How Duke Has Overcome Key Injuries in ACC Tournament

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00:00I want to first ask you about Duke. They lost, you know, two of their star players and, you know,

00:07namely Cooper Flagg. You got two of their best players out of the lineup, but they still found

00:13a way to come back from a huge deficit against Georgia Tech and they played North Carolina

00:17tonight and they're laying seven. Do you think they still win in cover? I think they can win,

00:24Scott, but I'm going to take the points here once again. North Carolina really had sand kicked in

00:29their face this year. They've been nationally mocked. They lost again. They've been, you know,

00:35they've had scores run up on them. I think this is, I'm not going to say it's payback because

00:39I don't think they're a great team, North Carolina. They're okay. You know what I mean?

00:42They're good, but they're not a great team, but Scott, getting seven, getting a full touchdown

00:48here in this basketball game, you get where I'm going with this. If I can, if I have a reason,

00:53bro, to take an underdog, if I can talk myself into the underdog in these games, I will. Look,

00:58people like you, a good call by you. I was on the underdog in this game too. People in Auburn,

01:02overall number one seed, are going to blow them out. These conference tournaments are,

01:07look at like what DePaul did, Scott. Right. They blew that game. They blew that game, DePaul.

01:13I know. Like these teams, dude, everybody steps up. Everybody's better. This isn't the regular

01:19season and like a snowy night in December or February on an 11 and 14 team when they're

01:24just sort of worn out. This is the last chance. Everybody feels it, right? And I know like North

01:31Carolina is on the bubble. They're going to get in obviously, but big game for them, Scott. I'm

01:36not going to lay the seven with Duke. I think it's a little bit high here. Isn't it a little

01:40bit disrespectful to North Carolina with these injuries that they're still getting seven points?

01:45And if I was the coach, I would tell the kids this. I would put it up on the board. I'd say,

01:49look, you know, these guys, they don't, they don't have their best player and they still

01:53face their seven points better than us. I think Brown's done. I think he's done for the season.

01:59His shoulder, he's got a labrum or a rotator. It's the second time he's injured the shoulder.

02:04When are they going to finally shut him down? Let's go to some other ones. There's three good

02:08ones in a row. I'm going to give you Illinois, Maryland, and the big 10. That's this evening

02:13at six 30, seven o'clock BYU in Houston. And then Missouri, Florida, the Maryland spread is minus

02:19one. Houston's minus seven. Florida's minus eight and a half. I got to tell you, I think Florida's

02:25a great team, but I think Missouri is going to have a say in this game. They are a really good

02:31basketball team that I think still has a decent outside long odd shot in that SEC tournament.

02:38And I think there'll be a tough out in the NCAAs.

02:41Oh, there'll be a very tough out in the NCAAs. This, you know, Missouri is a team. They can put

02:45points up on the board and they can beat anybody in the country. They have their flaws. The total

02:49is one 62 and a half. Florida's going to score on them. You know, Scott, I like these teams,

02:56you know, you got these new like double buys and all this, right. And teams haven't played. I like

03:00the teams that have been playing all week. You know, we saw it last night with a couple of

03:05instances, Oklahoma and Kentucky, Oklahoma. We catch the ticket. One of the Oklahoma Sooners

03:10sort of see this as similar game. I'm with you. I think the Florida Gators are legitimate national

03:15championship contenders. They've got guards. They've got size, right? Like they block shots

03:21like they're, they're really, really, really big guys. If you watch the Florida Gators, like

03:27everybody's like, you're like, dear God, these guys, like they're massive. Like they're bigger

03:31than some NBA teams, right? They've got size on the floor of the Gators. They're hard to, you know,

03:35it's hard to get second chance points against them, but I think the spread's too high here,

03:40Scott, as well. These are regular season numbers. This game's on a neutral court. It's a different

03:45scenario right now in conference tournaments. Give me the Missouri Tigers. This BYU team too,

03:51Scott, another very similar situation. Yeah, bro. They've been killing teams for a while.

03:56And ever since, man, ever since those punk ass kids in Arizona did the anti-Mormon chants on

04:02them, dude, they've been relentless. Like they kicked the crap out of Arizona State the next

04:08game after that. They're dialing it up a notch. Like they got no respect either. And listen,

04:13I get it. The Houston Cougars are their top four team in the country without a doubt. But we also

04:18know the Houston Cougars play in close games all the time. They only score like 65, 70 points.

04:23It's going to be a close one, bro.

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