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Quotes: Duke 82, Wake Forest 64
1/8/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski
Opening Comments:
“I feel like we beat a good team tonight. We played extremely well and feel fortunate to have won despite the disadvantage we had with people in foul trouble. It was a well officiated game, but we just had too many fouls. We did not put any bodies on them (Wake Forest) and they were crashing the boards like crazy. We were very loose with the ball, but we kept in the game. We had a lot of youthful turnovers that translated into points for Wake Forest, but we are happy with the win.”
On J.J. Redick:
“J.J. played spectacular tonight. He was there when we needed him to be there. We needed him to be there in order to get the win and he was there. They played very well and we beat a good team. It is quite an accomplishment.”
On DeMarcus Nelson:
“He is almost game. He came into the game not favoring his foot which was something we were looking for. Sometimes when kids rebound from an injury they compensate and it turns into something else being hurt. We are working on integrating him back into the lineup. It is not a smooth phase, but we needed him tonight and he played big.”
On Lee Melchionni:
“Lee had a great run tonight. He was one of the best players on the court. He came out with a lot of energy and played like a senior. He wanted the ball and you could tell. He hasn't played like this all season. We have confidence in him and he just played really well tonight.”
Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser
Opening Comments:
“I thought it was pretty self evident tonight. Duke is very, very good. They make you pay when you make mistakes. We felt like we did not have to play perfectly tonight, but we had to play better than we did. Our hats off to them. They played very, very well. They shot the ball too well and it was a matter of us not being able to keep them in front of us. The drop and kick action hurt us. We had our chances to put some game pressure on them, but the three before the half and the run they made after we had cut it to five in the second half really hurt us.”
On trying to double team Redick:
“He got out a couple of times. Our game plan against him was pretty solid, but we did not execute it real well. He had 19 in the first half. As much as we tried to take him away, we just did not play well enough. Most of what he did against us was one-on-one. He is talented enough that when you cheat too much, he can throw the ball to someone else and they can hurt you.”
Difficult of getting the ball to Eric Williams in the second half:
“We did not take advantage of Shelden Williams being on the bench as much as he was. That is on us. I thought we were tentative and we certainly tried to run a bunch of things, but our inability to take advantage of that was one of the keys to the game.”
On the offensive rebounding in the first half compared to the second half:
“They blocked out much better. We only missed 12 shots in the second half so there were not as many chances to get offensive rebounds. That's part of it anyway.”
From a momentum stand point how big was the Trent Strickland missed dunk:
“It is hard to say. It would have been a three point and we had a little momentum going at that point.”
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