Speaking of Mt. Sucksmore......enshined right up front is Coach Ferry.
Here he goes AGAIN calling out and degrading one of his players in the daily paper. Is it any wonder this team has no enthusiasm and heart to play for this guy? Can't blame them. He even goes as far as letting them know how great one of his former players was at LIU, compared to what he has at Duquesne. What a D#$%!

"Scorers are scorers," Ferry said. "Guys that are true point guards play with vision."Derrick was a scorer in high school. My thing is: well, play like a scorer now, too, then. He's kind of caught in the middle, not doing either very well right now. You get to the Atlantic 10, and there are bigger guards, and it has affected him a little bit.
"Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/duquesne/2014/02/15/Duquesne-coach-Jim-Ferry-wants-more-of-everything-from-the-point/stories/201402150117#ixzz2tPMt8OZE

Ferry offered Jason Brickman, his former point guard at LIU-Brooklyn, as an example. Brickman leads Division I with 9.9 assists per game as a senior this season and has also seen a jump in his scoring each season."When we needed him to get 16 points per game, he could get it," Ferry said. "A lot of that had to do with decisions. When you're open, shoot it. When you're not, make plays for others."

And here we go again ... Three minutes into the game and Soko misses an open layup on a breakaway and Colter is 0-2 from 3, including a RIDICULOUS airball.

Nice rally sparked by Ridenour to give us a big lead. Colter comes in and offensively and defensively the wheels come off. He hits a three but misses another bad one. Lead dwindling from 12 to seven with RI at the FT line (on a Colter foul).

LG Gill found his shot today, put up 19 with one miss.

Bad weather up there cost me a trip to see the Dukes.  Maybe the Dukes can play there in the campus site round of the A-10 tournament.

ElDuque wrote:

Micah Mason is the best passer on this team. 

Clearly but who's number two?

WashPaRick wrote:

ElDuque wrote:

Micah Mason is the best passer on this team. 

Clearly but who's number two?

I think it's Jerry Jones.
 

Rene Castro is leaving Butler. Can he play the point?

ElDuque wrote:

Rick I have to give that some thought. May be Jerry. Colter tossed one into row 7 today, sure as Pitt isn't him.

I think it says a lot if Neither Colter or Ridenour are considered one of our best two passers.

The easiest position to recruit in major college basketbalkl is guard, because there are so many to choose from, unlike 7-footers. Why do ours stink? That is a concern to me for this program.

FAM wrote:

Two nice, yes, I said nice articles in the PGH. Post-Gazetter today on Arizona Coach Miller as one article and TJ the other article.  I wonder if our AD or President read these?  This is what we don't have - the coach - the team to go to NCAA (why we lost the player) - a winning program.  Do they even read this and understand what is needed or read it and think, "We can't do this because..."  Don't tell me they don't even read it - because they do.

You guys act like it's easy. It's not. URI hired a coach that everyone thought was a grand slam hire. Yet, reading their board after the game, I thought I was reading this board. People questioning if Hurley was in over his head, complaining about the lack of an A10 caliber point guard, wondering about the lack of recruits for next year. Sean Miller is at Arizona, an elite program. Danny Nee could recruit at Arizona. It's a lot tougher at a program that has done next to nothing in the last 40 years, and plays in a league that is very tough, but lacks the glamour that might attract some kids to play for a lesser program, because they want to play in the league. DePaul is a much more well known school that Duquesne, plays in a much higher profile league, and plays in a much more glamorous city, with tons of high level talent, yet they continue to struggle. It's hard raise a program that's been down for decades. I don't know what else to say. Schools like Duquesne have to get lucky, and snag a young coach who is a future star in the game. How do you identify such guys? In 1978, Duquesne could have gone after Mike Krzyzewski instead of hiring Mike Rice. How about maybe hiring Rick Pitino in 1982? You just never know. I'm not ready to give up on Ferry just yet though. The league is going to be softer next year. We'll have a better idea of things by the end of next year.
 

Phildog wrote:

I think that some of the youth and JC transfer White are having a hard time adjusting to the quickness and well coached teams they are running into in conference games.

Two more recruiting classes and having some four year players will help the Dukes be competitive in A-10.

The guards are a disappointment but are young or in the case of Jerry Jones this isn't the system he was recruited for.

Coach Ferry has won in the past and is probably the best guy to have on board now because he isn't a young kid and is being paid well to solidify the mens BB program.

hey, I will always be a fan, but like many posters here are disappointed, but not giving up.

I think the problem with White is this; in JC, he was quick enough to beat his man, and the inside players were either small, or slow. He's too small to go inside at this level, and there are many guys with more size who can match his quickness. He also doesn't shoot well enough to make the d guard him tightly, where he might be able to get past slower guards.