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Best game tonight-Duke @ND

RockyMTblue2 said:
North Carolina and Miami is on like 13 channels and who the heck cares. The games we wanna see ... well, they are nowhere. OK SC and K is one but still it is very maddening. Round up one hundred of your neighbors and force them to watch.... well, never mind.
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It's the ONLY reason I'm watching it. It's in the TV vs the computer.
 
ND ....38fg%....19% from three point land....they are not a very good offensive team this year...feel bad for Allen as she seems to be a terrific point guard but the rest of the team hasn't figured out how to play together... they have a 2=3 key players that think its all about them
 
DefenseBB said:
I am looking forward to seeing Patberg and Boley play given the fact they are getting more minutes now. I do think Lexi has an point to make and will outplay Lindsay Allen tonight. If the "real" Turner shows up, ND wins by 8. If not, I will be bemused watching McGraws Bench tonight and tomorrow.
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I guess it was a draw..... Brown scored alot more..... but Allen had a ton of assists and her team won. I suppose the "real" Turner showed up. Going into the game..... I thought it Brown and Turner were the two leading contenders for ACC Player of the year...... Turner pulled ahead tonight.


Orangutan said:
Got the All-American version of Turner tonight. 25 pts, 12 reb. Much needed on a night when the deep ball wasn't there (3-16 from 3).

Good win. Not beautiful basketball but the games against Duke usually aren't.
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Sooooooooooooooooooooo what are you trying to say ...... Mr. Orangutan
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triaddukefan said:
I guess it was a draw..... Brown scored alot more..... but Allen had a ton of assists and her team won. I suppose the "real" Turner showed up. Going into the game..... I thought it Brown and Turner were the two leading contenders for ACC Player of the year. Turner pulled ahead tonight.
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Muffet talked in her press conference about the difficulties in guarding Brown. She said they wanted to face-guard her but the ND players didn't do a good job of it. She thought Allen did a good job on Brown but she didn't put Allen on Brown until the late 3rd quarter because she wanted to make sure Allen stayed out of foul trouble.

triaddukefan said:
Sooooooooooooooooooooo what are you trying to say . Mr. Orangutan
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Duke's defense and preferred pace (usually much slower than what ND likes) typically takes ND out of their offense game. That's really all I meant. But I mean...yeah JPM's offenses are typically pretty unwatchable, lol :p
 
This was a game that sent me back on a time warp to some previous, prehistoric Big East battles.
Harry Perretta of Villanova -- who knows a thing or two about downshifting a game's pace -- obviously battle-planned this out!;) So, with that in mind, MM probably has the right attitude -- take the win and stay in Dodge to fight again (There will be nights like this...maybe not for UConn, but for ND this year, yes.).

I saw an earlier comment about ND having a hard time finding it's offensive identity and, believe me, there has been much discussion about this over at McGraw's Bench.* However, credit to Duke for slowing down things and employing it's 2-3 zone. Wish we could've attacked the "ACC" more than we did and we missed a slew of open threes.
However, kudos to Turner for rising above it all when she needed to (that's what she does and the simplicity of it is a bit harder than it looks. As an ol' power forward, I appreciate it.) And Lindsay Allen and Marina Mabrey did a yeoman's job of chasing Brown and Greenwell, respectively, around the court the late 3rd and entire 4th quarter.

* They've been succeeded in the line-up and rotation by potentially better scorers, but there's a reason why Michaela Mabrey and Maddie Cable are now coaching in college. Might be one reason why Muffet recruited Abby Prohaska to go along with Katlyn Gilbert and Jenna Brown.
 
