Jason Evans

Caden was dominant in the first half and then was deferring to other guys, and other guys were doing stuff in the second half.

Caden's only points in the second half come with 255 left when Isaiah misses a three-pointer and Caden snags the offensive rebound and puts it back to give Duke a lead that they would never relinquish.

Dude knows when to be timely.

Let's just put it that way.

Yeah.

He quite literally won two games in the ACC tournament with offensive rebound baskets.

And the biggest thing to me in the first half, I sort of started writing some stuff and I was like, I can't even describe how confident Caden is right now.

And I remember Donald in the preseason saying,

There were a lot of folks out there, and I'm going to say you and I were probably among them at least thinking this.

We sort of thought, okay, Caleb Foster's the starter right now, but over the course of the year, the highly touted top 20 McDonald's All-American, supposed to be one of the best point guards in the country coming out of high school, Caden Boozer's going to grab away this starting point guard job, this role from Caleb Foster.

We all thought that's what was going to happen, and it didn't happen.

It didn't happen for two reasons.

One was

CFOS really played great and really delivered what this team needed at times.

And the other was, frankly, I don't want to say that Caden was disappointing this season.

That would be wrong, and I'm not saying that at all.

But I think, you know, maybe didn't live up to everyone's complete expectations of what a top 15 to top 20 kind of player would do coming in here as a point guard.

I think Caden at time, I mean, Caden was pretty inconsistent.

He'd have a good game than a bad game.

And I think he was struggling a little bit with his confidence.