We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. It's a lot [more] physical, it's a lot faster, so I just had to adjust to that once I got in the game.
But in practice, just playing with the guys and the leaders that we have — they pretty much got all the freshmen ready for the game speed and physicality that was going to be in the games, with practice. Like you said they're experienced. We're young, but we can't play young. We have to be ready for anything, ready for the physicality. We just have to go out there and play advanced and be ready to play.
I just felt like my teammates set me up and I was just in the right place at the right time, just moving off the ball and then my teammates found me.
Didnt see the post game interview, What was Coach K disappointed with? There were a couple things i was.. But mainly missing easy shots in the beginning. Sharing the basketball is wonderful in the game of basketball and Duke proved it today. Multiple players scoring in double figures is always a good sign. We got a good look at what Nolan Smith will be. IMO this was Zoubeks best game to date. Taylor King is pouring in 3's very easily but also getting some inside points.
Good to see the verstility. The only negative has got to be the dependence on the 3ball. If there is a night where the shots just are not dropping, are we going to be able to get points inside? I think we can with D Nelson and Henderson driving to the basket even though they were quiet today.
It is good to see they are winning the games they are supposed to win. My guess would be that they did allow Michigan a decent amount of good looks during the game. A better team would have taken advantage! That's some K would be upset with! They did look rusty because of the time lag between games due to exams but then again, many teams are dealing with the same issue. Thank God. I like that K kept it going tonight.
It seemed like he tried to slow the game down by making more substitutions, and tinkering with lineups. This seemed to slow us down, but in a good way that was organic, rather than forced, like the weave. I loved the scoring spread, which has to scare the bejeezus out of the ACC.
Recently, Duke has been somewhat easy to guard. Then have the other players slouch off their guy onto A or B, cause they guy they are assigned to is NOT going to beat you.
No more. We have guys who can go off on you, and 2 more who will snake bite you when you ignore them. And best of all, none of them are real Defensive liabilities. Paulus and King are the closest, but both are smart, heady defenders, who are at least capable. As for today, Smith looked great. Zoubs and Thomas played better, and I loved the bench use. Great accross the board. Patrick Yates. Taylor King has got to be one of the all time most pleasant surprises.
I thought he'd be one of those good down the road guys and that his contribution this year would be somewhat closer to Maui levels. Instead he's just exploded immediately and that's great to see. He's a deadly, key player. Another exciting thing about this team is that it still seems like it could potentially really improve.
Does anyone think that Henderson or Scheyer couldn't be more consistent fitting their talents into the offense? Nolan Smith appears to be improving rapidly now, and you've gotta hope that Lance and Zoub have a good deal of improvement ahead of them. Singler is still just beginning his college career. McClure will also be there to slowly work himself back in as a contributor. So the team has a ton of upside. Michigan looked terrible in the first half and we pretty much could beat them comfortably in our sleep and a lot of the team did seem to be asleep in the first half.
Both teams looked better in the second half. It's great to see Duke rolling along right now - though I'm also glad to hear K be critical in an easy victory; I think he has high expectations for this group. Can't wait to see the looks on their faces this year. The only thing K expressed any dissatisfaction with in the post-game was the transition defense at several points during the game. Thay's what promoted the time out. K did not think Duke was communicating as well as it could in those situations.
That was pretty much it. If you know K, you know that communication is a biggie. He was very complimentary of Nolan. Said both Nolan and Taylor had their best week of practice this week.
Said that Nolan is so conscientious, he was trying to do too much and was overthinking the game. This week they tried to simplify it to one word "attack. K noted the missed shots early and said that it probably should have been at the half.
He also noted that it was a "grueling" week academically. Lots of papers due. He was glad Duke didn't have a midweek game. I think Duke looked a little sluggish today especially early on, presumably because of the layoff from the last game.
After that the next game is Jan 6 vs Cornell. That is 9 days from today until Albany 3 days later vs Pitt Then 17 days off until the game vs Cornell Thats 3 games in 31 days folks I know Albany and Cornell are not even up to par with Michigan, but does anyone else see this as a potential problem after not looking good early on after a 7 day layoff from Davidson to Michigan??
Duke has scheduled gimmes after every down period. They know what they are doing. I cannot add a whole lot to the prior posts, but I was happy to see McClure getting up to speed and contributing, both rebounds and points. I thought Zoubek showed some improvement, which is good, but still has a way to go. I will not be surprised if by midseason he starts instead of Thomas. I was disappointed with our slow start again which is reminiscent of last year. Other teams also seem to be keying on Singler I think , which may account for his lack of production plus fouls.
We are lucky to have Taylor King to go in there and push and shove. I live a few miles from where Albany plays their home games. They are a scrappy team and will give you 40 minutes of effort. They recently were beaten by Siena and are not on a par with Duke, but they will give a good effort.
I will report more before the game. Unfortunately I had all kinds of errands to run today so I was only able to listen to and watch most of the second half. Offensively, we seemed to be on target, firing on all cylinders, which honestly was to be expected. We seemed to lapse some defensively and just traded baskets for the first portion of the second half.
I can't imagine Coach K was too happy about that. All in all, a good performance considering the week layoff. Watching the game, I got the sense that K didn't go to the slow down despite being up 30 points because of the opponent, and being a bit miffed that they had fired Tommy.
But, your explanation makes a bit more sense Still, later in the season there's going to be a situation, probably in a road game, when Duke is going to be up by 15 with 5 to go or 10 with 2 to go and absolutely need to go to a slow-down offense. This team has so far shown a number of different ways to execute the end-game, so there shouldn't be as much problem executing as last year's team did.
There are no points for style in basketball, only for victories. Transition D may not have been what K wanted but overall Duke is playing great rotating D. Duke wasn't running as much as I hoped and I was wondering if outlet passes were the problem.
However, as soon as Nolan was in the game we were down the floor quicker attacking the basket. Even Demarcus and Henderson pushed the ball more than Paulus. Zoubeck did make some quick outlet passes. Paulus hit a floater down the lane. But it was his 5 steals which really impressed and that earned him glowing comments from Krzyzewski. Plumlee has turned the corner of late and was an iron man in the game but he did not participate in post game interviews.
The reason is he was immediately treated for a sprained ankle. Duke would not have won this game had Mason not played as well as he did. It's a game he can really build on. The Duke defense was especially good during a second half run an they forced the Spartans into 20 turnovers and scored a whopping 28 points.
Michigan State forced Duke into 15 but scored just 14 off of theirs. Duke has now won 17 straight games going back to last season. Duke has recorded ten or more steals in 5 of 7 games to date.
Duke has trailed a grand total of three total minutes in all games this season. Duke has started for the 12th time. Mason Plumlee now has three career double-doubles.
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