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What is the story behind Duke playing better this season?
Has JPM hired a new asst coach?
 
trb123 said:
What is the story behind Duke playing better this season?
Has JPM hired a new asst coach?
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1) The addition of Lexi Brown and her presence as a vocal leader
2) The addition to the staff of a full-time strength and conditioning coach/trainer who ONLY works with women's basketball, instead of having to share said position with other sports (as was the case previously)
 
CamrnCrz1974 said:
1) The addition of Lexi Brown and her presence as a vocal leader
2) The addition to the staff of a full-time strength and conditioning coach/trainer who ONLY works with women's basketball, instead of having to share said position with other sports (as was the case previously)
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I thought she was tremendous last night. Might be good if you can get someone in to spell her for a bit....she played all 40 last night, right? That's gonna wear her down at tourney time (even Coach P acknowledged that in her presser). And your other two guards were not far behind.

On the other, ND ran Allen for 40 minutes and Mabrey for 35, so we're not far behind.

Quite the battle last night....(probably) see in South Carolina at the ACC tourney.
 
Dillon77 said:
I thought she was tremendous last night. Might be good if you can get someone in to spell her for a bit....she played all 40 last night, right? That's gonna wear her down at tourney time (even Coach P acknowledged that in her presser). And your other two guards were not far behind.

On the other, ND ran Allen for 40 minutes and Mabrey for 35, so we're not far behind.

Quite the battle last night....(probably) see in South Carolina at the ACC tourney.
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Though I would like to see her minutes reduced..... she is in tremendous shape. She completed a half marathon in the spring....... and also won the Iron Blue Devil Belt Award this year (awarded to the player who excels in summer workouts and preseason conditioning). The schedule eases up a bit.... so hopefully this helps a bit.... but we only have 4 guards available for play this season.
 
triaddukefan said:
Though I would like to see her minutes reduced..... she is in tremendous shape. She completed a half marathon in the spring.. and also won the Iron Blue Devil Belt Award this year (awarded to the player who excels in summer workouts and preseason conditioning). The schedule eases up a bit.... so hopefully this helps a bit.... but we only have 4 guards available for play this season.
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Yup, I just read about that in the ESPN article that was just posted. It's not even the physical exertion...sometimes it's the concentration needed to excel when you're marked. A minute or three here, that's all...but I did see the short bench in blue and white.

Ours just got a little thinner as well....Mychal Johnson had a separated shoulder (just like Brianna Turner did) and that's a minimum three weeks out, plus who knows what kind of bounce back. The only good thing from a team depth element is that Ali Patberg is back and playing, so hopefully our iron person, Lindsay Allen, might get a spell or two. But I'm guessing both coaches will ride those guards.
 
jdubct said:
ND by 10. They're playing at home and can't afford to lose another ACC regular season game if they want to win the conference regular season championship.
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ND---at home?? Usually a given--the refs are bought and paid for---(just to tweek the ND fans).
I'm not a JPM hater --they have done much better this year than I expected with the transfers--and look at what Uconn took away--without a word to JPM? Geno obviously is just trying to rebuild a dying team--by raiding top players around the country--Batouly (Kentucky?), Walker from Virginia, etc raiding around the country. And he is raiding the baby Cribs--case in point--Collier--still damp behind the ears--and Geno is putting his shark hook into her!! Has he no shame???
 
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CamrnCrz1974 said:
1) The addition of Lexi Brown and her presence as a vocal leader
2) The addition to the staff of a full-time strength and conditioning coach/trainer who ONLY works with women's basketball, instead of having to share said position with other sports (as was the case previously)
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Really nice article on ESPN focused on Lexie and mentions some of the off season Lexie and Rebecca were going through.
Brown helps steer Duke back to nation's elite
 
CocoHusky said:
Really nice article on ESPN focused on Lexie and mentions some of the off season Lexie and Rebecca were going through.
Brown helps steer Duke back to nation's elite
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Great article. I saw this on Friday. She's definitely been worth the wait. Earlier after her horrible outing in the SC-Duke game.... one of the Turtle fans on here asked me (with a smirk), how was the Lexie Brown thing going. I replied then it was going great....... and its still going great :cool:
 
Fightin Choke said:
Baylor does have a need for bigs, but we Irish fans prefer she stays in South Bend despite our logjam in the post. Brianna will get good minutes in games if she earns those minutes in practice.
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I've got a feeling that about now she's having dreams about ripping up that letter of intent and going with her second choice.
 
