***DUKE VS KENTUCKY OFFICIAL GAMEDAY THREAD***
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I told you we would lose this game. I also told you we will be way better later. We will. If you're ready to throw in the towel now, you're an idiot. Many here did that bs last year after the State and MIAMI losses. Those same guys were here shakin their damn Pom pons when we won it all. K has a lot of work to do, but hey, K knows how to do work. Thornton is gonna be great, he's just not settled yet.
LOL @ ESPN trolling us by showing a 'Sheed / Maryland highlight during a timeout.
It was a very forced highlight too.. A basic dribble drive pass in a game against an unranked team.
It was a very forced highlight too.. A basic dribble drive pass in a game against an unranked team.
I do think TT looked very good. Ingram looked more like a 3 year player than a OAD. Luke just missed on several shots. Marshall was great. Amile was very good. Matt I must say, shocked me with very good play. We will be fine as long as Grayson learns to pull up and shoot once in a while.
Be patient Duke fans. This team has the tools. It will be a fun year.
It does seem K was developing him late this half. Your prob right I could def. see it sooner than later. We need PG play.
Two turnovers to finish the game seems about right....a lot to learn from this and improve - Guard play is key so hopefully we dont meet too many great guards for a while...11 pt loss playing very poorly except Plumlee/Amile...can only get better
Tough game but we fought to the end. Proud of those kids.
DT looked better and better, more assertive.
Jefferson played great.
Bad game for Grayson, but I'm confident he will rebound and grow in his new leadership role. Ingram will learn a lot too.
Keep working hard fellas.
DT looked better and better, more assertive.
Jefferson played great.
Bad game for Grayson, but I'm confident he will rebound and grow in his new leadership role. Ingram will learn a lot too.
Keep working hard fellas.
I always appreciate your perspective.
I wanted to see how our younger players would respond and it wasn't pretty. I think anyone with a sense of reality knew we may have some growing pains. I was still very disappointed with our FT shooting, a lot of games are won and loss from the line.
I an clearly watching on the TV, and again, he's good, he's just not the best guard in the nation, the way many are building up to be.
Wow, look at you, you're a prophet. Go pat yourself on the back which seems to be your M.O... Arrogant punk
5times and a few others are making a run at it, haha.
I agree, Dbav. Our players kept playing. I don't like to lose, but a lot can be learned from a loss. We might take a few lumps but I believe we've got the pieces to make a deep run by March.
OFC
This had nothing to do with Kentucky. Duke wasn't ready. We played young. Unfortunately we were use to last year and looking young. This team was bad tonight. They can and will get better, but we clearly bare not ready for the big time right now
Yep, being serious. And 7-17 shooting is clowning Duke? I guess Matt Jones clowned UK as well. So, so crazy, eh? SMH.
Amen my friend. They could have given up with 12 minutes to play and lost by 25. Never came close to happening.
Difference between us and UK fans. We know it's the 3rd game of the season so we're not in panic mode because we lost early.
Welp, as with some of you, I am not panicked. Frustrated? Certainly, but I trust that K will wake their asses up soon. Ingram needs to grow up a bit, Grayson needs to settle down, DT is coming around, and MP3 and Amile need to keep playing like men. They were beasts tonight.
Thanks, Duke90. And as you said, as bad as we played if we could have made some fts (especially Grayson who is excellent) this game possibly could have been within reach to steal it.
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Yes, UK is a nice team. But both of these squads would have gotten run out of the gym by last year's teams. Murray's good. But, with the exception of Ullis, not sure any of the guys starting tonight would have played over their counterparts from last year's team. I mean the three ancillary pieces of Duke's championship team (Jones, Plumlee, Jefferson) combined for 48 points and 25 rebounds and largely dominated the front court of UK. The game was lost b/c Allen played a shockingly bad game and the freshmen were atrocious. Aside from a few good moments for Thornton, the rest of the freshmen seemed in over their head.
Ingram's going to have better nights in the future. But got to say I'm concerned about his maturity level. Seemed to stop competing hard when things started going against him. As bad as Allen was -- and he was atrocious, at least I never felt as if he stopped trying.
You know I don't like losing either, I hate it. But there is no reason to act like that towards others. You are allowed all day to have strong opinionated thought about the game, but don't act like a clown towards other posters here.
Can't add a lot to what's already been said other than I hope our young guys including Grayson learned a little more about college basketball tonight. Next game. OFC
Disappointed - yes. They better get the popcorn ready because I have a feeling they are going to be showing this game film a lot this week in practice.
Yep, on to the next game, Sky. Kentucky beat us, hats off to them, but Duke will learn from this. Next game.
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That game was rather meh on both sides. Even the atmosphere/crowd which I thought would be electric was off. Huge overall disappointment.
We'll be fine as a team though.
We'll be fine as a team though.
Duke will not play a better group of guards. Glad to see Thorton play well. Ullis to me is the best pure guard in college right now. Thorton looked quick, made some dumb passes. Proud of our bigs. Ingram will get better, tons of upside. Grayson is the only one who kind of worries me. Blueprint is out on him. I say have him coming off the bench again and let him just come in and score. That is just my opinion. Only the third game of the year and we will learn a lot from this game! Go Duke!
I'm happy as a clam that my Kentucky boys won tonight but ultimately this game means very little, aside from bragging rights. Both of these teams will grow a lot in the next 3 months and should they meet again it'll be a very different game for both sides. You guys got a good team and they'll be fun to watch.
Really when u get down to it we lost by 11 playing the absolute worst we could possibly play with a group of YOUNG guys that really just aren't ready and a of (who will be very good and showed flashes) that's has had little time with the guys. We will be alright but I do think we will take a few lumps before ACC play. I just hope we get it together and beat them heels
This is the game I worried about on the pre-conference schedule. UK came out on top but, you guys have a good group that will get better. UL fans are now saying they will finish ahead of you guys in the conference after this game. I needed a good laugh and they came through. Here is to you guys stomping a mud hole in their butts.
