If you watched the Duke/Clemson game last night you saw the blowout that Clemson put on Duke. Coach Krzyzewski was asked if team are sometimes better off forgetting about bad losses and moving forward:“Our players shouldn’t forget this loss. This is as bad as you can play,” Krzyzewski said. “You can’t say, ‘Oh, that’s OK.’ Not if you’re wearing a Duke uniform.”
“You never forget this loss,” Krzyzewski said. “Going into another game, we can’t hang on to it but you can never forget a game like this one.”
Duke melted against Clemson’s defense, which wobbled them with their full-court pressure in the first half then continued to bother them in the front-court with straight-up man-to-man pressure in the second half.
Kyle Singler had five turnovers. Nolan Smith had four. The total was 16 but it felt like twice that many.
“They know how to turn you over and you have to be strong with the ball,” Duke’s Gerald Henderson said. “You have to make quick decisions and value the ball. We didn’t do any of that.”
