Week 3

[Vowelguy]

suggestions for Duke:

Stop practicing defense. You need to be spending 100% of team and personal time on offense and scoring.

Recruiting needs to involve a scoring machine. Geno had his with Charde. She never knew what plays they were running, but in a crunch he could let her do whatever she wanted and she’d score. It wasn’t optimal but with out her, those years would’ve been even worse. Duke needs some pure shooters.

They iz a mess right now. I’m surprised they have scored >60 in any game, even against crappy teams.

 

[Stagnant]

I’m worried about the Olympics.

 

[Vowelguy]

Haven’t watched a lot of Baylor. But they look really poor so far. Maybe Iowa is making them look poor?

Baylor got a lot of credit for that win over Duke … which is now looking less and less impressive every day.

 

[Vowelguy]

USF up 18

 

[Stagnant]

True. Wins over NC State and Duke aren’t as valuable as we thought.

 

[BullDawg]

Baylor got a lot of credit for that win over Duke … which is now looking less and less impressive every day.

Plus Duke is benefiting from the officiating. 22 free throw opportunities for Duke, 8 for South Florida.

 

[Vowelguy]

Ohhhh is that Kyra Elzy on the Duke bench as an assistant?

 

[Zanzman]

Maybe Lawson is in over her head

 

[Vowelguy]

St Joes best Columbia
Troy beat Mizzou 100-82
Ballst crushed Cinci 83-63
Fla rolled over FSU 89-67 (another ACC loss)
Creighton lost to winless N Iowa
TexTech over MissSt
Auburn beat Rutgers
Houston edged Rio Grande 65-63

 

[Vowelguy]

USF too athletic for Duke

 

[nwhoopfan]

Wake Forest is giving a fairly good try at losing to North Carolina Central. That's hard to do.

 

[nwhoopfan]

South Dakota St. 72-63 over Gonzaga. A little closer than I thought it would be. Was a 13 point halftime lead. Zags fall to 2-3.

 

[Vowelguy]

Dukes upcoming games against SC and LSU are almost certain losses.

VaTech sodakst Belmont Syracuse ?

6-6 on Jan 1 is possible

 

[nwhoopfan]

Yeah, I don't want to hear any more about Lawson being one of the top up and coming coaches. I just don't see it.

 

[DefenseBB]

This video just in from Oluchi Okananwa Instagram feed….Singing something like “ I am so happy I am a Terp”…

Duke’s next two games are against SCar and LSU and the real possibility of a 3-5 record…ouch

 

[nwhoopfan]

Wake up 67-58 w/ 2:22 left, got down to 67-65 with a few ticks left and NCCU had the ball. But Wake came up with a steal and then a FT to seal it 68-65. Way closer than it should have been.

 

[DEFCONN1]

USF beats Duke 85-72. Duke is done.

 

[visitingcock]

This video just in from Oluchi Okananwa Instagram feed….Singing something like “ I am so happy I am a Terp”…

Duke’s next two games are against SCar and LSU and the real possibility of a 3-5 record…ouch

They have either Texas or UCLA before LSU,.

 

[dtbtbtb]

it's a mystery what is up with Kara...a clearly smart person with a deep knowledge of basketball from all levels as a player and a coach and for some reason can't teach offense....

 

[stwainfan]

Latham was back on the bench. Wolfenbarger didn't play because of strep fo Tennessee.

 

[southie]

This video just in from Oluchi Okananwa Instagram feed….Singing something like “ I am so happy I am a Terp”…

Duke’s next two games are against SCar and LSU and the real possibility of a 3-5 record…ouch

Actually, Duke will play two games in Vegas next week against SC, and then either Texas or UCLA.

 

[Bjbod]

Iowa takes down Baylor 57-52 in Orlando. Taliyah Scott unstoppable for the Bears with 32 of their points. Chit-Chat Wright knocked out of the game at the beginning of the 3rd quarter with a probable concussion. Announcers said this was the youngest Iowa team since 2012 or 2013....they grew up a lot tonight.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Iowa takes down Baylor 57-52 in Orlando. Taliyah Scott unstoppable for the Bears with 32 of their points. Chit-Chat Wright knocked out of the game at the beginning of the 3rd quarter with a probable concussion. Announcers said this was the youngest Iowa team since 2012 or 2013....they grew up a lot tonight.

I imagine you are liking what you are seeing so far from Heiden as a soph.

 

[GamecockFam]

Random musings looking through the P4 teams stats. While it is mostly meaningless, I think it is fair to say that a majority of P4 have played really bad competition so I think we can do some high-level comparisons, knowing that the data isn't good...

Anyways, just browsing through the stats and I noticed that Michigan State and Kentucky are pretty high up there in the team stats. Of course we have the known good teams like LSU and Texas that are lighting up the stat sheets, but this is just a PSA that these are two potentially underrated teams to watch and see if they sustain that success. If they do, then Michigan State is probably the #3 team in the Big 10 and Kentucky is probably the #4 team in the SEC with both teams being top 16.

 

[bballnut90]

Yeah, I don't want to hear any more about Lawson being one of the top up and coming coaches. I just don't see it.

She still is IMO despite that they're struggling this year. They came within 1 shot of making the Final Four just a year ago and the program has steadily improved under Kara.