{"id":3466,"date":"2012-01-13T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T12:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2012-01-19T23:13:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T04:13:37","slug":"poop-dukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3466","title":{"rendered":"Poop > Dukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, actually dookie\u00a0is better to watch on your television than our beloved Dukes right now.\u00a0 There&#8217;s just no excuses remaining and no redeeming quality to this squad.\u00a0 Four minutes into the second half at VCU tonight, the Dukes were down just 45-41 and had us all thinking they just might steal one, or at the least finish off a respectable performance on the road against a tough squad despite the recent struggles.\u00a0 If you had the unfortunate pleasure of walking in from work at about that point in the rare 6:00 start however, you would only get to see the Dukes make a single field goal the rest of the way and you likely would have considered gouging your own eyes out with a spork.\u00a0 The problems our too many to list, but the utter lack of effort to create good shots and a seemingly ironclad belief in the certainty of their own defeat (and Devon Moore&#8217;s hideous shooting) made the blowout loss a foregone conclusion despite the early mirage.<\/p>\n<p>I really wish there was something better to say, but honestly, nothing can be said here except the team appears to have quit on Brady, has zippy confidence, and actually misses Julius Wells.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve harped on Wells&#8217; shot selection for years, but things have gotten so bad that JMU actually misses his irrational confidence and odd ability to make a couple of those terrible shots at just the right time.\u00a0 Get your first night tickets for the CAA tourney if you want to see the zillionth straight one and done showing from the purple n&#8217; gold!<\/p>\n<p>Plus wouldn&#8217;t you rather scroll down to our previous post and laugh your ass off at Mike Fratello rocking out with full-on male toe!<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D3466&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, actually dookie\u00a0is better to watch on your television than our beloved Dukes right now.\u00a0 There&#8217;s just no excuses remaining and no redeeming quality to this squad.\u00a0 Four minutes into the second half at VCU tonight, the Dukes were down just 45-41 and had us all thinking they just might steal one, or at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[144,53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1401,"url":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1401","url_meta":{"origin":3466,"position":0},"title":"Taking a Look at the JMU Basketball Schedule","date":"September 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"JMU officially released the 2010-2011 Men's basketball schedule. 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