How to beat Duke

[RipCity]

We have to attack Okafor. He's a solid rim protector, but you have to hope you can draw a couple of fouls on the big freshman, making Okafor miss out on minutes rather than Brimah. Hope Boat and Brimah step up and realize if they get Okafor in foul trouble they're taking Duke's gameplan away from them.

 

[TheRogers]

We always play to the level of our competition. Have we heard this story before: Awesome freshman guard vs experienced point guard (2014). Unstoppable center vs average center (1999). I'm not saying the pups are favored, All I know is that the other team will have their share of battle scars...maybe even a little bit more than the pups!

 

[mauconnfan]

My premise is hope we can bloody the game up with Tsam on the defensive end and get enough scoring out of D Ham and Boat and hopefully a reasonable amount of production out of Amida.

I think Amida can be successful against a high major big like Okafor, he just needs to see 1 or 2 of his early moves go through the hoop.

It's so tough to decipher who gets the minutes from TSam, SamJr and now maybe Omar. Sam is the best defender no doubt but does that make up for the fact he's a liability on the other end, especially against what will probably be one of the better man-to-mans he will see? Sam Jr is slower, better with the ball and still will make them think about him making shots but he can't guard one of Cook, Jones, Jones, Sulaimon for long. And Omar, well we jus don't know anything.