Duke had a nice debut in the Garden last night - very nice indeed, full of promise.
But the really exciting thing is that Duke was a long way from fulfilling its potential.
We saw great play from Paolo Banchero and Trevor Keels, who, honestly, were off the charts. Wendell Moore, too, was a different kind of player than we’ve seen before. Jeremy Roach showed signs of doing thing we never could have imagined last year, like getting seven rebounds. That was pretty remarkable.
But it wasn’t a perfect outing.
As we feared, Mark Williams got a serious challenge from Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe and in fact, the much more powerful Theo John got more minutes.