***DUKE VS SYRACUSE OFFICIAL GAMEDAY THREAD***

[Dukesince90]

Brandon must gain some more weight

Maybe by 2020.

 

[Dad2ze]

I think that's ball game. Damn. Duke just can't stop them.

The way Cuse is shooting they could rack up on the basketball game at the State fair.

 

[jamsession3]

Plumlee will be in the LEAGUE!

 

[pisgah101]

Marshall freaking Plumlee!!!!!

 

[Dukesince90]

Never thought I would see a game where Plumlee looked like our best offensive player. Props to him.

 

[CRAZIE4LIFE]

It's the refs fault

 

[Dad2ze]

What a hack job!

 

[wcu1113]

Didn't deserve that one.

A lot to improve upon. Wow.

 

[RDBIPB]

3 in a row to unranked teams. OUCH.

 

[denverexpat]

End of game situations are just so poorly executed...in all 3 losses

 

[pisgah101]

Killed Matt ridiculous shoulda got 3 free throws. Awful just awful game outside of Plumlee

 

[Crank_it_loud]

Damn. I'll still pull hard for this team but This team is NIT bound, unless Amile has a miracle healing. Heads up fellas, still 2015 champs.

 

[WI#1Dukie22]

Duke gets all the calls.... Not that it should of came to that

 

[Dukesince90]

Lost this game because of lack of defensive rebounding.
Back to the drawing board.

 

[OldasdirtDevil]

WOW.

 

[germantondevil]

This team is going to struggle to make the dance fellas no go to guy in crunch time

 

[Jnood]

Does everyone besides plumlee have mono?

 

[duhondukie]

Damn. I'll still pull hard for this team but This team is NIT bound, unless Amile has a miracle healing. Heads up fellas, still 2015 champs.

I hope you don't get accosted for saying that!!

 

[K-oach Q]

Sadly...there are no answers to this mess.

 

[calibluedevil]

This year's team is bad in so many ways.

 

[OldasdirtDevil]

3 loses in a row (2 at home) with 3 road games coming up. It's going to be tough.

OFC

 

[TRU CANE]

Have to dig deep. Time for a sense of urgency.

 

[dukehokie]

We wouldn't be in these close games if we didn't kick the ball out of the MIDDLE OF THE FREAKING ZONE AND BACK OUT TO THE STRENGTH OF THE DEFENSE!!! That is just straight up bad basketball and kids are continuing to do that in all of basketball.

As a coach, I can't ever understand why you drive to the middle, the weakness of the defense, and then throw the ball back out to players on the perimeter. The amount of twos made will always outweigh the extra point you get every 3rd field goal, IF you shoot 33%. Duke has deserved to lose the last three on that type of basketball alone.

 

[wcu1113]

229th in defensive rebounding efficiency. Atrocious.

 

[Mpm277]

I'm not going to rip this team apart in all the ways we need to impove... We're just not a good team right now.

 

[germantondevil]

No sense of urgency to this team. That was a disheartening effort on Dukes end no grit at all

 

[dukehokie]

This team actually can play a lot better and they are fully capable. It's not that they aren't capable, but they won't do the things that it takes to win. Maybe that is coming. Its still just January.

 

[pisgah101]

14-5... If we get to 20 we will make the tourney no matter what IMO. Also we need to design plays for Marshall. He's capable it's ridiculous to say he's not

 

[Get Nasty]

Very confused why you wouldn't flash ingram to ft line all night.

No rebounding effort other than marshallmarshall

Bad shooting night

The team is in trouble

 

[Dukesince90]

Amazing what can happen in two weeks. I'm not gonna give up on this team, I'll still wear my Duke t-shirt tomorrow! GTHC GTH

 

[skysdad]

If it hadn't been for Marshall's great game we would have been blown out. My concern now is confidence. Are we losing it. OFC

 

[LONMUNU]

We made zero adjustments on offense. It was the same throw the ball around the perimeter for forty minutes and jack up 50 threes. That to me is on the coaches. That was just awful.

 

[madrussian]

well this is about as bad a stretch of basketball as i have ever seen. its kind of hard to see where this group is going right now.

if we can't hit the 3, this team is done. they can't defend, can't rebound and can't put the ball on the floor and score.

 

[DukeDenver]

Does everyone besides plumlee have mono?

Does mono mean "tired legs"?

Seriously, it's just mistakes. We make mistakes in judgement on half our plays. We have plenty of indiv. talent. We need to tighten up mentally, and it may be beyond us. Our guys are all trying to find themselves. They need to start finding the TEAM. Five fingers!

 

[dukehokie]

Sadly...there are no answers to this mess.

There are plenty of answers. What the team needs to do is actually easy and fixable, with or without Amile. It's time to scrap the half-court passing lane man, pack the lane, rebound and shoot when you're 15 feet from the basket, not 30.

This issue is not a lack of talent, which is the only thing that is comforting right now.

 

[K-oach Q]

This team is going to struggle to make the dance fellas no go to guy in crunch time

Still unlikely IMO. But it's not grasping at straws as of this moment.

 

[dukiejay]

There's not really much to say. Duke just isn't very good. I think many of us knew that, relatively-speaking, this wasn't going to be a great Duke team. That said, I wasn't anticipating this. It's a struggle right now....and while we miss Amile, that's not the only thing to blame here.

 

[denverexpat]

Disappointed that no adjustments were made against the zone - the offense was one dimensional. JWILL is dying on ESPN, I think he is embarrassed with this team - he's all over the guard play and the lack of rebounding. This team needs to find a chip on its shoulder and play like they are mad. Too soft at the moment.

 

[DukeCorey21]

Yeah, I think this team might have a tough time making the tournament. Just too many bad losses. This was their easy part of their schedule. I guess the good news is there is a lot of big games they can still win. We will see what this team is made of. But I think the depth is the issue and I don't know if Amile will be enough. I will be pulling for them.

 

[dukehokie]

well this is about as bad a stretch of basketball as i have ever seen. its kind of hard to see where this group is going right now.

if we can't hit the 3, this team is done. they won't defend, won't rebound and won't put the ball on the floor and score.

Fixed it with Bold. It's a matter of WON'T with this team, not CAN'T.