Scott Rich

He was doing those connector things consistently.

that this team needed.

I think it was one of his better games in the Duke uniform, even if he didn't have a monstrous 20-point game like his colleague Isaiah Evans.

That shows in the minutes played a little bit too.

This is the first game in a long while where Cam Boozer only played 30 minutes.

Isaiah Evans only played 29 minutes.

Caleb only played 28 minutes.

Our minutes distribution was pretty even amongst our core eight.

That's something that we haven't seen in a little while.

That's something that you really like on the first game of a road trip.

Right.

And this is this is essentially, you know, an NBA style West Coast trip.

Let's let's be honest about it.

Right.

And NBA professional basketball players get fatigued when they have to go out on the West Coast for multiple games.

This that's what this team is facing for us to have this performance, to be able to put the team away so that we don't run Cam Boozer into the ground in game one.

That's something that could pay dividends on Saturday when we go a little ways away and play Stanford.

The other intangible that I think we'd be remiss if we didn't mention was Isaiah Evans' defense.

I think a big part of why this game plan worked was Dame Saar made Dede Ames' life miserable, and then Isaiah Evans came in and said, oh, I'm also 6'6 with a big winging span, and you're just 6'1.

I'm not Dame Saar, but...