"dance, dance"

college basketball. dude, i LOVE college basketball. and i love wake forest basketball. obsessively. as in, i check stats on days when i know they arent playing. as in, i check stats on ex-wake players in the NBA. i check stats of LAST year's games when chris paul was still playing and they were totally awesome. i google ex-wake players that arent in the NBA to see what they are up to now. crazy. and if nick giaimo ever saw this, he would tell me how i wasnt a real fan. how only him and mike flowers and markus schwartzennegar are real fans, and just because i went to every game senior year doesnt mean that i developed into a real fan. i am lost to him. but fear not, nick my friend; i disagree. my fanaticism has merely developed later than those guys, coming into its own as i ended my tenure at college. but this is not the debate.

actually, i shouldnt say debate. there is no discussion. only opinion. and here's my opinion [which is right, by the way; see last post]. i hate duke basketball. oh yeah, thats right. megan cheney, shut the hell up. any other dukies, you can go eff yourselves. lauris lambergs [who im sure doesnt read this] you can kiss my ass. why is duke so good? for the same reason i hate them so much. refs give them ALL the bullshit calls. its like, 150 teams could foul the SHIT out of players, but if duke does it they call it a block. whats that? travel? not if its duke. its called umm... continuation. pushed in the back to the floor by a duke player? coincidental contact.

but what makes this worse is the sports media. the commentators. they suck duke off every game claiming how good and skilled they are. if they were that skilled, would they need a 40 foot jumper with 1.6 seconds left in a game to beat one of the worst teams in the acc? no. thats called luck. and it pisses me off that they have that kind of luck. its horseshit.

duke is only good because people think they are good. sure, they have skilled players. and because everyone thinks they are good they get all the mcdonald's all-americans to commit and all the best players to go there. but they are never the best team in the country. i say this even in those years they win the ncaa championships. they arent. but because people think that they are, they get so many benefit-of-the-doubt fouls, so many calls their way, so many no-calls their way, that they cannot lose games.

its easy to rationalize. if there are two teams on the court, and one of those teams is restricted by a common set of rules and the other team is not [this other team being duke], then that team that can side-step restrictive rules they have an upper hand. an 'unfair' advantage, so to speak. and this is the unfair advantage that duke gets every game. and the proof that they cant win every game with said unfair advantage just proves they suck balls.

two facts: sports writers [different than commentators] document the fact that duke gets all the calls all the time. the other fact; duke is so used to getting the calls all the time that when they dont get the calls they get pissed about it. in fact, after they barely scraped by indiana their senior star "j.j. backne" made a comment about being held every time he was on the floor. which was hilarious because the sports writer who was writing the run-down of the game then proceeded to make a "keep dreaming" comment about how he's full of shit. so classic.

so, as this season starts and wake is going to suck, i can at least rest assured that duke is a bunch of pussy crybaby cheaters who will not win the national championship because they will be beaten by teams that are truly good AND have to play by the rules. what a novel idea...

"we're falling apart in half-time"