Duquesne @ UD Thoughts

[Fudd]

That was a heck of a game to watch. Duquesne played very well. We played well, IMO. The crowd helped bring home the win. The commentator on television with Mark Adams said the hair on his arms was standing up after the "We Will Rock You" time-out during the UD comeback. Classic game.

	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[SeasonTicketFan]

1) The game was a classic. If you were not at the arena, you missed a good one.
2) The new Duquesne Athletic Director has to be very disappointed. He thought they were going to steal a win.
3) Fans hated the refs tonight. Very angry,
4) Duke guards are the real deal. Every team in the A10 has one hot shot guard. They have two!
5) If this game was played at Duquesne, UD loses. It was not. UD won. The crowd causes opponents to unravel at the end of the game. Chalk up an other UD arena crowd win. The Dayton Decibel Dungeon as Mark Adams calls it. He was in the house tonight.

If you would say, Kendall, Dyshawn and Steve would have bad to mediocre games, you would say UD loses. UD wins.

Charles Cooke continues to amaze. Early in the year, I commented that he struggles to finish around the rim. Not tonight. Great finishes at the rim. Good defense in the second half.

Great end of game spark from Kyle. How many times has he done that? Amazing plays by him on both ends of the floor.

Freshman played well in the first half while Pierre and Pollard were on the the bench.

Free throw shooting was awful. They made the last 60 seconds a nail biter. Again... Turned a 5 point lead into a 2 point win with a desperation heave that felt too close.

3 point shooting was subpar. The exact opposite of the George Mason game. I wondered if the easy GM win put UD into false complaceny. Duquense was fired up for this game. They werer dunking hard during warm ups.


Duqusens was shooting 75% from the field at one point in the first half. UD came out flat. Duquesne came out fired up. Dodged the bullet.

Scoochie was 3-9 from the line, but hits the go ahead 3 to start the win! Go figure...

Sam Miller now giving the big that can shoot the 3. Creates another problem for defenses. He had some great plays and some freshman plays. But we needed his contribution. Nice.

Steve continues to struggle against good, quick strong centers. He was ill this week, but he needs to hit the weight hard this summer and get better strength to finish around the rim. he can still block shots and rebound, but he did little tonight.

The team is a good defensive team but gets burned so many times on the high pick and roll. The Dukes used that play well, till the last 5 minutes of the game. Archie has to be bothered that this play still haunts the defense.

Great mid court trap with 47 seconds left. Duquense is out of time outs. UD traps Mason at midcourt and he throws it away in desperation! Great trap.

What a game!!! I hope the team has legs for Rhose Island. This game was very physical as witnessed by how unhappy both coaches and the fans were.
It was also an emotional roller coaster for everyone.

	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[66flyer]

Great game, although very scary. I'm so glad Mason didn't play last month. I was at that game and believe me--we wouldn't have had a chance in hell of winning with his 3s raining down like a monsoon. Our team has improved so much and their concentration saves the day. No team is ever perfect, but continuous improvement is the key.
I was very proud of Sam again. He's making the most of his minutes and his defense is getting better. The guys behind me are not the regular people. One of them is from out of town and hadn't really seen a game since early in the season. When Sam let his first 3 fly, the fan yelled, "Nooo!" Swish! I turned around and said, "YES!" I told him Sam had hit 3 of 4 3s last Sat. Right away Sam hit another 3 and then a 2. The guy said, "OK. You're right. He can shoot." Constant improvement is the name of the game.

[Sea Bass]

Flyers had no energy and were goofing around during warmups. They came out flat missing layups and not defending.

Cooke slowed down Mason after KD kept going underneath the picks and Mason kept drilling the threes.

In the 2nd half the Dukes made some tough shots and every three they made (6 of them) was from at least 5 feet beyond the arc.

The Flyers pushing the ball all game paid dividends in the last 5 minutes as the Dukes struggled getting back on defense and moving their feet.

Eventually the missed foul shots are going to cost a game or more.

	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[SeasonTicketFan]

I forgot to note two other interest items.
The number 6.

1) Turnovers for the game by UD 6! Most excellent.
2) Assists by Pierre - also 6.

They did what they needed to do to win. They were very far from their A game, part UD, part Duquesne, but chalk up a W.

	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[Glen Clark]

They only won by three against a 7-17 team with zero wins in conference and an RPI nudging 200 . . .
Oh, wait - I'm looking at #9 North Carolina.
My bad.

