Jalen Johnson Injured
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Wouldn’t be duke basketball without the words “indefinite” and “foot”
It's a never ending story every year with foot injuries!! Oh well, Brakefield just got alot more minutes!!!
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Given our poor start, I won’t be surprised if Jalen shuts it down for the year
Let’s win and then hear the yearly “are we better without Jalen” questions!
You actually have a valid point. I am sure there's a contingent of folks (NBA) who would offer such advice. Of course the severity of the injury I do not know at this point.
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Been wondering who it would be. Every year makes you feel like there is a reason this keeps happening. Shoes, practice orCIS playing surfaces. Something is definately going on. OFC
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Hope he is okay. Wendell Moore redemption game here we come.
**** I hope he's okay, more for his sake than ours. Duke has the worst luck with foot injuries.There has been a lot of negativity about Nike (although I don't hear a lot about foot injuries from other teams that wear Nike - but maybe it is and we just don't hear it?).
But it's uncanny how many foot injuries there have been with Duke players.
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Maybe we should go back to wearing Converse All-Stars....Chucks. It's been a while but I don't recall the great number of foot and ankle injuries back then. Yes I understand the players are faster, jump higher and more powerful but the shoes should adapt to that. OFC
At this point I would be okay with them wearing whatever keeps them from having foot injuries. Hell, put them in some galoshes
if it means we never see foot injuries again.At least it’ll give some other guys a chance to get time and hopefully develop/gain confidence.
I hope to see this group make strides at developing an identity. At this point it's more important than anything else. Well, other than staying healthy.
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Don’t criticize the shoes. An 8yr old in China worked hard making them.
The identity should be about defense, rebounding, and playing a slower-paced, lower scoring style. We can't shoot and don't have reliable scorers other than Hurt. Play Coleman and Williams who will help protect the paint and crash the boards. if we have to win games with scores of 54-50 I'd be happy with that. K said they expected this team to be a more up-tempo free-flowing style but that just isn't working and now we are without our only other potentially good scorers.
I gotta say i respectfully disagree with this. We don’t have shooters, so we need to get out in transition. A half court set, with how poor our ball movement has been, to me, seems like a recipe for disaster. Roach, DJ, Brake, even Moore when he snaps out of this thing can all grab it and run. I think we are better off playing to that style than anything else. Hurt can be a good trail spot up 3 shooter.
Goodman is a tool. For those reasons, I’m not clicking on that so if someone could sum it up that would be awesome.