MBB: ACC Champs! Duke 73, 'Ville 62 - Postgame Thread

brevity said:
Duke 73, Louisville 62 (recap, box score, highlights, condensed game, full replay, presser)
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Here are a few more postgame links.

Duke MBB produced their Every Bucket video.


@stingy has posted links to a few videos in this thread, but I thought I'd embed his view of the end of the game, when Spencer Hubbard came in for Kon Knueppel, and got one touch before Sion James held the ball until the clock ran out. It's the reverse angle from what we saw on TV, and it includes the handshake line. He also posted three hype videos on the Spectrum Center's big screen, and a clip of Patrick Ngongba affixing the Duke sticker in the championship slot of the bracket.


Winston-Salem Journal has video of Jon Scheyer cutting the net.


The Devils Den had hallway interviews with... Daft Punk? No, that's Caleb Foster and Mason Gillis. As I hinted above, @stingy already posted postgame interviews with Sion James, Patrick Ngongba, and Tyrese Proctor.


Finally, the water celebration ended up a little bit like a failed surprise party.

 
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sciencegeek said:
Was it just me, or did anyone else see Gillis and Scheyer having an intense discussion after the game during celebrations?
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I did. And my immediate thought was Scheyer was telling him that he played amazingly and this is exactly why he was brought in. I don't think Scheyer cares if Gillis makes a shot, but that he trusts him. He just trusted him for the entire 2nd half in the biggest game of the year
 
ClemmonsDevil said:
I did. And my immediate thought was Scheyer was telling him that he played amazingly and this is exactly why he was brought in. I don't think Scheyer cares if Gillis makes a shot, but that he trusts him. He just trusted him for the entire 2nd half in the biggest game of the year
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Yeah, I have no doubt that Gillis is really easy to coach. Such a reliable player.
 
BandAlum83 said:
I heard a lot of “This is the reason I came back this year” from Tyrese.

I’m hoping he has another reason to come back next year: “the opportunity to win back-to-back natty’s is why I came back this year”
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And I'm also hoping the staff mines the portal as well as they did last year.
 
BandAlum83 said:
I heard a lot of “This is the reason I came back this year” from Tyrese.

I’m hoping he has another reason to come back next year: “the opportunity to win back-to-back natty’s is why I came back this year”
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Yeah, hearing Jon praise Tyrese and Tyrese praise Jon, I'm more confident than ever he's coming back next year. I think that pencils in 3 starters.
 
WHOneedsSOX said:
They ran a play for him out of the timeout at 4:02 or around there too. Missed the jump hook, got his rebound, and unfortunately missed a layup. But great confidence shown in him.
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I totally remember that sequence and also was pleased that they designed a set for Pat. I also recall thinking (after his miss), "that's okay, we're just going to get a stop on the other end". I also thought the same thing when we had that later shot clock violation thinking, "that's okay, we killed 30 seconds and we're just going to get another stop."
 
MChambers said:
What about Begovich?
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Begovich comes from a fairly powerful family - his mom is a real big shot. After working as a grad assistant at Duke while at Fuqua, his brother is now at Goldman. I'm guessing he goes to corporate America and is ridiculously successful. Join his brother at Goldman, Marshall at Blackstone or Ryan Young at BCG.
 
ClemmonsDevil said:
Lovely win last night! Also pretty glad Duke got Louisville, rather than Clemson. Louisville is a guard dominated team with serviceable bigs. Their big on little ball screen bothered Duke in the first half and the adjustment to use the Duke big to double was really hard on Louisville. I love Hepburn, but he's a little guard and there was simply no way he was going to be able to pick Duke apart with that double team. He can't see over it and it was a very aggressive double.

Louisville tried to counter by short rolling the center to the free throw line in the last 10 minutes of the second half, but their bigs aren't exactly made for that. Clemson's are. Duke was just letting the bigs go and assuming that Louisville didn't have the horses in the post to exploit the double. Which was correct.

You can make the case that Louisville should have countered by eschewing the big on little screen in favor of a guard on guard screen. But they didn't.

