A lot of people have been talking about Duke‘s magical ability to get away with traveling. First we had, Elliott Williams who basically went from Durham to Chapel Hill without dribbling the ball and then we had Jon Scheyer try the same thing (scroll down) although to be fair he wasn’t as blatant as Williams.
The Blue Devils have also been known to use their elbows at times. This season there was Kyle Singler‘s elbow to Tyler Hansbrough‘s face. And of course nobody can forget the infamous Gerald Henderson elbow to Tyler Hansbrough’s face (notice a pattern) that led to the tour de force “This is why Duke sucks”.
Yesterday, Virginia Tech‘s Terrell Bell decided to take matters into his own hands and leveled Singler with an elbow that was much more malicious than the prior Duke elbows. At least the Duke guys tried to make it seem like it was during the “flow of the game”. Take a look at it below and let us know what you think. Just remember that there was no foul called on it.
Update: I am issuing this disclaimer because of the inability of some people to get past the title of this post and actually read what I said in the post. I am not condoning Bell’s actions. As I have said repeatedly in the comment section, I think it was a cheap shot. In fact, I called it malicious in the text of the original post, but apparently Duke fans don’t want to come to grasp with that and continued to focus on the title of this post. Like I said in the comment section if I was rewriting this post I would have titled it something like “Wait…So Duke doesn’t get all the calls?”, but I believe it would be dishonest at this point to change the title of the article as it is not factual incorrect just in questionable taste. Having said that, I still think the Duke fans need to get over themselves and cut out the moral superiority junk. Singler was not injured on the play. If he had even suffered a minor concussion or something that kept him out of the game much less suffered a career-ending injury the title of this post would have been something like “America’s Most Wanted: Terrell Bell”. And once again, getting elbowed is not the equivalent of contracting cancer or AIDS no matter what they are teaching you in Durham. If it was, Henderson and Singler would already be on trial. Durham does have a DA, right?
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Wow, Ryan, how classy.
Seriously, how was nothing called for this.
To condone anything of this nature shows your true character as an individual.
Not that you care, but you are about to lose a reader with all of this Duke hate. Headline-"Duke gets a taste of its own medecine." You're a clown. First, Henderson's elbow was 3 years ago. And, it was a cheap shot and he was suspended. The next elbow was Singler against Hanstravel and was unintentional. Even if you believe it was intentional, this is a "pattern?" Twice in 3 years where one is arguably unintentional?
The Youtube travel phenomenon is a load of crap. Did Williams travel? Yes. Did Scheyer? Probably, though he was probably fouled several times in the process. Even if they are both travels, it is ridiculous that these 2 calls get isolated and then blown out of proportion. Refs miss calls on both sides every game. When it happens in a Duke game, insecure Terp fans isolate the play and try to make a national incident about it.
Also, let me get this straight-pretty much 99% of the country hates Duke, yet 100% of refs love them? That makes a lot of sense...
(1) It's sort of funny that you're calling me out for being a Duke hater (there are two of us who handle the blog and I can't remember writing another anti-Duke post), but whatever I'll roll with that.
(2) The headline was the first thing that came to mind. If Singler had been seriously hurt, I wouldn't have been so light-hearted in posting the clip. Also, you might have gotten something more well thought out (not likely) or more classy (even less likely) if my West Coast colleague was up yet. It was something I decided to throw up while I was doing my BGTD post that will probably cross the 3,000 word threshold again.
(3) "You're a clown". I don't want to go all Bill Conlin here, but anybody who knows who I am would probably disagree with that comment, but you're entitled to your opinion. For all I know you might be about to come out with some sort of AIDS vaccine so I won't get into a senseless name-calling battle.
(4) The pattern I was referring to was the person who was on the receiving end of both blows.
(5) I was only kidding about the traveling calls. It's sort of funny that they have become such a big deal on the Internet, but the Williams travel was ridiculous.
Once you cool down a little I hope you'll stay, but if you decide to find another college basketball site to visit instead, I hope you enjoyed your stay here at RTC.
get a life
"The headline was the first thing that came to mind." Not surprised.
I am looking forward to tomorrow's article on the Duke swoon as it relates to a four game winning streak in February.
sadfsf--
Nice e-mail address especially since it's coming from a Duke dorm after all the whining coming from Durham about how crass the College Park kids are.
This is ridiculous. Everyone hates Duke for no reason. We are so perfect, why does nobody like us? Neither of those travels were travels, and every elbow we throw in unintentional while every elbow that hits us is clearly full of intent.
I hope you saw through that (terrible) sarcasm. I hate Duke, and the only thing that could have made that any better would be if Singler had gone the way of Nolan Smith.
Now I won't go as far as Ross did. I wouldn't have posted this making light of it (I probably would have went the other way) if Singler had been seriously injured or even suffered a mild concussion.
That said, I just looked back over the Singler elbow on Hansbrough and there is no way that was unintentional. Maybe it was a little more well-disguised than Henderson's attempted decapitation of Hansbrough, but to call that unintentional is either being unbelievably naive or forgetting to take off your Duke glasses.