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[AC91]

I really love this team. But our guards can't afford too many more games like that from the line. The Dukes played great but we missed 13 out of 28 FTs and scoochie, Cooke and Davis missed 10 of their 20! They just hit 15 of 20 and the end of the game is completely different.
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	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[66flyer]

The streaky FT shooting drives me crazy. One game we hit almost all of them, the next miss in double digits. If they had hit even half of of the missed FTs and half of the missed easy lay-ups, the game would have been a run-away.
They better get it together fast for Fri. I hope they can keep up the pace with so little time between games. I figure since this was a bad FT game, they're due for a good one Friday. Right? )

[frisco flyer]

Here's a game recap from the Dukes website. It has a couple of quotes from their HC:
http://www.goduquesne.com/sports/m-b...020916aac.html

...and another one from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette:
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/d...s/201602100052

	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[Cbusflyer07]

Originally Posted by 66flyer The streaky FT shooting drives me crazy. One game we hit almost all of them, the next miss in double digits. If they had hit even half of of the missed FTs and half of the missed easy lay-ups, the game would have been a run-away. They better get it together fast for Fri. I hope they can keep up the pace with so little time between games. I figure since this was a bad FT game, they're due for a good one Friday. Right? )

God I hope so. If not, it'll be a loooong night.
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[UDBrian]

The game will be shown twice again today on different sports channels, 9am and 3pm

[BeckysTXA]

Two great coaching decisions won the game:

1. Moving Cooke to guard Mason in the first half slowed him down enough for us to compete on a night he was light's-out-hot coming out of the gate.

2. And like SeasonTicketFan said above: "Great mid court trap with 47 seconds left. Duquense is out of time outs. UD traps Mason at midcourt and he throws it away in desperation! Great trap."

The guys on the floor have to execute, but these two defensive decisions by Archie won this game.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by SeasonTicketFan 1) Great end of game spark from Kyle. How many times has he done that? Amazing plays by him on both ends of the floor.

Enough that we're probably 17-6 right now without him.

[CJ2etc]

Originally Posted by UDBrian The game will be shown twice again today on different sports channels, 9am and 3pm

What channels? I can't find it.

Thanks

[rollo]

Originally Posted by Glen Clark They only won by three against a 7-17 team with zero wins in conference and an RPI nudging 200 . . . Oh, wait - I'm looking at #9 North Carolina. My bad.

I wonder if Head Coach Roy Williams collapsing onto the floor in the 2nd half and having to be taken to the locker room for the rest of the game had anything to do with the result...

[TA111]

Originally Posted by UDBrian The game will be shown twice again today on different sports channels, 9am and 3pm

Can't find it. Do you know the channels?

[1903 Flyer]

Anyone else catch the ESPN scroll last night that showed "Colter misses 3-pointer at buzzer" rather than, I don't know, Cooke 22 pts 8 reb?

[Medford]

They had Cooke's stat lines, typically, they have a stat line or in this case a fact about each team for the top 25 game scroll.

[jack72]

We have some of the best defensive guards in basketball, and yet these guys go off of career games. The challenge of being Top 20. Some of those threes were so far out those two could not have seen the NBA three point line from there.

[steve]

You have to remember that NONE of these teams get to play in front of that many people and for many of them they play in front of 13K for a combined 3-4 games...Every team that comes in here is playing in their SB game and that's when UD is barely a top 40-50 team let alone a top 20 team.

They have the bulls eye on their back constantly at home and they have to stop thinking that they can just show up and the crowd intensity will carry them thru.....Those 2 Dukie guards are as good a tandem as there is in the country....

UD half court offense just has lots of stifling possessions when you have both KP and KD in there together and when another team gets hot then they're in for a serious night from an opponent.....

When UD started to push the ball they simply had no one that could stop the "Pete Rose" of this team in Kyle Davis...He was a man beyond belief defensively the 2nd half and offensively.. A will-to-win that just is unmatched.

[Medford]

UD came out of the gate sluggish, sluggish on offense,sluggish on defense. A quick TO and Archie got things in order. For the most part, I thought UD's defense was solid. Credit to Duquesne, they hit a number of shots you would have given any team on any night, but they also had a number of solid offensive sets and backdoor cuts that gave UD fits. They played tough defense and frankly I think UD got the benefit of the calls from the refs.

Overall, it was the first time that I recall UD getting the other teams "A" game while they were ranked and digging down and finding a way to win. A highly entertaining game. On to Rhode Island.

Also, wanted to add, that entry pass from Pollard into Big Steve was awesome. Hopefully a sign of things to come the next season +.

