From: kdelgado@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Kevin Delgado)
Subject: FSU-Duke Box scores and comments
Organization: Florida State University Department of Know-it-alls
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:48:05 GMT


Ok, I went out and bought the damn Democrat to get this info...50 cents for
a peice of paper (containing the box scores) that is about 2" X 3"...sheesh.


Duke (88)


Player     Mins   FG     3pt     FT      Rb     A      S      TP

Hurley      45   8-13    3-7    3-4      1      5      3      22
T. Hill     40   2-11    0-2    1-2      4      2      0       5
Lang        35    3-6    0-0    4-6      8      0      0      10
G. HILL     39  11-19    0-0    3-5      8      4      4      25
Parks       38    6-9    0-0    2-4     12      0      1      14
Clark       23    4-7    0-1    2-2      3      3      1      10
Collins      1    0-1    0-1    0-0      0      0      0       0
Meek         4    1-2    0-0    0-0      2      0      0       2
-------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTALS     225  35-68   3-11  15-23     42     14      9      88


FSU (89)

Sura        42   6-16    0-3    4-9      9      2      1      16
Cassell     42   6-13    0-4    3-5      3      6      2      15
Ward        43   4-10    2-4    1-1      3      3      5      11
Edwards     39  10-18    0-0    1-1     12      4      0      21
Dobard      31   6-12    0-0    4-5      4      1      1      16
Carroll      8    0-3    0-3    0-0      4      0      0       0
Wells       17    4-4    2-2    0-0      1      0      1      10
-------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTALS     225  36-76   4-16  13-21     42     16     10      89


Duke shot 51% from the field, 27% from 3-point range, and 65% from the
	charity stripe.

FSU shot 47% from the field, 25% from 3-point range, and 62% from the 
	charity stripe.

From these numbers, it would seem that Duke would have the edge in the game,
but FSU simply was able to take more shots (76-68 margin), and this helped
them get more points.

Neither FSU nor Duke were putting up too many 3 point attempts (only 27 tries
between the two teams), and I thik this had a lot to do with the aggressive
perimiter defense, and also that the players seemed very tenative to take
those shots.

The biggest stat that sticks out to my eyes is the rebounding. Both teams
had 42 boards a piece. Once again FSU has faced another team that has a very
big edge in size, and has managed to be very tough on the boards. FSU's
quickness and leaping ability has kept them in the thick of things, but if
they meet up with a team that can actually manage to use its size advantage,
things could get ugly for the Noles.

As far as scoring goes, the big names of the game were Doug Edwards, Bobby
Hurley, and Grant Hill. Hurley used his quickness and ball-handling to 
penetrate into the FSU defense and score a lot of important baskets. Grant
Hill, Antonio Lang, and Cherokee Parks had a tough time defending the very
strong Edwards. He was able to be very effective muscling around inside for
his 21 points. On the other end of the court, Bob Sura, Rodney Dobard, and 
Doug Edwards were helpless against Grant Hill, who seemed to be able to score
from anywhere...and in any manner he chose.

Neither teams' bench players were a big scoring factor, though Byron Wells'
100% shooting night was very instrumental. 

Duke, at this point, is looking too much towards Grant Hill and Bobby Hurley
for its scoring. I think they should try to do more inside work with Parks
and use his size to get some points. This would open up more opportunities
for thier other players to make some outside shots. Fortunately for Duke,
they can make this adjustment.

FSU's problems, on the other hand, are not so easy to solve. FSU is simply
unable to deal with inside scorers due to thier lack of size. The loss of
Andre Reid (who, if nothing else, was big) has made things very difficult for
FSU to defend in the paint. The atheletic ability of Edwads and Dobard has
helped to keep things from getting totally out of control, but they can't do
everything. I kinda hoped that Kennedy would put in John Kerner (freshman
center, 6'11") during the Clemson, Maryland, NC State run to get him some
key experience...just in case they needed to have a big-guy inside to at 
least take up space. But that was not to be. Now it would be simply stupid to
just throw him in there, especially against guys like Montross.

One good thing I saw in this game for FSU was that even with thier two best
perimeter shooters (Sura and Cassell) not hitting a single three point shot
between them, the team was able to hang in thier and score inside...instead
of getting frustrated.


Kevin (who would gladly take back every negative word he ever spoke about
       Andre Reid if he would only be able to come back and play *sigh*)


Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college