Arizona Vs Duke 🏀 game discussion thread 11/10/23 at 5pm ESPN2

[LeftCoastCats]

W.

[Blafresh]

Huge win tonight. I thought our defense was really strong with some occasional break downs. Boswell, Larson, and Keshad played really well. This game showed how crazy balanced our team is. Caleb love did not play well but super proud of his ability to hit those clutch free throws at the end. We don't need anyone to be a hero on this team especially not Love. If anyone, maybe Boswell.

Refs were clearly favoring home court and not shy about it. Turnovers were pretty bad but we just out toughed them with rebounding. Krivas looks like he could be elite one day. I felt like we should have won by 10+ because we just looked better.

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No one was scared of Duke's #2 rank. On the floor, they were outmatched at every position in one way or another. We almost let them off the hook, but I was impressed to see the poise of Love and Pelle at the end with the FTs. Also a little bit surprised how scared Duke played their final possessions.

The #2 ranking didn't even make sense. I guess that's lucky for them because they won't fall very far. It wouldn't shock me to see them drop to 4-6 with us right in front of them at 3-5. Must be nice to get gifted such a high starting point based entirely off of hype.

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Caleb love did not play well but super proud of his ability to hit those clutch free throws at the end. We don't need anyone to be a hero on this team especially not Love. If anyone, maybe Boswell.

Refs were clearly favoring home court and not shy about it.

He didn't have the dream scenario game everyone wanted, but I'm glad the ball was in his hands for those late FTs at the end. I'm sure Tom wanted to give him that moment so there wouldn't be any "what ifs" in the future.

The officiating for for like 90% of the game was questionable at best, but it seemed to me like they tried to call it mostly straight in the final minutes. It was surprising to say the least. I doubt those refs will ever be assigned to a big time Duke home game again because of it. If Ratface wants 40 mins of babysitting, you better give him all 40 minutes.

[KansasCityCats]

It was a great all-around game. Players will make mistakes in true road games...especially in Durham.

Arizona was consistent from the stripe and played solid defense against a talented team.

Six more tough OOC tests to go...