levon1975 wrote:

Try not to think traditionally in terms of positions; I.e. point guard, two-guard, swing-man, Power forward, Center. The trend is toward position less basketball affording coaches the opportunity to play many different combinations. The important thing is to have versatility on defense; so you can readily switch and guard anyone on the opposition without creating very bad matchups. That’s why guys like Ayers, Baker, Okani and Acuff are so valuable in today’s game. They can guard up or down in terms of size matchups.

Reminds me of John Chaney's Temple teams. A PG, a post player, and a bunch of athletic 6-6 guys who played maddening defense.

Ya cheat ya pay.

 

God be with you ‘til we meet again.

Don't think any of us have cracked the code. 13 are on basketball scholarships, and the rest are either paying their own way or are receiving some other type of aid. DU is diligent about reporting and guidelines, so it's safe to say:
1. We're compliant.
2. St. Bona fans are apoplectic anyway.

 

No limits, my friends. To the roster, what this coach can do, or where this team can go.

Guys, I get that we want kids to get stronger, but this isn't football. We want them to be agile as hell with freakish leaping ability and good speed, too.

Ironduke81 wrote:

So sad. I understand his wife just lost her mother. Now husband.Two young boys to grow up without their father. I we on this board argue &  lose their minds over a loss. This is truly perspective in the overall scheme of life. Prayers to Dom’s family🙏

Truth.

1111 Vickroy wrote:

levon1975 wrote:

Jackdoc13 wrote:

How do you think the 2010-11 team stacks up in this convo? I was a student 07-11 and always felt that team was the best. Bill Clark and Saunders with full experience, TJ McConnell a freshman with NBA talent becoming noticeable, and BJ Monterio and Sean Johnson solid contributors. Hated that late season collapse, always felt they should have gone dancing, finished ranked 55 on Kenpom

Jackdoc on the Rice Team with BB, Bruce and Doug they also had 7'0 freshman Ricky Tunstall who was a house and played ahead of Freddie Moon who was very thin.  I saw them cruise past a solid Villanova team at the Palestra that year, even without Bruce, who got tossed for an elbow about two minutes into the game.  That team was LOADED and had more talent than any team that we saw at Duquesne since the 80's with Ron's early teams also very talented and the only group that could challenge the Rice team.  

I do believe Basketball weekly had that team in the top 25 for a week. Then they sort of semi-collapsed. Arnold got kicked out or left. That may have been the year BB got hung in effigy at WVU. Atkins had some big time battles with Sam Clancy

Yes to all of that, and for levon, Tunstall was not the starter. Moon was.

levon1975 wrote:

I agree with ‘81 and it’s not even close with those two teams. Even the teams with Tommy Pipkins, Kevin Price, Nick Bosnic and Mike James et al had guys that were proven scorers. There’s no Pipkins on this team!

Not being argumentative or disagreeable, but I have a few different thoughts from you and duq81 on the topic.
1. I think you have to give guys a couple years under the best circumstances to develop. This was a really crappy year for the Dukes: multiple COVID stops, two starters leave mid-year, etc. Rick Suder would've never been thought of as a "proven scorer" after his freshman year, and he turned out to be one of the best shooters in DU history.
2. Coach threw four freshmen into the fire and I think they all showed they're going to be players. Chad Baker was close to 10 ppg on a senior-dominated team and shot 40% from 3 and 80% from the line. When the season starts, other teams will be keying on him because they will think of him as a proven scorer. I think Okani, Acuff and Harris will all bring their games up a notch, especially if we give them a good PG and a post player who can fill the middle defensively the way Michael Hughes has.
3. Pipkins-Price-Bosnic-Price was a talented quartet, but not much behind them and they certainly didn't win many as a team.
4. Rice's second year (Moon-Atkins-Arnold-BB-Dixon). Talk about a guy not being "proven:" Fred Moon was a 5th year player who had done nothing for four years then stepped up and shot 60% from the field and gave us some rebounding. But Moon didn't do a lot of scoring. That all came from BB (15ppg), Arnold (15ppg) and Atkins (10ppg, whose season was slowed down by a bout of mono. BB and Bruce both lost about 5 ppg off their averages from the previous year. Losing John Moore that year to injury was also a killer. 

 

N/M

Welp. St. Francis was 0-29 in its previous games vs. Pitt, so it fit the profile that they wanted in a non-con opponent. Not only will St. Francis NOT be invited back next season, Heather will Lykely tell them the check is in the mail for this game and then change her cell phone number.

EAT  PITT!