N.C. State brought down second-positioned Duke for the second year in succession Saturday night at PNC Arena. A year ago's amusement at Cameron Indoor Stadium came down to the last ownership, yet this diversion was infrequently in question.
N.C. State drove for the whole second half and went ahead to beat Duke 96-85. Duke tumbles to 13-2 on the season and 1-2 in the ACC. It is additionally Duke's second misfortune in four amusements.
Duke has trailed at halftime six times this season. In those recreations, the Blue Devils are currently 4-2.
Here are five perception Saturday's amusement:
Grayson Allen did not play well. Furthermore, therefore, Duke battled repulsively. The 6-5, 205-pound senior protect had one of his most exceedingly terrible exhibitions of the season. He scored just eight focuses. He additionally took just nine shots. Allen was 3-for-9 from the floor and 1-for-4 from behind the 3-point line. Normally when Allen isn't shooting much, this is on the grounds that he's attempting to be a facilitator.
Duke’s defense continues to struggle. Defense is one of the few reasons Duke has struggled this year. N.C. State scored 96 points against Duke, its fourth highest point total in 16 games this season. The Wolfpack had struggled in recent games. It scored 58 against Notre Dame on Jan. 3, and 62 against Clemson on Dec. 30.
But it found a spark against Duke. N.C. State shot 51 percent from floor overall.
“It’s not like some altruistic thing here, or the world is going to change or whatever,” Krzyzewski said after the game. “We played crappy defense. We were a little frantic, they played their butts off, we’ve got to get better. To me it’s that simple. Now the process of getting there, that’s what we’ve got to figure out.”
He said so far Duke has been able to do that and he hopes they’ll be able to figure it out again.
“If we don’t, then you’re going to see us lose again, and then you’ll ask, are we working on our defense, and I’ll tell you ‘we are working on our defense but it’s not working.’”
- N.C. State beat Duke on the offensive boards. Duke started the game in its usual form, rebounding its own misses. Through the first four minutes, Duke had four offensive rebounds, while N.C. State had only one defensive rebound. That meant Duke was rebounding 80 percent of its misses, while N.C. State was rebounding only 20 percent of Duke’s misses.
Duke is the best offensive rebounding team in the country. Prior to the game, it cleaned up 41.7 percent of its misses. Freshman forwards Marvin Bagley III and Wendell Carter Jr. have both been dominant on the offensive glass
Be that as it may, N.C. State locked in, and appeared to simply play somewhat harder. N.C. State really completed with more hostile bounce back than Duke, 14-12. N.C. State's 14 hostile bounce back prompted 20 additional opportunity focuses.
"We must accomplish something since this isn't cool in any way, simply experiencing and making a halfhearted effort," Bagley said.
- Duke's seat scored four focuses the whole amusement. Seat creation has been an issue for the whole season. Krzyzewski said Duke simply doesn't have a profound seat this year.
He said Duke first year recruit protect Alex O'Connell seemed apprehensive on Saturday.
Duke was additionally without sophomore focus Marques Bolden (3.7 ppg, 3.4 rpg), a 6-11, 246-pound sophomore community for Saturday's amusement. He endured a MCL sprain practically speaking. Krzyzewski said they figured he may be adequate to play until the day of the diversion.
- N.C. State's Omer Yurtseven was an issue for Duke's huge men. Yurtseven, a 7-foot, 245-pound focus, made life troublesome for Duke's enormous men. He modified shots at the edge and took Duke's Carter off his amusement.
On one ownership ahead of schedule in the second half, Carter snatched a bounce back under N.C. State's crate. Yurtseven grabbed the ball from Carter's hands and dunked the b-ball with 17:22 remaining in the diversion. That basin put N.C. State up 51-45. Krzyzewski quickly called a timeout and supplanted Carter with 7-foot sophomore focus Antonio Vrankovic.
Yurtseven completed with 16 focuses (8-for-14), 9 bounce back and 3 pieces.