100% spot on
You can see it since kyrie has been out...a huge amount of our points come fromm 3's and transition buckets...and due to this we see huge stretches of games where we don't score...take BC last week for a perfect example...and it was only on 3's and transition buckets that we came back...
I personally think duke's rating and win total are artificially inflated by a weak schedule...
that said, it was like a broken record how st. johns had wide open looks every time down the floor EVERY TIME, this team can't score like it did with kyrie around, and it can't play defense like last year's team did...
people are going to come here and rip us for being all doom and gloom, but we've seen spurts of it where duke can't score...it happens every game...and today duke faced a good big east team (i don't think you can question the strength of the big east after seeing how well st johns played today...an aside but w/e) and put together a complete half of being unable to score...that coupled with our inability to play defense against a quick team which could penetrate at will put us so far down that we couldn't recover....
conclusion: we need kyrie irving to be able to lead us so that we can still put points on the board even when we can't get out and run and we can't hit 3's