MBB: Duke 89, Jeremy Roach and Friends 66—Postgame

brevity said:
Duke 89, Baylor 66 (recap, box score, highlights, presser)

Behind a career-high 25 points from Tyrese Proctor, No. 1-seed Duke defeated No. 9-seed Baylor, 89-66, on Sunday, March 23. With the win, the Blue Devils (33-3) advanced to the Sweet 16 for the second consecutive season and will face either No. 4-seed Arizona or No. 5-seed Oregon on Thursday, March 27.

Proctor drained a career-high seven three-pointers, going 7-of-8 (.875) from beyond the arc and finished the game 9-of-10 (.900) from the field overall. Across Duke's last three games, the junior has shot 19-of-30 (.633) on three-pointers and is averaging 17.7 points per game in that span. Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel also reached double-figures, scoring 18 and 12, respectively.

Flagg registered team highs in rebounds (9) and assists (6), while Khaman Maluach and Patrick Ngongba II shared the team lead for blocks, with two each.

March Madness on YouTube has the extended game highlights...

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Proctor, Proctor and more Proctor. My goodness, what a game.

Some great plays for Ngongba and James, too.

Seemed almost cruel to show the play where Roach dribbled into the trees and lost the ball, but they also showed the play in which he literally dribbled a circle around a bemused Flagg.
 
I only got to see the first half so far. But seems like I got the major themes. Proctor going off. Cooper filling up the stat sheet and scoring nearly as much as the guy going off. Baylor hanging on for a while through impressive offensive rebounding.

Others have commented about boxing out. What I saw in the first half was a team really aware that boxing out was crucial. Trying really hard to box out. In fact trying to so hard it was failing to actual go get the rebound. The one exception to that was Coop. Obviously, you need to box out to have a good rebounding day, but you also need to go get the ball. Sometimes you can be so focused on the box out that you just aren’t as aggressive actually getting the ball. That is what I saw a good bit in the first half. The ball even hit the floor, showing a great box out, but we would fail to grab it with two hands and Omier would bat it and come up with it.
 
Indoor66 said:
And Slim has not performed well for some time.
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Love him, but I'm not sure his freshman form of a heatcheck jacker is going to translate to intense tournament basketball. He took one of his quick threes today and missed and it just felt like the kind of play we can't have moving forward. Nice to have him as a "break glass in case of large deficit" weapon, but I'm not expecting a significant role otherwise.
 
i was unable to watch either game this week .. :( i had to work on friday, and today, i was at Xtreme Driving Experience at Charlotte Motor Speedway... A gift from Mrs pie with the date and time set back in December....

i did get to listen (somewhat) to today's game on the radio driving home, even tho the Duke Basketball Network is less than adequate from Concorde (grrrrr :mad: ) to greensboro...

finally got a decent signal around greensboro just in time for the 2nd half......


Wow!!
 
AngolaDevil said:
Love him, but I'm not sure his freshman form of a heatcheck jacker is going to translate to intense tournament basketball. He took one of his quick threes today and missed and it just felt like the kind of play we can't have moving forward. Nice to have him as a "break glass in case of large deficit" weapon, but I'm not expecting a significant role otherwise.
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Shot just not falling for him... yet. I'm blaming the ball it just doesn't look right coming off his hands
 
AngolaDevil said:
Love him, but I'm not sure his freshman form of a heatcheck jacker is going to translate to intense tournament basketball. He took one of his quick threes today and missed and it just felt like the kind of play we can't have moving forward. Nice to have him as a "break glass in case of large deficit" weapon, but I'm not expecting a significant role otherwise.
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The guy's still shooting 42.4% on the season and was 6/15 (40%) in the ACC tournament, just last weekend. From a quick glance at his stats, I don't think he's shot much different in our closer games - and his best game was, obviously, Auburn. Shooting 0-for-5 in a 40-point blowout against Mt. St. Mary's sure doesn't say much about what he can do in intense games.

I'm ok if he keeps shooting the shots he has all season (even if I cringe occasionally).
 
Furniture said:
I was confused by Baylors Coach in the after game presser when he talked about Steph Curry going off today and yesterday and something about transferring to NC State. I guess he was talking about Proctor? Anyone else got a clue?
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I think he meant to joke about "I didn't know Steph Curry transferred to Duke" as a way of complimenting Proctor, but accidentally said NC State given the arena.
 
phaedrus said:
The guy's still shooting 42.4% on the season and was 6/15 (40%) in the ACC tournament, just last weekend. From a quick glance at his stats, I don't think he's shot much different in our closer games - and his best game was, obviously, Auburn. Shooting 0-for-5 in a 40-point blowout against Mt. St. Mary's sure doesn't say much about what he can do in intense games.

I'm ok if he keeps shooting the shots he has all season (even if I cringe occasionally).
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I think moving forward, like today, we'll see Mason getting most of the minutes that Slim got at certain points in the season. Between Cooper, Tyrese, Kon, and the frosh bigs, I'm confident in our ability to score. Any available wing minutes will imo go to the 24 year old defensive rock with Final Four experience. We need winning glue more than anything else.

If we're down a bunch and need some haymaker scoring off the bench, sure let him loose. But I for one do not want him shooting the shots he has all season. The one today might have been the only bad shot anyone took all game and it stuck out for that. Like I said, love the kid, but a December game vs Auburn ain't this, no matter the quality of opponent.
 
kmspeaks said:
This is something that is different for me watching the tournament as an adult vs as a kid and even in college - I get teary every time seeing the seniors realizing it's over. It takes me back to my own last game (now 14 years ago 😲) and it's such a bittersweet memory. A feeling that I don't think anyone who hasn't played at that level can understand. That's how you get comments like this

Ugh. Just ugh.
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As a fan with my own grown kids, I tear up when I see these kids parents so proud of their kid’s accomplishments. What a moment when Kon’s Mom reacted to the ACCT MVP award.
 
AngolaDevil said:
I think moving forward, like today, we'll see Mason getting most of the minutes that Slim got at certain points in the season. Between Cooper, Tyrese, Kon, and the frosh bigs, I'm confident in our ability to score. Any available wing minutes will imo go to the 24 year old defensive rock with Final Four experience. We need winning glue more than anything else.

If we're down a bunch and need some haymaker scoring off the bench, sure let him loose. But I for one do not want him shooting the shots he has all season. The one today might have been the only bad shot anyone took all game and it stuck out for that. Like I said, love the kid, but a December game vs Auburn ain't this, no matter the quality of opponent.
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Yeah, the backup wing/backcourt breakdown of minutes appears situational, with Mason Gillis recently getting a large play.

Today:
Gillis -- 18:46 mins 6 points on 2-3 from 3-pt, 4 rebounds, and 1 steal
Isaiah Evans -- 7:19 mins 0 points on 0-2 shooting
Caleb Foster -- 13:55 mins 6 points on 3-3 shooting, 3 assists, 1 turnover
 
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