Perhaps the Duke basketball head coach's master plan was to see if he could make Isaiah Evans angry.
Duke basketball might've started 8-0 had Jon Scheyer played freshman wing Isaiah Evans even a single minute in tightly contested losses to Kentucky and Kansas. We'll never know.
Evans saved Duke from falling to 5-3, and he saved the ACC from complete embarrassment against the SEC, which prevailed in 14 of the 16 matchups. "Since I signed with Duke, I always dreamed about being in a high-intensity game like that and delivering for my team. And then coming out with the win, that was the most important part for me. Getting meaningful buckets, getting stops on defense, getting timely rebounds, it just felt amazing out there."
Scheyer waited until after the under-16 timeout to point to Evans on the bench, at which point the 6-foot-6 "Slim" had to sit on the floor at the scorer's table for almost three minutes, no doubt unnecessarily stiffening up a bit before finally checking in with 13:15 to play and the Duke basketball lead already trimmed to 56-49.Maybe the third-year head coach just prefers things to be difficult as possible for Evans at this early juncture in the season.
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