{"id":82,"date":"2008-01-09T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-01-09T19:18:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T00:18:37","slug":"tell-me-im-crazy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me I&#8217;m Crazy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of full disclosure, I am currently wearing my &#8220;Wild Cherry&#8221; t-shirt&#8211;the gift to all Temple basketball season ticket holders one year in the mid-90&#8217;s.\u00a0 But, tell me I&#8217;m crazy thinking that the Owls have a real chance to knock off the 7th-ranked Dukies tonight.<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons for my blind optimism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1). These two teams play every year, so the Duke &#8220;prestige&#8221; is lost on the Owls<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"128\" src=\"http:\/\/collegehoopsupdate.com\/images\/pics\/mark_tyndale.JPG\" height=\"200\" \/>2).\u00a0The game is in Philly, which is not necessarily a big advantage for Temple, but it certainly isn&#8217;t the HUGE disadvantage that they would have in Cameron Indoor<\/li>\n<li>3). The best way to beat Duke (as seen by Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago) is to get physical with them.\u00a0 Now, Temple does not have a huge team, but they certainly don&#8217;t win with finesse.\u00a0 They are an aggressive, physical, hit-you-in-the-mouth kind of team.\u00a0 Plus, freshman Lavoy Allen is beast in the paint and Duke&#8217;s best inside player, Brian Zoubek, has a broken foot and is out indefinitely<\/li>\n<li>4). One thing you have to do against Duke is get in the face of the shooters.\u00a0 Well, the Owls have\u00a0officially gone away from the John Chaney match-up zone and have fully adopted Fran Dunphy&#8217;s in-your-face man-to-man defensive style.\u00a0 And, with the incredible length and athleticism on the wing, getting in the face of shooters is not a big problem<\/li>\n<li>5). Just about any time a lesser team pulls a big upset, it usually comes down to a big-time performance by one single player stepping up.\u00a0 Well, the Owls have two guys that are capable of exploding in this way.\u00a0 Dionte Christmas is averaging 21 pts, 7 rebs\u00a0and 3 assists, while Mark Tyndale is averaging 15 pts,6 rebs and 3 assists.\u00a0 Either one of these could blow up on ESPN tonight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, yes, it\u00a0may seem like a\u00a0longshot for an average Atlantic 10 team to take out\u00a0a top-10\u00a0team (particularly Duke),\u00a0but I think it just might happen tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me I&#8217;m crazy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of full disclosure, I am currently wearing my &#8220;Wild Cherry&#8221; t-shirt&#8211;the gift to all Temple basketball season ticket holders one year in the mid-90&#8217;s.\u00a0 But, tell me I&#8217;m crazy thinking that the Owls have a real chance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=82\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109,52],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-hoops","tag-duke","tag-temple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}