Everything Duke head coach Jon Scheyer said following win vs. Kansas

Duke used massive games from Patrick Ngongba and John Blackwell, along with two big runs in the second half, to take down Kansas, 90-84, in the Blue Devils’ final exhibition game of the preseason.

Here is what Duke head coach Jon Scheyer had to say after the win:

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Opening statement

This was everything we could have asked for and more. I just want to thank Coach Self, his staff, Kansas, the hospitality. This is a special thing. The fact that our two programs haven’t played here one time, we’ve played here one time. So doing this home-and-home for an exhibition game, nothing about it felt like an exhibition game. The environment, everything here was beyond special. So for us to go on the road, play a really good team, hungry team, I think we learned a lot. For me, I thought we showed a lot of toughness. You’re still figuring out what you have, even in these exhibition games. Obviously, the job Pat did, he controlled the entire game: his passing, his scoring, his rebounding, defense; I could go on and on. I don’t want him to get too big of a head, so I’m going to stop right there. 

And then John, obviously we’re going through this for the first time together, but from what we’ve seen in practice, that was what he’s done. So really proud of our group, learned a lot, and we’re looking forward to starting the season and taking these lessons and carrying us forward. 

Message to team before two big runs in the second half?

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Well, they’re conventional. They have a lot of speed. Stokes is really, you’re not going to see many guys like him in college with his ability to push, put pressure on the paint. I mean, we fouled him nine times, but he gets ahead his team downhill. I thought they were just pushing it so fast and just finding a way to get our defense set. And that was the biggest thing. And I thought these guys, we have the versatility to switch and not. We switched probably a little bit more just to stand them up and they only had one offense rebound in the…

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