New to this blog and long time Dukes bball follower and graduate.  Sorry fellas - I am not going to agree with the upbeat about someone who plays "ok" against a terrible team.  Someone tell "the" Ferry that guards should be 6'4 or 6'5.  Tell him that he needs forwards 6'9 or taller to be considered a good team.  Useless Robinson and Lewis are not the answers.  Duquesne had such a soft non conference schedule that makes their record deceiving.  I do not see any improvement in the program under Ferry.  Maybe the 5 guard small ball nonsense he ran at LIU was good in that league.  Even Jamie Dixon had to go out and get bigs just to compete.  Sad...

Duques102 wrote:

Hooplife7 wrote:

New to this blog and long time Dukes bball follower and graduate.  Sorry fellas - I am not going to agree with the upbeat about someone who plays "ok" against a terrible team.  Someone tell "the" Ferry that guards should be 6'4 or 6'5.  Tell him that he needs forwards 6'9 or taller to be considered a good team.  Useless Robinson and Lewis are not the answers.  Duquesne had such a soft non conference schedule that makes their record deceiving.  I do not see any improvement in the program under Ferry.  Maybe the 5 guard small ball nonsense he ran at LIU was good in that league.  Even Jamie Dixon had to go out and get bigs just to compete.  Sad...

What are you talking about? How many teams have multiple guards at 6'4" or 6'5"?? This is literally an absurd post. Forwards 6'9" or taller to be considered a good team? Height is the only basis for how good a player is? All of our forwards are 6'8" or taller besides Powell and he is probably one of the better offensive forwards in the league as a sophmore and the rebound numbers from the front court has been solid to good so far this season. Yeah they played a soft schedule but are also currently in the top half of the league in terms of conference record and if you watched the Dayton game, which i'm sure you didn't, we played extremely well and almost beat an NCAA tournament team. I sometimes get on negative posters but respect their opinion. You sir, just made ridiculous and inflammatory statements about a team I'm quite sure you seem to know nothing about. Who starts their statement with some qualifying statement about how much of a fan you are, and then rips the team with a bunch of illogical bull**** that makes no sense. Either go back to the Pitt board or crawl back into whatever set of woods you came out of. Idiotic Post
 

Don't waste your time replying to trolls.

Dukes 102.how many teams that you would qualify as "good teams" have a point guard that has numbers as bad as ours. Before you go insane on a poster that pushed the envelope realize the Dukes have yet to record  IMHO, signature win. Also realize they will be hard pressed to finish .500 in this league. A league that doesn't have 1 team in the top 25. Besides I agree with the premise that as the starting line up is currently configured we are to small.

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The Dome wrote:

Dukes 102.how many teams that you would qualify as "good teams" have a point guard that has numbers as bad as ours. Before you go insane on a poster that pushed the envelope realize the Dukes have yet to record IMHO, signature win. Also realize they will be hard pressed to finish .500 in this league. A league that doesn't have 1 team in the top 25. Besides I agree with the premise that as the starting line up is currently configured we are to small.

If you think what that poster said hold's water, I must say I look at the validity of your posts quite differently going forward. I do realize finishing .500 in this league is tough, but you might want to realize we currently ARE .500. This league has had teams in the top 25 this year and will down the road as well. Do you realize that our lineup is bigger than most other A10 lineups we face? Also I'm not going "insane" on anyone, just logically pointing out how ridiculously flawed the poster's arguments are, much like I'm currently doing with some of your's. I think Colter's A/TO numbers are so poor because he was trying to do too much in terms of orchestrating the office earlier in the conference season, and those numbers have improved in the last few games. I guess you consider the 27 points he just scored bad numbers too. The fact that you agree with anything that poster said shows your willing to support any argument that "Pushes the Envelope". Everyone is painfully aware of the strength of schedule, it's amazing how many times people will repeat something when it's all they have to fall back on. In my opinion, an improvement in record is positive, sorry I don't push the envelope more.

Dukes 102 seriously think about your comments. You bring up Duke winning with a 6'1" point guard, really the surrounding cast of a 6'11"center in the NBA, a 6'6" forward in the NBA, 6'4" SG who is one of the best players in college currently had no bearing. The Dukes are undersized since their 6'11" center doesn't really play like one. Colter's numbers have improved due to competition. His 27 points in that game don't impress me since his method of play will be costly in the bigger games. I also think your out on a limb with the A-10 teams breaking into the top 25.

Try taking a breath and read my post again. Maybe you'll understand the NBA references. I said nothing about Gill and his size. As to Lewis he has made good strides but in big games he doesn't rebound and he will be in immediate foul trouble since he is frequently out of position.

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My bad, didn't understand your post because you were responding to something someone else posted about duke and my post at the same time. Perhaps heed your own advice and realize whose points you are addressing next time. When you start a post using my name tag, I assume your addressing something I said, maybe I'm pushing the envelope now to assume that! 

Duq_11 wrote:

Duques102 wrote:

The Dome wrote:

Dukes 102 seriously think about your comments. You bring up Duke winning with a 6'1" point guard, really the surrounding cast of a 6'11"center in the NBA, a 6'6" forward in the NBA, 6'4" SG who is one of the best players in college currently had no bearing. The Dukes are undersized since their 6'11" center doesn't really play like one. Colter's numbers have improved due to competition. His 27 points in that game don't impress me since his method of play will be costly in the bigger games. I also think your out on a limb with the A-10 teams breaking into the top 25.

