I had the absolute pleasure of being at both the Illinois and Miami games live, the only two times I have watched the team in person. This team is incredibly special. The way guys step up, root for each other, stay engaged, and the development of the Freshmen have been something I have never seen I think. The Tyus, Jah, Winslow squad started fast and kept going all the way, but that team wasn't as deep and physical as this team. We go a legit 10 deep with all of our players, its almost crazy. This team was fun to watch as they just meticulously picked the two Orange teams apart!
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This post is not meant to throw any shade at Proctor. He has always been one of my favorite Blue Devils during his time at Duke these last 3 seasons. He went through the sophomore slump but I never gave up on him. He will play in the NBA.
For context,
He gave donuts across the board in the Elite 8 loss to NC State last March, shooting 0-9 from the field, 0-5 from 3, and he didn't attempt a single free throw in 30 minutes of action. Tyrese was the only starter held scoreless in that game.
Proctor Provides Leadership being a Junior and has been Playing Great this Season, Especially the last month. He and James are Duke's Best Perimeter Defenders.
Proctor currently is averaging
11.8 points/game: 3rd highest on the team
3.2 rebounds/game: 6th highest on the team
2.3 assists/game: 4th highest on the team
.8 steals/game: 5th highest on the team
Shooting 43.7% from the field: 9th highest on the team
Shooting 75.5% from the free throw line: 6th highest on the team
Shooting 40.8% from 3: Tied with James for 2nd best on the team both behind Evans.
Foster is playing better recently and is no scrub. Hope he gets the starting nod while Proctor is out and Evans continues to Embrace the 6th Man Role.
Hope Proctor returns at 100% for Duke
For context,
He gave donuts across the board in the Elite 8 loss to NC State last March, shooting 0-9 from the field, 0-5 from 3, and he didn't attempt a single free throw in 30 minutes of action. Tyrese was the only starter held scoreless in that game.
Proctor Provides Leadership being a Junior and has been Playing Great this Season, Especially the last month. He and James are Duke's Best Perimeter Defenders.
Proctor currently is averaging
11.8 points/game: 3rd highest on the team
3.2 rebounds/game: 6th highest on the team
2.3 assists/game: 4th highest on the team
.8 steals/game: 5th highest on the team
Shooting 43.7% from the field: 9th highest on the team
Shooting 75.5% from the free throw line: 6th highest on the team
Shooting 40.8% from 3: Tied with James for 2nd best on the team both behind Evans.
Foster is playing better recently and is no scrub. Hope he gets the starting nod while Proctor is out and Evans continues to Embrace the 6th Man Role.
Hope Proctor returns at 100% for Duke
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Good post. I remember vividly last year in the Elite 8 Proctor was awful, we were up 6 early in the 2nd half and he missed back to back wide open three's, I knew then we could be in trouble. I also remember his freshman year against Tennessee, he was great and maybe our only guy who had a good game.
Personally I don't think the numbers tell the whole story on Proctor.
Other teams respect his 3-point shooting much more than James or Foster. This gives Cooper and Kon more space to operate. The floor is going to shrink when we play James/Foster together.
He is much taller than it appears on TV, and he has really long arms. This allows him to be an elite defender and a perfect foil to Sion on the perimeter, whereas Sion is all bulk and strength, Proctor has the length.
He appears to be our vocal leader. Watch during free throws when we huddle, Proctor is the one barking in the huddle usually.
If Proctor is out, I agree in starting Foster, at least for the FSU game at home and see how he does. I think Evans off the bench is an insane weapon that no other team in the country can match. We can win it all without Proctor, but I think we would be underdogs against an Auburn or Houston now. Staying positive he will be back in a couple weeks though.
Agreed DukeDallas. I think there are a lot of Leaders on this Duke Team though in their own way if it makes sense. Flagg steps up and does what needs to be done in crucial moments. Knuepple is Flagg's Robin on the offensive side of the court. Proctor and James are the 1-2 punch guarding the opposition's best perimeter players. Maluach/Ngonba/Flagg/James are the rim protectors. Brown is the team's Secretary of Defense. Evans is Duke's Super 6th Man and Energizer Bunny. Gillis is Duke's Glue Guy, he can score from the 3, give Flagg a breather, and defend at a high level. Ngongba scores inside the interior when Duke needs him to. James/Brown/Proctor/Gillis are the Blue Devils Vets. Foster is Duke's combo guard off the bench.
