Duke scored 63 points Saturday night,
And won by six.
Duke scored 59 points two nights later.
And got blown out.
There are several things to unravel here.
Jon Scheyer has been very clear that this Duke team is built around defense and rebounding. Duke didn’t do either especially well at Miami. It got ugly early and never got un-ugly.
Duke is not an elite offensive juggernaut. In fact, I’m not sure it’s even an above average offense, at least by Duke standards.
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