Jason Evans

The man who will impart those lessons is John Shire, and I have every confidence in him.

I may have been screaming at him a minute ago, but I'm here to tell you that this dude, I have every confidence that he's going to figure it out.

These guys are going to find their intensity.

They're going to find their second score.

They're going to find a way to hit free throws.

They're going to find all the things that make them the team that look like

a club that could cut down the nets because I think that's what, I think that's how the season will end.

I still believe that very firmly.

I mean, I also think that John Shire is an incredible recruiter and puts a team together really great.

And I think in 10 days or so, we're going to find out he's a great, incredible recruiter when Derek Rippey declares for Duke.

Yeah, Donald, if you'd told me at the start of the season –

that through Duke's first 12 non-conference games would be 11-1, I'd say, take it.

I'll book it.

Yep.

No problem.

Considering the quality of this schedule, you know, where we were playing these games and stuff like that, I would have been like, yeah, 11-1 in a heartbeat.

The problem is we went 11-0 and then we lost the last game where it was a game where we're 98% to win it, you know, with seven minutes left.

So it stings.

It stings a little bit.

But yeah, the reality is that this is a team that,