DuqBlue wrote:

Moronic.  Bringing Coach Dru’s family into this.   Moronic.

You missed my point. Who doesn’t want to succeed in their craft. Coach Joyce success benefits his career financially and thus his family. Again your cheap little shot shows your lack of intelligence in regard to assessing a post. Further more in the era of the. transfer portal players have zero loyalty if they are not happy with playing time or the coach. Finally it’s pretty clear that every Duquesne players are not equal in talent & performance. Thus Participation Trophies…Do you now understand the post???????🤡

Again I want to see him succeed. Maybe power 5 if not NBA. Ms Hissy fit the players with portal transfer have no loyalty to the University or Coach. If the entire team left and the Dukes return to the basement of the A10 you would be the first one to call for his scalp. What’s his next option HS? What’s that pay. Back off 🤡

CLK wrote:

DuqBlue wrote:

Moronic.  Bringing Coach Dru’s family into this.   Moronic.

There is no need for name calling.  I actually agree with the main point of the post. The substitution patters seems to be geared to giving everyone minutes as opposed to playing your best players and riding the hot hands. There are a couple players on this team whose performance would only justify spot minutes, not extended play. Our bench in reality is not as deep talent wise as we thought. I am of the opinion that we should play our best players as many minutes that they can handle. This philosophy seems to work well for the Bonnies.

I should add that my comment was more about the season not just last night's game. I also think Dru will be a very good coach in this League.  He has some key pieces for next year but needs to find a way to bring in more talent.

I’d be curious to know who you believe deserves less PT now. I totally agree that it is past time to run with 7 or 8 major players.  Though, I do like getting Chabi, Dixon, and Wilborn all 15 mins a game. Or thereabouts. Maybe less for Chabi.  With Necas back maybe Corbett gets mins cut.  And Rozier as well. It’s just so hard to rely on Trey to ball handle late in games.  It’s a tall task finding the right formula for this group. They all bring something. Makes sense that Dru is playing everybody. I agree that teams can err by playing everybody just for portal fear but not sure that is what’s happening here. But I don’t know

NapaDuke wrote:

This season had so much potential and this team has likely more talent than last year's team that also struggled to score points all season. 

No, a thousand times no. Not even close. You lose Clark, Grant, Fousenyi, Tre Williams and Jake from last year’s team and not one player this year has stepped up to be equal or better than those guys were. The area that the Dukes improved slightly is at the center position, a nice upgrade from Mahorcic to Eli Wilborn. Dixon regressed, but Necas and Hronsky improved to a degree.

Potential??  By what metric? The A10 preseason poll had the Dukes in 8th place (currently in 7th place). KenPom had the Dukes at #142 preseason and are currently at #144. Preseason, you didn’t hear any media or metrics taking about the Dukes being a top contender in the A10.

A final thought on recruiting. I would look long and hard bringing in transfers with only one year of eligibility left. Unless the player has a unique skill set or is the final piece to the roster puzzle, there is just not enough upside for the time/effort expended.

I am an advocate of shortening the bench for the last 4 guaranteed games by cutting Rozier’s minutes substantially while only using Corbett to cover injuries & serious foul trouble.

I am down on Corbett because of his many forced shots, constant whining to refs,jawing at teammates, & his dreadful FT shooting. He has had ample opportunity to excell as a senior, but hasn't done so with any consistency. Giving his minutes to Hronsky, Wilborn, & Necas seems like the best answer for this season & next.

Due to the lack of viable ball handling/play making guards on the roster, Dru does have to rely on Rozier for some minutes. However, this team is generally better when that number of minutes is closer to 15 than 25.

phil95 wrote:

I am an advocate of shortening the bench for the last 4 guaranteed games by cutting Rozier’s minutes substantially while only using Corbett to cover injuries & serious foul trouble.

I am down on Corbett because of his many forced shots, constant whining to refs,jawing at teammates, & his dreadful FT shooting. He has had ample opportunity to excell as a senior, but hasn't done so with any consistency. Giving his minutes to Hronsky, Wilborn, & Necas seems like the best answer for this season & next.

Due to the lack of viable ball handling/play making guards on the roster, Dru does have to rely on Rozier for some minutes. However, this team is generally better when that number of minutes is closer to 15 than 25.

Good thoughts and agree on Corbett. The mystery to me is Edward’s; never know if we are going to get the good Max or the bad Max. Do you trust him at crunch time?

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

You are what your record says you are. Discounting/ignoring the fact that we lost 2 second team all A10 players from last year’s team and replaced them with players who might, might be 8th team all A10 players says it all.

I like this debate. You know your stuff. But just consider this. Last year, last game of the season, against the last place team, if Clark didn't drive and put in a last second bucket, we would have lost. And our drawl in the tournament might not had been as favorable as it worked out. Typical KD low scoring offense. If we had lost that game and went one and done in the tourney, then it was a very bad year. Just think,  One basket, either way likely made the difference. Just how many games this year were too close down the stretch that it came down to the last bucket?  Heck, I'm just guessing, but maybe 30 percent of those games. We don't play aggressive enough offense to keep those games from getting too close.  Both last year and this year and this last game. Play good D, all you want,  but put your best offense in until you have a commanding lead. Then start emptying  the bench..   

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

NapaDuke wrote:

This season had so much potential and this team has likely more talent than last year's team that also struggled to score points all season. 

No, a thousand times no. Not even close. You lose Clark, Grant, Fousenyi, Tre Williams and Jake from last year’s team and not one player this year has stepped up to be equal or better than those guys were. The area that the Dukes improved slightly is at the center position, a nice upgrade from Mahorcic to Eli Wilborn. Dixon regressed, but Necas and Hronsky improved to a degree.

Potential??  By what metric? The A10 preseason poll had the Dukes in 8th place (currently in 7th place). KenPom had the Dukes at #142 preseason and are currently at #144. Preseason, you didn’t hear any media or metrics taking about the Dukes being a top contender in the A10.

A final thought on recruiting. I would look long and hard bringing in transfers with only one year of eligibility left. Unless the player has a unique skill set or is the final piece to the roster puzzle, there is just not enough upside for the time/effort expended.

I agree 100% with this post. I do not believe this team is more talented than last years bunch. Our bench may be more talented but nobody compares to Jimmy and Dae Dae. Trey is nice and can shoot as good but he can’t drive and get to the line like those guys (i do agree that the late fouls while leading certainly contributes to the number of fouls disparity though - that was a great point someone made) and NOBODY plays defense like Jimmy. We are less talented by far in the starting 5. Just deeper on the bench.