Most Balanced Duke Team I've Seen play for One Another
Most Balanced Duke Team I've Seen play for One Another
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Like everyone else, that was not a good piece of news to go to bed with but I think he’s going to be okay. That looked like an “oucher” (which I don’t think is a word lol) but I am pretty confident. Hopefully news soon.
Don’t read into the crutches thing, remember Maliq coming out in a sling? you must stabilize first until you can do the scans and know more.
Love this team!
Don’t read into the crutches thing, remember Maliq coming out in a sling? you must stabilize first until you can do the scans and know more.
Love this team!
Coach Scheyer added, “Proctor will be back, it’s a deep bone bruise with no structural damage, the bone bruise will be monitored over the next few days-weeks with no timetable on Tyrese’s return”
Great Opportunity for Foster, Evans, and Gillis to get more repetitions and gain Confidence.
Bone bruise and no structural damage.
Best news we could have. Love to have him back for the cheats game
Okay, now I can actually enjoy last night's win a little.
@The_Only_Blue you always come with the most up to date news. Thank you sir.
This is HUGE news! Let’s go! Although deep bone bruise says it takes a few weeks but positive news.
This is HUGE news! Let’s go! Although deep bone bruise says it takes a few weeks but positive news.
Thank you! I'm retired so I've been constantly refreshing Twitter looking for any update. Definitely the update I hoping for.
I can only imagine how bleed feels
And they don’t need him against FSU. Wake is feisty, but they’re also not in Winston-Salem this time either. (My hometown). Plus, it’s senior night for most of the roster!
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) well we all know it’s true so someone might as well say it lol.
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Amazing news!!!!!! Just a complete guess, he misses the final 3 regular season games but is back for the ACC tournament. Hope we see Maliq back really soon too.
Kinda agree but wouldn’t be shocked if he and Maliq play against UnC
Would love both to play and be apart of sweeping the cheats and officially ending any false buzz of them sneaking into the big dance as an 11 or 12 seed.
If we beat them next week, do you think they have to go on a deep ACC Tournament run to get in? I would think it would take that, but they're on the fringe right now with a terrible resume, so what do I know?
Unc's only win worth a darn is the Neutral Site win against UCLA. A 13 loss cheats team has no business being in the ncaa tournament team. Fully expecting Duke to beat the brakes off them inside of The Duke Dome and unc is not going far in the ACC Tournament, they may win one game, but they are not beating Clemson, Louisville, or Duke in the ACC Tournament.
I just don’t see Duke losing to unc and I’ve never been this confident before. The defense is just that good. The only way it is close is if the refs put multiple specific guys in foul trouble.
Definitely not impressed with unc winning against the non tournament teams of the acc.
Cadue still can’t shoot, Davis isn’t going for 40 points on Duke’s defense. Unc’s bigs didn’t just all of a sudden become studs.
Cadue still can’t shoot, Davis isn’t going for 40 points on Duke’s defense. Unc’s bigs didn’t just all of a sudden become studs.
I’ll put my Vegas hat on and predict we have at least one of them for the Carolina game (likely Tyrese) and like you, I would not be shocked if we had both.
I predict neither will play against FSU/Wake.
(I will say, though based on the comments from Jon if it’s now more a pain threshold thing, I could see Tyrese trying to give it a go against Wake.).
Bleed it, regarding your question, if Duke wins the rematch, I think the holes have to do some serious damage in the ACC tournament. Also, they have a serious trap game coming up after they blow out Miami this weekend. Holes go to Blacksburg after, and the Hokies play well at home. They gave a very good Louisville team a tough game the other day losing by five at home. Hokies are top 6 in defense in the conference, the problem is their offense sucks as they’re 16th out of 18 teams in scoring offense. They rank in the top six though in the league in shooting the three and defending the three. Chapel Hill College better not overlook that game.
Lance Thomas was diagnosed with a significant bone bruise in the second half of a 2/10/10 game vs UNCheat. The next game he played? 26 minutes vs. Maryland on 2/13/10.
The game where Zoubek Emerged!!!
Was that when we beat ACC COY Gary Williams and ACC POY Grieves Vasquez by 100??????
What a joke that K and Singler didn't win it that year.
Well, you gotta remember it became just about impossible for Krzyzewski to win ACC coach of the year awards his last 2+ decades at Duke. There seems to be a rule with that award that it must go to the Coach of the team that people thought was going to suck, but didn’t.
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