Off-season thoughts
- By christophero
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Great news we just got older and better. He did say in his post that he will continue to test the draft waters.
Think we will like him.Coward said in March that he was leaning towards entering the draft, but he may have changed his mind as he is projected near the back of the second round right now.
Sounds really good!Hart, I agree with your sentiment of Khamenia being an X Factor for Duke next season.
His natural position is the 3. He plays aggressive, is a good shooter, and gets after it on both ends. Hopefully he and Evans are working to put some good muscle on this off season.
I was just speaking on no transfers and roster construction . It seems like Jon is starting to want more retention and then recruit around those returning . Duke retained most of their role players who are expected to contribute more next season. This its self would scare off most big name portal players and in return allows Jon to focus on specific needs for the roster .Next year's roster isn't even set yet, so it strikes me as a little early to start discussing the year after that. Boozer is still in high school, but you are concerned about what happens when he leaves Duke? C'mon, Shey, get a grip!
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Looks like Joe Tipton pit a prediction for us to get Coward
BCG, somehow I keep coming back to him as somewhat of an X factor for next year.
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Next year's roster isn't even set yet, so it strikes me as a little early to start discussing the year after that. Boozer is still in high school, but you are concerned about what happens when he leaves Duke? C'mon, Shey, get a grip!Here is what could be at play . We know Duke will loose both Cameron and Evans after next season. Brown will have exhausted all of his eligibility. You maintain a core of Foster, Harris, Kkamenia and big Pat who will all get vital experience this season . The other issue is who in the portal wants to come this season simply to be a back up? There are only two spots really up for grabs. PG and SF. I really think we got spoiled with Sion. He stepped right into the starting pg role even though you had Proctor and Flagg who could also bring the ball up. It just isn’t about championships with players any more it’s who’s willing to dish out the most money .
Or one that could get open against the pressI agree with others that it seems we will have a little fall off with next season's team. The stats show Duke to have been a very balanced team, but I think that's a little misleading. In the 4 games we lost, the others all seemed to tighten up. In those moments, everyone watching knew where we were going with the ball. And we all prayed he'd pull us through, and it looked like his teammates were too.
We didn't have a guard that was a true playmaker.