There has been zero…all anyone does is blame injuries or sickness or whatever. It is the way….truth is our schemes suck beyond suck…and we don’t adjust to continually substitute. No tactical scheme…nothing.
Official Gameday thread- Duke vs Wake
- Thread starter pisgah101
- Start date
Definitely the end of the world. We should start burning all of our Duke gear.
I predicted us to lose. First road game, 2 guys out. All the signs were there. I just lost my keys in the snow shoveling at work in a foot of snow (car and house keys) and miraculously found them in a snow bank. 15 degrees out. No spare key. So we can lose by 50 I'm happy. 
Not the end of the world. But seeing signs of actual coaching adjustments would be nice.
Our offense is worse than November…and the one thing destroying us this game on defense is penetration …
Pack it in…Go zone…
Stop overplaying and pressing and getting guys out of position to be burned by even more penetration. Have some sort of ability to see what’s actually happening in the game and at least put players into a situation to be successful….then if they get beat they get beat….but adapt.
Need we be reminded about K's first years? I wonder if he would have stood a chance if message boards existed back then.
This isn’t coaching this is the inability for the players to execute.
They are being asked to guard and trap and half court…they are getting blown by and completely out of positions forcing help from the bigs.
Or we foul…
How many 10-11-12 fouls this half….that’s continually putting them in position to fail.
Too late now though….under five minutes and down double digits. Now you have zero choice.
Flip playing like a freshman. Unfortunately Roach is also playing like a freshman
The chasm between good Roach and bad Roach is truly stunning.
If it’s this down second game into conference play Duke is in trouble.
Really wish people would quit referencing K. That was a different era. Players stayed . Scheyers biggest recruiting job will be to retain players .
In recent years, I have seen K with that philosophy, and it didn't have the best results. I know that playing that style is appealing, but you have to have the athletes and the time to allow it to gel, and with the focus being so heavily slanted towards the one-and-done approach, it's obvious that the time hasn't been there in terms of players. I don't know why they don't pull the defense back in a la 2010 and 2015. It doesn't make sense...
This team can beat anyone and lose to anyone, which is troubling.
It’s a message board.seriously! These players that are playing now have been the same playing together the first 12 games where Duke went 10-2. The students aren’t even in the arena for christ sakes can you really call this a true road game
It’s just a stupid default answer from people that can’t admit what they are seeing. It’s easier to blame a message board poster than actually admit what you are seeing with your own two eyes.
This team is very average…the offense hasn’t improved one bit since game 1 and the defense is getting worse.
They will blame injuries and say we need practice. We just had a ton of practice so now we will blame sickness….next time we will blame something else except what is clearly seen…no improvement is actually happening.
Losing to Wake by double digits. Yeah that's not good. Long season, but we look a bit average at the moment.
I will have you know I am a Two-Time Lazyboy Armchair Coach of the year. 2010 and 2015 where my valuable input was instrumental in Duke winning those two National Championships.
Piss poor performance. Guess the kids just wanted to go home for Christmas. Now we gotta wait another 10 days for the next game🤦🤦♂️🤦♂️
I agree Koach. I am lost with this loss. If Roach wasn’t 100 why play him? Lively and Whitehead haven’t been 100 percent and don’t know how much lively effects the rebounding. Has he been in double digits yet? Whitehead has been limited and scored 15 against pembroke state ( I know Maryland eastern or whoever). There are exactly 18 games left before the ACC tourney hopefully Duke puts it together.
I think it's fair to say any reasonable person saw bumps in the road with this team. A super young team that would need to rely heavily on freshman, and I think it's fair to say this freshman class is not a strong one. First year coach that clearly has a ways to go.
Hopefully we take this game as a learning experience, and we come out with a much better effort in 11 days against fsu.
Hopefully we take this game as a learning experience, and we come out with a much better effort in 11 days against fsu.
They better find a role for Schutt because this team needs offense badly. You can run him off screens and he opens it up for drivers.
There is no reason for him to be riding the pine like he does given what this teams clear deficiency is.
There is no reason for him to be riding the pine like he does given what this teams clear deficiency is.
This is going to be an 8-10 loss team. Literally zero shooters and no real leaders. Will have to grind a bunch to win.
Sweet 16 is probably our ceiling.
Sweet 16 is probably our ceiling.
You guys never know. A loss like this might inspire the team to play better and to their potential. Or it might be a sign that they suck and have no chance to amount to anything and should just throw in the towel. We'll see. But I do laugh at the people already whining about Scheyer. There's not a clown on this board that can tell him where he needs to improve that he doesn't already know. He may make it, he may not. But the chatter here is hilariously premature.
Similar threads
