Did you follow the season at all, or are you just throwing this out there based on how competitive their tourney games were? They literally beat the other 3 teams in the Final Four this year already (including beating UVA twice). They crushed Kentucky (a team that was a bucket at the end of regulation away from being…

Edit for error.

Of course you would. He’s a 6'7" 19 year old with quickness and speed, he averaged 22.6/7.6/4.3 (leading scorer for Duke), and has performed exceptionally well in some of the biggest games of the season. Just because he couldn’t come through last night doesn’t mean he’s not one of the very best players in the nation.

Quite a hot take. Duke loses by 1 point to the #5 team in the country and they’re overrated because they had a close game against a good team in the tourney? I’ll never understand these after the fact analyses people lob out there. March Madness is great precisely because you don’t know who’s going to win- one team…

The tweet’s sample size is especially egregious when you realize that Duke also WON a ton of close games this year, and there’s no mention of how Barrett did in those games (hint, in a lot of them he had unbelievable games). Heck, just go back all the way to TWO GAMES AGO when Barrett made the game winning layup…

That tweet looks like hot garbage to me. In looking up Duke’s record this year, I’m seeing a whole bunch of games where Duke just barely squeaked by. In many of those games Barrett had 28+ plus points. Claiming this guy is a choke artist because he happened to miss shots in games that Duke lost is just absurd…

It’s a pretty bad sign for a sports blog when the comments section are providing analysis and evidence that the writer wholly failed to include. Another factor not mentioned? Barrett was 3-5 from 3 when he put up that potential game winner. Or how about the fact that Duke had tried forcing it in to Zion multiple times…

Such an awful take. Despite Gabe’s after-the-fact analysis, the 3 to take the lead was a pretty good look, and Barrett was 3-5 from 3 point land when he put that up. If you ask any Coach in America “hey, you’re down 2- if you have a guy that’s 60% from 3 for the game get an uncontested look from the top of the key, do…

I’m not really sure how ANYTHING that was written above was true. If Coach K is to blame, lets see what his play calling actually resulted in: 1) He called a play that literally had Zion with the ball (undercutting the entire premise of the whole critique), but Zion passed it to an open Barrett (how is Coach K to…

This guy is absolutely off his rocker.

Dude, furiously spamming conspiracy theory articles at multiple people online to defend against the charge that you’re a crazy conspiracy theorist isn’t a good look. You’re even responding to yourself now to make supporting comments about the stuff you just posted? Just stop. This is sad to watch.

Hahaha, Shaq didn’t want to play for Orlando at all. You’re relying on Ayesha Curry’s tweet after Steph fouls out as evidence? And you don’t realize how insane you sound? And you’re basing that on the players bitching that the fouls that go against them must be bullshit? Not to mention the pure, unadulterated…

No, please god don’t make these sorts of plays reviewable. The refs already look at way too many calls that they actually made to ensure they got it right. If they can go back and look at plays that already happened where they did NOT make a call in order to determine if they should have potentially done something…

Responding to A) LA, Chicago, Miami, NY, and DC ALL had top 10 picks that year. Literally all of them. If the NBA wanted to put Lebron anywhere, they bump literally all of those cities ahead of friggin’ Cleveland.

This is a very dumb analysis. Just because something happened doesn’t mean it’s the ONLY thing that could have happened. Yes, the NBA, Nike, Lebron, etc., used the narrative that they were presented with and ran with it. What else were they gonna do- NOT use whatever angle they could to market the #1 pick and best…

Yup. That’s one of the clearest fouls I’ve seen in a long time. The Warriors can say the game shouldn’t have been decided that way if they want to, but if you don’t want the ref to blow the whistle then don’t purposefully and obviously foul the one guy that you know the ball is going to be thrown to.

The whole story seems devoid of a lot of context about the game, as if its purposefully promoting one questionable interpretation of what went down. 

Can someone explain to me why TF the NBA would do something like that? What the hell is the benefit to them of having the greatest incoming basketball prodigy in at least a generation going to Cleveland of all places? Unless you think they did it just because they wanted to support and help a young 18 year old man who…

Agreed. Complaining about that foul call is nonsensical to me. He’s CLEARLY grabbing him because he knows he’s beat. It’s not like KD started grabbing him after the ball flew past KAT’s head because he knew the game was going to another OT and just figured the play was over- he did it precisely to take away any chance…

I had your mindset once. I bought Bloodborne when I first got a PS4 without knowing anything about it other than that review score on metacritic was great. I started playing it, got my ass absolutely handed to me for a while, and after a week or so I gave up on it. Thought it was terrible and just not for me. I went…