	Rhode Island RHODE ISLAND The University of Rhode Island was chartered as the state's agricultural school in 1888. The school became the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1892. Located in southern Rhode Island, URI is a quintessential New England campus - rural in feeling yet close to the city of Providence, the state's capital. Linked to the city, the beaches, and nearly every corner of the state by both rail and public transit, the campus is easily accessible from Boston and New York URI currently offers 100 majors in seven degree-granting colleges. There are more than 12,000 students on the Kingston campus, about 3,000 in Providence, and a complement of about 700 faculty. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Rams.

	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by 1903 Flyer Anyone else catch the ESPN scroll last night that showed "Colter misses 3-pointer at buzzer" rather than, I don't know, Cooke 22 pts 8 reb?

Yep! Saw that and had to laugh. The missed 3 pt'er was from 75 feet??!!

I'm just surprised it didn't say "despite 27 pts from Micah Mason"

How about: "Dayton ends game on 19-5 run to Dufeat Duquesne"

	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[Smitty10]

Originally Posted by steve UD half court offense just has lots of stifling possessions when you have both KP and KD in there together and when another team gets hot then they're in for a serious night from an opponent.....

I'm confused, are you saying that they have better possessions with Baby D in the game with Pollard?

[steve]

Originally Posted by Smitty10 I'm confused, are you saying that they have better possessions with Baby D in the game with Pollard?

Where did I say that exactly? Didn't say it was better with anybody else just that they struggle in the HC with many possessions with 2 guys that pass up open shots and are not good shooters..

[UD Rugby]

Originally Posted by TA111 Can't find it. Do you know the channels?

I'm visiting the in-laws in DC area...I'm watching it again on MASN. Just got to the point where the Dukes are about to make a run at end of game. Still nervous that the Flyers aren't gonna come back.

	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[Smitty10]

Originally Posted by steve Where did I say that exactly? Didn't say it was better with anybody else just that they struggle in the HC with many possessions with 2 guys that pass up open shots and are not good shooters..

You said that they struggle when KD and KP are in there together which a normal person would take to mean that they both do better when the other one's not in there.

How many minutes is Wehrli getting these days?

[steve]

Originally Posted by Smitty10 You said that they struggle when KD and KP are in there together which a normal person would take to mean that they both do better when the other one's not in there. How many minutes is Wehrli getting these days?

Are you really that normal person? The one that thinks KD is a good shooter and "barely" missed most of his 3's last year when any normal person would see that almost all of his misses aren't rolling in and out and hugging the rim but clanking off the rim or even being air-balled..And the one that questioned Charles Cooke earlier in the year even being a starter?

But go ahead and announce that I despise KD like you do anytime anyone says anything remotely constructive about his game..

[Smitty10]

Originally Posted by steve Are you really that normal person? The one that thinks KD is a good shooter and "barely" missed most of his 3's last year when any normal person would see that almost all of his misses aren't rolling in and out and hugging the rim but clanking off the rim or even being air-balled..And the one that questioned Charles Cooke earlier in the year even being a starter? But go ahead and announce that I despise KD like you do anytime anyone says anything remotely constructive about his game..

You're the one who said Wehrli will get 12 minutes a game. KD's shots are improving. And as I questioned Cooke being anointed as starter before any of us saw him perform like he is now, you said the same about KD. Guess what, they are both starters as should be.

Anyway, since you're not commenting on the Wehrli thing, I guess you think he will be a starter very soon since that's what it will take to get that 12 minute average.

[UDDoug]

Originally Posted by frisco flyer Here's a game recap from the Dukes website. It has a couple of quotes from their HC: http://www.goduquesne.com/sports/m-b...020916aac.html ...and another one from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/d...s/201602100052

Duquesne basketball is so important in the city of Pittsburgh that "their" coverage of the game is the AP wire story. Says a lot about the degree to which the Dukes bring the Pittsburgh market, and the lot of newspapers today.

	Duquesne DUQUESNE Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown. Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. Duquesne offers 10 schools of study and 100 degree programs to 6,000 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Dukes.

[forego1]

From UDdoug's link > Jim Ferry: "..they are playing like a Top 10 team right now and it showed defensively in those last five minutes."


Every player was engaging and getting after it, more so than anytime before.

That arena buzz was amazing.

[MrFlyerFanatic]

Originally Posted by rollo I wonder if Head Coach Roy Williams collapsing onto the floor in the 2nd half and having to be taken to the locker room for the rest of the game had anything to do with the result...

Good thing for Roy that those medical personnel attended real classes for real grades. Apparently not UNC grads.

[jack72]

Originally Posted by rollo I wonder if Head Coach Roy Williams collapsing onto the floor in the 2nd half and having to be taken to the locker room for the rest of the game had anything to do with the result...

Roy had a Vertigo attack, which is not his first, but the timing was interesting with his team down 5 to a terrible team.