Originally Posted by
DukieInBrasil
The good: FG shooting and 3FG were both pretty good, certainly good enough on most days. Carey and Stanley both played pretty well, although Stanley's foul trouble was extremely costly for the team since he missed much of the 2nd half, as was Carey's since he couldn't really play defense down the stretch.
The bad: Valuing the ball, we had 15 turns, and many of them were of the inexcusable lazy pass variety. I could see the steal coming on at least 8 of our turns when we threw unenthusiastic totally telegraphed passes. Credit Clemson for getting up in our grill and making us feel pressure, but we responded badly. Also, rebounding was not good (maybe not bad), but we lost the Oboard and total rebound battles.
The ugly: Blown layups: J-Gold blew 2 layups as did AOC. J-Gold's blown layups came after steals so he kinda cancelled out the good thing he had just done, but man that end of the half miss was pathetic. AOC tried to lay it in over 2 defenders, twice and missed both. Those 4 misses represent more points (8) than the final margin (7). Also, FT shooting. I don't expect Duke to make every FT, but we missed more FTs (10) the final margin (7). Also ugly, the complete disappearance of Hurt, Javin and AOC. Hurt played weak and actively harmed the team, and therefore didn't get much PT, but Javin played his normal amount and was completely ineffective. AOC tried, but just failed.
Overall, this was a game in which Clemson wanted it more and it showed. If Duke had a) shot 67% FTs, and b) made 50% of the blown layups, we win the game. However, we didn't. Missing both Moore and Baker stifled us in a way i hadn't thought of: we didn't have enough wing depth to play small effectively, since Clemson didn't really play a traditional C very much, and our stretch 4 was a no-show, we just didn't have enough versatility on the wing to handle Clemson's various attacking wings, and they absolutely murdered us, particularly Stanley once he got in foul trouble.
K should show every one of those lazy passes that were being made...just really inexcusable to see from all the guys...like they were in another world last night and nothing K could do to shake them....that disease was prevalent last night with our team.... end of story
"I wanted it to be in my hands," Roach said of his game-sealing drive. "I wanted to take—I wanted that moment."
"Definitely was a bit personal for me," Roach added. "I mean, what happened last year, obviously, but just wanted to come out here and do anything I can to get this win, and we did that." Duke-Carolina, Cameron Indoor, Feb. 4th 2023