Gill is easily 6'8", not 6'6", in fact in the last broadcast they said he may be taller now. Their center isn't really 6'11" because he doesn't really play like one???? Literally have no idea what that means. Why are you talking about the NBA? To reiterate we have one of the bigger lineups in the A-10, that's what matters to me. If I'm going out an a limb saying I believe at least one team will break into the top 25 by the end of the season, your comments reflect someone who fell off the limb some time ago. 

Why does having one of the taller lineups matter to you, Duques102? .

You guys are hilariously frustrating. If you read back, you would see it was your chum the dome saying he agreed with someone else that we are undersized. Wish we could talk legitimate basketball instead of having a pissing contest but I cant not respond when stupidity reigns supreme

I like the banter here. Don't anyone get insulted, good points by all.  Ron told me once at a function, if your team is smaller than the opponent, beat them away from the hoop, ie., press the H out of them, steal the ball constantly, and trap all over the place, but if you have size,, like this team, go inside and beat them in the paint.  In this debate, we have 2 guards that lived on the perimeter for 3 years (Losing seasons) , now we are big in the paint, (big time) and they are slowly adjusting (at least Micah)  It's OK to be a bit critical on this board, we aren't in the top 20, but if Ferry plays this season right, we can surprise some teams down the stretch, BUT next years team better be a top A-10 team. Just too much talent coming back next year.  Which brings me back to my earlier point from the last game. Why isn't Ferry giving, ANY, returning GUARD ANY TIME WITH THIS TEAM ??  Ferry is just blowing it on the guards. I understand he is desperate to get some kind of winning season, but really, the big prize is a strong finish and a complete team returning?  I am not totally sold on Castro, but he got more playing time at BUTLER, than Ferry is giving him a chance, and remember, if Jones didn't go down, than everyone here would be thinking James was just another bench warmer.

Dukes2012 wrote:

NapaDuke wrote:

I like the banter here. Don't anyone get insulted, good points by all.  Ron told me once at a function, if your team is smaller than the opponent, beat them away from the hoop, ie., press the H out of them, steal the ball constantly, and trap all over the place, but if you have size,, like this team, go inside and beat them in the paint.  In this debate, we have 2 guards that lived on the perimeter for 3 years (Losing seasons) , now we are big in the paint, (big time) and they are slowly adjusting (at least Micah)  It's OK to be a bit critical on this board, we aren't in the top 20, but if Ferry plays this season right, we can surprise some teams down the stretch, BUT next years team better be a top A-10 team. Just too much talent coming back next year.  Which brings me back to my earlier point from the last game. Why isn't Ferry giving, ANY, returning GUARD ANY TIME WITH THIS TEAM ??  Ferry is just blowing it on the guards. I understand he is desperate to get some kind of winning season, but really, the big prize is a strong finish and a complete team returning?  I am not totally sold on Castro, but he got more playing time at BUTLER, than Ferry is giving him a chance, and remember, if Jones didn't go down, than everyone here would be thinking James was just another bench warmer.

This is a good point. Actually, the trend in the nba is to go smaller these days. The tallest guy on the floor for the Warriors is 6'7" sometimes. The days of traditional centers are coming to an end. The traditional 4 is the new center and the tradition wing player is now the 4

Very good point. I live in the Bay area now. The Warriors are just  out of this world right now. But they are playing to there strengths. Which is spend, and dead on shooting. Other teams need to play to their strength too.

DID SOMEONE JUST SAY WE SHOULD PLAY CASTRO MORE!?! I'm sure he is a nice guy and all but he is sooooo bad. You have to make the most out of the opportunity you are given. He's played 123 minutes this season and has shot 15 of 46. And most of that is against scrubs! 

As far as the whole height thing I think both sides of the argument are right. We should try to get players that have size but also make sure they aren't a Darius Lewis who is 6'11 but can't play basketball.

Our line up from the 1 to the 5 I feel does have the size. I think it is fair for Ferry to play his senior is D.C. and Micah because they deserve it, everything they have given to the program and all. Although I would like to see Josh Steel more, but maybe he just isn't ready yet.   

Hooplife7 wrote:

Golden State is the exception rather than the rule.  Duquesne has trouble in both area.  First their guards are small.  On offense the struggle against height.  On defense the small guards are easy for other teams to shoot over - pass over - and "skip pass" over.  They are vulnerable to offensive rebounds and put backs by bigger teams.

Duquesne's non conference schedule (excluding Penn State - who is down this year) has to be the weakest in the NCAA.  Most - if not all of their wins - have come against bad teams.  LaSalle being the latest example.  Ferry should be recruiting the heck out of New York City where he coached for years.  Get some height up front and let James, Jackson be legit 2 guards and hopefully Castro gets it together.  In the summer pro am league he lit up the overrated James Robinson from Pitt and scored 51 in the championship game.  Look at Pitt.  Jamie Dixon had to get 5th year senior centers to allow Mike Young to play the "4" and the teams that Pitt struggles with are with quick PG's or big men like at NC State, Purdue, etc...  I am not a Ferry fan sorry...

6-11 Center and a 6-8 PF.  Bench options for Forwards are 6-8, 6-8 and, um, 6-8.  What exactly do you want an 8-4 guy?  Maybe our PG should be 6-9? 

I'm sorry but you have no idea what you are talking about.