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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey there, Duke fans. Episode 790 of DBR podcast, Duke Basketball Roundup. Jason Evans, Donald Wine, here to join you. It is a fine Sunday morning, 10 a.m. I guess the key question all across most of the United States is, do you have power? Are you buried under ice and snow? Donald, how are you doing up there in Washington, my friend? We're doing great.
We've got about four inches of snow overnight. It has switched to sleet. For those of you who have not done this before, if you have a driveway, when sleet starts, you shovel. Don't wait until the sleet falls because then that sleet becomes ice, and ice is much more difficult to shovel. But, yeah, you know, I've just been working here. JCB, we have power, obviously, so we get to do this pod.
But all in all, everything's good. I'm ready to go.
Yeah, down here in Atlanta, it hasn't gotten too bad yet. We had a little bit of the freezing rain overnight. I had one limb fall off a tree and land on my deck, but it doesn't seem to be too bad. It was a fairly small limb. Still have power down here in Atlanta. I guess everything's going to be okay, at least at the moment, but there's still bad stuff to come.
And, you know, we don't know how it'll affect travel for, you know, for example, Duke's game against Louisville on Monday, which we're going to do a little bit of, we'll chat a little bit about that a little bit later.
Our primary purpose here though, Donald, is of course to talk about Duke's game against Wake Forest yesterday, a contest that the Blue Devils win by the score of 90 to 69, 21 point victory for Duke. It was a game that you know, wake got out early, but I, I don't know about you. I, I never, I never felt all that worried. It didn't feel all that much in doubt.
Uh, I, this was a very, very impressive win by the blue devils. Um, uh, let's, let's start as we always do with the headlines. Um, I got a few, uh, Oh, you know, actually before we get to the headlines, I did want to mention one thing. Sorry, just really quick. Uh, I guess I knew in my head that it had been a long time since Wake had won at Duke.
I swear I thought that maybe it happened once during the Randolph Childress years or something. I don't know. Maybe that was longer ago than I thought. But the fact that Duke has won 27 consecutive home games against Wake is crazy when you think about the fact that Wake Forest is a pretty good program. They've had some really good teams over the years.
The last time Wake Forest beat Duke in Cameron, Carlos Boozer was still in high school in Juneau, Alaska. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: What were the highlights of Duke's victory over Wake Forest?
Usually he's just behind the scenes kind of doing this. You're like, Oh yeah, Malik Brown sneakily had a good game defensively. He just quietly locked down his opponent. This time he was much more demonstrative in his defense. And even on, on the offensive end, there was a couple of plays that he had where you're like, Oh, Malik Brown caused that play. And Malik Brown finished that play. Well,
We love to see that from him because of all the games where he has those quiet demeanor type of performances, it's cool every now and then to see him just show that he's the beast that he is.
Yeah, by the way, Malik missed out on a 10-5-5 game because he didn't score enough. That's crazy. Yeah, his passing was ridiculous. His rebounding was great. I wanted to note that if you combine... So Pat and Malik, Big Pat and Malik, combined to play 40 minutes exactly.
I think they overlapped by like a minute or two because one of them wasn't in there in the final two minutes when Duke put in the really, really deep bench. So they overlapped a little bit, but for the most part... They alternated, and so Duke had 40 minutes of center in there. Our center combined on the game for 18 points, 15 rebounds, eight assists, and only one turnover.
Sounds right to me.
Yeah, that's a pretty good game. That's a pretty decent game from your center, almost a triple-double from the center position for Duke. And as I get back a little bit to what John Shire was saying in the postgame, he literally said he never thought that Duke would become a smash-mouth team, but we absolutely were in this game.
And he was like, you know, shooting layups and getting dunks is a lot of fun. He talked about the fact that Duke was just so dominant on what we were able to do inside, and that's where I want to go next in the good. You know, Duke owned the boards. Absolutely owned them. 43 to 22 is the final rebounding number. We almost doubled them in rebounds. Duke had 16 offensive rebounds.
Wake only had 16 defensive rebounds. So it was 50-50. When the ball went up, even if Duke missed the shot, and we didn't miss a lot of them, there was a 50% chance that Duke was going to get, get that rebound. Um, as a result of that, we win second chance points, 18 to seven. We win points in the paint, 48 to 16. I want to repeat that one. People Duke one points in the paint, 48 to 16.
