Zach Duke

Dejan Kovacevic's game report describes Zach Duke as focussed on the study of game tape from his rookie season.

It could be Kovacevic's story-telling, but Duke sounds like Captain Ahab on a narrow-minded quest to regain his lost delivery. Why study the past so much? Perhaps he should spend more time studying the future.

He can already know, I guess, who's going to be his next opponent. Odds are, the difference between then and now has little to do with how he shakes his hips as he tosses his changeup. More likely, the league has made adjustments to him.

Time for him to make adjustments to the league. How is he going to get those mofos out? The difference between a bad start and a quality start may only be the ability to neutralize one or two specific guys.