(04-26-2018 08:27 AM)Rock House Duke Wrote:  Now we just need Rowe to coach this team up and turn these recruiting victories into CAA wins and tournament victories.

Last season our defense was solid. Rowe needs to figure out how to let these athletes play together on offense with screens, motion, and ball spacing and less isolation plays with guys having to get their own shot.

Yep. I think he has much better depth and talent with these incoming freshmen. The best part in Year 3 is that he doesn't have to rely so heavily on these frosh. This past year, freshmen accounted for 45% of the total minutes across the entire season - and, 50% for the CAA portion of the schedule - with some moments late in the season where we had 4 freshmen on the floor for extended minutes. Bringing these incoming guys off the bench and sort of "easing" them more into game play should benefit everybody.

Freshmen become sophs and that's a positive. I look forward to seeing development in these rising sophs as well. Wilson should be able to get a lot done in the S&C area. Jacobs should be working on his outside shot and being stronger in post moves (also S&C work). Same for Jones. All of these young guys should (stressing "should") get better defensively now that they know how talented opposing guys are at this level.

I'm sure Rowe fully gets it that his honeymoon is over and it is put up or shut up time as far as W's & L's go. An upgrade in athleticism should make for good scrimmages and practices. I expect Parker and Hicklin to immediately make guys like Lewis and Banks even better.