Lake was a little disappointed when Duke didn’t land Harrison Barnes. That is when he got off this gem.
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Is anyone shocked here? No. Clearly when Hendo busted out for Not Senior Year at Duke, John Wall knew he had to go to UK. And why not. He can contend for a title there and nobody, not the Coach, Students, Administration, Fans, Ashley Judd, nary a person, cares if he EVER attends one single class at UK. So John Wall goes to UK, balls with Jodie Meeks, Patrick Patterson and a bevy of hot recruits en route to a legitmate National Title run. Hey, all I can say is that Coach K needs a MAJOR, MAJOR…..BIG TIME IMAGE CHANGE.
I know this dude is about as self assured and arrogant as anyone in Basketball. And to some extent he’s earned that persspective. But this Duke University Basketball, Home of the Best White Players in the Nation bullsh*t must stop. Yep, I said it. It’s not that white players aren’t good. They are. But when you all but totally rely on white players in a game that is DOMINATED by African Americans, well, you really suffer when those White players turn out to be just ok.
Case in point:
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Look, all these guys are good players and would be decent in narrowly defined roles. But they are NOT stars. They cannot lead. It’s time people started admitting that their presence, in large numbers, is bad for the image of Duke Basketball AND is contributing to the recruiting slump we’ve seen in recent years. Sure, this guy was GREAT:
But everyone ain’t that guy. Jeff Capel in 2015.. I said it (seriously).
- Lake
as a member of the big blue nation, i love any and all john wall references. when uvt talks about the Great Wall, it’s that much better.
i’m with lake though. duke needs to fix these shenanigans. duke looks like a squad from mississipi the segregation era.
oh, and before some cats hits me with the “racist rupp” bullshit… I can’t fucking wait to demo that arena and build one without that shithead’s name on it. it’s coming soon.
Yeah, I always wondered how Adolph Rupp has an arena in this day and age!
Duke has really fallen off since 2006/JJ graduating. I think the combination of Coach K’s mind being elsewhere (Olympics/Team USA) and the loss of his consigliere Johnny Dawkins to Stanford has really hurt the program.
Johnny Hopkins stomping all over Duke repeatedly in Lacrosse definitely doesn’t help the situation either….. yea that’s right Devils, this beef ain’t over. Go Hop.
p.s. These lost Lake files are as enjoyable as those old lost Tupac songs/cds that came out after his departure.
Brown
conf: 5-8
overall: 11-19
Watch out!
jodie meeks is not at kentucky anymore. he went to the nba
@travis this was written before he decided to hit the draft; it’s all the backlogs of stuff Lake wrote back in the day but they never got around to publishing.