Off-season thoughts
- Thread starter pisgah101
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Florida at Duke ACC/SEC Challenge.
Man our non conference schedule is the hardest I’ve seen a Duke team play in a decade. Not a bad thing but it’s no joke.
What I gathered from the scrimmage based on videos from DBR
1. Sarr is raw but athletic.
2. Foster looks improved.
3. Big Pat looked good, and the transfer big looked decent.
4. Khamena a little slow but skilled.
5. Brown cannot scrimmage yet. Evans and big Boozer our best players.
6. Foster was getting by little Boozer pretty easily.
1. Sarr is raw but athletic.
2. Foster looks improved.
3. Big Pat looked good, and the transfer big looked decent.
4. Khamena a little slow but skilled.
5. Brown cannot scrimmage yet. Evans and big Boozer our best players.
6. Foster was getting by little Boozer pretty easily.
We need big season from Brown. Hope he stays healthy
The band is slowly getting back together. This site might just survive.
I never thought I’d say it but I hope datt shows up lol
Anyone that lives around Greensboro, if you would please drive around to all the Senior Citizen Homes. We're missing Hart. He will be easy to spot. Just look for the old man sitting on their porch wearing a Duke hat, arguing the AFAM scandal with tar hole residents.
I think the season will boil down to can Brown stay healthy, will Sarr be a consistent force and can Foster figure out what to do once he gets past his guy. Think we have more losses than usual but the potential is there for a run.
Duke will need Sarr to continue taking steps to get into first round convo and Foster & Pat to take their necessary steps
Khamenia is definitely a little heavy footed, but also very skilled and Uber competitive.
Need key guys to 1. Take steps (Foster, Pat) and 2. Be consistent (Evans)
Agree. We know shooting and rebounding are a must, but a really good point guard makes things easier for everyone on offense, and hell on the other team.
They’ve bought into the size/length at every position, which certainly helps the switchability on defense. Offensively, it will be interesting to see the variation they run.
Proctor was not a break you down, dynamic-type PG. He got his team into sets, limited TOs, and (at times) made shots when the ball swung back around. Much of the offense was either generated from the wings or because of the quick hitter sets. I’ll be interested to see if Foster adopts more of a touch the paint and collapse the defense mentality or get his team into sets role. While Evans, Sarr, Khamenia, and Cam can all score at various levels, they aren’t much for self-creation, so I’ll be curious what the offensive end looks like.
Agree on Proctor. Which is why I think it's so important that whoever is the point guard needs to be able to get into the lane, with the ability to finish. It opens up so many options offensively, and makes life on the other team tough.
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Cooper was expected, but Kon being so good as well made last year's team better than usual. Probably the best Duke team since 2002.
In theory, this roster is filled with guys who have positional size, can make a jump shot, and who process quickly with the ball in their hands. Will be interesting if someone is able to step up to the plate in creating advantages off a live dribble.
Cooper took a big step too, and he continued getting better throughout the year. Not sure the Knueppel output was much of a surprise given what expectations were coming in. Of the freshmen, I’d think that the inconsistency, and sometimes unplayable nature of Isaiah Evans season was more of a surprise.
If one of the questions facing the team this year is "Can anyone competently drive the ball?" that would seem to preclude the empty post offense that Duke employed so much last year and that still seemed very evident in the open practice scrimmages. I suspect Duke might eventually settle on more of a heavy post look with a smashmouth crush the opponent on the glass offense.