Game Thread [2023-24] at Florida State

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Saturday, February 17, 2pm ET, ESPN
Donald L. Tucker Civic Center

Kenpom: #83 overall, #114 offense, #52 defense

An even more miserable experience than usual awaits Duke players and fans alike. FSU fouls at an extraordinary rate on defense and draws a lot of fouls on offense. One player in their rotation shoots above 32% from 3. FSU doesn't like taking 3s and doesn't like defending 3s. Their goal is to reenact Knicks/Heat games from the late 90s.

With ACC football teams prohibited from competing for national titles, visits in Tallahassee by Duke basketball are all FSU sports fans have to live for. It will be a raucous environment for a terrible product on the court.

 

[Devilsforlife]

Leonard Hamilton has really fallen off a cliff the last few years. This would be a bad game to lose.

Weirdly, we’ve barely played in Tallahassee for a long time. Only the second game there since 2019 (the ‘21 game was wiped due to COVID), and the fifth since 2013.

 

[aiw]

The Cam Reddish game

 

[rome8180]

Leonard Hamilton has really fallen off a cliff the last few years. This would be a bad game to lose.

Weirdly, we’ve barely played in Tallahassee for a long time. Only the second game there since 2019 (the ‘21 game was wiped due to COVID), and the fifth since 2013.

There's no room on our schedule with all the games in Blacksburg.

 

[rome8180]

This would be a nice game for us to remember how to shoot threes.

 

[childress22]

Trilly this afternoon on Discord:

"Here's some spicy news for your Friday:FSU's basketball players are reportedly on a strike right now because they haven't received their NIL payments. They didn't show up to practice yesterday and don't plan on showing up today. They play Duke tomorrow."

 

[rome8180]

They're going to be so happy when the strike is resolved tomorrow that they will play their best game of the season.

 

[LastHearth]

But what can the school do? I assume this is third party booster related NIL who are unhappy with the quality of the product they paid for.

 

[rome8180]

More likely outcome: Duke is beaten by five benchwarmers without NIL deals to strike over.

 

[deepdarkblue]

They're going to be so happy when the strike is resolved tomorrow that they will play their best game of the season.

Or it isn't resolved but their scrappy, gritty, determined bench players beat us.
What a great story!

 

[deepdarkblue]

Damnit, I should have scrolled down before I posted :-(

 

[deepdarkblue]

If I was recruiting against FSU, I would definitely be bringing this up.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Duke is favored by 5 points.

 

[rome8180]

Duke is favored by 5 points.

That seems on the small side. You rarely see a Vegas line start smaller than the Kenpom line. Kenpom has it at 78-72. I wonder if it will move toward Duke.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

Us not playing and getting an automatic win because of an FSU strike might send Rome into permanent orgasm.

 

[rome8180]

Us not playing and getting an automatic win because of an FSU strike might send Rome into permanent orgasm.

We all know they wouldn't give us an automatic win. They'd reschedule the game the day before the UNC game or something, causing us to lose both games.

 

[rome8180]

Midday games are the absolute worst. I'm sure you old fucks like them because you go to bed at 5pm. But for me, they just interrupt everything. Not that I actually watch live. But I prefer to have a full day before I have to start worrying about whether Duke is losing a game I refuse to watch.

 

[CK86]

Fuck.

 

[Devilsforlife]

Loss.

 

[aiw]

I was just thinking earlier today that we're actually pretty healthy right now.