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  1. #1
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    2018-19 Basketball catch all thread

    OK, the NBA draft is over and there are discussions about Duke players in the NBA. There are also threads about 2019 football and basketball recruiting.

    In the 2018 basketball recruiting thread there are some comments about Bolden and DeLaurier....

    Perhaps it is time to start a thread specifically about 2018-19. How are the freshman doing at Duke...pick-up game thoughts...prep for the Canada trip..etc.

    I have no great insight but just wanted to have a place to get info about the upcoming season.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarkD83 View Post
    OK, the NBA draft is over and there are discussions about Duke players in the NBA. There are also threads about 2019 football and basketball recruiting.

    In the 2018 basketball recruiting thread there are some comments about Bolden and DeLaurier...

    Perhaps it is time to start a thread specifically about 2018-19. How are the freshman doing at Duke...pick-up game thoughts...prep for the Canada trip..etc.

    I have no great insight but just wanted to have a place to get info about the upcoming season.
    It's been quite a while since I've heard about it, so I assume it's dead. But what ever happened to the Pro-Am that used to happen this time of year?

    Always liked that little sneak peak.

    - Chillin

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    Minutes in 5...4...3...2...

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    I know it is too early for schedules, but what about dates for Canada, Maui, Countdown to Craziness? We must know something.
    This message was composed entirely from recycled letters of the alphabet using only renewable, caffeinated energy sources.
    No trees, wabbits, chimps or whales died in the process.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mgtr View Post
    I know it is too early for schedules, but what about dates for Canada, Maui, Countdown to Craziness? We must know something.
    I’m waiting for the date we play Texas Tech in NYC in December.
    Ozzie, your paradigm of optimism!

    Go To Hell carolina, Go To Hell!
    9F 9F 9F
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    K on Marques

    https://frshoopz.com/cbb/coach-k-mar...y-next-season/

    Coach K: Marques Bolden will be one of the best big men in the country next season

    By
    Jon Rothstein
    June 25, 2018

    Injuries have hampered the first two years of Marques Bolden’s college career. The former five-star prospect has had limited production after arriving at Duke with high expectations, but his head coach feels his fortunes are about to change.
    “We feel like Marques Bolden will be one of the best big men in the country next season,” Mike Krzyzewski said Monday on the College Hoops Today Podcast. “If you look at his career, he’s always battled injuries. We’re hopeful that now that he’s healthy, he’s going to have a heck of a season for us.”

    Bolden averaged 3.9 points and 3.6 rebounds last season as a sophomore.
    Kyle gets BUCKETS!
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    In the spirit of this thread what about the first summer workout clip.
    lots of good stuff here including a non booted Reddish!
    https://mobile.twitter.com/DukeMBB/s...564800/video/1

    I hope Coach K has got a boat load of food!
    Kyle gets BUCKETS!
    https://youtu.be/NJWPASQZqLc

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    Kyle gets BUCKETS!
    https://youtu.be/NJWPASQZqLc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Furniture View Post
    There was a brief moment where I was like "HOLY CRAP DID AOC GROW 4 INCHES?!?!?" until I noticed something...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidBenAkiva View Post
    There was a brief moment where I was like "HOLY CRAP DID AOC GROW 4 INCHES?!?!?" until I noticed something...
    Cinder blocks!
    Ozzie, your paradigm of optimism!

    Go To Hell carolina, Go To Hell!
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    I just want to state for the record that this video in no way has me excited for the upcoming season. Nope, not at all. I am not even mildly excited.

    -Jason "" Evans
    Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonEvans View Post
    I just want to state for the record that this video in no way has me excited for the upcoming season. Nope, not at all. I am not even mildly excited.

    -Jason "" Evans
    Makes me wonder if the rest of the Duke undergrads are putting in that kind of summer work for their upcoming semester

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    It is just damn foolish to chest-bump Zion.

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    This Hype Video has me HYPED

    I know it's goal is to hype me up... and it worked!

    https://twitter.com/DukeMBB/status/1022138697653907456

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    Is it too early to start speculating on the season? Now that the Maui bracket has been released, we have a pretty good idea of what the schedule is going to look like (minus the exact dates).

    Champions Classic:
    - Kentucky (ranked #1 or #2)

    Maui Invitational:
    - San Diego State, then likely Auburn (top-10) and Gonzaga (top-5)

    ACC/B10 Challenge:
    - Indiana (in Cameron)

    Other OOC games:
    - Texas Tech (in MSG)
    - St. John's (in Cameron)

    ACC Schedule:
    - Home/Road: North Carolina, Syracuse, Virginia, Wake Forest
    - Home: Boston College, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami, NC State
    - Road: Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pitt, Virginia Tech

    Then add in a few scrub opponents in the fall. By my count we have 13 games that I'd consider "losable." What I mean by that for each game, if we were to lose I wouldn't be surprised. That isn't to say that I expect to lose them all, or that we won't lose any of the other games, but basically these are the games that I will go into feeling a little worried. These games are the three November games, CHeat x2, Syracuse x2, UVA x2, @FSU, @Louisville, @ND, @VT. And yes, I am aware that there are other land mines as well. St. John's beat us last year. Indiana gave us a game. NC State is never a gimme even at home (they beat us in 2017 with our team mostly healthy).

