Duke, NC State Are Matching Up Twice On The Hardwood During 2022-2023 Regular Season! Their Inaugural Match Up Of 2022-2023 Regular Season Is Tonight In Raleigh!
Duke, NC State are matching up twice on the hardwood during 2022-2023 regular season!
Their inaugural match up of 2022-2023 regular season is tonight in North Carolina’s state capital!
Duke comes into the inaugural match up of 2022-2023 regular season with NC State ranked 16th in the Week 9 AP Top 25 Poll comes into the inaugural match up of 2022-2023 regular season with NC State with record of 11-3 2-1 in the Atlantic Coast Conference is fifth in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings because they won their previous Atlantic Coast Conference game Saturday on New Years Eve 86-67 as Jaylen Blakes, Dariq Whitehead, Ryan Young led the way offensively as Jaylen Blakes was 6-11 on field goals, 4-6 on 3 pointers to go along with 1 rebound , 3 assists , 17 points. Dariq Whitehead was 5-11 on field goals, 2-6 on 3 pointers to go along with 1 rebound , 2 assists, 16 points. Ryan Young was 7-7 on field goals to go along with 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 20 points.
“According to espnapp”
Following Duke’s 86-67 win over Florida State Saturday Jon Scheyer who is coaching his inaugural season as Duke Head Coach had this to say for his opening statement. On the success of playing with smaller lineup. On Jaylen Blakes performance going forward on the team coming back motivated from break on Dariq Whitehead’s performance!
Happy New Year, everyone. It was a good win for us, really proud of the response we had. We played one game in 20 days, we felt like, all right, here’s another new season for us and fully healthy, thought really everybody that played stepped up and made some big time plays in key moments. We had a few lineups on the court, we just had a roll and went with it, but I thought our defense was back to where we needed to be. Offensively we really shared the ball well. Ryan Young obviously a big-time night, not missing a field goal, not missing a free throw. Just his rebounding, you feel like when a shot’s taken he’s going to come up with the ball. Happy to answer anything but really proud of this, and for me, I started here in 2006 and Florida State’s been one of the teams we’ve had incredible battles with. So much respect for Coach Ham [Florida State Coach Leonard Hamilton] and what he’s done, and to be in this situation coaching against him and a great program like Florida State is an honor for me and obviously for our program.
It’s really just a feel, and we have a plan going into the game, but certain guys, one were in foul trouble, but certain guys had it going, and I thought that Dariq [Whitehead] had some really good minutes and that lineup once we had it; Jake [Jacob Grandison] came off the bench, and we just went on a run so we kept that group in and to extend the lead to 17 and a half was a big deal.”
“Well, I think for us as we go on in the season we may start different groups, and tonight this was, we felt, the best thing. Jaylen [Blakes], his energy, his confidence, and his defense has been rock solid for us and made that switch and credit to him to make the best of that opportunity. So really proud of what he’s done, you know he’s coming off a year where he didn’t play, he’s been in different environments, and he’s just grown and is as hard any worker that we have. He studies gameplans like you wouldn’t believe, and just proud and happy for him. Can’t be a one-time thing, need to continue to build, but knowing him he’ll be back to work right away.
“I give them credit. They knew we had to be a lot better, and so it wasn’t like I had to convince them of that. Really it was…I don’t want to say starting from scratch, because it’s not like we have to blow this whole thing up or anything. We’ve had a good start to the year, but it’s a fresh start and when you have that much time off in between games it’s hard to keep the same rhythm, it just is. So for us, we went and got back to work, four really good days of preparation. Our guys embraced it, they worked really hard, we got back into the shape that we needed to. For us, going against each other has gotten us better. That’s something that not a lot of teams have, where we can put 10 guys out on the floor that can go at it in practice. We need to balance that and to not do it too much to where we get banged up but we did that this week and it really benefitted us.” “For me when I was looking at Dariq, one, I think that sometimes getting away and clearing your head and coming back can be a good thing. You know we’ve seen that over the years for Christmas break and just like I said for the team that it was a fresh start, I feel the same way for Dariq. Take what you’ve learned and to his credit, I thought he had his best two days of practices. I’ve always believed that preparation leads to confidence, and that’s why I said I have a lot of confidence in you. You practice this way, I’m excited to see where it goes. He did a really good job tonight. You can tell he gives us a different dimension and we need to follow that up with consistency and building in practice but give him credit. Look, this is…for any of our guys, it’s never smooth sailing. It just isn’t, and so for Dariq I think he’s gotten a lot tougher in this stretch. He’s not the only one I can go through. Any of our guys, any of our freshman have gone through ups and downs already. Any freshman who’s evercome through here has gone through that, and they’re going to be better for it. Just fighting out is the only way to do it and that’s what Dariq is starting to do, and I’m really proud of him for it.
