Game Thread [2023-24] at Miami

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Wednesday, February 21, 7pm ET, ESPN
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Kenpom: #78 overall, #72 offense, #101 defense

The legendary Jared McCain is taking his talents to South Beach.

Norchad Omier is Miami's singular star, with NIL millionaire Nijel Pack having regressed since transferring from Kansas State last season. Omier averages 18 and 10, takes 64% of his shots around the rim, and makes 72% of those. He's not much of a passer or rim protector but his monster rebounding and efficient scoring make him good enough to be a star in college, like a poor man's Carlos Boozer, whose sons will likely be spurning Duke for this floundering Miami program.

Miami is the opposite of Duke's last opponent, FSU, when it comes to uglifying games with fouling. Miami's offense is #334 in the country in getting to the line and Miami's defense is #5 in the country at avoiding sending the opponent to the line. Should be a relatively pretty game to watch, aside from the 20 possessions used by the spin lord, Kyle Filipowski.

 

[DurhamSon]

Duke is 0-3 in the last three per TDF's this-is-a-loss scoreboard, so we really need this one

 

[deepdarkblue]

Will Flip be humiliated again? I'm guessing that he will be.

 

[aiw]

Norchad will jizz all over his face while dunking on him repeatedly. One man bukake.

 

[aiw]

Hope Proctor is ready by Wed.

 

[Devilsforlife]

Miami falls @ BC. Yeah, I’ll be pissed if we lose this one.

Canes have been a massive disappointment after starting the year in the top 10.

 

[rome8180]

Winning this one would make finishing 15-5 not only the goal, but actually likely. Depending on what UNC does, that could win Duke the ACC. Obviously, that would require a very specific set of outcomes, but they're not that unlikely. I believe Duke would have to beat UVA at home, UNC would have to lose to UVA, and then Duke would have to beat UNC at home. At that point, Duke would have the tiebreaker due to having split the season series with UNC and having the better record against the 3rd place team (UVA).

Obviously, Duke could make all the tiebreaker stuff a moot point by only dropping one more. But I'm not banking on that. Kenpom has 15-5 as the projected outcome right now.

 

[childress22]

Norchad will jizz all over his face while dunking on him repeatedly. One man bukake.

Omier is their fucking center at 6'7". If Flip can avoid blocked once by this man who is 5 inches shorter that him, I'd consider that a win.

 

[dukebluedevils05]

Spinlord is pretty, pretty, pretty good.


Also:










Loss.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

Hope Proctor is ready by Wed.

This post 19 minutes after your bukkake post on the same thread made me laugh

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

I don’t bet huge sums of money on sports but its really next Saturdays game at Wake, a “First Four Out” team with very good metrics, 12 days after we beat them at home, that is the true lock of all locks for a loss.

I will have a lot of money on this one assuming the spread is at or very near the Pick Em that Kenpom is predicting right now.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

For Wake? They were 7.5 favs at home which suggests 4.5 on a neutral and 1.5 on the road. Maybe it’s that.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

I was thinking Miami. Duke should win this one. I agree Wake is probably a blowout loss.

 

[physicsfactor]

Bad news is Miami is currently Q2. Good news is they are #78, so they could probably jump into Q1 with a big enough win over Duke.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

I was thinking Miami. Duke should win this one. I agree Wake is probably a blowout loss.

Yeah I was talking about Wake in my "bet the house" post. As far as Miami, yeah i think it's a 5ish point line. Nijel Pack is supposedly hurt but Rowe also thinks Proctor likely won't be out of the protocol.

 

[rome8180]

How long is a concussion protocol? We're talking nine days since the Wake game, which is supposedly when he hit his head. It can't have been that severe since he played the rest of the game.

 

[childress22]

I don't know, but get the sense it's milestone-based, not time-based.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

In the NFL most players don’t play 7 days after getting concussed but theyre usually cleared and back at practice 10-11 days out or so.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

On the flip side apparently it was stated on Saturday that Nijel pack would be back ”in the coming weeks” which implies he’ll miss this game but could be bullshit.

I do think Miami’s only shot to make the tournament is by winning the ACCT at this point so they should probably try to actually get him healthy.

 

[physicsfactor]