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Duke Advances to the Elite 8
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Duke Advances to the Elite 8
What a street fight for you guys to, to win it by three, hold them up to 51 points and in advance, I mean, that's the nature of the game, but absolutely, I mean, you know, just credit to Houston. They got, they got AAA great, great team, great culture. Um You know, and, and, and they, they did exactly what, what for the most part I'd say they did what they were, they were trying to do. But I mean, I think it was just our response and what we had to do, we did that. Um And then at the end we did that a little more which got us, got us the, the few more points over them at the end. Um But I mean, it was, you know, probably one of the, one of the most mucked up games I played in my career and uh you know, sometimes it's gonna be like that and you just gotta, you just gotta live with it. You gotta go with the flow. Ty Reece was uh Ty Reese is a wanted man in Dallas for the Thievery tonight. I mean, Ryan called it one of the best plays of the season, if not the best play of the season that's still on the floor. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I, man, just Tyrese coming up big time for us. Um, man, it was, it was huge, it was huge. He played a great defensive game. Uh, I mean, we all did. Um, but yeah, no Tyrese, I was, I was, I was, I was just in a, wow, I was, you know, mind blowing. That's, that's all, it was a message in half time. Obviously, we kind of felt at that point it was gonna be a fight to the finish type of game, but I think it started to click a little more in the second half. It was just, it would just keep doing what we're, we were doing. Um, I mean, we, the first half was probably the worst halves I've ever played in, in, in, in my career in terms of just like the game and, you know, it was 2322. Um, but I mean, you know, we were, we were still doing what we had to do. It was, uh, you know, it was just two really hard nosed defensive teams going at it this game. And, uh, and, um, I mean, we just had to, we just had to, we gave them, we gave them about half their points in the first half, just off of our turnovers and, and, um, so we did a much better job. In the second half, taking care of the ball. Uh and, and, you know, just kind of just out rebound them and trying to out tough them. Those, those were just the biggest keys back in January. Um Some people are saying that this is a failure for the AC C two mid league. Now there's three AC C teams in the elite 81 is guaranteed to go to the final four. Let's talk about just the toughness of this conference and how well the AC C is and how well they were representing. Yeah, I mean, I don't know who, who does the conference rankings and, and who decides who's good and who's not um for conferences. But I mean, I mean, obviously, you know, we speak for ourselves, like you said, we have three of the teams that elite eight. you know, and, you know, we, I, I think they see just as a great of, of, of, of prepping you for the tournament because there's so many different types of teams, uh and so many different play styles in the AC C. So, um yeah, that's why I guys played an NBA conference schedule, divisional schedule, CNN C state for the third time in a month. I mean, and the last time it didn't go so well for you guys, they're different now. They're on a roll. Yeah, I mean, that role pretty much almost started with us. So, uh, you know, we just, we you know, what better way than for us to end it as well. So that's just, you know, we're gonna, we're gonna regroup, get our, our ourselves, um, you know, locked in tomorrow with, with the game plan. But, uh, you know, we know it's gonna be a battle.