Just How Bad Is Duke?

[Orangutan]

Tonight versus ND, they feature horrible floor spacing, poor rebounding, bad defense (if any), and more passes thrown directly into ND hands than would be acceptable in a junior high game. Can they really be this bad? Number 11 in the great USA? Really?

I think that's a little harsh on Duke. Their floor spacing was horrible and they turned the ball over a ton. On the other hand, they won the rebounding battle and their defense was very good (held ND way under season averages despite ND making a bunch of 3s). Duke beat Louisville and UNC in the past two weeks. They are actually good despite all their glaring weakness (lack of shooting and ball handling)

 

[ocoandasoc]

Actually, the Duke players took a quick lead the first couple minutes against ND. But then McCallie started coaching them....