Two minutes before halftime of Thursday night’s 87-52 blowout over Cal, Duke basketball center Vernon Carey Jr. and shooting guard Cassius Stanley channeled their inner Jackie Moon and Scootsie Doubleday, respectively.
In doing so, the two freshmen pulled off in real life the exact same result — two points in the paint — as Moon (Will Ferrell) and Doubleday (Jay Phillips) did in the 2008 sports comedy Semi-Pro. Granted, the Blue Devils required a half dozen or so fewer repetitive feeds to the post on their version of the play.
Plus, unlike Moon, Carey Jr.