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"It felt good man, it felt good. There are a lot of people around the country who don't like Greg Paulus, and I'm pretty sure a lot of those people were rooting for me," he said. "It was a good highlight, and hopefully it makes SportsCenter."
--Danny Green, Daily Tar Heel
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Mike Patrick -
In his early days as a sportscaster, Mike Patrick worked regionally televised ACC basketball games in a reasonably objective manner. In 1982 he joined ESPN. He eventually became Dick Vitale's sidekick and steadily morphed into a fellow Duke lover.
Patrick and Vitale now feed off of one another in gushing over Duke and Coach K at any opportunity, regardless of the game they are working. Together they have produced such broadcast gems as suggesting that Coach K could 'coach the U.S. bobsled team to a gold medal.'
Patrick specializes in hyperbole. Recent examples include his statement that JJ Redick 'has about one bad shooting night a year,' and 'is the best free throw shooter on the planet.' He has become delusional in his worship of Coach K. While covering a 2001 Duke home game against Georgia Tech in which Duke ran its lead up to 44 points before holding the ball for only its final possession, Patrick exclaimed, 'Doesn't that just show what a classy guy Mike Krzyzewski is? He doesn't want to embarrass anybody.'
In recent seasons, Patrick has taken up the cause of defending Duke's astounding free throw advantages. Along with Vitale, Patrick regularly comments on how 'ridiculous' the complaints of opposing schools are, even as he personally witnessed such officiating travesties as the 2005 Boston College game in which Duke enjoyed 37 free throw attempts to BC's 13.
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