Floor Slap Duke

The duke basketball team has yet to employ the program s signature floor slap this season but the first could happen tonight at 9 p m.

Floor slap duke.

Slapping the floor is a decades old tradition with duke s defense though it is occasionally mocked and even when other teams imitate the move the blue devils still come to mind. My nephew went to duke basketball camp. At home against unc. They do it for an extra dash of grit while playing defense and they went to the floor slapping during the.

The duke floor slap. In the 2008 n c a a. Unc great jawad williams recounts the time duke players came to chapel hill for a pick up game and greg paulus brought out the blue devils s iconic floor slap. When the duke basketball team hosts unc tonight a potential two hand floor slap has the potential to blow the roof off cameron indoor stadium.

As chronicled in the book duke sucks there is a bit of a debate about how much the floor slap is encouraged at duke. While duke players may act like the floor slap is a spur of the moment reaction it s actually a learned technique. Tournament when west virginia ousted duke mountaineers guard joe mazzulla mocked the blue devils by slapping the floor. And two seasons ago when duke was ranked no.

One way or the other college basketball fans and teams alike have come to.