The one thing the people on this board have in common is that we are all diehard Duquesne basketball fans. I’ve been reading these posts for several years before joining myself. It’s been decades since many of us have seen a team with the potential to make it to the A10 championship and potentially tournament. These players are functioning as a team and getting better as the season progresses. Let’s put our energy into supporting them and a strong finish to the season.

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PistolPete wrote:

CLK I too am just enjoying the ride this year and want to see it keep going. I appreciate City Dukes view, while also respecting that Wildwood 13 knows Bball (I know this to be true) and does focus on facts to express his views in a courteous way. I like to look at the glass half full and have always been an upbeat positive person so I choose to look forward not back as it is more exciting and healthy - at least for me. Phil you are entitled to your opinions and I don't disagree with some of your comparable facts, but it just seems reliving last year repetitively can't be enjoyable for you, can it?

My main point was that the article I was commenting on was jammed with provable falsehoods and either wild conjecture by the author or that author was fed, off the record, the idea that all of the players on last year's team were impossible to coach. That didn't happen last year. It happened this week. Why is that ok?

Did I go a little heavy on the KD criticism in demonstrating that this was not a "great" article? Sure. My bad.

Am I "constantly" negative? Read a bunch of my posts & you will find that not to be true. That includes the post you are commenting on.

I don't know KD the person & don't expect to. I know him as a public figure & the coach of my favorite college basketball team. In that role I find him very unlikable & thus far, largely ineffective. Isn't that the kind of thing this message board is for commenting on?

While those who have a different points of view than mine can expect me to occasionally offer an alternative opinion, they sure as hell won't catch me writing something about them seeking "vengeance" against the coach (City Duke) or questioning my interest in the team by referring to me as a "fan" channeling my "unredemptive hate" to derail the train of the team's recent success.

Yep, CLK you have me nailed dead-to-rights. I am actively trying to sabotage Duquesne basketball. That's quite an accusation. I thought we didn't do personal attacks on this board. What would you call those nasty things you wrote? Are you going to say that you didn't name names so your thinly veiled attack post wasn't referring to me?

Now, will you admit you went too far in belittling my fandom because it is not the same as yours & insinuating that I am actively trying to harm the program or will you just kill this post and/or ban me from the board?

I am happy to kiss & make up if you are.

First let me say I was not only referring to you about you in my comment. It was a general observation about the constant negative comments on this board, and the fixation on the miseries of last year.  Secondly, there is a difference between valid criticism of a coach's performance verses attacks on his character.  I have said this in the past, that you are one of the more basketball knowledgeable posters, however, your comments and characterizations sometime cross the line.   Finally, I am not looking to delete posts or ban anyone, but there are limits. 
 

Coffee that 2019 team started out 10-0 versus a really easy non conference schedule. They finished 11-9, 11-7 in conference for fifth place. I really don’t believe they would have gotten by that powerful Dayton team or have gone to any tournaments because of their strength of schedule. I know it’s in the past and talking about the past upsets some people. But the same core of players came back the following year and finished 9-9. I am really not sure how much COVID wrecked them as all teams dealt with that debacle. I want the Dukes to prove me wrong but I am still skeptical.