Duke Mid-Season Thread

• swamisez

  

  Devils take on Temple tonight at Temple.
  
  Interested to see how the new look Devils play against someone that doesn't have a direction in front of their school name.
  
  Since Quinn Cook has gotten more PT, the Devils have raced out to early leads, have turned the ball over less, and have had more productive nights from the field and have rebounded the hell out of the ball.
  
  Thank God, after watching Seth Curry get abused as a primary ball handler and on the defensive end, it was only a matter of time before K made a dramatic change to the rotation and style of the team. The pace also definitely caters to the games of Rivers, Plum 1, and Plum 2. Mason Plumlee is not a back to the basket player, neither is his brother, but bot are now more efficient facing up and scoring on the break.
  
  Always felt this team would be more viable with a true PG like Thornton or Cook starting, took some time but they are showing flashes of what many thought they would be capable of. Shame it took a shellacking at OSU for them to alter the style of play.
  
  Temple will be a jump up from recent competition but defends the three point line very well. Should be a good contest.
• swamisez

  

  Duke on the ropes as expected. Temple spreading the floor and taking the duke guards one on one to the rack. May need to implement the seldom used 2-3 zone before the night is over.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Ccrunner... Doooooooooooook
• jordo212000

  

  Seth Curry has about milked that last name dry
• swamisez

  

  He's a liability for sure. Won't be handling the ball much longer. Not upset about this loss at all. Pretty much expect a team to spread the ball and drive 1v1 against Duke. Villa nova did the same thing in 2009, w much better players. We all know how that ended.
• holdingout

  ccrunner609;1039163 wrote:Duke 2 week layoff and then 2 cupcake 40 point wins did not get them ready for this game

  come on cc, you can do better than that.
• wildcats20

  

  Temple is a better team than Dook.
• wildcats20

  

  Ok.
• centralbucksfan

  Exposed again.
• Laley23

  

  Remember when we were all subject to the Seth Curry is better than ______ phase. Thank God that ended...although Im sure CC still thinks the kid is good and better than Steph cause he plays a big time school and Steph was at Davidson...
• hoops23

  

  ccrunner609;1039241 wrote:Curry had to sit a year then got limited experience watching Coach K play Irving knowing he was a 1 and done. If he would step up and lead, they would be better

  Seth Curry sucks.
• Mulva

  

  ccrunner609;1039241 wrote:got limited experience watching Coach K play Irving knowing he was a 1 and done

  Except for those 26 games Irving didn't play in, including all of conference play.
  
  Duke isn't that good. They're a 3-4 seed, but I wouldn't expect anything past Sweet 16.
• Prescott

  then got limited experience watching Coach K play Irving

  Curry played 25.0 minutes per game last year.
• chicago510

  

  ccrunner609;1039325 wrote:Sure but he took all the time preseason, all the attention post season.

  Get out of here. So Curry sucks because he doesnt get enough attention? Laughable
• swamisez

  

  Duke is getting better every game I think. Quinn Cook needs experience running the show, Curry needs to adjust to moving without the ball and being more than a catch and shoot player, Dawkins needs to learn to create offense for himself, and Miles Plumlee needs to work on his free-throws.
  Cook will be running the show by end of season I imagine, so Rivers will have to adjust to working within an offense and finding the right opportunity to create. Little by little each player is progressing in this area. The only player I see not improving is Ryan Kelly. He has struggled to find where he belongs in the offense and defensively for that matter.
  
  This was a true road game and Duke lost. Don't see what the harm is. Every year Duke loses to an out of conference opponent on their home floor. Usually it is St.Johns or Georgetown. This year it was Temple. The elite teams are so young that any true road OOC game against a non-midmajor would be a test.
  
  Hell Syracuse struggled to fend of NC State at RBC.
  
  Personally I feel this was a meaningless loss because we all know Duke isn't going to run the table the rest of the way. Keep getting better and prepare for a tournament run in March. Seth will find his new role, the Plumlees will adjust to the tempo, and the guy on the sidelines will get the most out of his team. He's been doing it for 30 years no reason he won't this year.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  duke blows
  
  getting better every game? yeah, that's why they lost to temple...smh at duke nuthuggers. you guys have an average team at beast..enjoy the first round knock out!
• ytownfootball

  

  swamisez;1039605 wrote:
  This was a true road game and Duke lost. Don't see what the harm is. Every year Duke loses to an out of conference opponent on their home floor. Usually it is St.Johns or Georgetown. This year it was Temple. The elite teams are so young that any true road OOC game against a non-midmajor would be a test.

  Jesus H...why can't Dookies admit that they got blown out by Ohio State. The game did happen...I saw it.
• swamisez

  

  Was referring to the scheduled out of conf. road game to a school in the Northeast (Garden, DC, Philly)
  The Buckeye game was part of the ACC/B10 challenge. Not a game sought out by the Duke staff to play in front of alums in the area.
  
  The OSU game was def a whipping, no doubting that.
• Laley23

  

  swamisez;1040468 wrote: The OSU game was def a whipping, no doubting that.

  Well thats cause you are reasonable. It is very much in doubt in the eyes of some...lol
• georgemc80

  ^^
  I don't know what you are talking about.
  
  The score says it all.
• Laley23

  

  georgemc80;1045231 wrote:^^
  I don't know what you are talking about.
  
  The score says it all.

  I can't tell if your serious or not. But I was being sarcastic. Some of the Duke fans on that OSU-Duke thread were just hysterical.
• georgemc80

  Im a Duke fan and the game was a no contest and ugly.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Laley23;1045888 wrote:I can't tell if your serious or not. But I was being sarcastic. Some of the Duke fans on that OSU-Duke thread were just hysterical.

  What is your avatar? Me like.
• swamisez

  

  Thursday night Duke hosts UVA. Bennett's squad is going to slow the game down, extend possessions, and let Mike Scott take defenders one on one when the shot clock runs down.
  
  Duke still hasn't shown the ability to defend the ball, well to be fair when Plumlees and Kelly are on the floor Temple and GaTech both just rotated them to the top, then took them apart in isolation. Still, the defense hasn't created many turnovers and hasn't forced many bad shots since Maui.
  
  Devils haven't lost at home in 30+ games. I think the streak may be the longest in the country. Gonna be put in jeopardy by UVA I imagine.
• LJ

  

  swamisez;1046830 wrote:Devils haven't lost at home in 30+ games. I think the streak may be the longest in the country. Gonna be put in jeopardy by UVA I imagine.

  1. Kentucky
  2. Duke