MBB: Duke 72, Incarnate Word 46 - Post Game Thread

Took a step back tonight on offense. Better showing in second half but we may have had tired legs. Gotta solve the slow start issue.

We saw a good glimpse of what Khaman could be for us. Would love for him to develop and blossom like Mark Williams did his freshman year.

22% from three for everyone not named Isaiah is not good.
 
Nice to see Maluach have a breakout game and for the bench to get extended run. I guess the short turnaround was scheduled so we could experience it, but we obviously didn't respond particularly well. I'm also not making too much over this game though. Hopefully Maliq is ok.
 
We won but it wasn't pretty.
Maluach woke up to realize he was the tallest guy on the floor Even with him we only hit 28 in the first half.
Evans can shoot
The defense tightened up and applied pressure after the ho hum first half.
It goes better witth James on the floor but too many fouls early for him
 
FastBreak said:
Main question is whether we actually are a good three point shooting team. If we aren't, teams are going to start sagging and making our dribble penetration and pick and roll even harder to come by.
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Agreed

As a team we're hovering around 34% for the year from 3 a quarter of the way through the season.

That's way too low for a team without a consistent post game.

FT% is a bit of a concerns as well.
 
dukelion said:
Agreed

As a team we're hovering around 34% for the year from 3 a quarter of the way through the season.

That's way too low for a team without a consistent post game.

FT% is a bit of a concerns as well.
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Yep this has to improve. Kon and Mason continue to be disappointing from 3.

Good game to hopefully build some team confidence and muscle memory on getting the ball to Khaman. Great experience for him tonight.
 
We need to get over the bad starts. But the second half was nice to see. And good for ManMan to get his mojo going. The half court offense is still a work in progress - we do best when converting off defensive stops (which is true for most teams, but particularly this Duke team).

Are we going to continue the farce of claiming we have been sold out since the Jay Bilas had hair or whatever it is? There were tons of empty seats in the student section - they should have sold those to locals or whoever else. Could have raised a lot of money to use for NIL...
 
SkyBrickey said:
Yep this has to improve. Kon and Mason continue to be disappointing from 3.

Good game to hopefully build some team confidence and muscle memory on getting the ball to Khaman. Great experience for him tonight.
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I wouldn’t say Kon and Mason “continued” to disappoint from three tonight - Kon was 2 of 4 and Mason 0 for 1. But I presume you mean they've underperformed in that area for the season as a whole.
 
simplyluvin said:
Took a step back tonight on offense. Better showing in second half but we may have had tired legs. Gotta solve the slow start issue.

We saw a good glimpse of what Khaman could be for us. Would love for him to develop and blossom like Mark Williams did his freshman year.

22% from three for everyone not named Isaiah is not good.
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I agree. Offense is a slow start. But, at least, Duke didn't fall behind 10+ points from the get-go.
 
phaedrus said:
I wouldn’t say Kon and Mason “continued” to disappoint from three tonight - Kon was 2 of 4 and Mason 0 for 1. But I presume you mean they've underperformed in that area for the season as a whole.
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Ha. Thanks! I missed a Kon 3 when I took the trash out. I thought he was 1-3.
 
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