The Blue Devil is Red!

Duke pretty much dismantled Georgia Tech last night and did so without even playing particularly well. I can't claim to be even remotely objective when it comes to Duke (or anything else, really). I hate the team. I hate the school. I still watch though because it's basketball. I wish they were more known for something like water polo so I could tune them out of my collective universe.

The Duke men's basketball team seems to be quite good. From what I understand this wasn't supposed to be a very good year for the team, unfortunately the team itself hasn't fulfilled this prophecy.

What's so unsettling is not the fact that Duke is a good team, but that the team they have is good (yes, that's the sentence I meant to type). They don't have any really good players on the team, the only one who stands out as a guy who could have a prominent career playing basketball (on US soil) is Nelson, and his height makes that a bit of a question.

It's a team that spreads the floor and shares the ball. They have five guys averaging over 10 ppg and none averaging over 16 ppg. It's team first basketball, it works, and I hate watching it.

Clearly there is something unnatural at work here: Communism.

This team first attitude is NOT what basketball or America is all about.

Some of these players on Duke might be starring elsewhere. They could be rising up the draft boards. Instead they're part of a "team," potentially costing themselves personal fortunes down the road to advance their "team." Don't be fooled by the blue uniforms, this team is red through and through.

Would Kobe average 14 a game if it meant playing along other good players just to make the team better? Go ask Andrew Bynum, Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, Shaq, Gary Payton and Karl Malone. They'll tell you that no, he won't. That's because Kobe Bryant is an American. Kobe Bryant is a patriot!

These Duke players may not even go on to playing for exorbitant contracts in the NBA. These all seem like the type who would end up coaching alongside their dictator, Coach K. Committed company men. Disgusting.

Come tournament time someone is going to have to step up and defend our soil. It appears to be time to turn attention away from radical fundamentalist Islam and towards communist insurgence.

Scarier still, Coach K. will be on the sidelines for Team USA! No matter the outcome of the Summer Olympics, the Chinese have won.