Why cant they get a former Duke to do color.Brian Shanahan comes to mind.. Going to turn the ESPN
volume down and listen to the radio broadcast. 

stew wrote:

Why cant they get a former Duke to do color.Brian Shanahan comes to mind.. Going to turn the ESPN
volume down and listen to the radio broadcast. 

Radio is a mess, at least the online 970 am feed.  Commercials during game action.  But i agree, Cannon is awful.   I think they are doing steelers coverage sunday.  We might get Josh Taylor and the guy that does ladies games.

I can’t disagree with any of the comments on last nights game. Turnovers were a recipe for disaster. However unlike last year the team did not go away and the second half was a complete turnaround however the hole was too deep but I love the fight in these guys.
Let’s move on take the lessons learned and go back out there Sunday and make amends. One loss is not going to define this season!
One lone bright sign was Gunn did not have the boot on.
Go Dukes

Not too certain about our ability to win the A-10 but I always remain hopeful, well, discounting about two thirds of the way thru last season! The Thundering Herd was just too athletic inside for our bigs to handle IMO. This won't always be the case as we move thru the season. When we got the ball inside, we generally could not either hang on to it or maneuver against their defensive pressure to any great extent. We have some bigs who we know are not elite athletes and it showed big time last night. As I said in an earlier post, we are a work in progress, and I expect improvement moving forward. I would certainly hope that last night's game would be stuck in our craw and lead to a better effort this coming Sunday and beyond. GO DUKES! 

The Dukes looked sluggish coming out of the gate; they just didn't have much energy in the first half.  I believe the first half offense was an aberration; 14 turnovers (Marshall credited with 9 steals), giving up 6 offensive rebounds out of 17 Marshall misses, shooting 29.7% from the 2, etc.  I don't think we will see many more like this again from our offense (although the 7-1 Marshall freshman had a lot to do with the very poor performance by our frontcourt).  And it could have been worse than being down by 19 if Marshall shot the 3 better or made their foul shots.
Certainly like the fight in this team to come back and make it a bit interesting; they just couldn't get over the hump - missing key FT's (2-7 in the last 4 minutes) and open 3's - took too much energy to even get back to striking distance.
In order for the Dukes to become a very good, top 75, top tier A10 team, they need to significantly improve defensively.  Right now, the offense has to carry this team; when they don't (see first half), the defensive weakness is exposed.  The lack of defensive cohesiveness can be somewhat explained by having a roster who haven't played with each other before this season; that can explain some of the miscommunication on pick and rolls, back cuts, etc.  With the exception of Jimmy Clark, the Dukes are not able to consistently stop ball penetration (some of it might be due to Brewer getting back to full strength); it's a concern. When the Dukes double team, many times it's a weak effort and allows a pass to escape; when that happens, the Dukes don't rotate properly or quickly enough to recover; that needs to be cleaned up pronto (look at how effective Marshall's double teams were creating turnovers).  I'm certain that defense will become the primary point of emphasis in practice in the next couple of weeks.  Hopefully, we will see improvement starting with New Mexico State.
 

I'm not sure we'll see a better team all year.   Maybe St Lou or Dayton.   Marshall really had it all, size, shooters, coach, 3s, blocks and a NBA player.  I wouldnt be shocked to see them make the NCAAs.

Speaking of St Lou, how is Yuri Collins a junior?   Seems like he is at least a grad senior by now.   :-)))

The Dukes went to #127 on Kenpom from #114 before the game. 6th in the A10

I offer a bit of solace. To those that don't believe that lightning CAN strike twice. First ESPN and CBS have the Jimmy Clark double buzzer beaters. Friday morning, the CBS morning show goes to Indiana. The halftime show featured the Red Panda. She rides a unicycle. She balances bowls on the top of her right foot while peddling back and forth. Then she flips the bowls into the air and they all land perfectly on her head. It has to be at least ten years (probably more) that she performed at our halftimes. I'm sure we can't afford her now but I recognized her immediately.

My favorite was Christopher who did The Village People.  Laughed till I cried.  Quick change was fun as well.

Levon1975 wrote:  The switch to zone by Marshall late in the first half seemed to stymie the Dukes and made them a very tentative team on offense, leading to the rash of turnovers.  Next thing we knew it was a layup and dunking drill!
This is a recurring problem regardless of whom the coach is. Everhart team with Sanders, Clark - We are up by 17 at the half against Pitt. Dixon comes out in the second half with a zone. We wilted. We were faster than them. I believe that Damian was matched with Morningstar or another big with limited mobility but the zone killed us. We just kept methodically passing the ball around the perimeter. The shot clock is running down so we launch an off-balance prayer. We lose in double-OT. When Ferry was asked why not a zone, he implied that his players weren't ready for multiple schemes! 
The point I'm trying to make is you don't need to run a zone but you should practice against it. Don't we scout the opposition to determine how they run their offense. Sheesh!