Duke Basketball Roundup

0:00Byrd Campbell, our legal eagles. 0:30Jason is hosting. He sounds drunk or over-excited or both. 1:45Jason got an interview with a former Dukie… we welcome Grayson Allen to the podcast. 3:00We begin by asking Grayson about his decision to come back to Duke year after year and wait on the NBA. 4:30Grayson talks about what was it like to continually have new one-and-done teammates. 5:50Grayson gives a surprising answer to the question -- Who was the best player you played with at Duke? 7:00Jason asks about freshman year and Grayson’s surprising role in winning a National Title. 8:30Grayson reflects on his final game and the shot against Kansas that almost went in. 9:25What is it like playing for a fellow Dukie in Coach Snyder? 10:20Grayson talks a bit about his NBA future. 11:50Grayson’s advice about the “stay in school or go to the NBA?” decision facing so many college hoops stars. 13:50Grayson’s reflection on Coach K is all about treating everything you do with importance. 16:40We react to Grayson’s interview, especially the question about his talented teammates. 22:30Looking for help with standardized testing? Check out DominateTestPrep.com 23:30We reflect on the Duke Football victory over North Carolina Central, starting with Donald and the defense. 28:10Sam talks a bit about the performance of Quentin Harris in his second game as a starter. 29:20SIDEBAR!! Sam tells a great story about why he was not at the NCCentral game… it is a classic! 34:05Jason talks a bit more about our offense versus Central. 35:55Preview of the huge game against Va Tech, and we have to start with the stunning Hokie loss to Old Dominion. 38:20Donald says this is a “statement game” for Duke. 42:10Sam has more on some significant personnel who will be missing for Va Tech, especially on D. 46:15Jason with the buzzkill… he reminds us of the last time Duke was 4-0. 50:10Need legal advice, we say you should reach out to the Dukies at ByrdCampbell.com 50:50Parting shots – Sam says the grad student camp out is on! 51:40Parting shots – Donald is visiting Cary, North Carolina for USWNT soccer. Look him up! 52:45Make sure you go to http://TinyURL.com/DBRLive to let us know if you can attend our live show in November! 54:20Parting shots – Jason on the surprising success in football of two basketball powers. 58:10Goodbye… and don’t forget to reach out to us at DBRPodcast at gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00Thanks to our sponsors, Byrd Campbell 0:30Donald welcomes you to #126 and we begin by hoping everyone did ok in Florence. 3:10Sam talks about our LIVE SHOW! It will be in Durham in early November. Let us know your interest in attending this event by going to http://tinyurl.com/DBRLive 6:35We have actual basketball news! The conference schedule is out and it is really tough on Duke. Jason really breaks down a really brutal stretch in February. 20:10If you want to succeed on a standardized test, check out our sponsor Dominate Test Prep. 20:50Time to recap the Baylor game. We begin with Jason versus the Baylor online fans. 36:40We preview NC-Central by asking what one thing we are looking for from Duke in this game. 39:40ByrdCampbell.com, your Dukies in the legal world. 40:25Parting shots – Sam talks about how impressive Duke football looks in the advanced metrics. 42:00Parting shots – Jason on what he learned from the latest Duke Blue Planet video. 44:15Parting shots – Donald on DBR Twitter and all the fun we are going to have with it. Follow @DBRSBN to enjoy the goodness! 46:00Duke band, play that song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00Byrd Campbell, they mean business 0:25Sam is hosting, Donald is traveling, and Jason is celebrating the Jewish New Year. 1:50Duke beats NW but suffers some big injury losses. Donald marvels at the Duke 4th quarter D. 4:50Jason talks turnovers, both the real ones and the ones that come after 4th down. 7:10Sidebar on Mark Gilbert, one of the best defensive backs in Duke history. 8:40Sam talks a bit about what NW was trying (and failing) to do on offense. 12:00Jason enjoyed the way we moved the ball around, especially hitting the TEs. 13:25Sam points out the impressive majors of Duke’s football team. 14:40Donald finishes the conversation about the game by pointing out how important confidence is. 15:20If you need legal help, we recommend talking to Byrd Campbell. 15:50Jason looks ahead to Baylor, a team that has played some truly terrible competition thus far, and says the Baylor D is just plain awful. 20:20Jason sidebars on computer rankings… and has actually found one ranking that says Duke is the best football team in the country. Take that Alabama!! 22:45Donald says the key to the game is the offense and what happens without Daniel Jones. 24:20Who is Gunner Holmberg and why is he the future of Duke football? 26:00New sponsor! Dominate Test Prep is your best way to get into a good grad school. 26:55Parting shots – Donald has been watching some Dukies playing WNBA basketball. 28:05Parting shots – Jason loves him some Scottie Montgomery for beating UNC in football. 30:30Parting shots – Sam wants to know what happened to the grad student camp out. 33:25Sam says goodbye and Jason interrupts to encourage folks to write to 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

