Donald Wan

Hei there Duke fans, welcome to episode number 788 of the Duke Basketball Roundup. It's Sunday, January 18th, 2026. Duke still undefeated in the ACC as they become just the second team to go 2-0 on the West Coast trip since Cal and Stanford joined the ACC. We are here to talk about the 80-50 beatdown at Stanford. I am Donald Wan, I'm your host for this episode. Jason is on his way back to the United States.

We have confirmation that he is on a plane, because as I bring in Scott Rich, who has been so kind to be here for the last couple of weeks, he was texting us this morning furiously, which means he probably has airplane Wi-Fi, Scott. Yeah, that was about to say the number of texts we're getting from Jason is steadily increasing, which means he must be steadily approaching the United States.

Kyllä, joten me saamme hänet takaisin myöhemmin. Yksinkertaisesti, mitä me teemme täällä, koska toivottavasti, kuten tiedämme, hauska tapauksena, jota me olemme puhuneet, ei ollut suuri tarina viikonloppuun ja Duke Sportsin. Toivottavasti Derry Mensahin liittyminen portaliin on suuri tarina. Minulla oli lyhyet kivit siitä viikonloppuun, kuten kaikki tapahtui, joten käy takaisin ja katso se. Meillä on tämä rekappi, joka on vain täysin täysin. Ja sitten myöhemmin tänään,

Maybe like an hour or two after this episode drops, we will have a DBR Bites, which allows me and Scott to kind of talk more about Mensa entering the Transfer Portal. So look out for that. But let's talk about the basketball. As I mentioned.

Duke goes on the road. They were on the west coast. They should be on their way back now, if not already back. They played the Stanford Cardinal yesterday, and it was a lopsided 80-50 victory. Duke moves to 17-1 on the season, 6-0 in the ACC. And as I mentioned, since Cal and Stafford joined the ACC, only one team prior to Duke had gone out west and come back home.

with a 2-0 against both Cal and Stanford. Duke becomes just the second team to do that in the ACC. Let's talk about some of the headlines from this game, and we got some cool ones that I looked at this morning. First off, John Grantland wrote, Conclave catastrophe. Cam sweeps the Cardinal as Duke completely dominates Stanford. We had a lot of references to the Pope and to the Cardinals from the Catholic Church, even though

Brian Reckless, hienoa kuulla Brianista taas. Stanford Stifled, Cardinal, can't crack, dominant, Duke D. Hyvä. Erik Savage, meni juuri mieleeni. In and out business trip. Duke dominates due to Dame Saar's animal-style defense. Hienoa. Erik, pahoittelen, olen halunnut, joten olet tarvinnut ottaa minulle in and out. En tiedä, miten sinä teet sen, mutta se on sinun töitäsi.

Norris David wrote Saar shank penitentiary. We will talk about Dame Saars defense. And Lee Maxson just summed up the game by saying this. Timber! That was very easy. And Lee, that was awesome. Again, thank you to everybody who submitted headlines. We of course do this after every game. dbrpodcast at gmail.com.

I will fully admit that the good is probably going to outweigh the bad on this game. That's what happens when you beat a team by 30. And Scott, as we get into this, I just want to start with this. We dominated from the opening tip. I know some people had issues getting the game on live as we started. Of course, UNC was busy losing the cow in the game before us. But from the moment that game appeared on the TV screen, Duke was in control and they never let up.

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He only took ten threes, so that further goes to the notion of, hey, we have an advantage inside, we have an advantage within six feet, let's go ahead and use that to our advantage. And they went and hammered after them almost every single possession down the floor, and even the threes they took were like...

wide open threes where you know stanford started to pack the paint and somebody was like okay you're basically daring me to shoot i'm gonna go ahead and do it but again they only took 10 threes as opposed to the last few games and we saw them take more threes than twos they were dominant they were trying to get the ball into the paint they were trying to score from the paint and score they did 44 paint points for duke and again a lot of it led by cam who had ended up with 30 points

14 taitoja, 3 taitoja, 3 taitoja, 1 taitoja ja 0 taitoja, joita tykkäsin, koska se tuli sellainen trendi, että hän taisi saada 3 tai 4 taitoja pelissä, usein koska hänellä oli taito, mutta myös koska joukkueet olivat häneltä, kun hän taisi taitoja. Stanford ei pystynyt tekemään paljon Camilla postissa, ja Camin taito näytti, että Camin taito tuli ylös opening tipistä, ja koko pelin jälkeen hän oli yksinkertainen North Star.

It seems like they really studied Stanford's game against UNC, and we kind of talked about it as well in the preview. The one thing that I thought that they did that was different than most games, I always talk about the saying, cut off the head and the body will wither. And of course, when you think about Stanford, a quarry is the engine that makes that offense go. But what they didn't do is say, usually they'll say, hey, head of the snake,

You're done. You're not getting anything today. And we're going to let somebody else beat us. This time around, they said to Corey, you're done. You're not getting the ball. You're not going. And you're also not going to get the ball to those other teammates who could kill us. Right. Who could have a good day from shooting. And even when they, you know, got it to an Agarwal or somebody else who is a three point specialist. We had someone there waiting for him. The rotations I thought were brilliant. They don't have Waffle House on the West Coast.

but this team was scattered and smothered and covered like some hash browns. Every time a Stanford guy got the ball via the pass, it felt like there was two to three guys, one guy on the ball and two guys waiting in the midst to kind of shut off any passing lanes. I thought they were great guys.

They held Stanford to just 35% from the floor, 24% from three. They didn't give Stanford much of anything. And they forced 18 turnovers, 12 of them in the first half. The second half was kind of like, you know, it just felt like for me, I think I texted one of my best friends like, hey, I just want us to not allow 50 points. And they got right to 50 at the very end. But it was, again, a masterful defense that looked like

The defense that we saw earlier the year where getting the 40 points was caused for them to run laps because they were just that dominant on that side of the floor. The thing that was perhaps most encouraging was that

And we were shooting well, right? It's one thing to hold Stanford to 19 points, but it's another thing to, again, get to your spots and score and make it where that lead is driven up a bit. I want to talk back on the offensive end about the fact that before the game and the preview, we talked about

Stamford on joukko, joka ei anna sinulle vahvistaa. He ovat maailman parhaat joukkueet. Heillä on 43,5 prosenttia vahvistusratkaisua. Vahvistuksessa he antaa joukkueille vahvistaa 43,5 prosenttia. Meillä oli 16 vahvistusta 28 kohdalla. Se on 57 prosenttia. Se tuntui, kuin olisimme löytäneet joukkueita heidän paikoillaan. Meillä oli hyvä peli, jossa