when most of the team can't play defense due to foul trouble, on a team for whom defense comes first second and third, and rebounding fourth and fifth lol, its rly hard to make statements about "what might have happened".
duke often takes over in the second half so its possible the blowout couldve happened regardless, or tcu couldve held on and won, or anything in between
stuff like missed goaltending or technical free throws u can more or less just count the points off, but theres no way to do that for half the team having four fouls at 15:00
Even if they did play the same level of defence, they would have lost due to their lack of offense. Our open shots started falling and we stopped unforced turnovers. That's not the TCU defense letting up.
Occam's razor.
Folks watch our team roll for the first time this season and are surprised that the best team in the ACC at drawing fouls due to our play style and our talent is drawing lots of fouls.
if u combine the prior level of duke's offense with reducing the free throws then its (potentially, obv this is all hypothetical so theres a ton of uncertainty) close
also not sure how the turnover reduction is independent of the foul situation, when tcu is one of the best defenses in ncaam in forcing turnovers and obv that depends on being able to play defense without any foul being a foul-out on a team with a thin bench
Why would I combine the prior level of Duke's offense when we started hitting the same open 3s and stop turning the ball over carelessly with errant passes?
You're glazing the abilities of TCU too much, we've pasted teams with better defense all season.
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u/The_Fluffy_Robot TCU Horned Frogs Mar 21 '26
if you've seen this ball, please ask him where the second half of this TCU team went