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It has been a tough week for the Dukies. Wednesday night, Duke played their worst ball game of the season at Clemson, and the Clemson Tigers played a perfect game - humiliating the Dukies 74-47. At least my sister was happy :) I think that was the first time this season that Duke has scored under 50 points. Duke had at least 13 turnovers in the first half of the game on Wednesday night and most of those were from bad passes. In today's game, they started the first half of the game against Miami stone cold, even though the game was at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The half time score was Miami 34, Duke 19, but the Dukies came to play in the second half and prevailed in overtime to win the game 78-75. (I have no finger nails left) The team was definitely a different team that played the 2nd half, so I can only guess what Coach K told them in the locker room.
Click to read the recap at ESPN
After the game, Coach K had some interesting comments:
Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski
Opening Statement:
“Today’s game was one of the most different that I’ve coached in my 29 years here, and I thought it was a game that we lost, then we won. President [Richard] Brodhead came into our locker room after I was finished talking with the team and I think he put it in the best description. He said, ‘That was a game you had to win over and over again.’ Both teams had to do that. There was so many great efforts and plays in the last 17 minutes and overtime that it was a game you had to win over and over again. [Jack] McClinton was spectacular. The shot he hit with two guys on him was just a big-time shot. I stopped to mention a couple things to him because that’s not luck. The kid is just a great player, a great shooter. You worry that you spend so much to come back that you’re not going to have enough for overtime, but I thought we were great in overtime. Gerald [Henderson]’s penetration of the zone – there was so much more movement in the last 17 minutes that we didn’t have before, but his penetration helped a great deal, and no turnovers and four assists. Then Greg [Paulus] when he hit, and was cutting through, that was pretty good. But, the relentless pursuit of the ball by [Dave] McClure was just a great example for the rest of the guys that we’re going to keep doing until it works, which wasn’t the attitude that we had [in the first half]. We were absent of attitude. I think we just had such residue from Clemson in that first half. I thought we did some good things, but when our shots weren’t going we slipped right back into that, and somehow we got out of it. Paulus’ performance – he became our leader today. . . I saw some amazing things this afternoon for the making of a team that happened for our kids. We were real men, and we beat a team that is very talented and very difficult to play against.” click to read more quotes at duke.edu
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