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Jon Scheyer who is coaching his inaugural season as Duke Head Coach wasn’t the only one to share his thought as Duke rebounded from 81-70 loss to Wake Forest in Winston -Salem Saturday with 86-67 win over Florida State as Jaylen Blakes who is a sophomore Ryan Young who played for former Duke player, coach Chris Collins at Northwestern before coming to Duke as Graduate Transfer this season shared their thoughts as well.
Jaylen Blakes had this to say about being a leader on this years team, on his own performance.
“Going into this year, knowing that I was one of the four returners, with Jeremy [Roach], Spencer [Hubbard], and Stanley [Borden], just having that emphasis of what people taught me the year before, just continuing to pass down that tradition and culture of what Duke Basketball is and what it’s about and continue to teach everybody that’s new, the 11 new guys that we have, and continue to build. I’m just doing whatever’s necessary to win. The best way that Ican lead is by example, so just putting everything out there on the line, and everybody else is doing the exactsame. That’s what Duke Basketball is about. We’re going to compete to the very end. We’re not going to let someone come into Cameron [Indoor Stadium] and out-compete us. So we’re justcompeting every second that we’re on the court.”My teammates did a great job of finding me in open spaces. Even the drives, the bigs really sealed off the guards and when [Florida State] switched, it kind of opened up the paint. Just taking what the defense gives you, at the end of the day, and playing off of that. It’s never been an emphasis [on offense, from the coaches]. More the emphasis is on the defense and just continuing to stop other people, keep people out of the paint. Offensively, we’re going to take what they give because we have so many weapons. It could be anyone’s day. It happened to be that I scored and Ryan [Young] scored, and we had a lot of people score.”
Ryan Young had this to say for his Opening Statement!
We knew that there was going to be an opportunity today with some mismatches in the post where [Florida State was] going to have a smaller guard switched onto me or whoever gets the ball – Flip [Kyle Filipowski] or Dereck [Lively II]. We knew that they would probably be either sending a double team or crowding the paint up so we were going to be able to pass out of there. And that’s a real positive and an advantage I think our bigs can bring – myself, Flip’s a really good passer, and Dereck’s a really good passer out of the post. That’s something that really, I think, can hurt teams, when we throw the ball in and it’s not just a one-on-one game there. All five guys are in the play, with the passing ability that we have out of the post. It’ssomething that I take a lot of pride in personally, and I know that Flip and Dereck do as well because they’re just as good of passers. It makes us hard to guard as a group.
On the chemistry between him, Jacob Grandison!
You could say it’s old man chemistry, with us being 23 and 24 [years old] on this team. When you get that many buckets – I had a few in the paint in a row there toward the end of the first half – and Jake’s so good at moving off the ball. When he passes, he’s immediately moving and it makes it really easy for me in the post. Catch the ball, right back to him, and he’s wide open, especially when you have that kind of attraction – when you score a few in the paint, you know that there’s going to be some emphasis on you and their guards are going to be creeping in. So I kicked it out [to him] and he doesn’t miss many open threes. It's a good bet.”
“According to goduke.com”
Unlike Duke NC State comes into their inaugural match up of regular season with Duke not ranked in the week 9 AP Top 25 poll comes into the inaugural match up of regular season with Duke with record of 11-4 1-3 in the Atlantic Coast Conference is twelfth in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings because unlike Duke NC State lost their previous Atlantic Coast Conference because they lost to Clemson in Clemson South Carolina Friday December 30, 2022 by a score of 78-64.
As NC State lost to Clemson Friday in Clemson South Carolina D.J. Burns Jr. was 2-5 on field goals, 0-0 on 3 pointers to go along 6 rebounds , 5 points. Terquavion Smith was 5-21 on field goals , 3-13 on 3 pointers to go along with 3 rebounds, , 3 assists, 21 points . Casey Morsell was 5-13 on field goals , 3-8 on 3 pointers to go along 7 rebounds , 13 points . Jack Clark was 2-7 on field goals, 1-3 on 3 pointers to go along with 11 rebounds , 3 assists, 7 points . Jarkell Joiner was 2-11 on field goals , 0-3 on 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds , 5 assists, 6 points. Ernest Ross was 1-1 on field goals, 1-1 on 3 pointers to go along 1 rebound, 3 points. Ebenzer Dowuona was 4-6 on field goals, to go along 2 rebounds, 9 points . Breon Pass was 0-2 on field goals , 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along 1 rebound. LJ Thomas was 0-2 on field goals , 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along 1 rebound , 0 assists, 0 points.
“According to espnapp”
Tip off is set for 7:00pm from PNC Arena that is not only home to NC State Men’s Basketball though, the Carolina Hurricanes of NHL as well!
The game is going to be televised on ACC Network with Dan Bonner, Wes Durham commentating!