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Duke's Jared McCain: "That was my man and I take full responsibility for that"
Duke's Jared McCain says he takes the blame for a career-night from Pittsburgh's Blake Hinson after the Blue Devils lost to the Panthers on Saturday.
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Duke's Jared McCain says he takes the blame for a career-night from Pittsburgh's Blake Hinson after the Blue Devils lost to the Panthers on Saturday.
He let Hinton, uh, get the first transition three. And that kind of led him to, um, make shots later in the game. And, uh, that's my part. That was my man. So, um, I, I take blame for that. Uh, but defensively, we just couldn't stream together stops. Um, and then we would get close and then they'd hit a three. It felt like. And, uh, yeah, so it really just starts with our defense and, uh, that's gonna be the main emphasis made it so difficult to sustain the positive. Like you guys would get tied or take a small lead and then it was like, they come back with a bunch of buckets or it was tough because I know they, I would stay attached to Henson and, uh, they would do the pick and roll action and then get Federico on the, on the roll of the floater. Um, the lefty point guard would get a floater in the lob. So it was tough guarding him on that, uh, on that set. But, um, we should have just got the ball better, boy, the ball better. Um, a lot of things on our part, we could have done better. Did you feel like you were gonna get a lot better of a shot from them? Given what happened up there? And it is super tough knowing that like it happens all the time when you beat the team on the road or you beat a team in the, in the first part of the season and they come back and, you know, they want revenge just like how we wanted it with Georgia Tech. Um So it's tough to repair like that, especially without Mark and Jeremy. Um But yeah, just a game we should have won it. I, I know there's no excuses but for, to playing without Mark and Jeremy, how, how difficult is that? How much of that change would you all do? Uh I mean, it's huge, it's huge for us. Uh Jeremy brings that leadership and Mark, obviously playing with four guards is just different. We're not used to it. Um But having Mark in there to just be a big presence for us, I mean, and Jeremy just to lead us throughout the whole game. He's been so consistent throughout the whole year. So, um yeah, just likes to be without him this game. Can you point to anything that they, you weren't able to stop and just have challenges with the Yeah, really. It was just, I mean, on my part, I was, I was going Hinson and I was, I let him get hot early and they just continued throughout the whole game. So, um yeah, that was my man and I take full responsibility for that. Uh Yeah, I think it comes coming to Duke um people, uh we have a target on our back and, um you know, it's just, it's a big thing to beat us. Uh But yeah, just, I don't know, I don't know what that was, to be honest.