We want it by 32 points. Now Duke was not playing. This wasn't Duke against army, uh, or Duke against Lipscomb or something like that, or Western Carolina. No offense to those programs, but you know that those kind of programs are going to have trouble matching up with Duke's size.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Duke face in their upcoming game against Louisville?
And that's not lining up against us. You get the ball to Pat right by the basket, easy dunk. Get it to Malik by the basket, easy dunk. I'm sorry, Caleb Foster driving the lane, kicking it out to Nick Aminia, who passes it to a wide-open slim. Okay, he's hitting a three. Those type of plays... are things that we do best.
And in this run, the reason why it was so quick is because it felt like every time we got the ball and we were able to take advantage, it was to a guy in his favorite spot on the floor where he was able to inflict the most damage. And because of that, the points racked up super quickly.
Yeah, the run you're talking about was in the first half. It started around the seven-minute mark or so. It was a 13-0 run. It's Duke's 22nd kill shot on the season. A kill shot, of course, is a 10-0 run. It was Duke's 22nd kill shot on the season, this 13-0 run. And the thing you really noticed, and you pointed this out, was the way Duke's defense put Wake into scramble mode.
That you just felt like Wake was utterly discombobulated. They were desperately trying to just even get off a shot.
and it it was at a time in the game where duke had had been struggling to score a good bit um and i think that the fact that we got some of the steals as you mentioned we got some open looks because wake was scrambling so much on offense it leads to good looks on defense you know at the other end for you it causes them to scramble on defense as well um and so it leads to some good looks and i think that duke started to see the ball go through the basket
And then they were like, oh, wait, that's how ā oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's how you score. And suddenly it became a lot easier. And then we also had a ā you mentioned we also ā it wasn't technically a kill shot because Wake, I think, interrupted it twice. But we had an 18-4 run in the second half. It was over about an eight-minute stretch.
And I'm almost certain all four points that Wake scored in that span were scored at the free throw line, that Wake didn't ā Wake didn't see the ball go through the basket at all over about an eight minute stretch. And this Duke team's ability to put teams into scramble mode. and then convert that strong defense into instant offense is something that just makes them super, super dangerous.
If you're an opponent, you've got to be unbelievably concerned when Duke starts to get into that kind of thing because we crushed ā Wake was very much in this game.
you know they were hitting threes and they had a lead and Duke like shrugged it off so quickly and and for Wake it was such a struggle to even get off a shot um it was a struggle to to prevent Duke from getting an easy shot and then to prevent Duke from getting offensive rebounds and they just failed at that completely it flipped the game so quickly that run in the first half and then again the run in the second half made it so that the game was a lot of the game was a you know
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Chapter 4: How did Duke dominate the boards and paint against Wake Forest?
I've got three possibilities, so I want to see if you take one of them. Go for it.
Okay, so 515 in the first half. Malik Brown hits a three-pointer. You're like, great. Sounds cool. goes down the other end of the floor, then gets the stand-up block on the other end. It's the only block we had in the game. He grabs it and just calmly hands it to kind of pass it forward to Caleb Foster.
And you could tell that he knew that this play was going to end in success because he didn't even move.
He didn't run. I love it.
He just passed it. He was like, my job is done here. Right. Caleb Foster drives down the floor. He kind of goes into the lane, but then he hands it off, basically taps it off to Cam Boozer, who gets the hoop and the foul. I thought it was a great sequence.
Again, punctuated by Malik Brown being demonstrative on both ends of the floor, hitting the three and then getting a block so good that he was like, I don't need to contribute to the rest of this play. My work here is done.
Yes, that was one of my three nominees. And by the way, you mentioned that Cam got the three-point, the old-fashioned three-point play. I think Cam had like three or four old-fashioned three-point plays. And Duke, by the way, he was seven of seven at the free throw line. We should have mentioned in the good, Duke hit 21 out of 24 free throws in this game, 87.5%. Yeah, that's decent.
We'll take it. We'll take it, yeah. So I also wanted to mention there was a, it's not my play of the game, but at about 640 in the first half, Um, Cameron Boozer took a, uh, pull up off the dribble three pointer, like, you know, almost like a step back three and Isaiah Evans went in and grabbed the rebound for a slam. And I was like, that's the opposite of how it's not how that normally works.
Yeah. It's not Isaiah. The one usually taken the sort of, you know, off the dribble threes and cams, the one getting the slam rebounds. I just thought that was kind of funny that Duke reversed roles so much there, but my play of the game comes with eight 50 left in this contest, uh,
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