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... which ultimately right now are "Rivers sucks!"
On his podcast, I talked about this a bit-- his dude Rick, whenever you confront him on Twitter about UNC being mediocre this year, retorts with "man, that must give you some comfort considering how terrible Austin Rivers is playing." Which is also an experience I've had with a few of my UNC fan friends.
So it spirals.
It goes:
Duke fan: "UNC is mediocre and we're good." UNC fan: "Oh yeah? Austin Rivers is sorry. BUST!"
And the maddening hypocrisy of that when Harrison Barnes was so insanely hyped coming out of high school, Kendall was by far the best PG in college basketball last year, and Tyler Zeller was ACC POY, yet all are middling to bad pros so far in their respective early careers... it's too much to not mention. If Rivers is sorry, then I guess all those other dudes are sorry too!
If it were up to me, I wouldn't talk about it at all. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that Duke has much better pros currently in the NBA than UNC. It shouldn't even merit discussion.
But fans will be fans, and they'll deflect to the only card they have left. Kinda like how someone from another fanbase that we both know went from "make it past the Sweet 16!" to "win a championship!" to "have good pros!" to "have All-Star level pros!" to "have literally all of your NBA prospects hit for fear of mockery!" within the span of five years. Gotta play the only card you have in the deck. And Duke haters don't have many cards right now. *shrug*
In short: I agree. But Ba probably has to deal with it even more than I do, so he's gonna fire back about it more, I suppose. I'm having plenty of fun on Facebook talking about UNC's current team (which I still think is no worse than 4th in the ACC/tourney bid, sadly, but whatever, I'll still have fun with that). My movies: http://russellhainline.com My movie reviews: https://letterboxd.com/RussellHFilm/ My beer TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebeertravelguide
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