Phoenix I assume these posts are just cut and pastes, so the error would be their's and not yours; but in the off chance you transcribe them, the score of the first game is wrong. It should be 79-72, not 79-62. The game was closer than even the seven point margin indicates. It was a hell of a lot closer than a 17 point game.

Bettors like the Dukes so far. The spread dropped within an hour of opening. It's probably a result of the injuries, but it could also have something to do with the Dukes covering the spread seven games in a row.

I'm embarrassed that I forgot that travesty of a game, but in my defense I took the seven covers in a row straight from ESPN's Pick Center. They list the game everywhere else on the site, but it's completely left off of their Pick Center, the gambling run down. 

Three point shooting and rebounding will be key. They are dangerous from deep, but if you can stop that weapon you have a good chance of beating them. In fact, only once in their seven losses did they make 1/3 of their threes. Meanwhile, their opponents made at least half of their threes in four of their seven losses. They got outrebounded in all seven losses by a combined 63 rebounds. It seemed like a bad break that we have to play them in Richmond, but five of those seven losses happened in Richmond and they are only 6-5 in their home city this year.

They are definitely beatable. Less than two weeks ago we were leading them with two minutes left in the game. I expect a 40 minute battle that could go either way. They have had our number for years though and are a very good team playing in their home city fighting to make the tournament. I hope I'm wrong, but I'll say Dukes 69 Spiders 71.

Francis is out!!! He scored 17 (tied for most on the team against us) last time we matched up. Gotta take advantage of that.

https://twitter.com/spidermbb/status/1367492327661592581?s=21

Last edited by Duques102 (3/04/2021 10:17 am)

Talk time is over.   Can Hughes and Baker play with fire, but not let it burn them?   If they can, we win.   If they slump or act a fool, we lose.   Would be nice to see TDM knock a few 3s early.   Get some!!!

We have to stop settling for threes. I like the defensive pressure though. Extending out already got us one steal and almost another. The numbers don't look good defensively, but if we continue this pressure that will turn around as the game goes on.

On second thought go ahead and take those threes. I think we were about 0-5 from the paint between the timeouts.

Just lost out on 5 points in the weathers walk and Kelly’s illegal screen on the TDM 3. Not to mention that absolute joke of a foul call on the Richmond 3.

Refs been told to keep those bids alive for the league?

Can't beat Richmond.

WashPaRick wrote:

Can't beat Richmond.

and the refs.

You know it's bad when even the announcers are criticizing the refs. If we can't rebound better we'll have no one to blame but ourselves though. The A-10 has some really physical good rebounding teams, Richmond isn't one of them. I like the move to press though. Richmond has a lot of talent, but not much depth. They also want to slow things down into a half-court game. Get them out of their comfort zone and even if we don't force turnovers it will favor us. Plus depth is something we've been blessed with. A different guy seems to take over every few years. Right now it's Okani.

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White ref giving it to us.