So is this what we're doing now. Just creating rumors whole cloth?
 
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Fightin Choke said:
Baylor does have a need for bigs, but we Irish fans prefer she stays in South Bend despite our logjam in the post. Brianna will get good minutes in games if she earns those minutes in practice.
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You can never have too many bigs.
 
Orangutan said:
So is this what we're doing now. Just creating rumors whole cloth?
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Yes. You apparently missed the memo.

I was obviously joking about her transferring to Baylor. I am sure that Turner is very happy with her choice and is getting a top notch education. I truly wish her nothing but the best, unless she is playing Baylor, then I wish her nothing but on-court misery.
 
triaddukefan said:
Great article. I saw this on Friday. She's definitely been worth the wait. Earlier after her horrible outing in the SC-Duke game.... one of the Turtle fans on here asked me (with a smirk), how was the Lexie Brown thing going. I replied then it was going great.. and its still going great :cool:
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Hey, I have an irksome comment on MCCallie with your correct observation here. CharlieBB has a Transfer thread that was updated today and buried within that were snide comments McCallie made about Geno taking transfers, which was innocuous enough back in May when she made them with Geno making his own nice quip back. What now bothers me is JPM had full knowledge of Lexi at the time (which I had either forgotten or not known) so while I have been trying to give her the benefit of the doubt on this years teams performance, what the hell was she thinking when she said such a hypocritical comment?
 
easttexastrash said:
Yes. You apparently missed the memo.

I was obviously joking about her transferring to Baylor. I am sure that Turner is very happy with her choice and is getting a top notch education. I truly wish her nothing but the best, unless she is playing Baylor, then I wish her nothing but on-court misery.
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Is it me or is today a day where everyone seems to be bothered by comments of dissenting views? A forum is a venue for banter and hopefully all of it in a good natured tone. Some topics are obviously more problematic than others but by and large we are suppose to have fun. Maybe we all were lacking sleep from a fun weekemd and tomorrow will be back to normal- otherwise we may be turning into VolNation and the constant negativity....
 
easttexastrash said:
Yes. You apparently missed the memo.

I was obviously joking about her transferring to Baylor. I am sure that Turner is very happy with her choice and is getting a top notch education. I truly wish her nothing but the best, unless she is playing Baylor, then I wish her nothing but on-court misery.
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I knew *you* were joking.
 
CamrnCrz1974 said:
1) The addition of Lexi Brown and her presence as a vocal leader
2) The addition to the staff of a full-time strength and conditioning coach/trainer who ONLY works with women's basketball, instead of having to share said position with other sports (as was the case previously)
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triaddukefan said:
Great article. I saw this on Friday. She's definitely been worth the wait. Earlier after her horrible outing in the SC-Duke game.... one of the Turtle fans on here asked me (with a smirk), how was the Lexie Brown thing going. I replied then it was going great.. and its still going great :cool:
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The Lexie Brown transfer helps Duke in so many ways. She's a gamer and I could see kids attracted to her/Duke.

On another note, I was just perusing the 2017 Recruiting lists and didn't realize that Madison Treece, formerly committed to UK (back in September!), has joined the Dookie class of 2017. Interesting one-two combination between her power-posting and Jade Williams more face-up 4 game.

With a little air-time, that was a solid game between Duke and ND. We had another tough one against Virginia. Frosh Jocelyn Willoughby can play. Reminds me of our own Jackie Young with a little of Miyasha Hines-Allen's physical nature thrown in there (she's a big guard).


9. Duke
(Prospects Nation Rankings of 2017 Class. ...selected images)


Jade Williams
TEXAS, Class of 2017
POSITION/RANKP / 3
HEIGHT6' 4"
#15


Madison Treece
MISSOURI, Class of 2017
POSITION/RANKP / 23
HEIGHT6' 3"
#137
 
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