Styles1229 wrote:

This is not good news.  EVERYBODY agreed this kid could shoot.  He was a local winner to boot.  I saw plenty of playing time available for him this year with Brewer and Q being gone.  It appears other A-10 schools as well as power 5 schools are showing interest so it's clear he was a fit for this level of competition.  He must have either been shown the door or inferred he was not in the plans (which is really the same thing.)  I will wait to see how things shake out before making a judgement but i'm not going to pretend this is a non event.  

Are you referring to ONE TWEET from something called “The portal report” when you cite Power 5 interest? The tweet said he has “heard” from 13 schools. One is Vanderbilt, one is UMASS, and the rest are significantly lesser programs. Who do you think gave this Twitter profile this information, it is the player dude.

One phone call does not equal interest. An offer equals interest, and I bet you he doesn’t get one from Vandy.

The kid couldn’t even make the playing roster this year on this team and you are suggesting there is any likelihood that he will go to UMASS and be the A10 player of the year?!

Maceo Austin was apparently receiving “interest” from Virginia out of high school and was a true 3 star recruit, a much higher profile recruit than this kid. He came here and didn’t cut it, and is now going to be playing at Slippery Rock.

The western PA area has been lite on talent for awhile now, and here is another kid who was overhyped. He was going to be going to ELON, another lesser program. There is no conclusion to make from this other than he wasn’t good enough.

Do you think they red shirted him, even though he had some great potential and could have contributed this year? If he was good enough, he would have been playing.

If 5’9” Kareem Rozier can play as much as he did as a freshman, then there is no argument that this was some mistake. He’s not good enou

CityDuke wrote:

Fordham still doesn't scare me in the slightest.

The last time we beat Fordham was January 27th 2021. We have since lost to them 4 times in a row. If I didn’t already live in Oregon I would say I want what your smokin.

Ironduke81 wrote:

City Duke please. Really.? Enough. Coach Dambrot & staff has done a great job this year. Urgo  like Schmidt are superior game coaches. Good news Urgo power 5 team within 1-2 years. My problem today is how can CoachDambrot takes T Al McQuire special in order to protect his team. Cowardice in my opinion. If he takes a T next round A10 playoffs much too late. He blew it. Protect your team. Walk the plank. Pathetic.Final note missing persons McGriff crime dog. Coach this was the opportunity to protect the Dukes. You blew it.

Iron Duke for once we are completely aligned.

City Duke, optimism is a good thing, but you sound delusional. The Dukes got their ass beat by 27 points tonight. Fordham took their starters out with like 4 minutes left.

We led early off ridiculous shooting, that is not sustainable. Defense was absolutely atrocious in this game and when the shots stopped falling, that was exposed even more.

I am so sick of hearing about the refs. Did they miss a couple calls or make some calls I didn’t agree with? Yes, both ways in my opinion.

Was it the ref’s atrocious defense that led to a soft foul and easy layup for an and one immediately following Gunn completely losing his head in a huge moment?

RJ Gunn is probably damn near 28 years old at this point, to lose your composure like that regardless of the other players involvement is both selfish and naive in a huge game (senior night) on the road. I felt like we were completely screwed as soon as it happened. Maybe it should have been a double tech, but I’m not shocked the call favored them a little at home. That being said I could easily see that being deemed a flagrant and it wasn’t.

We blew a lead after getting out early, that is essentially the theme of the season. This team doesn’t play smart, winning basketball. There’s a difference between having talent and playing winning basketball and just having some talent, and we are the latter. That’s down to coaching a

Happy to be wrong about some of these guys, unbelievable performance tonight by the Dukes in their first home win against Saint Bonnie’s since 2016(!!).

They keep gelling and improving, beat a well coached defensive team with defense.

Love Roziers leadership, I can’t remember having a hype man like him in recent memory. Everyone chipped in tonight and that is how this team can be successful going forward.

Very encouraged, if we beat SLU I will be ready to call this team a real A10 contender!

I think we are at a point where we need to hit lightning in a bottle and it all to happen in a year for the program to be revitalized. Now with the free agency nature of college hoops it actually seems more possible.

One year where enough guys stay over and we nail down a recruiting class way above what we are getting. If we have a turnaround year like that, and I’m talking tourney bid year, I think by the end of that season fans are bought in, less guys leave, we get better guys the next year, etc. to carry the momentum forward. I don’t think anything less that that will change where we are. The coop is a huge asset and hopefully that and NIL could be leveraged in a way to accelerate the programs progression via recruiting.

If that ever happened, what a rush it would be. Dukes would be the darling of Pittsburgh sports, packed coop, and all the media coverage we covet. One can dream!

Ironduke81 wrote:

Duques102 wrote:

CityDuke wrote:

Haha I know we have certainly had our disagreements, but this is a stretch….on many fronts. I do not even know where to begin, so I won’t.

Lol this one made me laugh as well. I watch way too much sports, and can honestly say I think Ellis is easily the worst “analyst” I have ever listened to. I think Benz actually does a good job. Extremely not shocked ol “iron” has this take.

And when did he take that IQ test for you again?

This team is mediocre. I posted a long write up after the disappointing Dayton outing and unfortunately a lot of what we saw is holding true with conference play starting.

We have depth in numbers, not depth in talent. The guy who was supposed to be our best offensive player and scorer to carry this team in the league has been inconsistent at best.

Your number one option since VCU has given you 13, 3 (Richmond), 17 (St. Joes), 4 (Bonnies), and 10 (Fordham). See the theme? Excluding the VCU game, he plays better against bad teams, and when he plays real teams he gets completely shut down. Mentioned this as a concern in the long write up in the Dayton thread. Even his 10 against Fordham was an empty calories 3-12 performance from the field aided by some free throws.

The recruiting philosophy ***for the most part****has been bring in transfers who were good to very good at the MAC level, and think your going to coach them into top line A10 players? This is a different level my friend, the top of this conference has power 5 level talent. This coach called Tre Williams something hyperbolic like “the best center he’s ever worked with”. Again, from what is an inferior conference, an above average player who is 6’6”. What has that turned into? A bang average A10 power forward for the most part…….

Same with the freshman. Mostly kids from Michigan and Ohio. Hard nosed, under sized, under talented. We are commonly battling MAC schools when you look at who else is

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