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The former Duke Jay Bilas’ Grand Basketball was on the ESPN call for the rival match between The Duke Blue Devils (19-2, 11-0 ACC) and North Carolina Tar Tar (13-10, 6-5 ACC) Stadium. The blue devils had no problems and the game was practically over after the first five minutes, which led to 87-70 victory for Duke, winning his 15th straight victory.
After the match Bilas went to Instagram to give his reaction after Duke’s win, And he doesn’t think there is a team in the nation that Duke cannot win.
“The game of Duke/North Carolina is usually a barn burning every time,” Bilas said. “This one was resolved early and decided by Duke’s defense. This is an excellent defense team that has a position size, they can switch from 1 to 5 and Duke managed to bring North Carolina from anything they want to do.”
Duke is constantly one, if not the best defense team in the nation throughout the season. Bilas pointed out the suffocating mix of size and athleticism that Duke has together with the team’s ability to switch everything and this is a luxury that not many programs are used in their favor.
The blue devils not only have talented perimeter perimeter defenders such as Tyrese Proctor, Kon Knueppel and Sion James, but large as Maliq Brown and Khaman Maluach have the ability to keep around the perimeter and return to the same speed as everyone else to Corta S
The rounding of the defense with one of the most natural basketball basketball of freshmen from the Protective College has been observed for a long time in Cooper Flag, and the unit is difficult to cope.
Duke held Carolina to 29.6% shooting from the pitch and 27.2% of three points in the first half, as the Blue Devils sat with 47-25 leads of the break.
Carolina improved a little insulting in the second half, but the damage was already too much to return.
“When you have 17-2, like Carolina in the second half and still can’t make it a game, you know it’s a blow,” Bilas said.
Bilas had a high praise for the Duke program, as he likes most people around the sports of basketball college see Duke as a perennial contender for a national championship.
“Duke is legitimate. Defense, they have established themselves as one of the five best defense teams in the country and what is impressive to me is their crime continues to improve and has a really high ceiling.”
Flagg and KNUEPEL were the two most consistent offensive tracks of Duke, and what Duke Unstoppable could do is to obtain consistent production on the offensive side of the veteran guards such as Proctor and James.
Prector had fought for his last five games leading to the UNC game, qualifying with one-digit trips in four of them while shooting with a combined 11-from-40 (27.5%) of the pitch and 5 to 23 (21 , 7%) of three points range during this period. But Proctor again found his groove against the heels, finishing the game with 17 points at shooting 5 to 10.
James is not very offending his insult, but has collected 13 points in each of the last two Duke games after scoring 18 points combined in his previous four games. At 6 ‘6 “and 220 pounds with high speed from north-south, he is deadly to reach the rim and finish, and James attacking paint can release more driving and hits for open threesomes.
The Blue Devils are looking for their 16th consecutive victory on February 6 (7:00 pm ET, ESPN2) when the team goes on the road to take the Syracuse Orange (10-12, 4-7 ACC).
