Duke Basketball 2016-2017

[physicsfactor]

Oh geez, please don't let us have to play Arkansas with a shit team.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

You can't really have a tournament like this without both Portland and Portland State. Is Oregon state not a Nike team ?

 

[DukeCrow]

So the "two bracket champions" don't play each other? Weird.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

It begins.

 

[deepdarkblue]

I'm all set for injury reports and transfer rumors.

 

[rome8180]

I'm hoping GoDuke will have it available to watch on replay.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

Yeah, the name "Neulion" and the word "buffering" are about to re-enter your lexicon.

 

[ZackM]

There's a small chance I'll be in Durham on Saturday morning.

 

[rome8180]

i expect thorough analysis if so.

 

[rome8180]

Here's a two-minute video from the first practice. For those who can't use the shitty NeuLion player, Frank seemed to be blowing by Matt pretty easily. As expected, the blue and white jerseys mean nothing. Not much footage of Giles. Wonder if he is somewhat restricted still.

http://www.goduke.com/mediaPortal/playe ... id=5657098

 

[rome8180]

Just realized Grayson is not in the video at all. I therefore assume he is injured.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

 

[rome8180]

Thanks. Couldn't find the full-length video on their twitter.

 

[childress22]

Just realized Grayson is not in the video at all. I therefore assume he is injured.

There was another video snippet, this one posted by DBP, that also made it look like he was on the sidelines. It was Tatum-Kennard-Jones-Jefferson-Bolden running offense, and it looked like Grayson was on the sideline and Chase watching from the baseline, while other reserve players were on the next court over.

 

[rome8180]

Well, Chase was prominent in the first clip. So maybe they're just trying all sorts of combos.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Maybe Grayson is the worst rotation player on this team. Everyone else is a projected 10.0 BPM and 30 PER player.

 

[deepdarkblue]

And so it begins...

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

New rotation based on Giles and Allen being injured or significantly worse at basketball than everyone else:

PG Jackson
SG Jones
SF Tatum
PF Jefferson
C Bolden

G Kennard
C/F Jeter
F DeLaurier

This is still the #1 team, but the dropoff to Nova is small. Sadly, this will not be a dominant season without Allen or Giles, but merely a 5-loss mediocre 1-seed kind of season. Those are the consequences of needing to play a Scout 25-50 range freshman as the 8th man.

 

[deepdarkblue]

I'm going to just post an endless stream of practice tweets

















"fresh"

 

[deepdarkblue]

Jack White is everybody's bitch