CityDuke wrote:

What a shame.  Too many poor individual performances tonight.  Negative impact from our 4-men.  Gunn and Williams were horrendous.  Dambrot cut them out completely the last 10 minutes of the game, but almost wish he did it sooner.  I respect his loyalty to guys that have earned it, but man were they bad.  The moment seemed too big for McGriff tonight.  And with Grant in foul trouble, we needed at least something from him and got nothing. No one on the team has been in this tourney before and it showed.  We lost to a worse team and that hurts.

They beat us with 1on1 park ball.  Brantley and Brickus iso'd and we couldn't contain them tonight.  We could not get a stop in the second half.  The few times we played solid defensive possessions, we either gave up an offensive rebound or the refs (Leslie Jones in particular) bailed out jump shooters and sent them to the line.  Nothing Dambrot can do about players losing individual matchups and missing free throws.  I am 100% certain this staff will plug the holes that showed themselves at the end of the season.  If we can keep the core, I am very excited about next year.  Disappointing end but all in all a great season in the right direction and something to build upon.

It's pretty obvious the guy can't coach at this level and has pretty much more than shown he doesn't know how to  put the right combinations on the court at given times. Constantly pulled guys who had a hot hand or kept guys in way too long who weren't performing. It was hard to watch. Not sure sure this guy can get a team with 13 McDonald All Americans into the tourney let alone win a game in one. Made his millions off of Lebron and his coattails of a team at Akron which had loads of talent, but maybe one NIT win and a 40 plus point NCAA loss. You got to get over this guy if you want  this program to go forward.

This performance pretty much sums up the Dambrot era. A lot of talent, but no post season bids. PATHETIC at best.

This team is a fraud, the coach is a fraud. Got to blow it up! Going NOWHERE with this dinosaur. Glad he got his 500th win, his accolades from Lebron, but in the end this team is NOT well coached, and sure as hell doesn't know how to coach at this level. Pretty evident at this point even to you Dambrot blowhard/diehards. NOT THE ANSWER obviously.

Horrible call on Rozier

Brewer, Reese, Rotroff, Grant, and McGriff. That's the lineup that should be most used.

Clark better step up his game both offensively and defensively if the Dukes are going to win this one. He's been beaten three times off the dribble/head fakes already.

WashPaRick wrote:

Why do I get nervous before a game?  I'm not playing.

I hear you. Especially the ones against Philly teams where they are the favorite. Get it done Dukes!
 

DuqBlue wrote:

coffee wrote:

Yeah... Dukes suck... 20 wins and 10 in conference it terrible progress after last season.

Fire Dambrot just like we fired the last coach who won 20 at Duquesne.

There are so many coaches out there dying to take this job.

Maybe we can talk Ferry into coming back!

Honestly... quit the whining... suck it up and stop thinking we have to win them all in a competitive conference. Remember we were picked last but kicked some ass including VCU.

How many of you would turn down 6th place and playing for a double bye in our last game at the start of this season?

Win a couple in the tournament and all you whiners will be fans again.

It’s not whining when it’s been the truth since 1977. I respect your opinion to be positive and I liked your old football board. So I’m old enough to remember that and the history that is this basketball program.

Everyone knows the ending of the this season.

Yep
 

FAM wrote:

Thoughts… going out on limb here before the game is over…
-they are better than us and play better defense than us…
-we aren’t getting smashed because of the officials
-we better hope someone beats them in the A-10before we have to play them because they Will beat us 3 times
- George Mason is peaking and will be the tough out
-If we don’t get to the finals no NIT or NCAA again

Good chance the Dukes will be one and done.  The CBI will be a very competitive tournament because there will be many 20 plus win teams invited in the 16 team field and quite a few that don't have 20 wins from the Power 5/6 conferences since the NIT is down to 32 teams. From what i've read the CBI has a real opportunity to compete with the NIT in the future if they can field quality teams this year in their 16 team tourney. No more invites to mid major conference teams with barely .500 records. This performance won't help our chances to get an invite to the CBI. They'll probably have to win at least 2 games in the tourney to get a bid. Not that they are deserving at this point.
 

townsonkid wrote:

Williams should be on the bench today, he’s costing the team points on both ends.
THEIR announcers are Fordham announcers. Of course they want Fordham, unlike Ellis Cannon for us, who likes the other teams players and useless stats.
Still at 11 pts. 15 mins left. They need one of those hot streaks.

Couldn't agree more
 

luckymcd wrote:

Rayrich wrote:

One scenario I haven't heard is if USL, Duquesne, Fordham, and GW all finish 11-7. Does anybody know what two teams would get the double bye? Hopefully, USL wins tonight because don't think GMU is going to beat Richmond tomorrow. Just a gut feeling.

Since we play Fordham, both teams can't win. So this scenario is impossible. As best I can tell, with St. Louis winning tonight all we need to do to lock up the double bye is beat Fordham. We have the tiebreaker over Fordham based on beating top seed VCU. We also have the tiebreakers over George Mason and George Washington having beaten both of them. So no matter which collection of teams are involved in the 11-7 tie we will have the tiebreaker.

Irrelevant now that USL won, but could have happened since Fordham is 11-6 and Duquesne is 10-7. Anyway, Go Dukes!