MBB: Duke 69 Arizona 55 Postgame Thread

rsvman said:
One more nit-pick... when Coach K was coaching the team, we always had amazing inbounding, especially from under our basket. Often we got easy buckets or slams off these inbounds plays. I thought Coach K was one of the best coaches at that particular aspect of the game.

Since Scheyer was an assistant under K, I kind of thought we would continue to be good at it. Um, yeah... we're not. At all. We look so disorganized on inbounds plays, as if Scheyer told the guys, 'just throw the ball high and one of our guys will get it.' It's as if they aren't organized at all.

I fear that this may come back to bite us in the butt at a crucial moment in March or April. I could see a 'bad pass' turnover, or a 'ref who counts to five a wee bit faster' turnover.

Am I the only one who sees this? I hope the coaching staff puts addresses this issue between now and then.
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Fair point, but I noticed this being more of an issue when they were defending the inbound too. But hey we won! Something to practice on.
 
This is a good win. I have a feeling though this Arizona win will be closer to Michigan St. from last year that ended up a 7 seed I believe. Only nit pick besides our offense being hard on the eyes was going under the screens against Bradley who is there best shooter. Were beating Kansas.
 
scottdude8 said:
To me, this one is quite simple. Your usual “young” Duke team loses a physical rock-fight on the road against a Top 20 team. This one won it, leading wire to wire.
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We did not lead wire to wire. Arizona scored first and got out to an early lead. We did lead for most of the game, taking the lead for the first time at 16:22 in the first half.
 
I don't have access to any stats but I feel like we actually don't get a ton of blocks or steals. We just play great positional defense, we contest shots and we rebound. We've had some lapses that can get cleaned up, but having the #1 defense for a team this young and with this many new parts is amazing.
 
Great win. McKale Center was rocking. Extremely loud when Proctor took (and missed) those two technical free throws. The freshmen played older. Great to see Kon hit those two big threes after he had trouble getting going in the first half.

Deeply enjoyed getting to boo Caleb Love in person one last time.
 
What a great win.

I was so upset when we lost in Cameron last year. I remember thinking… we’re gonna get them next year at their place, because we will have Cooper Flagg. And that was pretty much what happened.

I will reiterate that I am ready to see more of Evans. Foster is very east west with his dribble, and the penetration from our starting guards has been lacking.

Brown had such a great game, even hitting James with the same beautiful thread the needle pass for a dunk two times!

Kon seems to still be adjusting to the speed of the college game, going off against our cupcake opponents, but struggling against the big boys. I have no doubt he will figure it out, but it would be great if he comes out ready to play against Kansas.
 
Mak P said:
No, but offensively he can show up in the 2nd half of games against ranked opponents
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SkyBrickey said:
Anyone still concerned about Brown playing the 5 for Duke?

There was a lot of preseason chatter about this. He played 23 min and Khaman played 17 min.

Brown held his own against the 7-2 Krivas and 7-0 Veesaar.
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I think they make a great team. They had a double-double tonight.
 
rsvman said:
One more nit-pick... when Coach K was coaching the team, we always had amazing inbounding, especially from under our basket. Often we got easy buckets or slams off these inbounds plays. I thought Coach K was one of the best coaches at that particular aspect of the game.

Since Scheyer was an assistant under K, I kind of thought we would continue to be good at it. Um, yeah... we're not. At all. We look so disorganized on inbounds plays, as if Scheyer told the guys, 'just throw the ball high and one of our guys will get it.' It's as if they aren't organized at all.

I fear that this may come back to bite us in the butt at a crucial moment in March or April. I could see a 'bad pass' turnover, or a 'ref who counts to five a wee bit faster' turnover.

Am I the only one who sees this? I hope the coaching staff puts addresses this issue between now and then.
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I respectfully disagree. I think inbounding was a weakness under K too. For years my Duke friends and I could never understand why inbounding was often a struggle for us. I don't see much difference now vs. then. Would love to see some more action to free people up.
 
Duke 70 69, Arizona 55 (recap, box score, highlights)

Cooper Flagg scored a game-high 24 points while playing 38 minutes. Kon Knueppel also reached double-figures, scoring 13 points and adding a game-high seven rebounds. Maliq Brown joined Knueppel with seven caroms and Tyrese Proctor led the Blue Devils with four assists.

Duke out-rebounded Arizona, 43-30, and finished with a 13-6 advantage on the offensive glass. The Wildcats entered Friday night as the national leader in rebounding margin, while averaging 51.3 total rebounds and 21.7 offensive boards.

I linked to the 3-minute ACC Digital Network highlights above, but ESPN has a 9-minute version:


ACCDN also has Cooper Flagg highlights:


I haven't come across a press conference for Coach Scheyer yet, but GoDuke has some PDF quotes. Arizona offers postgame comments from Tommy Lloyd and players KJ Lewis and Jaden Bradley.

Finally, back in the locker room, Tyrese Proctor interviews Cooper Flagg and Khaman Maluach.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1860201736105000988

Proctor: "Big fella, first 3! How'd it feel?"
Maluach: "Felt great. First of many. Neal Begovich told me during the warmups: you're hitting one 3."
 
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