    Given this schedule, then adding the ACCT and NCAAT, I think a ten-loss season is a possibility. We lost 8 games last year and had a much easier schedule. We'll have a young team that will lose some games they shouldn't. The conference will be down, but still has some good teams and everybody will be gunning for us as always. And the start of our schedule is brutal, with three possible top-10 opponents in November.

    What do you guys think? Am I being overly pessimistic?

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    Quote Originally Posted by UrinalCake View Post
    Then add in a few scrub opponents in the fall. By my count we have 13 games that I'd consider "losable." What I mean by that for each game, if we were to lose I wouldn't be surprised. That isn't to say that I expect to lose them all, or that we won't lose any of the other games, but basically these are the games that I will go into feeling a little worried. These games are the three November games, CHeat x2, Syracuse x2, UVA x2, @FSU, @Louisville, @ND, @VT. And yes, I am aware that there are other land mines as well. St. John's beat us last year. Indiana gave us a game. NC State is never a gimme even at home (they beat us in 2017 with our team mostly healthy).

    Given this schedule, then adding the ACCT and NCAAT, I think a ten-loss season is a possibility. We lost 8 games last year and had a much easier schedule. We'll have a young team that will lose some games they shouldn't. The conference will be down, but still has some good teams and everybody will be gunning for us as always. And the start of our schedule is brutal, with three possible top-10 opponents in November.

    What do you guys think? Am I being overly pessimistic?
    Anything's possible, sure. Unless you assign percentages/odds to the possibility, it's hard to really discuss. For example, I'm optimistic about this team but I would agree there is a non-zero chance at a 10-loss season. (And a 9-loss season, and a 4-loss season, and a 2-loss season, etc.) Duke lost 11 games in 2016, for example.

    Now, if you're saying you are predicting a 10-loss season, then we probably should discuss a pie bet.

  18. #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by UrinalCake View Post
    Is it too early to start speculating on the season? Now that the Maui bracket has been released, we have a pretty good idea of what the schedule is going to look like (minus the exact dates).

    Champions Classic:
    - Kentucky (ranked #1 or #2)

    Maui Invitational:
    - San Diego State, then likely Auburn (top-10) and Gonzaga (top-5)

    ACC/B10 Challenge:
    - Indiana (in Cameron)

    Other OOC games:
    - Texas Tech (in MSG)
    - St. John's (in Cameron)

    ACC Schedule:
    - Home/Road: North Carolina, Syracuse, Virginia, Wake Forest
    - Home: Boston College, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami, NC State
    - Road: Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pitt, Virginia Tech

    Then add in a few scrub opponents in the fall. By my count we have 13 games that I'd consider "losable." What I mean by that for each game, if we were to lose I wouldn't be surprised. That isn't to say that I expect to lose them all, or that we won't lose any of the other games, but basically these are the games that I will go into feeling a little worried. These games are the three November games, CHeat x2, Syracuse x2, UVA x2, @FSU, @Louisville, @ND, @VT. And yes, I am aware that there are other land mines as well. St. John's beat us last year. Indiana gave us a game. NC State is never a gimme even at home (they beat us in 2017 with our team mostly healthy).

    Given this schedule, then adding the ACCT and NCAAT, I think a ten-loss season is a possibility. We lost 8 games last year and had a much easier schedule. We'll have a young team that will lose some games they shouldn't. The conference will be down, but still has some good teams and everybody will be gunning for us as always. And the start of our schedule is brutal, with three possible top-10 opponents in November.

    What do you guys think? Am I being overly pessimistic?
    I think that's pretty unlikely, but certainly possible. I think they could reasonably lose two preseason games (they aren't losing two in Hawaii; if they lose to Auburn, they won't face Gonzaga, for example), they could lose 5-6 in conference. And they could lose in the ACC and NCAA tournaments. If all that happens, it's a 9- or 10-loss season.

    But, of the games you listed, Indiana, St. John's, and NC State don't scare me too much, because they are at home. Pitt, Louisville, and Notre Dame are in rebuilding mode. FSU might be decent, but they have real question marks at PG, and don't have consistent offense. Va Tech should be tough one though, and a very possible loss.

    My guess? We lose maybe one of the preseason games, 5 regular season games, and then head to the tourneys. I think an over/under of around 6 or 6.5 feels about right.

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    Johnny Dawkins' UCF Knights won the Myrtle Beach Invitational tonight. (Wake Forest came in 5th.)
    Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."

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    Quote Originally Posted by OZZIE4DUKE View Post
    I’m waiting for the date we play Texas Tech in NYC in December.
    The internet has been especially silent about the non-conference schedule this year. We usually have all but 1-2 of those games from opposing newspapers by now. Duke has announced that portion in mid-July a few times as well. Consider that UNC and Wake have announced there dates already. The Iron Duke ticket brochure used to have the meat of the ACC schedule 2-3 weeks early. It used to be a DBR board exclusive.

    For TX Tech, I would pencil 12/8 (Sat during reading period) over the weekend before Christmas (Th 20 - Sat 22).

    We know Maui. It's M/T/W before Thanksgiving every year. You can Sharpie this one.

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