Duke vs. Houston Final Four Preview: A Tale of Two Styles

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00:00Duke Houston, aka many are saying it the Kevin Walsh phone. We're hearing it left right and center

00:07I mean they're saying wow this guy preseason Duke in season Houston. They're like, whoa, Kato. That's too much chalk

00:14Let's be honest. It's better than those who realized it just when the bracket was set

00:19So shout out me someone had to do it. So I will

00:22it's an interesting one though because

00:26Picking a preseason national champion is a little bit more impressive probably than picking an in-season

00:32National champion yet. I'm a lot more connected to my in-season Cougars than my

00:38preseason Blue Devils

00:40I just am

00:41Despite the fact that this Duke team is just ripping and roaring through every single opponent that they face

00:49Despite the fact that I've heard some have already set up dinner dates Monday based around a dookie win

00:56Could you believe the disrespect to the Cougs?

00:59Houston

01:01Houston's been a delight and

01:03It took the books ages and ages and ages to move the number on

01:09Houston in the way, they were moving the number on Duke or Auburn or Florida and

01:17Really the only reason they budged on Houston is because they're now here in the final four

01:24The Cougars are around half of their preseason number

01:28These teams were all half of their preseason number halfway into the season. I

01:34Felt the Cougs were a bit disrespected. The question is are they being disrespected on this line here today?

01:40Or is it just a product is all right

01:44All right, but clean it up back there or is it just a or is it just a product of how?

01:51Good Duke is Joe. I think it's a little bit of both. I mean, I think Houston the win over, Tennessee

01:57I really got people bought in. Yeah, when you saw them struggling, we volunteer that day

02:03No, I didn't I thought the volunteers would lose on the total which was wrong by me

02:09But I had to buy it through down to 107 and a half and still scrape out of the abyss

02:15Because it was a

02:20So I think that victory on how they dominated

02:23Lanier and

02:25You know that team right now holding them in check and racing out to an a double-digit first-half lead

02:32Never really relinquished that that really got people bought in to say hey

02:35You know what coach this this Houston defense is for real and you know

02:40You see the four games that they have won. They've won in the tournament by an average margin of victory 616 points per game, right?

02:47They do it offensively with a manual sharp LJ

02:50Cryer that didn't have his best game against Purdue and they could shoot threes, but they do it with defense, right?

02:56The last four opponents they have held in this tournament to 27% for three-point shooting

03:02And when you look at Duke, they're averaging 47% over the last four games in the tournament to me. That's the matchup

03:09I Duke might win

03:11But I like the points with him in terms of this matchup four and a half up to five and a half

03:16I do feel potentially it starts slow. I think we get over the total but give me the points with Houston

03:22I think when you look at this matchup, you know, people are gonna talk about the contrasting styles, right?

03:27Duke being this great offense used to be this great defense, but people got to realize it's the flip side as well

03:33Houston's a very good offensively and this is a completely different Houston team than the ones we've seen in the past

03:40This is not the Oh

03:43Give it to Marcus Sasser like go save us, right? This doesn't give it to Jamal shed go save us

03:48They have a player in my model use on you know

03:51The transfer from Oklahoma that can kind of do a little bit of everything right as a point guard

03:56Then you have LJ Cryer second year thereafter being a bailer someone that's dynamic

04:01Scoring the ball off the belt to the three-point shot and then you got the sniper and the manual sharp

04:07Mm-hmm big shot taker big shot maker a guy that can knock down big shots

04:13And if you watch that Tennessee game when that game got tight

04:17When they got tight with the referees and they got that lead all the way out of the tent

04:20It was ready to start on 20 feet. No, let me back up and you'll start with 23 feet

04:26No, no, let me back up and maybe we'll start from 26 feet 1 2 3 game over drive home safely

04:34So when you look at this, I think people need to start to recognize how good their offense is

04:41But also how Craig Dukes defense is these are two teams that are not going to get sped up

04:49You saw Tennessee try and speed them up a little bit when they got down big in the second half

04:55Houston broke the press got back got it through off it settled down run their stuff to me. You know what please I know it was

05:02125 and a half got the one 26. I'm praying y'all keep betting it up to 127 and a half

05:07I think this game is a dead-under if you look at the history of

05:10Houston when they get to these spots versus big-time opponents

05:15Did anybody remember 52 48 versus Villanova that game in the lead eight? Yeah

05:22Yeah

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