Scott Rich

So...

The turnover issues are still a bugaboo.

They're a thing that are going to, you know, nip us in the bud at some point if we don't nip them in the bud.

I messed up that metaphor.

But I think it's something where I'm encouraged by these are turnovers of aggressiveness, at least from Dame, not turnovers of lack of awareness, right?

So that's what contributed to that early hole.

That's something that I'm sure John Shire is hammering home in their pre-Stanford practices.

But that was a new wrinkle to this slow start that obviously has to get ironed out.

The last thing I'll say in the bad, and I think this is just to balance out that discussion of inflection points.

We were really, really solid at two of those moments, the most key moments.

But there was one of these inflection points that we struggled, and that was immediately out of halftime, where we did let Cal back into this game.

After going to the half with a seven-point lead, it was tied 41-41 with 15 minutes to go.

The flip side of that coin is Duke answered that bell.

Cal made a run.

And rather than letting that momentum go from Cal being tied to Cal leading, Duke scored the next five points.

Or not the next five points, but Duke was up five just two minutes later.

Isaiah hit a big three that was very well-timed.

So, yes, in an ideal world, you want Duke to come out of the half and stretch that seven-point lead.

to 15 to 20 right away but i was encouraged that yes we lost that lead but we responded to that and started building it up right away rather than letting that momentum grow and sort of you know and turn into something where we have a deeper hole to dig out of i think the last thing for me is just recognizing that two players uh on this team i would love for them

So I think it's about time we go talk about the play of the game.