0:00Thanks BC! 0:30Jason is the host and he has no idea what he is doing. Luckily, Sam is there to save him. 2:05We are all about football right now. Our recap of the Duke-Army game begins with Jason asking Sam about the running game of Brittain Brown. 4:00Time to talk about the turnovers and how they change the complexion of a game. 6:50Donald tells us about the impressive Duke D. 8:25Jason talks about Daniel Jones’ super efficient game. 12:10Jason with a quick shout-out to the new Duke offensive line. 13:20Donald says he’s glad we played a legit opponent to start the season. 14:45Byrd Campbell has a few words about Duke Football and Coach Cut. 16:00Previewing Northwestern, Sam starts by talking about the QB shuffle. 20:25Jason corrects Sam about Northwestern’s winning streak which diverts us into a conversation about Alabama. 21:35Donald’s key to the NW game – defense against the run. Jason thinks the key is turnovers. 23:55Parting Shots- Donald on Serena William’s fashion sense. 25:40Parting Shots – Sam talks tailgating at Duke. 27:20Parting Shots – Jason talks about the end of the RPI and the rise of the NET. 33:50Goodbye and don’t forget to rate us and reach out to us! 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 0:30Donald welcomes us to the Zion Williamson show 2:40Sam was surprised at Zion’s body control and skill. We knew he could dunk, we didn’t know about everything else he brought to the table. 6:30Donald points out that watching Zion is so much fun. Even Duke haters can’t hate this guy. 8:00Donald want to move on, but Jason freaks out because he wants to talk more about Zion, especially his ridiculous rebounding. 12:00Jason talks about RJ Barrett, who he says is the team leader. Jason admires his defensive intensity and his freakish ability to get to the rim. 17:25Donald talks about RJ’s fluidity 19:00Sam gets us into a conversation about Duke’s PGs and Jason says wait until you see Cam Reddish. 21:00We have to talk about the one negative… the frustrating play of Marquis Bolden. 27:40Donald leads the conversation about other players by praising Javin DeLaurier. 29:20Sam talks about the injuries we are suffering now. 31:45Jason and Sam wax on about the emergence of Jack White and we then talk a little about Baker, Vrank, and Goldwire. 35:55We spend a minute contemplating Duke’s “Death Lineup” like the Warriors. 39:20Byrd Campbell tells us what they think of Zion Williamson. 39:50Parting shots – Jason on the 10 Things I Learned Playing For Coach Cut 42:35Parting shots – Donald gives a shout out to the Little League World Series and his hometown team. 43:35Parting shots – Sam talks about our plans to cover Duke football in coming weeks. 45:20Player of the week… the Zion sweep. 47:40Goodbye and Duke band. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00Byrd Campbell love the podcast! 0:35Jason hosting this week. Sam is officially a Duke student again. Donald is no longer in Utah. 2:10Jason intros our very special guest, the Alaskan Assassin, Trajan Langdon. Jason’s intro is long and full of gushing. 5:00Jason’s intro is finally over, we hear from Trajan about the how great that 1999 team was. 9:15Trajan talks about the final game and the controversial travelling call that cost Duke a title. 10:30Trajan talks about his close relationship with his teammates that has lasted well beyond their hoops careers. 12:45Jason asks about the transition from the 1995 disaster to the 1999 success. 14:45Trajan reflects on his minor league baseball career and why he chose basketball over baseball. 17:35Trajan talks about how K has changed over the years, including talk about Duke playing zone. 18:50Donald takes over and wants to know about the difference Trajan saw in NBA versus college ball. 21:10Trajan talks about his remarkable career in Europe. 24:20Donald asks about winning the Euroleague title. 26:30Trajan talks about leadership and how his desire to be a leader has driven his entire career. 30:45Trajan gives his favorite Coach K story… and it is a great one! 35:10We react to the interview. 44:55Byrd Campbell gives a tribute to Trajan Langdon. 46:15Jason plays: What was the most significant thing to happen for Duke this summer? Topic #1- RJ’s play for team Canada. 47:40Topic #2 – Zion breaks the vertical leap record at Duke. 48:30Topic #3 – K says Bolden will be one of the best big men in the country next season. 