Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Sacrificing Wolves to the Devils


Duke 81 , NC State 68 . Philisophical question: If Duke plays on ESPN and Dick Vitale isn't there to announce it, does the game truly exist? NC State and Duke battled each other for 40 hard-fought minutes, but the true story of the night was the absence of honorary alum, Mr. Vitale. I've searched the net to see if there was any news detaling the abuduction of an old, rambling, bald lunatic, but found nothing to explain why Len Elmore was woken from his slumber and brought in to broadcast this game. Perhaps Dickie V contracted Hepatitis A from having his tongue in Coach K's ass for so many years? But that of course is simple, albeit probable, speculation. Len did a satisfactory job commentating on the game, although he wasn't capable of repeatedly answering the question- is JJ Redick: a) super b) scintilliating c) sensational d) all of the above?

As for the game itself, NC State had a good gameplan- double team JJ Redick on the perimeter on defense and crash the boards on offense. But the Wolfpack shooters went cold down the stretch and Redick and Dockery were clutch for Duke, who finished the game on a 16-3 run. Unfortunately for basketball fans there's an unbalanced schedule in the ACC, so these two teams won't meet again this season, unless it's in the ACC tournament.

2 Comments:

At Wed Jan 18, 07:01:00 PM PST , Blogger The Big Picture said...

chances that duke goes undefeated? ordinarily i would say not too good, but the ACC isn't what it was last year.

 
At Wed Jan 18, 07:18:00 PM PST , Blogger insomniac said...

They have a tough stretch of games coming up- 5 of next 7 on the road, including at Va Tech and at Boston College. If JJ Redick goes cold in one of those games, they'll be in trouble.

 

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