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If you haven't seen the latest one about NC State's 1983 team, you definitely should. It'll change your life!
My wife is not a sports fan at all, but even she LOVED this 30 for 30, and I'm pretty sure she cried a little bit during it, too.
For those that have seen it, is it just me, or does Jimmy V remind you a little of Bruce Pearl?
 
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It'd be the other way around really on the pearl comparison.

but I agree. This is one of the better 30 for 30's in a while. I put it right up there with The Two Escobars and Pony Excess. Bill Simmons has done something pretty awesome with this sports documentary genre.
 
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Caught it on late recently and stayed up way later than I should because I had to see it. Truly awesome stuff.
 
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Watching it now. One thing I don't understand, they talked about a wake forest game they played where they said wake forest wanted the last shot, so they held the ball for the last 3 minutes. Which would suggest no shot clock.

Then when they're in the tourney, they talk about a game against VA where they hit a shot with only a few seconds left on the shot clock. Was there no shot clock in regular season play back in the 80's?
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
Watching it now. One thing I don't understand, they talked about a wake forest game they played where they said wake forest wanted the last shot, so they held the ball for the last 3 minutes. Which would suggest no shot clock.

Then when they're in the tourney, they talk about a game against VA where they hit a shot with only a few seconds left on the shot clock. Was there no shot clock in regular season play back in the 80's?
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It was a conference by conference thing. I'm thinking the SEC used to be a :45 clock before the NCAA mandated 35 and made it uniform.
 
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Also the three point line was a conference thing. Notice it isn't in every game from that season.
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
Watching it now. One thing I don't understand, they talked about a wake forest game they played where they said wake forest wanted the last shot, so they held the ball for the last 3 minutes. Which would suggest no shot clock.

Then when they're in the tourney, they talk about a game against VA where they hit a shot with only a few seconds left on the shot clock. Was there no shot clock in regular season play back in the 80's?
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There was a game, I can't remember which one, tourney I think. They didn't have a 3 pt line, but they talked about early against Virginia that it was a big weapon for them. Then I noticed some courts had a 3 pt line while others didn't. Kinda strange.
 
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Was one of the better 30 for 30's IMO The book Personal Fouls was an interesting read as well.
 
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