***DUKE VS SYRACUSE OFFICIAL GAMEDAY THREAD***

[OldasdirtDevil]

Too many Duke downers on this board for me right now. We care gonna win. OFC

Yeah, you would think we are down 15 to a crappy team. We're on the road against an excellent team, a record crowd, we're missing Zion and having to juggle combinations to try to find a consistent effort...and we're still hanging in there. Doing pretty good in my mind (except of course the 3 point shooting).

OFC

 

[LetsGoDuke83]

I am sorry fellas, I love K but this is as much on him as it is the kids. We look lost on both ends of the floor.

Yeah... looking at bit lost on both ends. Hoping we can get it together

 

[Hurley22]

He hasn’t played all year, since the redshirt is burned he deserves to make his case for playing time. Deserves the chance for judgement to be delayed... I’m rooting for him. But if your first impression of him in this half so far is positive, I’d like to know what you saw.

What in the world did you expect him to do? Drop 20 in the first half? There is not a big enough sample size to even comment on it IMO. First half of college basketball he has played and its an ACC road game that is the biggest crowd EVER at that. Can we give him maybe a full game before criticizing him?

 

[christophero]

Baker can't just start out playing 20 minutes. He needs to be eased in. I wish it were sooner in the season, but who knew our 3 point shooting would remain this poor? I like it.

 

[crazyduke3]

RJ Barrett is so great. Come on boys, let’s do it!

 

[DukeSky85]

You know we give THR a bunch of grief when their board losses it..some of us are just as bad..it’s going to be ok...

 

[springsportster]

Rebounds are the key

 

[Mac9192]

Kentucky has progressed, Carolina had progressed, and we have not. We are a 2 man show and one of the 2 is out right now. Unless we start knocking down shots we are at best a Sweet 16 team.

The part about the holes and uk is what has us more disturbed. They are getting better, we aren’t.
We are legit with Zion, he’s that good. The problem is, like you said, where does any consistent scoring come from other than Zion and RJ.

 

[dbav]

Let's go fellas. Big second half. Keep fighting!

 

[Austinduke]

Like putting Tre in the middle of the zone to create

 

[christophero]

Slaps floor. Ow.

 

[DukeRulesBasketball]

There we go. Get in the middle of the zone

 

[Louisville Crazie]

Nice plan to start. Let jones work the middle

 

[dbav]

Smart. Get our mid range shooters into mid range positions.

 

[LONMUNU]

Good sign that Tyus is getting it going.

 

[BeerPoisoning]

Too many Duke downers on this board for me right now. We care gonna win. OFC

We are fans discussing the game... Not motivational speakers in the locker room with them. I don’t think anyone is being a downer, just rather frustrated with the excessive 3PT attempts. Outside of RJ’s offense and Javin’s defense, there isn’t much to brag about right now.

 

[dbav]

Slim reaper! What a pass by RJ.

 

[DukeSky85]

AOC!!

 

[Buzzooka Joe]

This whole game, I’ve not felt like I’ve been watching DUKE.. not sure why.

 

[crazyduke3]

Javin hands... oof.


RJ with great defense. Tre nice shooting.

 

[germantondevil]

Skip pass and great shot OConnell

 

[ioliva]

It’s amazing how much better shot selection makes this team.

 

[Louisville Crazie]

Very patient on offense. I like it. Didn’t like that foul by cam though

 

[denverexpat]

Flop

 

[Duke1783]

347 I believe.

Just making sure we weren’t last

 

[LetsGoDuke301]

Any game we win without Zion is a bonus. The big picture is getting him back healthy. Losing games sucks, none of us wants to see that. But I am not letting a poor performance or a loss change how I feel about this team at full strength.

 

[christophero]

I like how we look so far in this half.

 

[springsportster]

Jones is almost "willing" himself to be confident shooting. I like it

 

[dbav]

That was a very Scheyer-like shot fake.

 

[christophero]

The Jones boys have declared war on Syracuse!

 

[PixelDevil]

For as well as Javin has played this game, his fg% 2 feet within the basket is still too low. He should be finishing everytime he gets there.

 

[dbav]

Keep fighting fellas. You got this.

 

[Louisville Crazie]

Alex!!!

 

[dbav]

Old fashioned 4 point play!?!

 

[PixelDevil]

O'Connell!!!!

 

[denverexpat]

Javin needs to make a layup

 

[Jnood]

Crazy sequence.

 

[springsportster]

Glad to see the refs give AOC a foul after Javin got mugged 3 times

 

[LONMUNU]

Hell yea AOC. Man javin got fouled multiple times.

 

[Hurley22]

Boom. AOC! Javin getting after it