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Originally posted by <b>The Truth</b>!
THEY LOST 3 ALL-AMERICANS EARLY TO THE NBA!!! THEY RELY ON FRESHMEN TO PERFORM AT A HIGH LEVEL IN EVERY GAME!!!!
Look at MSU, they are in transition as well. The only difference is Duke is playing better in their transition season than MSU is.
Just think, everyone says MSU would be so much better if Taylor hadn't left. If he made that much of a difference, think about the difference Williams, Dunleavy, and Boozer would make.
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It is not just Taylor. We also could have had Zach Randolph and Jason Richardson. None of the guys you mentioned left early, with the exception of Jay Williams who graduated. All of those players I just named for Michigan State had not graduated. They could all still be on Michigan State currently. We also just lost All-American PG Charlie Bell. The reason that they single out Taylor is because the most important position in NCAA basketball is the point gaurd. No point gaurd equals no sucsess. In Jay Williams case though, I would say that it helped Duke. Williams lost Duke many key games. He was always over-hyped and over-rated, and now they have to make up excuses about Chicago's triangle offense because the NBA/NCAA tries to make Duke look like the God of all colleges, and can't afford to make their Player Of The Year (What a joke) look like he is failing in the NBA. But I guess it happens to most over-hyped Dukies, ie: Cherokee Parks and Grant Hill. They are over-hyped to the point where they can be injured all season and still make the All Star Game (Hill), but when the smoke clears people start to realize what bad careers they had. Anyway, back on Duke this year. They barely win out of the Carolinas, they have a powder puff schedule, as UKFan4Life pointed out they lost to CLEMSON and FLORIDA STATE, and yet they are still in the top ten. Don't cry me a river about having to play Freshman either. Your Frosh are as good as many team's starters. Yeah, life in Cameron is real tough. Duke really has to work for their rankings (sarcastically).
Not to mention ESPN's top analyists are Duke buffs (Dikie V and former Duke player Jay Bilas). Stop making up excuses about losing your top 3 players when you guys still get everything handed to you on a silver platter.