Florida Triumphs While A Duke Fan Mourns: A Championship Breakdown

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The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament has concluded with Florida defeating Houston in the championship game, sparking both admiration for the Gators' performance and painful reflection on Duke's earlier elimination by Houston.

• Florida earned their championship with a balanced, upperclassmen-led squad featuring Walter Clayton Jr. as their closer
• Houston built a 14-point lead before Florida stormed back to win the championship
• Duke's loss to Houston particularly stings given they led by 9 points with just 2 minutes remaining
• Cooper Flagg performed well as expected for Duke, but defensive miscommunications and missed free throws cost them the game
• Walter Clayton Jr. shows NBA potential, drawing comparisons to Jamal Murray with "more maturity"
• The tournament maintained its unpredictability with a 1 in 19.2 quintillion chance of creating a perfect bracket

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
What's up everybody.
It's your favorite show'sfavorite show.
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I'm your host, trent, as usual.
I hope you're all having awonderful, wonderful day.
I'm not having the best day, Iain't gonna lie to y'all.
Me personally, I'm in mourning.
Y'all see the black on.
Yeah, I sound a littleenergetic, that's just because I

(00:23):
got to sound it right.
We got to talk about MarchMadness for the men championship
.
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I'm sad.

(00:43):
It's tough.
Shout to florida for startersfor winning it.
Right, I'm not gonna be a poorsport.
Uh, florida did do their thingand won kudos right, thought
they were.
I thought they had a good shot.
I ain't gonna lie to you, soyou know it's not.
It's not the worst.
They played well.
Um, upperclassmen led squad hada good balance.

(01:05):
I think they had a goodperformance this year, a
complete team.
It seemed like they had theircloser and Walter Clayton Jr
Right, you had a couple ofplayers on the squad that did
they think Florida did well.
Houston, I know for a fact isfeeling like they.
They dropped the ball becausethey were up, ladies and

(01:25):
gentlemen, they were up in thegame, matter of fact, matter of
fact, matter of fact.
Can we do this, please?
Can we just show y'all one timefor the one time, like it's a
close game 65 to 63, ladies andgentlemen, damn, that hurts.
And if you're looking at the,the, the score right here, like

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during the hot, during thehalftime, right, it was 28 31
favoring Houston.
Houston goes up by as much as10, 14 points or something like
that, and y'all see, floridacomes back and is able to win it
.
And they went up in the secondhalf, by the way, floor Houston
did and Florida had to stormback.

(02:07):
Now there's a part of me thatgets a little petty, because
Houston did the same damn thingto us, same thing to us, bro.
So there's a part of me that'shappy.
There's a part of me that'scool.
You know what I'm saying?
Hell, even Florida got the blueand white on.
You know what I like?
All right, cool, I can workwith that.

(02:28):
I guess here's my problem,though.
I thought we could haveactually done what florida did.
We should have been able tobeat houston, like when you see
florida again.
Their star, walter clayton jr,11 points, but he went 3 of 10
from the field, got 7 assiststhough Solid assists to turn

(02:49):
over.
So he did other things outsideof just score.
You also had other people alsocontributing.
Houston, eh, granted, it's thechampionship game, so I ain't
slighting everybody, but wouldhave been nicer if they got a
little bit more productionoffensively, defensively, they
are a little bit more stout.
That's their identity.
For me, when I look at us, I'mkind of perturbed right now,

(03:14):
ladies and gentlemen, becauseagain y'all see 70-67.
We lost and that hurts.
That really truly does.
Again, I told y'all I thoughtwe could have done the same
thing Florida did.
You're seeing, right here,though, houston's scores look
vastly different than when theyplayed Florida.

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Now, cryer did his thing.
He won't try to be crying inthe car, so I respect that.
Everybody else, though,everybody else got off and it's
a problem, such a problem for mewhen you look at us again.
We had the talent, we had theteam that could have got that.