49:10Sam and Donald react to Jason’s nominees and they both say Zion’s freak athleticism is the biggest thing happening for Duke. 55:30Jason just can’t stop talking about how great RJ Barrett is going to be. 58:25We preview Duke’s tour of Canada coming up in a couple weeks. 1:00:30Donald says he will be paying close attention to the rotations and how much K experiments with different combinations. 1:01:45Sam values PG play and wants to see what Tre Jones is like. 1:03:55Jason is going to be watching who takes and who makes 3 pointers. 1:06:50Parting shots – Donald talks about a brilliant twitter thread about ACC Football 1:10:55Parting shots – Sam can’t believe how much Duke’s campus has changed since he left. 1:12:05Parting shots – Jason wants to know why there is no Duke team at the $2 mil TBT?!?! 1:16:15Goodbye 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 Byrd Campbell for supporting the pod 0:25Sam welcomes us to the podcast. Donald is in Utah and that isn’t even the craziest place we are broadcasting from this week. 1:40Sam is in Durham, NC… his new home! 4:40We have a special guest, Steve Pagliuca – owner of the Boston Celtics, a former Duke player, and the dad of two former Duke players! 6:55Jason says hi to Steve and congratulates him on getting a NBA team full of Dukies. 8:00Donald asks about Steve’s relationship with the basketball program as a player and as a parent. 10:20Steve talks about his memories of the 2004 Final Four game where his son lost to UConn and reflects on how close Coach K is to the players, even the walk-ons. 12:20Fast forward to 2015 and Steve discusses Nick and the guys winning the national title. 13:35Donald wants to know which of the Pag brothers are better at basketball. 14:35Steve talks about being on the Duke Board of Trustees and reflects on how much the school has changed since he attended in the mid-1970s. 17:00Steve tells us about how he won the campus-wide 1-on-1 championship, which included a championship match at halftime of a game in Cameron. 18:40Jason talks to Steve about how he happened to buy a NBA team. 22:00Jason wants to know if Danny Ainge is an unfair advantage over the rest of the league which leads Steve to tell the story of how they hired him to run the team. 24:55Steve talks about how the Celtics got Jayson Tatum. 26:50Steve admits even he was shocked at how good Tatum was as a rookie. 28:20Jason asks about how the league has changed over the years, especially the one and done rule. 30:53Steve answers the “Best Coach K story” question with a tale of how K reacts to a poor practice session. 33:30Jason has to ask, would Steve mind if Brad Stevens left the Celtics for Duke. Steve says “I bleed green and I bleed blue…” 35:20We react to the interview with Steve Pagliuca. 37:02We divert into a talk about playing sports with your children and Jason lays down the law! 39:50Why doesn’t Duke still have a one-on-one campus wide tournament?!?! 41:30We love that Pagliuca considers Semi to be part of the Celtics. 42:55Again, we thank Byrd Campbell, our faithful sponsors. 43:15The non-conference schedule is out. Jason says it is really tough and talks about how good Indiana’s Romeo Langford is going to be. 47:00Donald has audio problems and, no, we are not editing it out. 48:10Donald is back and he tells us about how excited he is for us to be playing Eastern Michigan. 52:35Sam leads us on a look at Dukies in the NBA making news. We begin with Grayson Allen’s summer. 55:25Jason talks about the Dukies on the Kings, Bagley and Giles. 58:25Donald fills us in on Trevon Duval getting a 2-way deal with the Bucks. 1:00:55Sam asks Jason about the Dukies on the Bulls and Jason raves about Carter’s play this summer. 1:05:40Parting Shots – Donald on whether Lebron James has a chance to be a winner in LA. 1:12:50Parting Shots – Jason on Duke’s recent NBA success and how it affects the Duke Hatred Tsunami. 1:16:45Parting Shots – Sam talks about Jay Williams doing a great interview with Bill Simmons. 1:18:25Goodbye and don’t miss our next episode when we interview another former Blue Devil superstar!! 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 0:30Jason welcomes Donald to this NBA Draft pod. The theme is “Free Fallin’” 1:40We are joined by a special guest, one of the DBR posters when it comes to the NBA, CDu (Mickey Wilson). 2:45How the NBA shunning Trevon Duval messed up our podcast plans. 3:40Marvin Bagley goes #2. We are not surprised and wonder what this might say about Harry Giles’ future in Sacto. 5:55Jason wants to talk about interviews and outfits. 7:55Mickey celebrates his Chicago Bulls getting Wendell Carter and talks about how well Carter fits on the Bulls. 10:05Jason continues talking about really important stuff as he focuses on Carter’s clothes and other silliness. 