17-2 Dukes. Wow! Shooting 70%.

28-15 Dukes. Soko with 14. Five and change, first half.

Is everybody's picture freezing, or just in sunny California?

39-25 Duq and me and my wife are on 50 yd line.  Where's all those negative people at??? Fyi this drunk Duq woman fan is annoying as hell in front of me

Now you guys can come out since we didn't show up last 5 minutes

I attended game. .  What a pile of garbage this program is. 

At least I looking forward to my dinner at Fatheads now.  The next time I am going to go to a game I'm just going to take $40 and set it on fire.  At least I won't waste gas money. 

45 minute wait for a Fatheads table.  Oh well, at least it will be a good meal.

Last edited by duqkurt (2/22/2014 4:15 pm)

hardly any students. more Dayton fans. nice hire Amodio. Can you say welcome back Danny Nee. A friend i was with said what is sad is they will even be worse next year

lilpav30 wrote:

Now you guys can come out since we didn't show up last 5 minutes

I never understand the reasoning for posts like this. "Let me fan some flames, so I can b*tch about people complaining."

I think it's understandable that people who paid money to attend today's game are upset by what they saw, and DU Nation in general is frustrated after today. I left exactly at halftime to go out with my family thinking we had this one in hand, and came home to find out that we lost. We're clearly not improving in the final month of the season. I'll leave it there.

I really used to take Duquesne basketball seriously. Like Rick, I'm sitting there at halftime knowing that we would lose this game. When it started unraveling in the second half after WE WERE UP BY 18, it was like an out-of-body experience. Everyone is suddenly out of control. Passes right into the hands of Dayton players, coming out of a freakin' time-out with no play called and getting a patented wild-a..ed shot off with 3 seconds left, running the weave offense which never seems to get us an open shot, ever...And, of course, the one on three drives to the basket...
Sigh...

Why aren't some of us surprised?  Well, for starters a lot of the first half was unsustainable.  Duquesne shot 8-12 from three in the first half (yes, 67% from three).  That ain't going to happen again.  Nor is Dayton - a very good shooting team - going to shoot 32% from the field again.  The Dukes were making shots they didn't normally make, Dayton missing shots they normally miss.  The second half it was the reverse. 

Overall, a good college basketball game.  Yes, I'm very disappointed by the loss.  There's much to work on.  For as much as I thought the offense was coming along, the second half of today showed up.  However, the Dukes held Dayton on defense to 57 points, their second lowest output of the season with some very solid defense.  There's something to build upon.

While saying that this team isn't going to improve by leaps and bounds is true, we've seen progress.  After an out-of-conference performance that didn't see a top 200 victory, the Dukes hung strong with SLU, VCU, and Dayton for 35 minutes each.  I can tell you from the mood on the board that people weren't expecting to win more than 1-2 A10 games, and there was discussion on whether the Dukes would win an Atlantic 10 game.  You can't have it both ways...saying that "the Dukes may not win an A-10 game" and "will be lucky to ever go 500 under Ferry" and then saying that they haven't improved when they lose on the final possession against a Dayton team that has won six straight A-10 games.

To quoth the Ferry: "Nevermore!"
Brilliant Coach, BRILLIANT!

"A tale of two halves," Duquesne coach Jim Ferry said. "I really don't have an answer."

"It's basketball -- you have to score," Ferry said. "This isn't soccer."

How many more years remain on this jokers contract?

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/duquesne/2014/02/22/Dayton-comes-from-behind-to-top-Duquesne-57-54/stories/201402220147#ixzz2u9fDkFkp

 

rogabee wrote:

Why aren't some of us surprised?  Well, for starters a lot of the first half was unsustainable.  Duquesne shot 8-12 from three in the first half (yes, 67% from three).  That ain't going to happen again.  Nor is Dayton - a very good shooting team - going to shoot 32% from the field again.  The Dukes were making shots they didn't normally make, Dayton missing shots they normally miss.  The second half it was the reverse. 

Overall, a good college basketball game.  Yes, I'm very disappointed by the loss.  There's much to work on.  For as much as I thought the offense was coming along, the second half of today showed up.  However, the Dukes held Dayton on defense to 57 points, their second lowest output of the season with some very solid defense.  There's something to build upon.

While saying that this team isn't going to improve by leaps and bounds is true, we've seen progress.  After an out-of-conference performance that didn't see a top 200 victory, the Dukes hung strong with SLU, VCU, and Dayton for 35 minutes each.  I can tell you from the mood on the board that people weren't expecting to win more than 1-2 A10 games, and there was discussion on whether the Dukes would win an Atlantic 10 game.  You can't have it both ways...saying that "the Dukes may not win an A-10 game" and "will be lucky to ever go 500 under Ferry" and then saying that they haven't improved when they lose on the final possession against a Dayton team that has won six straight A-10 games.

You could compare this game to the one we had against Temple a couple years ago when they came into Palumbo ranked and we blitzed them to start the game. We didn't maintain the torrid pace, but we did manage to win. I thought we could come back down to earth in the second half and still win this.