Re: Thompson leaving Duke

"Jason Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Erik T. Nomad wrote:
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> > "Donnie Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>Just heard on the local news tonight.  Any "story" to this?  Any clue
> >>where he's going?  I assume if they're announcing it now that he's
> >>leaving for another school during the Christmas break.  True?
> >>
> >>He seems too promising to not be going to a fairly good school to me.
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> > Disappointing news indeed.  I thought he played very well in limited
minutes
> > against Liberty the other night -- really did show some nice moves to
the
> > basket.
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> > I don't think it will hurt our depth in the paint *too* badly since
Shav's
> > stepped up and we can count on Shelden...Horvath sucks, but he's good
for
> > five fouls, at least.
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> > E
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> You're missing the truly frightening part, Erik.

Eeeek!

> Who does Duke have in the frontcourt for next year?
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> Randolph will be there, and Williams.  Deng really could
> be gone, and Horvath certainly will.

I hear Matt Christensen's coming back.  You're right, though, frontcourt is
scary for next season...short of a big football player walkon, we've got
only Randolph and Williams.  I'm not expecting Deng to stay.  At any rate,
I'm looking forward to the showdown between the two best backcourts in the
nation; I just wish they televised the Blue-White scrimmage.  (Can't any of
these guys get TALLER?)

> And if I had my druthers, Deng, Randolph, and Williams
> would all start (of course with guard-crazy K, that will
> not happen).

I'd rather see that too, but how do you keep Redick/Ewing on the bench?  Can
we ever move Redick over to SF and Deng to PF or is that suicide?

> But at any rate, that's just not enough dudes.

Ugh.  So we'll go guard-crazy and light it up from deep.  Until any
combination of Redick and Ewing goes cold, of course, at which point we'll
get massacred.

E