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Duke Basketball 2017-2018

I'm looking forward to the SMTTEM post in late January where we are informed that Duke is scoring 1.12 ppp with a Duval-Allen-Trent backcourt as compared to 1.25 ppp with an Allen-Trent-Tucker backcourt. He could probably just write the post now and make whatever minor tweaks are necessary to get the numbers exactly right then.

D-F Twitter should change its name from "Weird Ant Vrankovich" to "The Duval Theory" now. At least we will look prescient.
 
K should just watch tape after tape of UConn 2004. Taliek Brown was likely the worst-shooting PG to ever steer a NC team. Let Grayson be the Ben Gordon ballhog and Trent be the Rashad Anderson second perimeter shooter, and just try to overwhelm with o-boards and rim protection.
 
You could also write the counter-posts that discredit an anti-Duval post in its entirety right now, the main point being that Tucker only played against some trash team's backups as opposed to Duval playing against that same trash team's starters, who were all aces defensively on Duval.
 
K should just watch tape after tape of UConn 2004. Taliek Brown was likely the worst-shooting PG to ever steer a NC team. Let Grayson be the Ben Gordon ballhog and Trent be the Rashad Anderson second perimeter shooter, and just try to overwhelm with o-boards and rim protection.
That was the same year we had Chris Duhon as our starting PG. Could Duhon be successful now? The game has changed a lot since then.
 
Actually, a more athletic Duhon should be the completely unrealistic goal Duval aspires to. Great on-ball defense, leadership, assist-to-turnover ratio, assist rate, and two-point percentage made him a valuable player despite his mediocre shooting.
 
K should just watch tape after tape of UConn 2004. Taliek Brown was likely the worst-shooting PG to ever steer a NC team. Let Grayson be the Ben Gordon ballhog and Trent be the Rashad Anderson second perimeter shooter, and just try to overwhelm with o-boards and rim protection.

The most recent iteration of Kentucky is actually a decent comp too (#12 overall offense). The most frequent lineup was:

Fox (17-69 3PT, 24.4%)
Monk (104-262, 39.7%)
Briscoe (17-59, 28.8%)
Willis (49-130, 37.7%)
Adebayo (none)

They had also had two veteran guards that combined to shoot approx 35.5 percent off the bench on 160 attempts and Gabriel who shot 31 percent on another 60 attempts. All in, a middle of the pack 35.3% total.

Obviously they were forced to use a true stretch 4 in Willis, and they paid for it by being weaker on the offensive glass than in previous recent years. In order to get to #12 nationally in offense, they did two things well- top 15 in 2 point FG% and top 40 in FTA/FGA. That said, they were #313 in FT%. Duke could be looking at a similar profile for those three stats.

Ideally, we're better than Kentucky's #74 nationally in offensive rebounding, vaulting us closer to the top 5 in offense. This is on the optimistic side, and it also ignores the fact that K is going to be designing an offense that he's not experienced with.
 
Of course we are all hoping Bolden has a healthy, productive year; however, if that somehow goes off the rails, it feels the fanbase has a lot of confidence in Vrank stepping in and contributing. He uses his body well and does not force plays.

He can be the TT of Duke big men the next 2 years.
 
I'm really impressed with the way Carter has transformed his body. Looks nothing like that big, chubby kid I watched in AAU.

 

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