Men Vs. Duke

[AURealist 2,185]

Good enough.  We know better who we are.  Earned some respect.  Officiating sucked.

[WarTiger 3,912]

Final  Auburn falls 78-72 to the best team in the country.  Extremely proud of this performance.  What a great showing for Auburn tonight.

[tgrogan21 6,198]

Goodness! This team is so close to being good enough to beat the best team in the nation! War Eagle! 

[autigeremt 6,653]

Proud of the team and the effort! We’re going to kick a lot of ass this year. War Damn!

[sandyclawedtiger 206]

8 minutes ago, cole256 said:

That is just a not smart shot

From my untrained eye. A lot of not smart shots. Duke played some great d. 11 blocked shots! They looked legit.

[Zeek 16,657]

Guys, we played up to maybe 80% of our potential and lost to the #1 team by 6...

[BJCrawford 1,568]

Since their average margin of victory the first four games was 30, I think we have nothing to be ashamed of.war Eagle

[cole256 17,084]

Learned alot. Keep getting better. Just the beginning

[AubWes33 471]

So proud of these guys. Going to be a fun season! WDE

[Dual-Threat Rigby 8,682]

Mustapha has just led SJU to 5-0 apparently 

 

can we trade him for Samir J’Von, and Bryce

[DAG 33,998]

So glad we got and kept Bruce .

[abw0004 10,125]

Here are my thoughts:

I see a silver lining with this game from the standpoint of the meaning of the game itself.  Auburn played poorly, I understand that.  Very rushed.  Bad shot selection.  Foul trouble that really put us behind.  What I mean by being pleased though is for Auburn to remain a contender from here on out we will be playing top quality teams year in and year out.  No more mid-quality SEC play with Kentucky sprinkled in.  Now Auburn knows what it is like to play the Dukes of basketball.  Now our fan base knows how to handle it.  

We will get these games again this year.  Potentially Duke again this year.  We can run with Duke and even win.  Only lost by 6 to the #1 team in the nation.  Work on this mistakes and come back stronger.  And by the way, you bet our recruits and targets saw this game.  We got this.  

[Eagle-1 3,821]

Proud of our guys! We shot terrible in the first half, but battled them to the end. Duke just has too much talent. We need more physical talent in the paint to be a complete team

[KolchakAU85 430]

5 minutes ago, cole256 said:

Bryce is just scared of contact

And he's not clutch.

You watch: He'll light it up tomorrow when there's no pressure.

[around4ever 4,139]

I'll take a 6 point loss to that team.   They may be as good as I have seen in a while.   Proud of our guys for making Duke earn it.   Hopefully, we learned a little about ourselves and where we need to improve to play with the big boys.  WDE!!

[gr82be 14,442]

Wouldn't think this loss hurts us in the polls much. Heck of a job considering the FT disparity. War Eagle. We've got a pretty good team. Going to have a lot of fun in the SEC. 

[Zeek 16,657]

Just now, DAG said:

So glad we got and kept Bruce .

Just think a previous athletic director was ready to let him go...

[NolaAuTiger 3,295]

Nothing to be ashamed of tonight! We can hang with the best. If we don't start so poorly, this game would've been a win. We get DP back Dec. 15th I think. WDE everyone!!

[fishepa 1,907]

1 minute ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said:

Mustapha has just led SJU to 5-0 apparently 

 

can we trade him for Samir J’Von, and Bryce

Bryce is not bad just so very streaky. Also gets down on himself too much if he misses shots. 

[AUGoo 2,664]

I think the officiating played a bigger deal in this.  Once again our bigs are hurt by the officials and theirs not so much.

[Tiger 8,829]

1 minute ago, Randman5000 said:

I love the depth, but do we need someone else shooting a 3?

We need another PG to backup harper IMO. Having Samir as a 3rd guard in the starting 5 hasn't looked great last 2 games IMO. Let Samir get the backup 1 minutes if possible? I'm not that high on JM. 

1 minute ago, jared52 said:

Duke had a LOT to do with that “playing bad”.

I agree. The moment was too big for us early. We shook it off though. We can play better if we play them again.

1 minute ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said:

This team is going to get a lot better the second we start giving JVon half of Samir’s minutes, Danjel comes in, and we tell guys to take a few less contested 3s

Bruce doesn't trust JM he's always yelling at him for something lol. I'm not too high on him either to be honest. Samir hasn't looked good starting at the 3 IMO the last 2 games against legit competition at least 

[tigerbrotha12 2,362]

This is a win for our program. So proud of this team hanging in there. They can beat Duke.

[Zeek 16,657]

1 minute ago, DAG said:

So glad we got and kept Bruce .

Just think a previous athletic director was ready to let him go.

[KolchakAU85 430]

Jared Harper can ball.

[Zeek 16,657]

Don’t forget. We played an absolute nail biter last night as well. Very proud and optimistic.