Duke basketball 2015-2016 discussion thread

[deepdarkblue]

I thought Nolan was there rehabbing some injury or something, but I might have just made that up in my head. Doherty? Really? That's...weird.

 

[deepdarkblue]

It's Matt Jones' 51st birthday today, btw

 

[aiw]

Bifocals

 

[rome8180]

Our defensive rebounding could use some work.

 

[aiw]

Yeah, we're #180 giving up nearly 31% OR

 

[DurhamSon]

Another side effect of Plumlee starting, only pulling down 1 board in 23 minutes of game time, only 10 fewer than our starting shooting guard.

 

[physicsfactor]

Why is Ingram wearing a woman's top in that picture?

 

[rome8180]

Another side effect of Plumlee starting, only pulling down 1 board in 23 minutes of game time, only 10 fewer than our starting shooting guard.

I thought Marshall had his worst game of the season today.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

Our defensive rebounding could use some work.

Yeah. I would note though re: today though that Buffalo came in top 40 in the country in OR%. It's the best thing they do.

 

[rome8180]

Good point. I wasn't aware of that.

 

[DukeNukem05]

I thought Nolan was there rehabbing some injury or something, but I might have just made that up in my head. Doherty? Really? That's...weird.

Yeah, Nolans there rehabbing and has taken on some sort of social media role. Dunno.

 

[best4heisman]

Yeah, we're #180 giving up nearly 31% OR

The 180 ranking looks bad but it's pretty typical when compared with other Duke teams. We're never good on the defensive glass. We've only cracked top 100 in defensive rebounding once in the KenPom era (2007).

We were #149 in 2010 and #125 in 2015. In 2006, we were #304, giving up offensive rebounds 37.6% of the time.

 

[physicsfactor]

Our defensive rebounding could use some work.

Yeah. I would note though re: today though that Buffalo came in top 40 in the country in OR%. It's the best thing they do.

Siena #28
Kentucky #10
Yale #11
Indiana #27
Buffalo #44

Duke has played some very good offensive rebounding teams. Hopefully this is skewing our DReb% which won't be so bad against average offensive rebounding teams.

But I bet Duke just sucks at it. Duke typically isn't good at it. I don't think K cares that much about it.

 

[DurhamSon]

This is why we need Bolden.

 

[cantpedal]

K says 6-foot-8 freshman forward Justin Robinson hopes to redshirt this season

 

[torontoduke]

Sounds about right, as he was not going to get a chance to play this year anyways.

 

[childress22]

Sounds about right, as he was not going to get a chance to play this year anyways.

I think this has been in the cards. Otherwise, after watching the Blue-White game, I'm certain would have gotten in ahead of Obi and Vrank in a few games this year.

 

[rome8180]

Not sure why Vrank didn't redshirt. Maybe he didn't want to?

 

[childress22]

One note on Robinson, from watching him in warmups during the Yale game: The kid can really jump, better than I expected. He had to duck hit his head to avoid on the rim on a reverse dunk.

 

[DukeNukem05]

Not sure why Vrank didn't redshirt. Maybe he didn't want to?

That's what I was thinking.