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hart2chesson

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Devilinside said:
Besides, we have had several really good teams, including national champs, without game-changing bigs. So, I am with you Shey. OFC
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I am encouraged and actually intrigued with the current roster w/o another big. I think we get better outside shooting, and spread the floor more:

Flip, Mitch, 'Rese, Foster, McCain (Don't forget Schutt/Blakes).

Challenge comes on Defense against bigger teams, but I see Reeves developing to the point of supplanting some of Young's minutes, and more of a traditional lineup over time.

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hart2chesson said:
I am encouraged and actually intrigued with the current roster w/o another big. I think we get better outside shooting, and spread the floor more:

Flip, Mitch, 'Rese, Foster, McCain (Don't forget Schutt/Blakes).

Challenge comes on Defense against bigger teams, but I see Reeves developing to the point of supplanting some of Young's minutes, and more of a traditional lineup over time.

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Hart you're right. The shooting will determine everything moving forward. Spreading the floor should be the target for next year.
 
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DanTheDukeFan1982II

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christophero said:
Are we suddenly going to become a good shooting team? Because we weren't last year.
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I think we will definitely be a better shooting team next year. Defensively, we will see, if we don’t bring in a 5, then we’re gonna need to be a more uptempo high scoring team. For a Duke team: we played pretty slow last year.

-Proctor projects as a good shooter. His 32% 3 pt shooting was due to a horrid first 2 months. Remember, he should have been playing High School games during that time.
-Mitchell isn’t a good shooter. He shot 35% from 3 last year but that seemed fluky. He did hit some big shots. If he can be consistent on the wide open threes, that’s good enough.
-Flip shot 28% from 3 last season..yikes. However, his form is great, and he definitely isn’t afraid to put them up there. I’m willing to bet he’s around 35% this year.
-McCain would be an upgrade in 3 point shooting if Roach doesn’t come back.

We need to bring in a 5. I believe the thing this team will do best is rebound. Flip at the 4 is a monster on the glass. Same with Mitchell at the 3. Move them up to the 5 and 4 and there goes our rebounding advantage.
 
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For all the successful teams that didn’t have a dominant 5 and we’re still successful, Duke has had a lot of really really good teams that were just a piece away from being even better. I can recall years where we didn’t have a true PG that hurt, or they really lacked on shooting, or they didn’t rebound well. I think next years team is going to be really really good. I would just hate to waste it with having a weak link, and get bounced in the second weekend of the tournament.
 
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christophero

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I'd feel better with Roach back. Proctor is good but then its 2 freshman and Blakes and Schutt. So minus Roach that is a relatively inexperienced backcourt. We will be good but to be final four good I think we either need a transfer big or Roach back. We will see. Blakes will be interesting, that broken nose really set him back and he seemed to lose confidence. The person that picked us preseason #1 was assuming Roach would be back.
 
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orphanduke

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DanTheDukeFan1982II said:
I think we will definitely be a better shooting team next year. Defensively, we will see, if we don’t bring in a 5, then we’re gonna need to be a more uptempo high scoring team. For a Duke team: we played pretty slow last year.

-Proctor projects as a good shooter. His 32% 3 pt shooting was due to a horrid first 2 months. Remember, he should have been playing High School games during that time.
-Mitchell isn’t a good shooter. He shot 35% from 3 last year but that seemed fluky. He did hit some big shots. If he can be consistent on the wide open threes, that’s good enough.
-Flip shot 28% from 3 last season..yikes. However, his form is great, and he definitely isn’t afraid to put them up there. I’m willing to bet he’s around 35% this year.
-McCain would be an upgrade in 3 point shooting if Roach doesn’t come back.

We need to bring in a 5. I believe the thing this team will do best is rebound. Flip at the 4 is a monster on the glass. Same with Mitchell at the 3. Move them up to the 5 and 4 and there goes our rebounding advantage.
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If Roach does return, I wouldn't be surprised if he's a 38%+ 3PT shooter with a full season playing off-ball. I know many worry about losing one of McCain/Foster (Foster more than McCain) if Roach returns, but I really think it would be big for this team if he does. He can single handedly win games for us down the stretch and is such a clutch player.
 
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DanTheDukeFan1982II

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orphanduke said:
If Roach does return, I wouldn't be surprised if he's a 38%+ 3PT shooter with a full season playing off-ball. I know many worry about losing one of McCain/Foster (Foster more than McCain) if Roach returns, but I really think it would be big for this team if he does. He can single handedly win games for us down the stretch and is such a clutch player.
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Roach has been 31, 32, & 34% in his 3 years here. 38% would be great and yes it should help with him playing off the ball. If he was a consistent 38% 3 point shooter, he would probably be entering the draft.

I think the roster we currently have is Final4 good, but won’t be a dominant force. In todays era of NIL & the portal, there is no reason to not try to plug all of your holes (ours would be a 5 man.)
Many Duke teams have been blessed with guys returning & loaded with talent. The 06 Senior JJ/Sheldon team was a PG short, Paulus wasn’t ready. The Jabari 14 team had zero centers. Had those teams been able to bring guys in, the outcomes would have been much different IMO.
 
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christophero said:
I'd feel better with Roach back. Proctor is good but then its 2 freshman and Blakes and Schutt. So minus Roach that is a relatively inexperienced backcourt. We will be good but to be final four good I think we either need a transfer big or Roach back. We will see. Blakes will be interesting, that broken nose really set him back and he seemed to lose confidence. The person that picked us preseason #1 was assuming Roach would be back.
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I would love to have Roach back, but last year we had Roach and inexperienced Proctor and still made it to the final four. We would be pretty strong with Proctor, McCain and Foster and the wild card Blakes and Schutt. I still want that rim protector!
 
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jamsession3

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JimboSlice00 said:
I agree, this roster as it is today is a top 3 roster in America. I still think there will be alot of moving parts with names being taken out of the draft, and in the portal. I'm still holding hope for Holmes as there seemed to be alot of mutual interest there.
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If Holmes comes he needs to be team first, draft status second.
 
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Ah got it Shey. He's for sure the guy I think rounds us out, but he very well could not be in the cards.
 
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sheyduke

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Yeah, I think someone on here posted that Dayton was putting together big NIL packages and Scheyer just isn’t promising large amounts of NIL money to recruits which I don’t blame him .
 
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hart2chesson

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sheyduke said:
Yeah, I think someone on here posted that Dayton was putting together big NIL packages and Scheyer just isn’t promising large amounts of NIL money to recruits which I don’t blame him .
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Can't blame him either Shey. The amount of exposure a kid gets playing at Duke, and the NBA track record of Duke kids should count for something. Obviously, a Duke degree of course is a huge selling point if a youngster can look at the big picture(He can always come back to finish his schooling).

Of course if a young man is comparing NIL packages, it's easy to get caught up in "Who can give me the next deal??" I am fine however, with our young coach. He has a plan. OFC
 
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sheyduke

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Duke landing a big time transfers would need two things, IMO . A big NIL deal( which if you want money IMO to play at Duke then go elsewhere ) or an opening with a chance at starting .
Duke really doesn’t have that but your going to have to beat out the other two centers . If a big time transfer wants hard competition then bring him in but outside of that I’m fine with the roster .
 
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christophero

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Mgbako down to 4 schools.
1. St. Johns (hmm I went there)
2. Kansas
3. Indiana
4. Louisville
Would be a big get for Pitino. Indiana has already done well in the portal. Kansas could possibly add Hunter and MM.
 
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