Duke opened ACC play Wednesday with an 85-79 win over Georgia Tech. So the Blue Devils are actually 12-1 on the season; that is nice. However it was onerous to not discover — after Duke needed to overcome a seven-point deficit within the second half to keep away from being upset at house as a 27.5-point favourite — that the Blue Devils allowed their opponent to shoot above 53% for the second straight recreation, and that is clearly not sustainable for any staff with actual national-championship aspirations.
Man-to-man, Duke could not guard.
Ultimately, Blue Devils coach Jon Scheyer switched to a zone.
“We needed to do one thing,” Scheyer defined after the sport. “I imply, they had been in a rhythm for 25 minutes, (capturing) about 70% from the sector and getting no matter they needed. It was a transfer out of desperation, greater than anything.”
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If the protection was the unhealthy information from Wednesday’s win, the excellent news was that, whereas beginning collectively for the primary time this season, the Boozer twins mixed for 39 factors, 17 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 steals. Cameron Boozer, the main candidate for CBS Sports activities Nationwide Participant of the Yr, acquired 26 of these 39 factors. Meaning he is now scored at the least 23 in six of the Blue Devils’ previous seven contests.
Duke is No. 8 in Thursday morning’s up to date CBS Sports activities High 25 And 1 each day school school basketball rankings, the place Michigan stays No. 1 for the twenty third consecutive day. Subsequent up for the Blue Devils is one other recreation towards one other sub-100 KenPom staff (Florida State). In a scheduling quirk, there are solely three sub-100 KenPom groups within the ACC (Florida State, Georgia Tech and Boston Faculty), and Duke is opening the ACC portion of its schedule with video games towards two of them (Georgia Tech and Florida State). That is a boring method to begin convention play. However the journey to FSU might be adopted by Tuesday’s recreation at Louisville. So issues will get attention-grabbing once more quickly sufficient.
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