[Old School Hound]

A lot of great comments by people who have a lot higher basketball IQ than myself. My biggest takeaway....halftime....something happened in the locker room. Adjustments were made and confidence was elevated by a calm rational voice in the middle of a stressful situation.  Coaching happened. Duke had the more talented players. We had the more talented coach.  Heck, I'm normally a nervous wreck in these big games, coach Pope's demeanor even calmed me down.

Pope outcoached Shyer in this game, in my opinion. Duke didn't even have any timeouts left to call on their last possessions. Kinda reminded me of that NCAA Tourney game when Tubby did a number on Coach K.  Cats were behind by 17 halfway through the second half but staged a furious comeback. Coach K ran through all of his timeouts and Tubby made him pay for it.