Would be very happy to land either of these two players. Would make a great addition to what is already a pretty good looking class. Getting both would be tremendous. A PG would be nice but as pointed out by Levon I believe, we do have the potential right on our current roster albeit a bit risky to trust the position to a freshman or a player coming off a serious injury. I would point out that Sincere Carry was quite good as a freshman here. At any rate, let's get it done Dru!!

You may be right Motor, but I've seen little improvement in Necas offensively unless I'm overlooking something. Dimichele is intriguing in that we really haven't seen a great deal of him with his best play down the stretch and in the A-10 playoffs in '23-'24. In any case, looking forward to a big turnaround this coming season with 20 plus wins. Maybe too early to start with that! GO DUKES!

Really becoming increasingly difficult for me to remain a huge fan of college sports!
 

The only thing better than a 6'2'' PG is a 6'3'' or a 6'4'' PG!

Agree that Rozier is overused though a great ball handler. Corbett should never be on the court at crunch time in the last 5 or 6 minutes of any game unless we have a comfortable lead. Eli our best big by far. DJ3 needs to squeeze every minute out of him that he possibly can. Necas really needs to get his head out of his butt at times and have more court awareness. Bad passes and very average hands lead to too many turnovers! Other than that-GO DUKES!!

My God! Hope that there is a good outcome to all this somehow for reasons I mentioned earlier.
If accurate, this has the potential to ruin a kid's life.

To me, Eli has to stay. No idea what his upside may be, but he is the MVP in the paint right now.
Can do what no other big is capable of at this point. Just needs to stay away from fouling as much. Has to learn to give up a basket now and then rather than a "and one."
 

NapaDuke wrote:

I believe he qualifies to be redshirted if he doesn't try to play the rest of the season, and he isn't really able to contribute this season at this point.
 

Can't imagine that Jake hasn't been redshirted but it would be nice if the athletic dept. could be a bit more forthcoming with news about this sort of thing.

Ironduke81 wrote:

If they lose to Richmond this Wednesday they stink. I have watched Richmond on tv & at Bill & Mary. Terrible team. However, like the UMASS game Coach Martin adjusted at halftime & Coach Joyce as well as the players struggled. The Richmond coach is very good. I do like Coach Joyce upside. After all this is his first year as a head coach. This team needs a point guard next year. The strength of A10 competition has always been the guard play.

Totally agree that the A-10 is a guard-oriented league. However, it would be nice to see a big get the ball to go through the net once in a while. Thinking of the Bonnies Osunniyi of a few years ago. Not a bad player. Put him on this Dukes team and my guess is we would have a whole lot more wins.

Really don't know what to expect from the Dukes today! 
Need to see better play from our bigs and some consistency from our guards.
Corbett could be a big factor today.
Be there in section 110 as always. Here's hoping!
GO DUKES!

Truly a disappointment yesterday. I'm baffled by Dixon's lack of development offensively. As a freshman he showed flashes of what looked to be a very high ceiling but seeing very little improvement in that area. Should have been able to develop offensive moves in the paint and strong finish by now but seriously lacking them in my view. Thought he would be a double-digit scorer. Any thoughts here? Anyway-GO DUKES!!

Was a great atmosphere at the Coop Monday nite. Looking forward to many more games there this season. As badly as we played at times, we almost pulled it out against one of the better teams that we will play this season IMO. Totally impressed with Bisons. Looking forward to being at full strength soon. Hoping that Chabi can get healthy and contribute this season and of course Williams as well. Need all hands on deck! GO DUKES!

CLK wrote:

I think the key to success this season is to get this team to gel early. To do that Coach Dru needs to identify is 5 best players and give them the most minutes.  There is no question that there is a lot of talent and depth on this team, but IMHO he can't play 13 guys.  Dambrot learned this lesson last season trying to keep everyone happy.  It didn't work, and to his credit he me made a decision to shorten the bench and play his best players, and the rest of the story was historic. Dambrot mostly played 8-10 guys down the stretch in terms of minutes.  There were some guys who were not happy, and I think Dambrot felt bad for them, but he did what he had to do.  I think Dru will have to do the same thing to be successful.  Pick your 5 best guys and go with it.  The competition will be for the next 3 to 5 guys coming off the bench.  Let's face it college basketball is a business. It is not like kids tee ball where everyone is entitled to play.  Every player has a job and gets paid. Player minutes are earned by work and performance, and the coaches get paid based on the performance of the players.  I am optimistic about this season based on the talent level of this team. Now it is up to Coach Dru and staff to bring it home.

GO DUKES  

Couldn't agree more CLK. It was a major problem last year early on. Have to think that DJ has to know this and will divide the PT wisely. Can't have too many cooks in the kitchen even though our depth is one of our major strengths. I would put our first 10 players up against any other A-10 team's first 10.
GO DUKES!!