Duke dominating the North Carolina in Durham
Half-time: Duke 47, UNC 25
N ° 2 Duke, which closed as a favorite of 13.5 points on a rival in North Carolina, leads by 22 points (!!) to half in Durham, in North Carolina. It was five shy points of the largest deficit of the UNC of the season-which he set earlier in the first half after Duke took a 40-13 lead.
“I think we are playing very hard. Our ability to change a lot has been great,” Duke Jon Scheyer told ESPN at half-time.
Blue Devils’ first year student, Cooper Flagg, is leading all scorers with 13 points so far and also has a top of five assists and four rebounds. He represented 24 of the team’s 47 points and also added two blocks and two interceptions.
The first -year student Kon Knueppel has nine points and the package of Backcourt Tyrese Proctor has up to 10 points.
Until now, the big difference has been Duke forcing UNC in bad decisions and capitalization. Duke scored 11 points out of nine UNC reversals and was able to go out in transition where it is comfortable.
Duke’s also did almost everything and poured it into the races in these first 20 minutes. These are 5 out of 11 from the range of 3 points with four different players making at least one shot beyond the arc. The UNC, on the other hand, is 3 out of 11 from the beach of 3 points and 8 out of 27 on the ground.
A big adjustment for the UNC in the second half, although it is too late, could be run more for the first -year striker Drake Powell. Powell only played nine minutes in the first half, but gave the UNC a few good minutes limiting the impact of Flagg.
RJ Davis, Elliot Gift and Ian Jackson will also have to go for the Tar Heels to have a shot. Davis is 2 out of 6 on the field, Jackson 0 out of 3 on the field and gift 1 out of 5. Gift also had trouble managing the ball this first half with five reversals only two assists.
