Duke dominates Syracuse from start to finish

Both offenses started slowly on Wednesday night, when Duke eventually dominated Syracuse, 83-54.

Konn Knukeppel started things for Duke with a set up approx. nine seconds into the game. Tyrese Proctor missed three shots, and the Duke forced a violation of shooting two minutes in and with 16:04 to play in the first half the scoring was only 4-2.

Duke started when Isaiah Evans, Tyrese Proctor and Sion James hit three straight triangles to push the blue devils out to a 17-9 lead and from there and out it was basically Duke’s half.

Syracuse succeeded 14 more points, but Duke took a 37-23 lead to the break when Proctor and Knuppel both hit nine and flags had seven.

Duke’s defense really pressed the orange in the first half. JJ Starling had the first seven points for his side; He finished half with the same seven.

Apart from Jyare Davis and Naheem McLEOD, no one shot any better than 33 percent, and the team hit 35.7 percent overall and 30 percent from deep. Starling completed half 3-9.

While Syracuse rebound well, with Big Eddie Lampkin, who grabbed five and the team that pulled 19 damages turnover when the orange coughed it seven times to just one for Blue Devils. And we could have wrong, but we don’t think Syracuse got a single point in the transition.

Generally, at the break, Duke was stuck in control.

Duke opened the second half with a steal and a knuckle pepping three to push the lead to 17.

Blue Devils went into Maluach three times early, but he missed two lobes and a jumper.

It didn’t do much. Duke had three steals in the first 4:15 of the second and built a 44-27 lead when Lucas Taylor was whistled after a flags poor attempt to stop Maliq Brown on a quick break.

And it got easier from there. If you set yourself and got the sound down, you could tell pretty quickly that Duke was rolling. Why?

The smiles.

The blue devils were loose, confident and put in Syracuse, took the ball away, came out in transition and had fun.

It was clear that these two teams are on different courses.

It looked like his teammates really wanted Brown to do well in his return to Syracuse, who talks well about everyone, and when Caleb Foster scored on a drive, his teammates roared.

We worried that this could be a trap game, but in the end, while Syracuse had some lovely spectacles on stains, Orange didn’t really have a serious challenge for Blue Devils.

It probably comes on Saturday when Duke visits Clemson.

Notes – Duke left Mason Gillis at home because of illness … It must have been difficult for orange to see Brown play as well as he did … Caleb Foster has had some rough games recently, but he played well here .. .