Thoughts On The Late Joey Meyer

In 1991, Meyer was the main individual we knew about who believed that Duke could depose UNLV.

We were truly sorry to learn that previous DePaul mentor Joey Meyer kicked the bucket on Friday.

He succeeded his unbelievable dad, Beam, in 1984 and was fruitful until his most recent two years, when he completed 11-18 and 3-23. Preceding that however he did very well. He took over when DePaul was in the last a long time as a free and managed the troublesome change to being in a gathering, a battle that proceeds right up ’til now.

You may be asking…why is a Duke site discussing Joey Meyer?

Indeed, that is quite simple.

Meyer experienced childhood in Chicago clearly, and we’re certain he followed individual Breezy City local Mike Krzyzewski as he created as a mentor and clearly was very much aware of what he was doing at Armed force and later at Duke.

Also, he was positively exceptionally mindful of what Duke was doing in 1991.

After the 1990 title misfortune to UNLV – by 30 – practically the whole ball world anticipated that Vegas should pound Duke again in the 1991 Last Four rematch.

Not Meyer.

He went on the radio for a meeting and said that he figured Duke would win, He highlighted Award Slope as a critical contrast from the prior year and said he would be a matchup issue for Vegas. He likewise adulated Christian Laettner and Duke’s overall durability. He thought the Blue Fiends were a totally different group in 1991 and soon enough, Duke would demonstrate him right.

We think he likewise called attention to that Vegas had been playing tight, something that Mentor K positively taken note.

There might have been others who figured Duke could pull it off, yet there weren’t a lot provided that this is true.

We’ve generally regarded his knowledge on that game and his readiness to freely conflict with a broadly held conviction that UNLV would simply turn over Duke once more. It was splendidly discerning and we’ve always remembered it.