It should be in the HOF of WR threads just for all of the bad takes!
Nance/Young
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The five star freshman who has struggled for much of the year - whom is obviously far more talented than Young or any other player who has ever been affiliated with Northwestern - while Young has been playing ahead of finally broke out with a massive game with 14 boards and 8(!) blocks. He’s not gonna play as much going forward most likely with Lively emerging. It’s possible that it’ll be reasonable to see he won’t be a factor for Duke from Feb on.
Come on man... Lively is ESPN's #1 freshman. He had a breakout game on the defensive end.
If Scheyer had played Ryan Young, the crowd would have killed their coach.
Just shows how "off" ratings can be. Lively isn't even the best freshman on Duke, let alone in the country.
Why does someone have to be a superstar or trash? Can’t he just be a decent player? Lively’s a 5 star who’s finally starting to play well, if that continues Young will probably see less time.
He made the right choice and we're better off with Big Matt. Look at the Wisconsin highlights.
Young was soooo much better scoring in the post. But now that I've gotten used to Matt's game, I do think that his ability to finish on lobs is probably more valuable to our offense the way Boo and Chase operate. Young could never do that.
Matt is showing himself to be a very good athlete, giving me hope he might just turn into a better scoring option next year with some hard work over the summer.
He did make a (non-dunk) layup last night, which I can say without hyperbole, is the first time I've ever seen him do that. (Note: I have not seen every minute of every game this year)
His drive and dunk was fun too, but with Martinelli wide open ahead of him, I’d have been pissed at his choice if he’d somehow missed it.
I never said he was trash, just if we are going to talk about players, talk all aspects of his game. Offensively he is OK. Defense not so good.
If people were starting a team, some would take Nance, some would take Young, so,e would take Matt.
Glad he will get the experience of going to the tournament and finish his degree.
As for the ranking they are far from perfect.
Finished with 11 in a 22 point loss. Is Duke in danger of missing the NCAA tourney??
Maybe NU and Duke can battle it in a First Four game. Or NC.
They will likely still make it but their resume is awful. They only have 2 quad 1 wins both at neutral sites over Xavier and Iowa, 2-5 in conference road games with both wins being quad 3, and the ACC is so terrible that they don't have the opportunity to even play a quad 1 game at home.
Yeah, tonight's game against Miami was brutal. We are awful on the road, so our next game at UVA could be similarly lopsided.
If we win our remaining home games we should make the tourney, somewhere between an 8 - 11 seed. But I think we have no expectations of winning more than a single game in the tourney.
Ryan Young has been solid for us. Pretty limited skillset but generally good on Offense and a solid rebounder. Certainly better than Nance at UNC, which is nice.
If we win our remaining home games we should make the tourney, somewhere between an 8 - 11 seed. But I think we have no expectations of winning more than a single game in the tourney.
Ryan Young has been solid for us. Pretty limited skillset but generally good on Offense and a solid rebounder. Certainly better than Nance at UNC, which is nice.
Very true, even coming from a Dukie.Ryan Young has been solid for us. Certainly better than Nance at UNC, which is nice.
Miami's starters go 6'7" 6'7" 6'5" 6'4" 6'0"
Duke starters go 7'1" 7'0" 6'8" 6'5" 6'2"
Duke turned it over 21 times. And got outrebounded 38-31.
Scheyer was so confused he had Lively and Young out there together for 4 minutes.
Duke starters go 7'1" 7'0" 6'8" 6'5" 6'2"
Duke turned it over 21 times. And got outrebounded 38-31.
Scheyer was so confused he had Lively and Young out there together for 4 minutes.
That was a completely ridiculous and hilarious play. As he gathers for the dunk rather than passing, which seemed like the right move, and flew around on the rim, he seemed just as likely to lose control of that big body, smash into something, and break like 3 bones as he was to actually dunk it.
Instead he laid down a chest pounding, destructive, violent King Kong dunk and kicked a Sconnie in the face for good measure. Freaking unreal.
I will buy a beer to anyone who even suspects he would take a charge
Miami boosters paid $1.3 million for those guards. You get what you pay for.
Nicholson didn't pass to the wide-open Martinelli because Big Matt knows he can outrun his passes.
Watching a good chunk of NC @ WF. No idea of Nance’s stats but Hubert Davis should say he needs to poop and just leave the arena. It’s embarrassing to see this team. It’s actually not a team, it’s five guys that got together to play ball.
Young is a backup on the worst Duke team in 20 years that is 6th in the conference and NOT ranked. He plays behind a freshman and I guess he is an OK rotational player for Duke. Really a non-factor on a non-factor team.
interesting that the conventional wisdom was that these two guys were leaving basement dweller NU to join blue bloods and get a chance at the Dance and now all three teams are on the bubble together.
Yes the freshman was the #1 recruit in his class according to ESPN.
Young's performance is better across the board than what he did for NU.
Good basketball player. Miserable comment.
I’m just shocked by the negative impact on Duke’s academic reputation by allowing the No 1 player in the country by admissions.
Duke's reputation was already damaged. And I don't know if Lively (or for that matter Filipowski) is a good student or not.
Not always. I'd venture to say North Carolina players are getting just as much or more and they've gone from ranked number one preseason to possibly not even making the dance.
It is?? We couldn't even agree on our own board whether NU was a more prestigious academic institution than Duke. I wouldn't mind a little damage in the form of the #1 recruit in the land.
Yeah people who follow college basketball know that Duke signficantly lowers their academic standards for the basketball team. It eroded that way because of Mike Krzyzewski and the discrepancy is the worst among all Division 1 programs. The truth is the truth.
I look at college sports as competition between students. Is that idealistic? Maybe. But as John Mellencamp once sang - "You gotta stand for something or you're gonna fall for anything."
Well, you fell for the "competition between students" hoax. College sports are a competition between athletes. Students watch or go to the library.
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