Big win for Duke

[Vowelguy]

For all the McCallie haters, you gotta say this was impressive. I thought they were dead after losing Gray, Jones, & Wells, and would fall several seed lines. But to beat a good UNC team shows that they've still got some fight.
Very much surprised me.

 

[BlueDevils]

I think you're meaning Gray and Jones, but yes Wells is gone too. Also, Coach P going to a box and 1 zone on DD with a minute left was the best coaching move I've seen her make all season.

 

[semper]

Congrats, Triad.

 

[triaddukefan]

Go to hell Carolina. G. T. H.


Nothing like shutting up thousands of Tarheel fans wearing that ugly shade of blue​

 

[msf22b]

Good on ya…Dookies

 

[HoopsFan21]

LOL that's an awesome pic you have there triad. Funny stuff.

 

[ThisJustIn]

UNC was so impressed they beat an undermanned duke. I wasn't...

 

[triaddukefan]

And the men complete the UNC Saturday Sweep... what a night, what a night, what a night

 

[John Glass]

UNC is a good AAU team , and an undisciplined college team. Diamond DeSheilds looks like an All American one moment, then she is making wreck-less turnovers, and taking terrible shots.

 

[HGN]

Congratulations Triaddukeman.....I was pulling for your guys.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

. . . Diamond DeSheilds looks like an All American one moment, then she is making wreck-less turnovers, and taking terrible shots.

In other words, she's a freshman. I'd be disappointed if she's still playing like this three
years from now.

 

[Icebear]

On the other hand, she hasn't shown great improvement across the season and at this point she has a full college season in training.

 

[John Glass]

In other words, she's a freshman. I'd be disappointed if she's still playing like this three
years from now.

I think most coaches would demand more discipline from her, can you imagine Geno allowing her to take the shots that she does ? or make the wild passes ? The learning curve would be much faster in most programs.

 

[connboy77]

Diamond DeShields is a great player with unlimited potential, but I believe UCONN dogged a bullet with her. She is undisciplined and allowed to do whatever she wants to do. Late in the game she made a three and yelled in Peters face. She was awarded a technical that contributed to NC loosing the game. Does anyone truly believe that Geno would tolerate her actions? My guess is that if she came to UCONN it would have been a situation like Walker, but much worse. Geno would have sat her and she wouldn't have liked it. In all probability like Walker, she would have transferred.

 

[oneresult]

I think your all wrong , Geno would rain her in a bit ,but would give her better shot selection and try to stop the crap..
In many ways she a wild husky

 

[sivad40]

On the other hand, she hasn't shown great improvement across the season and at this point she has a full college season in training.

She's a volume shooter, finesse player who is hot in some games and cold in others. The difference in this last game against Dook and the first one was that she made the majority of those wild shots.

I think if she played at UConn, she would have a better shot selection and Geno would've reined her in. I remember him telling Maya during her freshman year that she sometimes relied on her 3pt shot too much.

 

[semper]

I think if she had gone to UCONN, she would have been fine, and would have ended up another Maya, DT, Stewie...as it is she will do great, be a top 5 player, but never quite get to the heights she would have under Geno's tutelage. But she would have had to learn to work in different ways...in any case, that Technical was really telling. Did anyone see it? Stuff like that eats out your soul.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I have seen DeSchields do a number of unsportsmanlike things this year....one could say Punky and I don't mean Brewster. Hurts her team. Hurts her image. Keeps it up she will occupy a unique niche no one else will want to share with her.

 

[hussybulldog]

I think if she had gone to UCONN, she would have been fine, and would have ended up another Maya, DT, Stewie...as it is she will do great, be a top 5 player, but never quite get to the heights she would have under Geno's tutelage. But she would have had to learn to work in different ways...in any case, that Technical was really telling. Did anyone see it? Stuff like that eats out your soul.

Agree...Without that technical, NC might have won the game. Hope she will mature up quickly.

 

[UConnCat]

I was disappointed in the reaction of the UNC coaching staff to DD's behavior and technical foul. I understand Caulder is just the acting head coach but someone on the UNC bench needed to sit her down and let her know that sort of behavior should not and will not happen again. Instead, the response seemed to be "don't worry about it."

 

[doggydaddy]

I was disappointed in the reaction of the UNC coaching staff to DD's behavior and technical foul. I understand Caulder is just the acting head coach but someone on the UNC bench needed to sit her down and let her know that sort of behavior should not and will not happen again. Instead, the response seemed to be "don't worry about it."

I didn't see the technical live, so I watched it this morning.

When I saw one Latta laughing and patting her on the butt after the incident I started to really question if DeShields will get the coaching she needs to reach her potential.

 

[ChicagoGG]

On the other hand, she hasn't shown great improvement across the season and at this point she has a full college season in training.

too true, Ice. She won't be winning any sportsmanship awards, either.

 

[triaddukefan]

I think if she had gone to UCONN, she would have been fine, and would have ended up another Maya, DT, Stewie...as it is she will do great, be a top 5 player, but never quite get to the heights she would have under Geno's tutelage. But she would have had to learn to work in different ways...in any case, that Technical was really telling. Did anyone see it? Stuff like that eats out your soul.

Yeah... i saw it... at first I thought she was yapping to the ref for not calling a foul........ It was already a tense atmosphere.... but it turned the coliseum up a notch. Got the Duke players fired up.... got us Duke fans fired up.......got the UNC fans fired up. The thing is.... after the tech... it seemed as she wasnt even remorseful for hurting her team. She started pounding on her chest defiantly. #23 already has alot of fans though... she got the biggest ovation when the starting lineups were introduced.

 

[BlueDevils]

Dd is an exceptional athlete, but she has to learn to control her emotions. There was a point when she was dialed in, and it reminded me of two players... Maya Moore and Seimone Augustus. She's just lucky Alexis wasn't out there.