Post by mhbruin on Apr 2, 2022 10:11:21 GMT -8
Why Everyone Hates Duke
Google doesn't always have the answer to every question. But ask the search engine why people hate Duke basketball so much, and you'll get page after page filled with articles on why folks hate Duke, Coach K, Grayson Allen, Danny Ferry, and more.
Hatred for Duke can stem back to Grayson Allen's shady "tripping" plays a few years ago, or the Laettner shot from a Grant Hill assist to beat Kentucky on the final play during overtime of an Elite 8 game in 1992.
Hatred can be linked to Laettner making the 1992 Olympic Dream Team because of his Duke status—making the roster on the best team ever assembled of NBA greats and the one college player.
This Story Doesn't Mention Laettner Stomping on a Kentucky Player. He Shouldn't Have Been in the Game.
Then There is This Headline
"Duke Fans Are Hiring Private Jets for Coach K’s Final Four Game"
Coach K's Greatest Contributiona to the Game
The flop and the floor slap.
Flopping.
Duke certainly isn't the first and won't be the last team in sports to do it (the NBA recently had to adjust rules to address it or watch a European soccer game), but no team is more associated with it than the Blue Devils and Syracuse native Greg Paulus is the poster boy for it.
This video represents just one play. But it is a perfect microcosm of what college basketball fans associate with Paulus, who was Duke's point guard from 2005-2009.
The consistent pattern of Duke players flopping over the years has certainly got college basketball fans' blood boiling, but so has the floor slapping.
Slapping the floor may not have started with Duke, but no one is more famous for doing it.
Former Duke guard Steve Wojciechowski practically made it an art form.
As chronicled in the book "Duke Sucks," there is a bit of a debate about how much the floor slap is encouraged at Duke:
One way or the other college basketball fans and teams alike have come to loathe the floor slap.
Google doesn't always have the answer to every question. But ask the search engine why people hate Duke basketball so much, and you'll get page after page filled with articles on why folks hate Duke, Coach K, Grayson Allen, Danny Ferry, and more.
Hatred for Duke can stem back to Grayson Allen's shady "tripping" plays a few years ago, or the Laettner shot from a Grant Hill assist to beat Kentucky on the final play during overtime of an Elite 8 game in 1992.
Hatred can be linked to Laettner making the 1992 Olympic Dream Team because of his Duke status—making the roster on the best team ever assembled of NBA greats and the one college player.
This Story Doesn't Mention Laettner Stomping on a Kentucky Player. He Shouldn't Have Been in the Game.
Then There is This Headline
"Duke Fans Are Hiring Private Jets for Coach K’s Final Four Game"
Coach K's Greatest Contributiona to the Game
The flop and the floor slap.
Flopping.
Duke certainly isn't the first and won't be the last team in sports to do it (the NBA recently had to adjust rules to address it or watch a European soccer game), but no team is more associated with it than the Blue Devils and Syracuse native Greg Paulus is the poster boy for it.
This video represents just one play. But it is a perfect microcosm of what college basketball fans associate with Paulus, who was Duke's point guard from 2005-2009.
The consistent pattern of Duke players flopping over the years has certainly got college basketball fans' blood boiling, but so has the floor slapping.
Slapping the floor may not have started with Duke, but no one is more famous for doing it.
Former Duke guard Steve Wojciechowski practically made it an art form.
As chronicled in the book "Duke Sucks," there is a bit of a debate about how much the floor slap is encouraged at Duke:
One way or the other college basketball fans and teams alike have come to loathe the floor slap.