11:30Jason gives us some amazing stats about how well K has done producing high draft picks. 13:05Grayson gets to play for Quin. Donald likes the way Donovan Mitchell embraced Grayson. 18:20Final thoughts on round #1 – Mickey says Carter may be the steal of the draft. 19:30Round #1 thoughts – Jason talks about Jerome Robinson and Josh Okogie, two ACC guys who had a much better than expected night… and also reflects on the dramatic fall of Michael Porter. 22:10Round #1 thoughs – Donald is impressed with the pick of Kevin Huerter. 23:25We move on to round 2 and Gary Trent landing in Sacto… I mean Portland. Mickey says this is a really good fit for Gary. 26:40Donald talks about how being a 2nd rounder is going to motivate Trent. 29:30Duval goes undrafted… it is both stunning and also makes a lot of sense. 35:30Jason lays out the myriad of Duke connections to NBA front-offices, which means Duval had to know his stock was not great. 40:40Donald says the two most important words for Trevon Duval are, “Summer League!” 41:20Jason talks about all the guys who entered the NBA early and then didn’t get drafted… it is quite a list. 43:20Goodbye 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 0:30Jason welcomes us and Donald talks about watching way too many Marvel movies this week. Meanwhile, Sam is sitting on Donald’s couch. 4:00Dukies in the NBA playoffs, we begin with Jayson Tatum, super-rookie. 16:25Time to turn to JJ Redick and Jason asks a JJ trivia question that Donald whiffs on in the worst way possible. 22:50Sam talks about what JJ brought to the Sixers off the court, as a leader. 30:05We have a quick conversation about Rodney Hood and Quinn Cook, the other Dukies still alive in the playoffs. 38:40Jason probably says something foolish… he thinks the Celtics might have a chance against the Warriors or Rockets. 40:25Our NBA Draft conversation begins with San laughing at people being impressed with Grayson Allen’s athleticism. 51:25Jason talks about a couple other ACC guys who have tough decisions to make about coming back to school or staying in the draft. 53:15ByrdCampbell.com, your destination for legal advice. 53:50Joey Baker is the newest member of the class of 2018. We talk about whether he will impact the 2018 team all that much or if he will redshirt. 1:01:05Parting Shots – Donald tells us about the Dukies contending to run the Detroit Pistons. 1:03:45Parting Shots – Jason talks about the possibility of a woman coaching a NBA team. 1:07:55Parting Shots – Sam brings up the Supreme Court ruling on sports gambling nationwide. 1:14:30Goodbye and Duke band Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00Byrd Campbell, our sponsors 0:25Sam welcomes us and Donald tells a story about getting new subscribers to the pod. 3:20Our main topic, the NCAA Commission on College Basketball releases their report and Sam gives us an overview of what it contains. 8:00Jason gives us his take on the UNC scandal portion of the report. 9:40Jason says there’s a fundamental question that the commission failed to address. 14:20Donald gets us into a conversation about the NCAA’s relationship with the NBA draft. 20:15Sam notes that the committee seems determined to preserve the amateur model, which is really about keeping money in the hands of the schools and out of the hands of the players. 26:10Jason is angry about players not being able to make money off their image. 28:30Sam makes a great point about the missed chance we had to really change the sport. 32:05Jason plays a game… if you could chance one thing about college hoops, what would it be? Donald gets it started by saying that if you go to college, you must stay in college for 3 years. 37:30Sam says that a full NBA minor league system will make college hoops less interesting and will hurt viewership. 40:10The one thing about the sport that Sam would change is letting players make money off their image/likeness/jersey and the such. 42:05Jason and Sam getting into a mini-fight over whether we watch college hoops for the quality of play or for the competition. 47:40Jason talks about what he would change about the sport… you either say you are a pro or you are a student-athlete, and you can’t be both. 53:15Donald closes the debate saying he wishes the fans were part of the solution instead of being the innocent bystanders. 55:05Thanks again to Byrd Campbell, the Duke legal eagles! 55:45Parting Shot - Sam says there is a survey all us Duke fans need to take. Do some Fuqua students a favor and fill it out. 57:45Parting Shots – Jason gives a tribute to Vic Bubas. 1:03:45Parting Shots – Jason talks about Avengers Infinity War 1:08:05Parting Shots – Donald gets us into a NBA playoff discussion 1:15:20Sam wraps it up and says goodbye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices