Wonderful year with 30 wins but this last loss to Villanova will have some aftershocks. With the emphasis on spacing the floor and driving to the basket or playing the pick and roll/pop game, Duke can be as dangerous as anyone.
But, and it's a huge but, when a team tries to do this against a team of equal or greater talent, the whole philosophy goes kaput. Duke didn't have the drivers to go by Nova, Nova played them tough on the perimeter and made Duke take tough 2s and Duke just couldn't do it repeatedly.
Duke's pressure defense is still good and works versus teams that have no plan for attacking them, duke's pressure versus teams that are on the attack is questionable, but they usually stay away from pressing good team. They might need a backup plan for playing against teams they can't beat off the dribble. They probably need to go back to some of their Bobby Knight motion.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
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What up Uncle Sweet? I agree with you about Duke needing a back up plan to beat a stronger team. If they don't get one soon, they'll will end up like Jimmy!
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