Congrats to FSU and dook

Just got back in town, so just now able to post congratulations to FSU for a good semi-final win over the Heels, and to dook for winning the ACC tournament title. Big surprise for dook, who nobody gave much of a chance. But without the Heels in serious contention, and as Wake continues its weird, half-season-long collapse, the door was left wide open for the Blue Devils. Gotta show 'em some respect for taking advantage of the opportunity, whatever you think of them.

Roy has long made it clear that he doesn't care much about the ACC tournament, and it was hard not to feel that we were basically sitting this one out. Without Lawson (and what was almost worse: in effect without Danny Green, who is in the mother of all shooting slumps) we're not the same team, and Roy just seemed to be using the ACC tournament as practice for the big tourny, experimenting with stuff he rarely uses in serious games, like the zone D. Now, far be it from me to question Roy--he makes the big bucks for a reason--but personally I prefer a 75% chance (at least) of winning the ACC tournament to a 25% chance (at most) of winning the big tournament (note: strangely high as that seems, that's what Vegas has as the Heels chance of winning it all). Resting Lawson during the ACCT to make a better run at the big tournament will strike old school types as a kind of heresy...and, man, there's going to be lots of criticism if they don't win it all--especially since it allowed dook to more-or-less cruise to a tournament championship. I certainly am with Roy to the extent that I think the ACC regular season championship means more than an ACC tournament championship...but not everybody sees it that way, to say the least....

So, anyway, heal up, Ty, because there's a lot riding on that toe of yours!