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Duke vs. Houston Final Four Preview: A Tale of Two Styles
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4/5/2025
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Duke Houston, aka many are saying it the Kevin Walsh phone. We're hearing it left right and center
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I mean they're saying wow this guy preseason Duke in season Houston. They're like, whoa, Kato. That's too much chalk
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Let's be honest. It's better than those who realized it just when the bracket was set
00:19
So shout out me someone had to do it. So I will
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it's an interesting one though because
00:26
Picking a preseason national champion is a little bit more impressive probably than picking an in-season
00:32
National champion yet. I'm a lot more connected to my in-season Cougars than my
00:38
preseason Blue Devils
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I just am
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Despite the fact that this Duke team is just ripping and roaring through every single opponent that they face
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Despite the fact that I've heard some have already set up dinner dates Monday based around a dookie win
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Could you believe the disrespect to the Cougs?
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Houston
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Houston's been a delight and
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It took the books ages and ages and ages to move the number on
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Houston in the way, they were moving the number on Duke or Auburn or Florida and
01:17
Really the only reason they budged on Houston is because they're now here in the final four
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The Cougars are around half of their preseason number
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These teams were all half of their preseason number halfway into the season. I
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Felt the Cougs were a bit disrespected. The question is are they being disrespected on this line here today?
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Or is it just a product is all right
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All right, but clean it up back there or is it just a or is it just a product of how?
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Good Duke is Joe. I think it's a little bit of both. I mean, I think Houston the win over, Tennessee
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I really got people bought in. Yeah, when you saw them struggling, we volunteer that day
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No, I didn't I thought the volunteers would lose on the total which was wrong by me
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But I had to buy it through down to 107 and a half and still scrape out of the abyss
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Because it was a
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So I think that victory on how they dominated
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Lanier and
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You know that team right now holding them in check and racing out to an a double-digit first-half lead
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Never really relinquished that that really got people bought in to say hey
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You know what coach this this Houston defense is for real and you know
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You 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?
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They do it offensively with a manual sharp LJ
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Cryer that didn't have his best game against Purdue and they could shoot threes, but they do it with defense, right?
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The last four opponents they have held in this tournament to 27% for three-point shooting
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And when you look at Duke, they're averaging 47% over the last four games in the tournament to me. That's the matchup
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I Duke might win
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But I like the points with him in terms of this matchup four and a half up to five and a half
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I do feel potentially it starts slow. I think we get over the total but give me the points with Houston
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I think when you look at this matchup, you know, people are gonna talk about the contrasting styles, right?
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Duke being this great offense used to be this great defense, but people got to realize it's the flip side as well
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Houston's a very good offensively and this is a completely different Houston team than the ones we've seen in the past
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This is not the Oh
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Give it to Marcus Sasser like go save us, right? This doesn't give it to Jamal shed go save us
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They have a player in my model use on you know
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The transfer from Oklahoma that can kind of do a little bit of everything right as a point guard
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Then you have LJ Cryer second year thereafter being a bailer someone that's dynamic
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Scoring the ball off the belt to the three-point shot and then you got the sniper and the manual sharp
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Mm-hmm big shot taker big shot maker a guy that can knock down big shots
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And if you watch that Tennessee game when that game got tight
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When they got tight with the referees and they got that lead all the way out of the tent
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It was ready to start on 20 feet. No, let me back up and you'll start with 23 feet
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No, no, let me back up and maybe we'll start from 26 feet 1 2 3 game over drive home safely
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So when you look at this, I think people need to start to recognize how good their offense is
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But also how Craig Dukes defense is these are two teams that are not going to get sped up
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You saw Tennessee try and speed them up a little bit when they got down big in the second half
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Houston 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
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125 and a half got the one 26. I'm praying y'all keep betting it up to 127 and a half
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I think this game is a dead-under if you look at the history of
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Houston when they get to these spots versus big-time opponents
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Did anybody remember 52 48 versus Villanova that game in the lead eight? Yeah
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Yeah
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