Player Dariq Whitehead

[Pantone287]

The last three weeks seemed to really help him conditioning/feel-wise, despite the illness in the middle. Today he looked like the kind of player I thought we'd get -- active on D, wiry, a tall guard. His playmaking, dribbling, and shooting will all be big for us, especially given Roach's and Proctor's offensive struggles.

Yeah, still doesn't look 100% back to who he is, by any means, but he finally looked like someone who should be a starter today. Also was a just-rattled-out three away from 19.

I think you have to start him over Mitchell at the 3 at this point. Putting aside how you'd shuffle Mitchell/Young/Flip/Lively at the 4/5 for a moment, I think Whitehead pretty clearly brings more than Mitchell next to two bigs at this point. It'd be one thing if we were doing anything to get him the ball in spots to exploit his size, but since we're not, there's not much point to him just floating around outside the arc.

 

[bdotling]

 

[Pantone287]

So how did he look? Shooting line looked great, everything else not so much.

 

[bluedevilruss]

Cringeworthy driving to the basket like everyone else.

 

[deepdarkblue]

So how did he look? Shooting line looked great, everything else not so much.

Like a Milky Way bar amidst a pile of shit - looks slightly different, but not so much that you're sure it's not really just more shit.

 

[Devilsforlife]

I think that missed dunk with 30 seconds left will be my enduring memory of his Duke career.

 

[deepdarkblue]

He might be good but his coach sucks.

 

[Slap the Floor]

 

[aiw]

Can't jump. Hopefully just still getting that bounciness (Bilas TM) back

 

[rome8180]

I'm back one game too late to take my victory lap on him. The four games prior to Pitt, he averaged 15 ppg on 47/42/100 shooting.

I do feel like I can take somewhat of a victory lap on the 3pt shooting. Never understood why scouts had questions about his jumper.

 

[rome8180]

Still think he, Young, and Mitchell will be our most efficient form of offense going forward. Not Filipowski.

 

[rome8180]

Also meant to add that Dariq may have been our best defender in the last five games or so. Granted, everyone else seems to have regressed defensively. But he's playing legitimately good D, in my opinion.

 

[DurhamSon]

Which players does 0.83 compare to historically?

 

[childress22]

I don't know about points per possession but looking at ORtgs, he's basically like a freshman Javin, or somewhere between freshman Wendell Moore and sophomore Wendell Moore.

 

[Pantone287]

That was a truly awful game from him today. Bricks, getting beat on defense, gross pullup jumper, jogging around lazily on inbounds plays. Discouraging.

 

[dukebluedevils05]

He’s been so disappointing, especially on defense.

 

[childress22]

My beef with him is the same beef I had with Tatum at Duke, even though Tatum was obvioulsy considerably better. Both guys have/had absolutely no regard for shot quality.

 

[physicsfactor]

If only there was someone paid a lot of money by the school to teach the guys like Tatum and Whitehead to take better shots.

 

[aiw]

 

[Rollins]

stunning, really.

but honestly, a healthy 19 year old shouldn't be blowing out his achilles casually jumping for a loose ball.