Duke Basketball Roundup

Two blow out wins form the bulk of this podcast and we even got to go in the locker room to talk to one of the stars of the Stetson game... for about 15 seconds. Plus, an extensive conversation about Jack White and his role moving forward. Oh, and you will enjoy us ranting about how awful and stupid the NCAA's new NET measuring stick is. 0:00 Thanks, Byrd Campbell 0:30 Sam wishes Donald a happy birthday and Jason moans about being old 3:00 Basketball recap time, Duke blows the doors off Indiana and Stetson 4:40 Jason wants to know if we are watching the most fun Duke team of all time 7:40 Sam asks Donald who the starters should be, which gets us into an extensive Jack White conversation which later turns into a Marquis Bolden conversation 20:00 A look ahead at Hartford and Yale. Jason says do not sleep on the Elis… they are fairly good. 25:20 Sam talks about Tre Jones and the injury bug, which gets us into some praise of Jordan Goldwire 26:45 Our sponsors and favorite lawyers, Byrd Campbell 27:20 Football news, we will be playing a bowl game in Shreveport. Yay? 31:20 We rip the NET and the NCAA for using it 40:15 Player of the week, we have 3 different choices 42:02 Sam sorta, kinda interviews Justin Robinson… briefly. 44:25 Parting shots – Jason on Zion’s money money money money 47:40 Parting shots – Donald on a surprising NBA star, Montrezl Harrell 51:45 Parting shots – Sam mocks UNC for signing Mack the Knife 53:45 A quick mention of the ACC-Big Ten challenge and how much UNC let the conference down 57:00 Bye y’all… Duke band, play us out Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The gang is back with Episode 136! On this episode, they recap Duke Basketball's performance at the Maui Invitational, including the loss in the final to Gonzaga. They also preview the upcoming game against Indiana in the ACC/B1G Challenge. On the football side, they recap big losses against Clemson and Wake Forest. They wrap up with basketball players of the week and Parting Shots. Timestamps: 0:00 - Byrd Campbell! 0:27 - Jason is running the ship from Philadelphia! Sam is in Durham job hunting and Donald is back in DC playing video games 2:15 - We begin with the Maui Invitational and our first ever loss in the tournament at the hands of Gonzaga 3:46 - Sam begins by dismissing the notion that Duke was unstoppable and could beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 5:30 - Sam discusses the tough week that Duke had in Maui 8:20 - Sam thinks the loss is a great learning opportunity for Duke 8:45 - Donald is not overly concerned about freshmen playing like freshmen two weeks into their college careers 11:10 - Donald makes sure everyone understands that Marques Bolden had a helluva game against Auburn 12:28 - Jason brings the conversation back to the Gonzaga loss and discusses RJ Barrett’s shooting struggles 17:45 - Donald asks Jason whether there are any parallels between this loss and a loss in Alaska in 1998 20:47 - The guys discuss the fact that Duke took Gonzaga’s best shot and that’s what it took for the Zags to win 22:45 - The guys agree that this was a great, Final Four-like game 24:23 - Jason begins the preview of the Indiana game 27:00 - Donald’s key to victory: establish our presence in the paint 28:27 - Sam also wants to see more ball movement against Indiana 29:48 - Jason wants RJ Barrett to learn from his mistakes against Gonzaga 31:49 - Thanks again to our wonderful sponsor, Byrd Campbell, PA! 32:32 - We shift to football and their terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day against Wake Forest 35:19 - Sam wasn’t at the game. He was busy with school…but he made the right decision 38:40 - Donald wants to know what has happened to the team since the end of the 1st quarter against Clemson 40:10 - Donald discusses bowl projections - we’re going bowling but probably not to a preferred bowl 41:55 - Jason is utterly displeased with the final score against Wake - 59-7!! 42:28 - Player of the Week nominations - three different players take it home this week 45:08 - Parting Shots! 45:16 - Sam: Duke Football got a commitment from a familiar name! 47:41 - Donald: MNF and LSU/Texas A&M were two ridiculously awesome football games you should have watched! 50:30 - Jason: The ACC should be ashamed of their nonconference schedule this season (except Duke) 1:00:15 - Goodbye and Duke Band! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason interviews Marvin Bagley and Harry Giles on this packed podcast that also includes a recap of the dunk show that was the Eastern Michigan game. Lots to enjoy here!! 0:00Byrd Campbell, you are da man! 0:30Donald and Jason are here, but Sam had homework 2:15Time to talk about the Dunk Show… Duke whups Eastern Michigan 3:20Jason talks about the defense, which may be better than folks expected 5:45Donald really likes the play of Tre Jones thus far 9:00Time to talk about the Zion show, the man who is overshadowing everyone in basketball 11:25We talk about our favorite Zion dunks 18:25We preview the Maui Invitational, which has a really impressive field 24:05Jason points out the quick turnaround at the end of the Maui tourney 29:30Jason interviews two Dukies in the NBA, Harry Giles and Marvin Bagley! 