infractions. “Do you haff relatives in Chermany Mr. Jones” The dukies show their colors on this one.

  2. wufpup76 03/23/2008 at 12:14 PM #

    Siena not looking the greatest right now, but only down by 10 at the break after playing really sh*tty … There is some hope

  3. nycfan 03/23/2008 at 12:47 PM #

    DBR needs scraps from the Dookie staff and they have to stay in their good graces to keep getting those scraps — as a business decision, maybe they are cutting off their noses despite their face if they alienate the posters who are the life-blood of their traffic, I dunno, but the Dook staff insulates K in a lot of ways and if DBR wants to keep whatever contact they get over there, they’ve got to go the Pravda route.

    I suspect they were getting posts much like I saw at The Devils Den after the near miss with Belmont … none too flattering and a lot of questioning of K’s recruiting strategies and the assistants (esp. Wojo and Collins) as lackey yes-men. Basically, stuff a lot of us have been saying for 4-5 years.

    I disagree about the ACC being a finesse league. Those days ended in the early 90s (coinciding by many accounts with an unbelievable run of success in the NCAA Tournament for the ACC).

    I think the ACC is unbelievably physical, there is just a nearly overwhelming assumption in favor of the defense on the block/charge call that has really warped the game in conference, IMO. It has gotten to the point that you simply cannot drive all the way to the basket, which gives defenses a huge advantage and is utterly unfair to offenses.

    I think all ACC Teams are hurt right now by the in-league versus general block/charge treatment … in the tournament, a lot of what is “defense” in the ACC (drawing a charge under the basket on a drive) is not rewarded on the block/charge call and is points and/or foul on the defense much more often.

    But I also think Dook has had dead-leg syndrome for four consecutive NCAA tournaments now and they need to figure out how to deal with that.

  4. JeremyH 03/23/2008 at 12:50 PM #

    Peripherally watching the tournament over the last few days, I’ve observed how guard-dominant these teams are. And just the way many of the teams have several guys that “put it in on the floor” and go straight to the basketball. Amazing, it’s like instant offense. So I agree that the root of much of our problems is at the guard spot, and that cannot be understated, regardless of what internal politics or cascading epic fail that occurred in the last half of the season. So I suppose I understand better the comments, “college basketball is a guard’s game”. We were not as bad as we played, we are more talented than we showed, but we had zero guys with that capability to drive and score, drive and dish after attracting defense, etc. The Degand loss, was much more catastrophic than I originally appreciated it as, as we went from mediocre to bad/very green in the most important position on the floor. Also, entering the 2008-09 season, I think the rehabilitation of Degand and Johnson will have significant importance. I.e. will they both have the same explosiveness as before the injury? If so, well, watch out, given they have a reasonable handle on the ball. If JJ leaves, oh boy, what could have been.

  5. JeremyH 03/23/2008 at 12:52 PM #

    replace Johnson with Johnny Thomas.

  6. nycfan 03/23/2008 at 12:52 PM #

    Just wanted to add that a patented Dookie specialty, drawing phantom fouls on three point jump shooters by flailing on the shot and falling to the ground if a guy is within 6 feet of them on the follow-through, does not have the same high success rate out-of-conference as it does in conference and that has hurt them.

    Even in their most dominant stretch from ’99 to ’04, Coach K too often tried to rely on forcing a foul call to generate his offense in tight spots and it has cost them in the NCAA Tournament where the refs generally swallow their whistles at the end of games. They like to develop a top notch free throw shooter and get him as much offense on forced fouls (driving into some one, forcing a shot through the arms of defense, etc.) as possible, but that is putting their fate somewhat in a third party’s hands and it has burned them a number of times.

  7. westwolf 03/23/2008 at 2:09 PM #

    In search of his legacy, Coach K has turned away from recruiting anyone with even a hint of a questionable background, a la Magette, or who will go the NBA route too early, a la lots of others…

    …the consequence, then, is what we see on his team now, a bunch of white kids and black kids from financially secure backgrounds.

    Probably not the stuff of NCAA dominance.

  8. JeremyH 03/23/2008 at 2:19 PM #

    westwolf: thanks for illuminating that. with the prominence of the program, I was wondering why they weren’t recruiting more players with the athleticism of Henderson, for example. Or a few inside players like Sheldon Williams. It’s not like they have to even try to get them. I suppose K doesn’t want Duke to become the Indiana Pacers of college basketball, to your point.

  9. BJD95 03/23/2008 at 2:19 PM #

    Jinx update – I’m wearing my San Diego sweatshirt. Thus, USD getting woodshedded by Western Kentucky. This is getting creepy.

  10. VaWolf82 03/23/2008 at 2:30 PM #

    Is the CIA running that Blog?

    No but they are not going to let idiots and children ruin their message board. We often do the same to comments around here.

  11. BJD95 03/23/2008 at 2:32 PM #

    Choose your poison – humiliation for the ACC (no Sweet Sixteen teams) or a UNC win. I will gladly root for the former, but there’s definitely a downside.

  12. BJD95 03/23/2008 at 2:33 PM #

    Butler/Tennessee is entertaining, but all other games today have been unwatchable garbage.

  13. Trip 03/23/2008 at 2:33 PM #

    wufpup76 ,

    I’ll check out some old-school duke games, I have only had the displeasure to really watch Duke for the past 5 years. If thats the case, then K needs to adjust his coaching if he wants another ring.

  14. VaWolf82 03/23/2008 at 2:34 PM #

    The difference in media comments between the ACC having no one in the S-16 versus only having UNC are probably pretty small.

  15. BJD95 03/23/2008 at 2:39 PM #

    It’s now impossible for any ACC team to play above their seeding. Miami played to seed, Clemson 1 rung below, Duke 2 rungs below. UNC has to make the Final Four to play to seed.

  16. BJD95 03/23/2008 at 3:27 PM #

    What an incredible near-comeback by Miami. Kudos to Frank Haith for acquitting himself well.

  17. Wulfpack 03/23/2008 at 3:29 PM #

    What in the hell has happened to our conference? Embarassing quite frankly.

  18. tvopack 03/23/2008 at 3:31 PM #

    Go Davidson! Go Red!

  19. PAPacker 03/23/2008 at 3:37 PM #

    Very encouraging write up about Julius Mays today on packpride. Sounds like he has a lot of poise as a PG and physical ability

  20. tvopack 03/23/2008 at 3:40 PM #

    Is Curry Herb Sendek’s kid? He looks like Herb.

  21. Noah 03/23/2008 at 3:44 PM #

    Ain’t no way in the world Tennessee is beating UNC. Might as well pull for Butler.

  22. BJD95 03/23/2008 at 3:45 PM #

    Wow, have these crap games ever tightened up.

  23. Noah 03/23/2008 at 3:47 PM #

    JP Prince turns it over. Thank you JP for not coming here.

  24. BJD95 03/23/2008 at 3:51 PM #

    At least the Hole fans are having the decency to make lots of noise for the Wildcats. Beasley is really good, but I’m not sure there’s a better college player than Curry.

  25. JeremyH 03/23/2008 at 3:57 PM #

    A Davidson win guarantees a UNC champion.

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