{"id":2268,"date":"2008-02-14T06:32:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T06:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/14\/maryland-at-duke\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T06:32:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T06:32:35","slug":"maryland-at-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/14\/maryland-at-duke\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland at Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Terps lost to the hated Dukies <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncb\/recap?gameId=280440150\">77-65<\/a> last night, in a game I barely watched. Vitale and Patrick had the call, and were their usual intolerable selves, and I needed to do some cooking for today&#8217;s physics department luncheon, so I was in the kitchen more than in front of the tv. A few observations based on what I did see:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; This was a really simple game, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncb\/recap?gameId=280440150\">box score<\/a> reinforces my impression. Duke couldn&#8217;t hang with the Maryland big men down low, Maryland&#8217;s big men couldn&#8217;t guard their Duke counterparts on the perimeter, and Maryland&#8217;s guards have judgement issues. When your back court combines for 7 assists and 9 TO&#8217;s, that&#8217;s not good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; This was also one of the most violent and chippy games I&#8217;ve seen in a while. The referees appeared uninterested in calling fouls on any of the hand checks, body checks, or open shoves taking place on the court, and players on both sides were getting annoyed. With about ten minutes to go in the game, I though there was going to be a fist fight at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lord, how I hate Dick Vitale and Mike Patrick. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Terps lost to the hated Dukies 77-65 last night, in a game I barely watched. Vitale and Patrick had the call, and were their usual intolerable selves, and I needed to do some cooking for today&#8217;s physics department luncheon, so I was in the kitchen more than in front of the tv. A few&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/14\/maryland-at-duke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maryland at Duke<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}