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Message: [QUOTE="UConnRock, post: 2647586, member: 1024"] Paragraph from ESPN article on Duke's transition to the syracuse zone. Doesn't bode well for the NBA futures of many Dukies. Coach K couldn't get the 1-and-dones to buy into working hard in a man-to-man. "His players couldn't stop anyone playing man-to-man. Opposing teams couldn't hold the Blue Devils' high-powered offense in check, but the opposite end of the court had become a nightmare. Guards were beating senior Grayson Allen off the bounce with regularity, wings were driving past Marvin Bagley III, and bigs were making fellow freshman Wendell Carter Jr. look like he was swimming in quicksand." "It was an embarrassment," one coach who faced Duke told ESPN. "It was a combination [of the fact] that they didn't want to defend, and that they couldn't defend." [/QUOTE]