I want to see Clemson and Louisville make the Elite 8. Need to see some ACC representation.
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I think Duke just switches a guard to guard screen and if Evans isn't in the game there's really no one you can pick on. Even that is a crap shoot as Slim got switched onto RJ Davis a couple times Friday night and more than held his own. Totally with you on Louisville being a better matchup for this team, particularly sans Cooper, than Clemson.
 
kmspeaks said:
I think Duke just switches a guard to guard screen and if Evans isn't in the game there's really no one you can pick on. Even that is a crap shoot as Slim got switched onto RJ Davis a couple times Friday night and more than held his own. Totally with you on Louisville being a better matchup for this team, particularly sans Cooper, than Clemson.
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Jon has been very complimentary of Evans' defensive efforts, which is good for everyone.
 
kmspeaks said:
I think Duke just switches a guard to guard screen and if Evans isn't in the game there's really no one you can pick on. Even that is a crap shoot as Slim got switched onto RJ Davis a couple times Friday night and more than held his own. Totally with you on Louisville being a better matchup for this team, particularly sans Cooper, than Clemson.
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It is hard to run guard to guard screens against Duke because Duke's guards are big and physical. Clemson did a great job on the high/low set with a big to little screen and short roll into the high post with Schieffelin, who could drive because he is so skilled, or drop it into the low post to Lakhin. Kansas did a good job with this too. Ngongba played 2 minutes against Clemson. He has really come on, and he is REALLY physical down there. His development has shocked me. He is a different dude in the last 3-4 weeks. Really ball friendly and skilled on offense and physical and loves contact on defense.
 
Most of this has already been covered, but huge credit to the coaching staff (sans Jai Lucas) to make a halftime switch to a blitz ball screen coverage that we hadn’t really used all year. That gives us another tool in the toolbox to use going forward. We used some hedge and recover early in the season and have primarily used a drop (entire UNC game) and switch (first half against Louisville). It was one of the main differences in this game and Louisville was not ready for it (like they clearly were for the 2-3; that back screen of the zone was well designed and well run).

The second key to me was Duke punching back. Louisville tried to punk Duke with physical play (I can see running into one screen as an accident or to send a message, but they tried to run through big Pat twice which felt borderline dirty) and trash talk, but Duke pushed back even harder, highlighted Pat’s block and Proctors fight on the screens. Really impressive response from this squad.
 
ClemmonsDevil said:
Lovely win last night! Also pretty glad Duke got Louisville, rather than Clemson. Louisville is a guard dominated team with serviceable bigs. Their big on little ball screen bothered Duke in the first half and the adjustment to use the Duke big to double was really hard on Louisville. I love Hepburn, but he's a little guard and there was simply no way he was going to be able to pick Duke apart with that double team. He can't see over it and it was a very aggressive double.

Louisville tried to counter by short rolling the center to the free throw line in the last 10 minutes of the second half, but their bigs aren't exactly made for that. Clemson's are. Duke was just letting the bigs go and assuming that Louisville didn't have the horses in the post to exploit the double. Which was correct.

You can make the case that Louisville should have countered by eschewing the big on little screen in favor of a guard on guard screen. But they didn't.

I want to see Clemson and Louisville make the Elite 8. Need to see some ACC representation.
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Agree with all of this, with the one caveat (or really more of a follow-up response) that Louisville countering with a guard/guard screen would probably not have really worked either. Because we just switch all guard/guard screens anyway. The value of the big on small screen against Duke is to try to either get downhill (if we go over the screen) or get an iso against one of our slower bigs (if we switch the screen) or to catch us out of rotation (if we try to hedge and recover). We basically neuter all off-ball screens and small on small screens with our switching.

The only possible exception would be that Gillis and Evans maybe aren't the greatest on-ball defenders. But I thought both did well in their on-ball assignments last night (Evans had trouble defending in off-ball situation, but he did a good job of using his length when he was defending on ball).
 
ClemmonsDevil said:
It is hard to run guard to guard screens against Duke because Duke's guards are big and physical. Clemson did a great job on the high/low set with a big to little screen and short roll into the high post with Schieffelin, who could drive because he is so skilled, or drop it into the low post to Lakhin. Kansas did a good job with this too. Ngongba played 2 minutes against Clemson. He has really come on, and he is REALLY physical down there. His development has shocked me. He is a different dude in the last 3-4 weeks. Really ball friendly and skilled on offense and physical and loves contact on defense.
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Yeah, Schieffelin is a tough matchup. Especially with Brown and Flagg out. I think if we'd been at full strength at Clemson (the team was ravaged with respiratory virus that week) we probably still win. But I think it would have been tricky beating Clemson last night without Flagg and Brown.
 
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