Agreed. Just as people may have under appreciated what Nate brought to the table in 01.
Once again, agreed. Duke will go back to pressuring the ball and getting into the passing lanes, with the Plumlees helping at the rim. Teams that can beat the pressure and make the extra pass once the help commits may pose a problem. Also, I fear that Duke will regress from a decent defensive rebounding team to a team that gives up too many second chance points. Hopefully, there will be plenty of turnovers and easy transition buckets to more than make up for these problems.Also, there will be times when we have three guards on the perimeter and Kyle at the four. How will we cope with a perimeter made of 6'2 guards on defense?
We will look extremely good with our pressure defense against overmatched opponents and teams with poor guard play, but we could struggle against teams with elite guards who won't be bothered by our pressure. Once they take that away, can we defend as well as we did this year in the half court?
Oh, dear, I fear that, as we Brits sometimes say, I'm guilty of being too clever by half. For I now see that when I referred to foul troubled MPs, some posters mistakenly thought I referred to Miles and Mason.
No, no, sorry. I meant the "foul" = fake expenses claimed by several Members of Parliament, the issue that's roiling our upcoming [well, tomorrow, actually] elections. Or at least these numerous false expense claims were front and center until the recent immigration row [Gordon Brown and "that bigoted woman" mess.]
Anyhow, in my posts, at least, MPs refers to British politics, not Duke basketball.
Again, sorry.