Coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams and both gave cryptic and vague answers when asked about the current shoe company “pay for play” trial this past week. The media as well as a good amount of college basketball fans wanted to get some sort of angry, fire and brimstone response to satiate a need for a headline…NEWSFLASH…they didn’t get it. … Read More
Duke Recruiting So Far this Offseason…
Suffice it to say that recruiting for the Duke Blue Devils this off-season for the 2019 class hasn’t exactly got according to plan. Bryan Antoine, a shooting guard, high on Duke’s target list unexpectedly chose the champion Villanova Wildcats and Scottie Lewis out of NJ chose the Florida Gators. 2 other guard prospects; Nico Mannion (who reclassified to 2019 from … Read More
Player Assessment Post Canada Tour: The Freshmen
It’s clearly way to early to make assessments on where players are only 4 months removed from Duke’s last game, a loss to Kansas in the Elite 8 and still 2 months away from Countdown to Craziness (Duke’s annual team introduction and scrimmage). We can however look at how Duke performed in their 3 Canadian exhibition games and make some … Read More
Player Assessment Post Canada Tour: The Sophomores
It’s clearly way to early to make assessments on where players are only 4 months removed from Duke’s last game, a loss to Kansas in the Elite 8 and still 2 months away from Countdown to Craziness (Duke’s annual team introduction and scrimmage). We can however look at how Duke performed in their 3 Canadian exhibition games and make some … Read More
Player Assessment Post Canada Tour: The Juniors
It’s clearly way to early to make assessments on where players are only 4 months removed from Duke’s last game, a loss to Kansas in the Elite 8 and still 2 months away from Countdown to Craziness (Duke’s annual team introduction and scrimmage). We can however look at how Duke performed in their 3 Canadian exhibition games and make some … Read More
Player Assessment Post Canada Tour: The Senior
It’s clearly way to early to make assessments on where players are only 4 months removed from Duke’s last game, a loss to Kansas in the Elite 8 and still 2 months away from Countdown to Craziness (Duke’s annual team introduction and scrimmage). We can however look at how Duke performed in their 3 Canadian exhibition games and make some … Read More
Some Thoughts on Duke’s Canadian Exhibition Tour – Grain of Salt Taken
With a 103 – 58 victory over McGill the Duke Blue Devils conclude their exhibition tour of Canada with 3 wins by an average of 33 points. Obviously the level of competition has to be weighed into any analysis of what we saw in the 3 games against Canadian schools but there was good and bad and lots to work … Read More
Duval Owes You Nothing – Duke Fans Need to Chill
People seem to be making a big deal out of a Trevon Duval tweet where in response to the NCAA rules change regarding players who aren’t drafted being able to return to school. Duval was not selected in either round of the 2018 NBA Draft and caught on as part of the Houston Rockets summer league team. Wasn’t going back … Read More
Some Thoughts Going into the 18-19 Season
Suffice it to say the 2018-2019 Blue Devil squad under Coach Mike Krzyzewski will have their work cut out for them. Outside expectations aside this iteration of Duke Men’s Basketball has big shoes to fill.