31:55Harry Giles talks about the transition from Duke to the NBA 32:55Harry talks about his health and his continued connection to Duke 33:45Harry’s Coach K story is about music in the locker room 34:25Bonus interview with Justin Jackson, UNC villain 35:00Justin Jackson obeys NBA rules and says he will not wager on the Duke-UNC game 35:30Marvin Bagley talks about what his first few weeks in the league have been like 36:45Marvin talks about what he learned from watching Coach K 37:30Marvin, one of the greatest freshmen ever, talks about the current freshmen 39:00Jason and Donald react to the interviews 46:55Thanks to Byrd Campbell for sponsoring the pod 47:50We preview Clemson and Wake, our next two football opponents 57:40Player of the week… you know who we got 59:30Parting shots – Jason rants and screams about the huge difference in how Duke and UNC educate their athletes 1:06:35Parting shots – Donald talks about Duke and road games 1:11:35Remember to write to us at DBRPodcast at gmail! Good bye! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A closer than expected win over the military boys combined with a football beatdown of the hated Tarheels. It was a good weekend that started with the newest addition to the #Brotherhood, Boogie Ellis 0:00Byrd Campbell loves the pod! 0:35Jason welcomes us to pod #133 or #134, we aren’t sure 3:45We recap the victory over Army, a game that wasn’t quite the blowout that folks expected 5:35Zion is so great, he made Donald do a Stephen A. Smith impression 8:25Sam says it felt like Duke was settling for bad shots against Army 14:00Jason talks rotations and the ascendance of Jack White 18:25Did the Duke hype machine go a little too crazy in the wake of the Kentucky game? 24:55If you are preparing for the GMAT or the GRE, check out DominateTestPrep.com 25:55Duek beats the lying, cheating Tarheels in football. Suck on that, Tar Heels! 38:05Need legal help? Reach out to ByrdCampbell.com 38:45Meet the newest Blue Devil, Boogie Ellis! 44:50Donald previews the game against Eastern Michigan 50:45Player of the week, aka: the Zion show 54:30Parting shots – a tribute to Al Featherston, one of the finest Duke fans ever 1:01:00Good bye and Duke band Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There will be no timecodes. The only timecode is: 0:00 - Duke whups Kentucky every which way they can. Sam, Jason, and Donald spend a half hour laughing about it. What more needs to be said? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The season is upon us! Listen to the guys make predictions about what will happen and hear their thoughts on the upcoming game against Kentucky. 0:00Time for some predictions… brought to you by Byrd Campbell 0:30We are time travelers, recording in the past to make predictions about the future 2:50It is the prediction episode, Sam’s favorite time of the year 3:55We begin with our guess at who will score the most points this season 5:10Most rebounds… we are all in on Zion 5:40Most blocked shots, Donald goes out on a limb 6:45Most assists, like there is any choice other than Tre here 7:15Most steals, which gets us into a short discussion of Duke’s D will be like 8:45Field Goal percentage, we finally have truly different opinions 10:10Highest 3 point percentage and total 3 pointers made 12:00How many games will Duke win this season… time for us to be wildly optimistic 13:30True road wins, Jason did some research 15:45How many ACC teams will make the NCAA tourney? 17:20Sam introduces some fun categories: Total number of slam dunks for Zion Williamson 19:35We guess at Jack White’s total minutes played this year which gets us into a conversation about the depth and rotation 22:05Donald’s favorite category - How many times will Duke score 100+ points in a game? 23:00How many times will Duke have a 30 point scorer in a game this season? Our guesses will shock you! 24:35How many combined points per game for RJ + Zion, Donald goes insane. 26:00Last category—how many total 3-pointers will Marquis Bolden make this season? Jason talks himself into a stupid answer. 29:00We get some predictions from our two sponsors, Byrd Campbell and DominateTestPrep.com 32:20We preview the big game with Kentucky, Donald starts with a look at what Kentucky will do on the perimeter 34:55Jason talks about the Kentucky big men, the strength of their team 38:20Sam is interested in seeing how Duke plays D in this game 40:00Donald makes a crazy bold prediction about the game… overtime! 41:25Sam says goodbye and urges you to email us at DBRPodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duke is playing hoops again! It is just exhibitions, but we are excited! 