Anyone just watch this game? Great game, Levance Fields hits a 3 with 5 seconds left to win the game by 1 for Pitt. Dejuan Blair is another awesome frosh, 15 pts and 20 rebounds, before fouling out in OT. I really like this Pitt team, Blair is awesome and Sam Young is good. Great guard play in Fields and Ramon, too. Duke can't lose enough to make me happy!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kid Chocolate @ Dec 20 2007, 09:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Anyone just watch this game? Great game, Levance Fields hits a 3 with 5 seconds left to win the game by 1 for Pitt. Dejuan Blair is another awesome frosh, 15 pts and 20 rebounds, before fouling out in OT. I really like this Pitt team, Blair is awesome and Sam Young is good. Great guard play in Fields and Ramon, too. Duke can't lose enough to make me happy!</div> I'm usually someone who likes Duke believe it or not, but tonight I had to switch my loyalties at the last minute when Cook got hurt, and the Duke fans started chanting "Let's go Duke!" Real classless move on the part of a bunch of (supposedly) bright students. Then again, it was a game in New York during the break, so the odds of them being a bunch of dumbass Duke fans who never went to school there are pretty high. Never the less, it was a great game on all accounts. The passion that both teams played with was worth applauding, a definite step up over last night's Pistons/Celtics game, where players would just be standing around on possessions. DaJuan Blair impressed the hell out of me. This was my first chance to really watch Pitt this year, and looking at their roster preseason, I hadn't even factored him into the equation. He reminds me of a Paul Millsap type though, and I can definitely see him on an NBA roster in the future (bold prediction... I know). His height won't limit him because his wingspan is so huge. Duke, once again, has more talent than any team in America, and once again, they play without the heart and strength of most teams. They played hard tonight, but I've seen them on several occassions this season where they just went through the motions. More concerning, no one in their frontcourt is strong or aggressive enough to take this team to the title. Nelson and Paulus have a lot of heart and strength, but there was one incident in this game where Singler went up to the basket, should have dunked it, but got deterred enough by the Pitt defenders that his cut to the basket just resulted in a missed layup. Only Duke can have a starting lineup completely made up of McDonald's All-Americans with three or four McDonald's All-Americans coming off the bench and lose to a team with none on their roster. It's becoming a trend with that program. They'd be much better off to get one banger with a lot of edge to his game like Blair than an entire roster worth of players who are athletic and talented yet lack that edge to their game.
Is it true that Bilas said this during the game "I don't want to know how tall a guy is, I want to know how long he is."
If I were a marquee big man, I'd never even give Duke a look. Blair is a beast, I caught him against Okie State last week for the first time, love the passion and intensity he plays with, he's something special, loves the game. Fields' shot was huge, great crossover and step back to get open. Scheyer threw up the last shot waaay too early, had a few more seconds. I thought Singler coulda ended it in regulation with the put-back, but fanned.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Dec 21 2007, 12:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Is it true that Bilas said this during the game "I don't want to know how tall a guy is, I want to know how long he is."</div> No, that's what you said.
