PATIENCE-patience with Dambrot,patience team chemistry patience,player development,patience before saying we
can not compete against P5 teams.It will take time to get Dukes program  fluorishing.
Its going to take time to sort out the mess of last 40 years . 

Our team toughness will increase a little when Taylor comes back. I'm wondering if coach has him in the plans or sticks with the freshmen.

Patience? I've been patient for nearly 4 DECADES with this program.Know how many games I've seen like last night? about 150 against good teams. We're not even the second best team in Pgh. I'm old, cranky and not very patient anymore. That looked like a team not prepared to play. 33 percent from the field, 20 turnovers. KD is beginning /to cause me to question whether he can turn this program around.

As discouraging as last night was I agree: Get back on the horse.
I watched the Marshall-Ohio U. game today and an ordinary OU put 101 points on Marshall.
Regroup on Wednesday.

MR KNOW IT ALL RITTER,while I continue to be amazed by your positive insights into Dukes
basketball, your thoughts giving KD less than 2 years to turn Duquesnes basketball fortunes allow us to 
appreciate your all encompassing brilliance.
 My humble opinion allows us to fairly evaluate Coach after 4 recruiting classes and in my lowly opinion
the defense is already much improved in less than 2 years even evident to myself as a registered serf.
I look forward to your insight as we move through this hopeless year, being critical of a team loaded with a lot
of 19 year olds dealing with  challenging academics, basketball and life without direct parenteral supervision.

 

Who can figure?
Dukes beat Radford on a neutral court.
Radford beats ND at ND then beats
Texas-at the time of the game ranked 17-at Texas.
Patience. 

Putting this in perspective, the Dukes are a very young team with a lot of raw developing talent. I am sure KD has his team looking forward not backward.  What Coach needs to do is not allow the sloppy play in the last three games to continue and become acceptable habits.  The unforced turnovers, and stupid fouls, can be and need to be fixed.  I believe that if he can do that we will have a great season.

CLK, good point on the unforced turnovers and sloppy fouls.

Is Sincere hurt?  He hasn’t looked like the same player we saw in the first two games in his career. We know he picked up a right shoulder injury in the first half vs. Radford. And in the Pitt game, he pulled himself out less than 3 minutes in to have his leg worked on. Injury, injury-prone, hit the freshman wall, etc., I’m not sure. But this team needs solid point guard play.

Finally, some comments have been made about KD not having his team ready to play. I don’t know how you can say that looking at the first 7-8 minutes of the game. They were ready and performed well. Yes, there are legitimate KD questions - use of zone, calling time outs, substitutions, etc. But it’s hogwash to say this team wasn’t ready.

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

CLK, good point on the unforced turnovers and sloppy fouls.

Is Sincere hurt? He hasn’t looked like the same player we saw in the first two games in his career. We know he picked up a right shoulder injury in the first half vs. Radford. And in the Pitt game, he pulled himself out less than 3 minutes in to have his leg worked on. Injury, injury-prone, hit the freshman wall, etc., I’m not sure. But this team needs solid point guard play.

Finally, some comments have been made about KD not having his team ready to play. I don’t know how you can say that looking at the first 7-8 minutes of the game. They were ready and performed well. Yes, there are legitimate KD questions - use of zone, calling time outs, substitutions, etc. But it’s hogwash to say this team wasn’t ready.

The first seven minutes, maybe even the first 20, were close not because Duquesne was playing great but because Pitt played as poorly as we did. When they started hitting shots, they left us in the dust.

rittersdiner wrote:

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

CLK, good point on the unforced turnovers and sloppy fouls.

Is Sincere hurt? He hasn’t looked like the same player we saw in the first two games in his career. We know he picked up a right shoulder injury in the first half vs. Radford. And in the Pitt game, he pulled himself out less than 3 minutes in to have his leg worked on. Injury, injury-prone, hit the freshman wall, etc., I’m not sure. But this team needs solid point guard play.

Finally, some comments have been made about KD not having his team ready to play. I don’t know how you can say that looking at the first 7-8 minutes of the game. They were ready and performed well. Yes, there are legitimate KD questions - use of zone, calling time outs, substitutions, etc. But it’s hogwash to say this team wasn’t ready.

The first seven minutes, maybe even the first 20, were close not because Duquesne was playing great but because Pitt played as poorly as we did. When they started hitting shots, they left us in the dust.

rittersdiner, if you watched the game, it appears you couldn't see it very well if at all (and if so, you were probably watching in on your 9' Philco).  Pitt shot 44.0% in the first half; 43.8% in the second half.  It was more along the line that the Dukes stopped making any outside shots and turned the ball over an alarming number of times. Pitt played very well defensively.  And you are one of those guys who will never say the Dukes played well - it's always the other team played so poorly that the Dukes won, or the Dukes played badly and lost. 

I am in agreement with Hook Shot who suggested in the Pitt thread that Dunn Martin should start at point and give LNorman a shot at the two.  DM is more seasoned then our freshman pg's and I think it may do Carry some good to observe and come off the bench.  As for MLewis I also think he should come off  the bench and if he is on can provide an offensive spark.  We've played 6 games guys and ML has one good half to show for it.  He is  junior and for whatever reason he is not performing at the necessary level.  For those who say he needs the ball more I wholeheartedly disagree. Mike is a good kid and team player, but his deficiencies are evident and now is the time to see what our highest rated freshman guard can do.   I think if we can beat Marshall KD will have the next 3 games to tinker with his rotation, but it is getting close to settling on 10 guys and going with them.