(03:59):
We had players who could haveactually defended florida.
That's so unfortunate.
Cooper flag number one pick didwell across the board, came in
malawatch would have liked tosee you do a little bit more
because again, one block, ah,supposed to be a defensive
anchor.
More rebounds would have beennice, con, all right, you had a

(04:20):
solid game.
Well, we'll appreciate that,proctor.
I've said before the time,before march madness occurred,
baby, overrated, and you had ahot start, a hot March Madness,
up until this game, senior.
By the way, and keep in mindtoo, proctor was the one that

(04:41):
missed a free throw at the endof the game that could have tied
it.
We had other moments too thatcould have helped win the game.
And keep in mind again, we wereup by as much as like 10, 14
points, 10 or like nine with twominutes left in the game.
So disgusting.
And we lost to this Houston teamand Duke's been a favorite for

(05:04):
a large part of the tournament.
But again, this Houston squadbeat my Duke Blue Devils and
they lost to these FloridaGators.
I am pissed, I am, I am alittle perturbed.
I ain't gonna lie to y'all.
This, this one, this one didhurt.
This one did hurt to the pointwhere I ain't even watched

(05:27):
Florida versus Houston live.
I said nope, forget it.
I'm rocking with my boys, eventhough they did me wrong, but I
will say I did make sure that Idid watch the game because I
know I had to talk about itright.
So again, ladies and gentlemen,overall I got to say the men's

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I'm not trying to lie because itsucked.
Oh, it's so terrible, it's soterrible, bro, but overall it
was good, like my Duke wish list.
If y'all have listened thus far,it did at least follow up to
what I wanted to see, to thepoint where you know what
Houston got to the championshipgame.
I wanted to get to Houston, Iwanted to face Houston and then

(06:16):
Florida got to the championshipgame.
They weren't up thereoriginally.
They eventually got up therebecause I did start liking
Florida a little bit more,especially when I noted too,
duke was giving me 1999 vibes,which that was the year we lost
to UConn, and I thought WalterClayton Jr could actually
replace, or at least replicatepotentially, what Rip Hamilton

(06:37):
did In the game.
He didn't do that, but he didperform well and throughout all
of March Madness he did.
So I'm expecting to see whatWalter Clayton does in the NBA,
because expect him to be gone,expect him to be gone.
He does give me Jamal Murrayvibes, with a little bit more
understanding of how morematurity has to shake.

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That should be the best answer.
But I don't know if you'regoing to have that Jamal Murray
impact, right like he got toplay with a yo-kick type player.
We got to what happens, butthat's the sort of game that he
does give me, at least when hewas in college.
So we'll see what happens whenhe gets to the NBA.
But again, ladies and gentlemen,overall quality, a quality
March Madness tournament.
You had a one out of what 19.2quintillion chance at getting a

(07:21):
perfect bracket.
So kudos to you and everybodyelse for not getting it bracket.
So, uh, kudos to you andeverybody else for not getting
it.
I know y'all did.
It's okay, it's all right, youcan be like me, you know.
Just being upset at how theseason ended, I guess I don't
know.
It sucks mainly because, bro,I'm a duke fan.
I wasn't trying to talk trashthis year.
God thought we had a good shotat winning.

(07:42):
Now I was trying to be humble,right, because 2019 humbled me
that year.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
And now I'm sitting over herethinking, damn, maybe I should
have talked a little bit moretrash.
We did have a good season,ladies and gentlemen.
It's just disappointing that atthe end, how things happen,
like Seon James and Cooper Flagghaving miscommunication at the
end on the defensive end too.
That hurts, like I almostwonder what hurts more 2019 us

(08:09):
losing at the free throw line or2025 up to 2025 us losing the
way we did, turning the ballover defensive lapses, losing
while up double digits only acouple minutes left.
I wonder which one hurts most.
I got to ask other Duke fansbecause right now I'm torn.

(08:29):
Reasons to be biased says 2025,but 2019 had me crying in the
car.
So you know, curious.
But overall, again, shout outto Houston they did get their
redemption game against us.
Crier y'all had us crying inthe car this year.
I'm happy because at least youknow you did play well.
You did play well.
And car this year, I'm happybecause at least you did play
well.
You did play well.
And remember he was injuredwhen he went up against us, so

(08:50):
I'm happy he got his gift back.
And then Florida again,congratulations to you guys.
I did want to beat y'all so thatway we could start our
hopefully back-to-backchampionship run, because there
was a chance that we could do it, especially with next year's
squad Hurts.
It is what it is.
We missed our opportunity.
But again, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you all enjoyed March

(09:13):
Madness.
It'll be around next year andthe year on that and in the year
after that, so definitely tunein.
But I'm curious how this oneranks overall.
But let me know your thoughtsand comments below on March
Madness holistically, and thenwhat y'all thought about my
tracking of it too.
I'm curious what y'all thought,because I thought I did all
right, but we'll talk more aboutthe NBA draft picks that'll be

(09:33):
coming up and things of thatnature at a later video.
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