It should be much easier to insert Bagley (post player) than it was Irving (point guard). Plus as someone else posted, Bagley has played more than twice the amount of games that Irving had played up to this point in the season. I'd still like to get Bags into the line up asap to work things out.
Bagley's knee.
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Of course you are the eternal pessimist when it’s about Duke.
I went and read your comments in the Theo thread, and my opinion on that is this:
Of course you are the eternal optimist when it’s about UNC.
in regards to THIS season, Vatech and #11 Clemson are in the top tier of the ACC this season
top tier: uva duke unc vatech clemson
middle: ville ncsu flastate miami cuse
bottom feeders: nd bc gt wf pitt
The funny thing is, UNC lost to both Virginia Tech and Clemson in the span of just 8 days. But yes, we rolled these past few games because of the quality of the opponents.
Don't fall for his passive aggressive trap....he's a UNC loyalist who tries to rile people up here while "appearing neutral".
On my way to work today, I was randomly thinking about how versatile and how much depth was on the 2010-2011 Duke team and what might have been had Irving not gotten injured. Duke’s starting 5 of Irving, Smith, Singler, MP1, and MP2 were rolling. Then you brought Dawkins and Curry off the bench for the wing spots. Kelly and Hairston (minimal) for the Plumlees. Thornton, Curry, and Smith could all spend time at the Point Guard spot. Also, Singler could slide to the 4 spot. I watched them in Kansas City that November for the CBE Championship against Jacob Pullen and company and Kyrie and company looked phenomenal.
Just out of curiosity how many people on this board think he will be back? I am hearing more and more that his dad is getting involved and he does not want him to get hurt before the draft. I know some of this may not be true.
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Jay Bilas called it a "mild knee sprain" on ESPN.com today so who knows. Let's hope he and his family want him to come back to finish out the season.
It Is WIDE open this year! I mean we are beat one of the heavy favorites with out him.
We aren’t exactly dead in the water without him....
yeah we can beat anyone but I don't see us beating 5 good teams in a single elimination tournament without him
Idk what you're smoking but yeah we can
The program in general seems to keep injuries close to the vest, but K is a straight shooter. If he says he's close to returning, I believe him.
Let’s say Bagley comes back Saturday. If you were to tell me before the season that our only injury was to miss Bagley 4 games combined with a couple weeks of missing Javin/Bolden, I would have taken that. As long as we enter the NCAA’s with everybody.....
One silver lining...our roster is deeper in the front court.
One silver lining...our roster is deeper in the front court.
Besides missing opportunities to see the kid dominate in a Duke uni, and the fact this injury took him out of the poy race him missing a few doesn’t bother me a ton. I feel like it’s given other opportunities and also given K trust in others. I also think Bagley can slide in without much of a ripple effect. I still don’t buy the Grayson struggle relates to Bagley. I have felt and still feel this team is built for the tourney. Largely Due to #34!!!!!!!!!!!
We absolutely can’t win the championship without him. What are you smoking? We are on a nice win streak but we don’t look like a team that can win it all these last 3 games. I don’t see it.
You have to wake up to reality man. We won't win a championship without our best player. That's just asinine. He is the person that puts us over the top. He wasn't the reason we lost any games. Remember who that was
Yep the whole team. Not just one person made us lose any games this year.