0:00 - Sponsors Byrd Campbell are true blue Dukies 0:30 - Donald welcomes us to a pod packed with hoops and football 2:00 - Duke played 2 exhibition games. Jason starts by warning about drawing conclusions from exhibitions and then tries to draw some conclusions 7:00 - Sam talks a bit about the ball movement and if the pace of play we saw in the exhibitions will still be there in the regular season 10:40 - Donald talks a bit about some of the defensive concerns seen in the exhibitions 14:20 - Sam gives us his impression of the Crazies performance in their first game of the new season 15:15 - Sam launches a conversation about RJ Barrett’s all around game… we are impressed 17:45 - Jason looks at how we are doing shooting from deep 19:45 - A shout out to our sponsor DominateTestPrep.com 20:25 - A look at the Duke football shootout against Pitt… we lament our dreadful defensive performance 24:50 - Jason says Duke’s problem was that we were too good on offense 25:50 - Donald sings the praises of Deon Jackson, who set a record with his offensive output 27:00 - Previewing the next football game, a trip to Miami 36:00 - The Byrd Campbell guys are here for your legal needs 36:30 - Player of the week in basketball 38:30 - Parting shots – Sam on baseball’s postseason 40:00 - Parting shots – Jason on preseason polls and predictions… and perhaps curses Duke to be torched by Wake freshman Jaylen Hoard 44:00 - Parting shots – Donald on Tyronn Lue losing his NBA coaching gig 48:40 - Goodbye and Duke band Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Countdown to Craziness is here and the guys are in a basketball mood! 0:00Byrd Campbell means business 0:30Jason welcomes you to pod #130, it is gonna be full of basketball! 2:25Countdown to Craziness recap. Sam was in the stands and gives us the view from there. 5:30Donald talks about why not to read too much into what happened in this game. 8:05Jason is still quite concerned with our outside shooting and raves a bit about what he saw from Tre Jones. Sam is a little more cautious. 17:10We need to talk about Zion’s hands. 19:50We get to the really important stuff from CTC, the player intros! 26:20Wild and whacky facts we learned about the players during the broadcast. 29:00We review the presentation of the non-basketball stuff. Sam was underwhelmed. 35:30DominateTestPrep.com is your place to go for GRE and GMAT help! 36:35The NBA and the GLeague are in the market for high school basketballers. Will any kids pick the GLeague over going to college? We have very different opinions about this. 57:45Byrd Campbell has a message about the start of the basketball season. 58:35Football time… what happened against Virginia and what will happen against Pitt? 1:10:05Parting Shots – Sam can’t wait until the future when we learn what has really been going on behind the scenes in college basketball. 1:11:55Parting Shots – Donald on the upcoming ESPN+ series on Duke, “Earn Everything” 1:13:25We celebrate the advent of “Chicken!!” 1:14:50Parting Shots – Jason on the ACC’s dominant position in the new KenPom rankings. 1:17:05Sadly, we are postponing the live DBR podcast… goodbye, and here is the Duke band! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00Thanks to Byrd Campbell and their newest Dukie legal eagle. 0:45Donald gets us to an emergency pod… about Zion and the Adidas college basketball trial. 3:05Jason gets his rant on… taking on Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports. 5:35Jason says the timeline makes no sense for Zion to have been paid by Duke. 8:40Donald compares this scandal to the movie Blue Chips and says Duke didn’t need to break the rules to get top players. 11:00Jason is still obsessed with the timeline and also says the implication that the NCAA is afraid to investigate Duke is total bunk. 15:05Donald reminds us that the NCAA has looked at Duke before, and they never found anything wrong. 16:40Jason’s last word… advice for Duke fans who get confronted by the haters. 18:00Goodbye and Duke band! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00Thanks to Byrd Campbell 0:30Sam welcomes us and Jason talks about turning his children in gambling addicts. 3:10Jason laments a great interview with Duke legend Bobby Hurley that happened but has been lost. 6:25Duke has a 2019 basketball recruit. His name is Wendell Moore and we discuss what he brings to the Devils. 17:05Countdown to Craziness is this week! Here is what we are looking to see, aside from the players dancing. We cover all the important stuff including how many players will pick hip hop music for their introductions. 26:05If you are looking to grad school, check out DominateTestPrep.com!! 26:45Duke football beats Ga Tech. We celebrate! 38:50Time to talk about some other ACC football games, including Carolina snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. 42:20We play, “What was TJ Rhamming thinking?” 46:00Donald takes the lead on our preview of the Duke-Virginia game 51:20Thanks again to Byrd Campbell, who are welcoming yet another Dukie to their legal family. 52:00Parting Shots – Donald on the amazing medical engineers who also happen to play football for Duke. 55:30Parting Shots – Jason on a hero named Eddie Flores. This Bud’s for you, Eddie! 57:15Parting Shots – Sam talks about the strange food combinations in his stomach right now. 59:45We say goodbye to a true blue Dukie, Mike Cragg is leaving to become the AD at St. John. 1:01:45Don’t forget to email us at DBRPodcast@gmail.com and rate us on iTunes! Bye! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices