Khalil Dukes Gets His Chance

Perhaps USC guard Khalil Dukes, who scored a career-high 18 points tonight against Arizona State, should be playing more. He couldn’t be worse than any of the other guards, none of whom is shooting better than 36 percent.

6 thoughts on “Khalil Dukes Gets His Chance

  1. Does not Andyain’twinning see KD in regular SUCC practice sessions? Why is Andrew surprised with these players he never uses?

    • He is small, so he is a bit of a liability on defense.

      I do think that Andy gives Reinhardt too much of a pass. He has a bigger frame than KD so his defense, in theory, is better, though he also takes possessions off. He can get on these hot streaks, but he plays/shoots himself out of big games. Maybe Andy wants to curry favor with Mater Dei? KR was supposed to be the shooter that opened everything up inside. He opens up nothing because 1.) he is a terrible passer, and 2.) he is streaky so he will eventually shoot himself cold. Opposing teams know this.

      He also has one of the most shallow, obnoxious twitter accounts around. And that is saying a lot, considering that athlete twitter accounts are by nature obnoxious/shallow. Never sure why USC tried to promote is twitter. Because he was an obnoxious, jock-ish white kid from the OC (like a lot of USC undergrads)?

      Maybe sending him home gives Andy the cover to shrink KR’s minutes.

  2. Every guard is shooting below 36%?! What the heck is Enfield doing? Do the kids run the program and tell him what shots they want to take???

    We all know Katin is his own worst enemy– he throws up 20 bricks to get one shot in. Enfield knows the kid has horrible form and even worst shot selection.

    If I am the coaches at Mater Dei or other area schools, I am thinking “Andy Enfield cannot be trusted to make my players better, he’ll just indulge them”.

    But all the guards have horrible shot selection, thus -36%.

    Since they are always shooting these 3s, and they don’t drive or get the ball inside to post players, they don’t get to the line.

    And they can’t pass or won’t pass to save their lives.

    And Andy has not told the team about something called defense.
    This is just basic basketball. Dunk City? Yeah, okay… Thanks Pat Haden, we didn’t want anything to cheer about in March.

  3. Every guard is shooting below 36%?! What the heck is Enfield doing? Do the kids run the program and tell him what shots they want to take???

    We all know Katin is his own worst enemy– he throws up 20 bricks to get one shot in. Enfield knows the kid has horrible form and even worst shot selection.

    If I am the coaches at Mater Dei or other area schools, I am thinking “Andy Enfield cannot be trusted to make my players better, he’ll just indulge them”.

    But all the guards have horrible shot selection, thus -36%.

    Since they are always shooting these 3s, and they don’t drive or get the ball inside to post players, they don’t get to the line.

    And they can’t pass or won’t pass to save their lives.

    There is a lot of athleticism on the team and when they are cutting to the basket they do good things. And they can make the occasional athletic defensive play but they don’t play sound defense at all.

    And Andy has not told the team about something called defense.
    This is just basic basketball. Dunk City? Yeah, okay… Thanks Pat Haden, we didn’t want anything to cheer about in March.

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