Duke Blue Planet BLOG

Coach K Video Blog Update

Coach K talks about Duke’s first three games of the season, our upcoming game against Radford, changes in Cameron Indoor, Duke’s offense, and more.

Heading into the start of our regular season, Coach K talks about UNC-G, the Preseason NIT, Mason’s wrist injury, his new grandson John David!, our freshmen adjusting to the college level, and what he is most proud of at Duke as he begins year 30.

Kyle & Casey Ready for the First Regular-Season Game

Hey Duke Fans!

Last night we played our last exhibition game against the Division II National Champs Findlay.   They were a really good team, but we played a good second half and came away with a solid win.   Practice really picked up in intensity last week, everyone is really excited because the season really is here, and our next game counts in our record!

Off the court we have been doing some pretty fun things too.   Casey is a big Yankees fan, so we have been watching the MLB playoffs, and I know he is hoping that the Yanks can win the Series tonight in Game 6, I guess you could call me a Yankees fan by association!  We’ve also been watching some new YouTube videos.  Lately we have been watching a lot on the “2012 Theory”.  There is a new movie coming out soon about the whole theory, but basically what it says is that centuries ago the Mayans predicted that December 21, 2012 would be the end of the world.  The videos have a lot of interesting theories and information that all seem to fit together, but we don’t buy it.  We also have been watching some blooper videos, including the Top 10 Most Awkward Sports Interviews and the Chinese Food Prank Call.

In addition to all this, we both have also had a lot of school work the past week.  Kyle has been working on a big project for one of his art classes, called Maya, where he forms shapes based on numerical data from a large company.  He chose Nike and then coordinated all the shapes into an animated scene that is supposed to symbolize the company and its elements on the whole.  It is hard to explain, but it is really really cool how each shape represents a different piece of data, like stock price, or number of workers, and the animated scene he made is really cool.  I also have been doing a lot of work this past week too, with both an Econ and an Environmental Science exam last week.  We also are registering for classes for Spring Semester this Friday, so Kenny King our Academic Adviser has been helping everyone on the team get classes organized for that.

Before we go, our buy/sell for this entry…

BUY: Any kind of blooper videos on YouTube

SELL: “2012 Theory”

Hey Duke fans!  This is Kyle and Casey hanging out watching some baseball at our off-campus apartment, and we thought it would be a good time to write up our first blog.  We’re pumped about the S&P 1253 on Blue Planet and just to get this all started we are going to introduce each other a little bit.

Casey: Kyle, in my opinion (and in the opinion of a lot of experts around the country), is the best player in college hoops this year, and is by far the most competitive person I have ever met.  It doesn’t matter if it’s a big-time basketball game or a casual game of ping-pong, he is going to bring it.   K-Y as a lot of us call him wears #12 for us as you all know, but off the court he is just as talented as he is on the court, which is going to make for a lot of fun throughout the year on the blog.

Kyle: Casey wears #53 for us, and as some of you might know was a manager for us for his first two years here at Duke.  Case is an awesome teammate, and we have become really close friends throughout our three years here at Duke (and I even got to show him a little bit of what my hometown South Medford, Oregon is all about last summer).  Casey and I have spent a lot of time in the gym together, but some of our best times also happen when we are away from the court.

It is pretty clear that Duke fans are simply some of the best in the world.  Obviously you guys get to see what we do out on the court with the Crazies intimidating the other teams, but what we want to do is to give our Duke fans a more behind the scenes, personal feel about what we do in our time when we are not playing, and basically open it up to talk about our day to day stories, and what we like to do as college students.  Throughout the season we’re going to obviously be talking a lot of basketball too, but like we said we want to open it up to what we are doing throughout the day, even away from Cameron, like if we found a new food spot that we really like, if we’re starting up a pretty cool new art project, or if someone actual beat Jon in a video game!

We are going to try and update our blog as often as we can, hopefully at least every week, but we also would love to hear from you all, and we definitely will answer as many questions or respond to any ideas that you guys have for us!  Also, in addition to all that, we are going to do a weekly section where we talk about our predictions for what’s hot and what’s not for the coming week, in something we’re going to call “Buy and Sell” (hence the title’s spin off on the S&P 500 stock index).  A little insider trading tip, definitely BUY Nolan Smith this year, stock is sure to jump up big time!!

Anyway, I hope you all are as excited for the coming season as our whole team is!  Like Coach has said, we are much different than a lot of Duke teams of the past, and we all believe that we have the potential to make this an incredibly special year!!  We are looking forward to getting our blog underway with you guys, so like we said, all questions and comments are cool.  Until next time Crazies…KY and CP

In this edition of BP Passport, Coach K discusses the Pfeiffer game, our new style of man-to-man defense, his guys in the NBA as the 2009-10 season kicks off, the team poster and what he likes to do to unwind.  Congrats to Mark Baden, who was selected as the winner of the best sign at the Pfeiffer game.  Mark will receive a pair of tickets behind Coach K at our next home game (November 3rd against Findlay).