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A motion offense is a category of offensive scheme used in basketball. Motion offenses use player movement, often as a strategy to exploit the quickness of the offensive team or to neutralize a size advantage of the defense. Motion offenses are different from continuity offenses in that they follow no fixed repeating pattern. Instead, a motion ...
Duke struggled shooting the ball for much of the game, missing on their first 9 3-point attempts to allow Virginia to build an 11-point lead in the middle of the second half. Duke found its offense in the final eight minutes of the game, however, scoring 28 points in just 11 possessions during that span to cap off a 69–63 win. [100]
Duke's men's basketball teams have had a decided home-court advantage for many years, thanks to the diehard students known as the Cameron Crazies. [35] The hardwood floor has been dedicated and renamed Coach K Court in honor of head coach Mike Krzyzewski , and the tent city outside Cameron where students camp out before big games is known as ...
Nicknamed “The General,” Knight innovated how coaches used the motion offense and insisted on tough man-to-man defense, and led his teams to 24 appearances in the NCAA Division I men’s ...
Duke looked good all around in a rout over Georgia Tech in Atlanta on Saturday. Now, the Blue Devils must do this against better ACC teams like Wake Forest, UNC, Miami and Virginia.
The Blue Devils started January struggling to score points, unable to shoot 40%. In the past four games, the team is sharing the ball, finding better shots — and making them.
The 2017–18 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were coached by 38th-year head coach, Mike Krzyzewski. The Blue Devils played their home games at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Over this four-game winning streak, albeit against no team of UNC’s caliber, Duke has allowed 63.5 points per game. The only team to score more than 67 points was Wake Forest, a likely NCAA ...