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As Duke Played Purdue In Phil Knight Legacy Championship Sunday In Portland Oregon Duke Lost 75-56 Suffering Second Loss Of Jon Scheyer's Inaugural Season As Head Coach

As Duke played Purdue in Phil Knight Legacy Championship Sunday in Portland Oregon Duke lost 75-56 suffering second loss of Jon Scheyer’s inaugural season as Head Coach.

In Duke’s 75-56 loss to Purdue in Portland Oregon Duke shot 36.2 % on field goals, 10.5 % on 3 pointers

Mark Mitchell was 1-6 on field goals 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along with 3 rebounds, 2 points. Kyle Filipowski was 5-11 on field goals, 2-4 on 3 pointers to go along 5 rebounds , 14 points. Dereck Lively was 0-3 on field goals , 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along 5 rebounds. Tyrese Proctor was 7-13 on field goals 0-4 on 3 pointers to go along 5 rebounds, 3 assists , 16 points. Jeremy Roach was 5-13 on field goals 0-3 on 3 pointers to go along 3 rebounds, 2 assists. Though, he had to go out a couple to deal with injury. What kind of injury turns out a toe injury as he left the game in pain though he returned to play 37 minutes as his toughness, devotion to the team was never in question but that displayed how committed he is to the team this season. Though, the toe injury could linger for Jeremy Roach something that could spell trouble for Duke’s games verses Ohio State who Duke hosts for ACC/ Big Ten Challenge Wednesday as they tip off ACC play hosting Boston College Wednesday.

“According to espnapp” as well as Stephen Wiseman’s article in News & Observer

Dariq Whitehead was 2-7 on field goals 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along with 1 rebound , 6 points . Ryan Young was 1-3 on field goals to go along 4 rebounds, 4 points . Jaylen Blakes was 0-2 on field goals 0-2 from 3 point range to go along with 2 rebounds. Jacob Grandison was 0-0 on field goals , 0-0 from 3 point range to go along 0 rebounds , 1 assist , 0 points.

“According to espnapp”

Following Duke’s 75-56 loss to Purdue in Phil Knight Legacy in Portland Oregon freshman center Kyle Filpowski had this to say on how today’s loss compared to Kansas on value of playing zone moving forward This one is probably harder. With the Kansas loss, we didn’t play as well. We gave it up and tonight, they [Purdue] just out-toughed us. There aren’t many excuses for this loss and playing for a championship always means more, too“I think it can be very valuable moving forward. Switching up the defense on another team can always disrupt them a little bit, like how Oregon State did to us. I think it can be a useful tool for us down the stretch and in some crunch time moments. I don’t think we’ll come out to start a game in a 2-3 zone, but it helped us at times against Purdue. We have to work on it more and we’ll be a lot better at it, especially when times like this come up again.”

Freshman guard Tyrese Proctor had this to say about the offense late in the game, on the zone defense

“A couple of our shots weren’t the right shots. I think we attacked the paint pretty well, but they were in drops so we were able to pick that apart. It was mainly just the loose balls … we needed to win more 50/50 balls.”“We’re able to take up more space in a zone to try and disrupt them. We dug deep on defense and really emphasized that into the second half. We really wanted to get stops to be able to get our lead back, which we did earlier, but we couldn’t get stops later in the game.

Jon Scheyer who is coaching his inaugural season as Duke’s Head Coach had this to say in his opening statement, on Zach Edey, on switching to zone defense, on sharing the ball

“I thought Dereck [Lively II] really battled him early. He hasn’t had anyone stop him like that and Dereck took the ball a couple of times and made it difficult. He’s a hard guy to prepare for because there’s nobody else like him. I thought the fight was there early from our bigs. We talked about our ball pressure being key because they’re so good at passing it right in and then you have a decision to make … do you double or do you not? When teams have doubled, they get wide open threesso its a tough decision. We were ready to live with some of his buckets. We knew he was going to score some but we gave up threes and that so that really hurt. I thought our bigs really fought him, particularly Dereck at the start … I thought he made life difficult for him.”“It’s something we have to be ready to go to. We spend a lot of time building our habits with our man-to-man defense so we’ve practiced it a couple of times. We’ve had it in our back pocket just in case and I thought our guys did a good job on the fly to pick it up. The thing with them [Purdue] is they move so much … they get really good movement and they screen hard and cut hard. I thought it helped slow them down and our press was good for us also. For key plays … they got the loose balls and the rebounds. “We need some more practice time. Dariq [Whitehead] has been back for nine days now and we’ve had one practice with our full team. Thisis an evolution for us. In those key moments that you mentioned, we get two threes blocked. You have to get shots off and that’s for us to continue to develop and practice and get to know each other. I think for all our guys, you think it’s going to be tough but you don’t know how hard it’s going to be in college. Now we’ve had a few experiences being here … every game we’ve played, we’ve learned something from. You need to make a team like Purdue really work and break them down on defense and that’s the next step we need to get to.

“According to go duke.com”

Duke, Jon Scheyer are now going to prepare to host Ohio State for ACC/ Big Ten Challenge Wednesday in Durham.

Duke, Ohio State have met before in ACC/ Big Ten Challenge as they met a season ago in Columbus Ohio when Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) as fans, spectators refer to him was coaching final season as Duke Head Coach.

In that game Duke lost 71-66 Wendell Moore Jr. who now plays in the NBA for Minnesota Timberwolves was 7-15 on field goals, 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along 8 rebounds, 5 assists 17 points. Paolo Banchero who like Wendell Moore Jr. now plays in the NBA for Orlando Magic was 4-14 on field goals, 1-3 on 3 pointers to go along 5 rebounds, 1 assists, 14 points. Trevor Keels was who is now playing for New York Knicks in NBA on 2 way contract going in between Westchester Knicks, New York Knicks . Mark Williams who now plays for Charlotte Hornets in NBA was 3-6 on field goals to go along 7 rebounds, 1 assists, 8 points. Joey Baker who is now collegiality for Michigan was 2-4 on field goals, 1-1 on 3 pointers to go along 1 rebound, 5 points. Theo John who is now playing the NBA’s G League as he was 16th overall pick in 2022 NBA G League Draft by Capital City that is the affiliate of Washington Wizards. A.J. Griffin who is the son of Adrian Griffin who is an Assistant Coach for Toronto Raptors of NBA is playing for Atlanta Hawks.

What will the outcome this time around be as Duke gets another crack at Ohio State as Jon Scheyer’s inaugural season as Head Coach of Duke continues?

Will find out Wednesday as tip off is scheduled for 7:15 pm from Cameron Indoor Stadium! The game is going to be televised on ESPN with Dave O’Brien, Dick Vitale commentating!