Clemson fills Cooper Flagg, hanging to beat No. 2 Duke

Clemson, SC – Clemson Duke Star Cooper Flag held in chess on Saturday evening in the first 36 minutes of action. In the last seconds, Chase Hunter delivered daggers from the free-wire line when the Tigers ended the 16-game winning shop of the Blue Devils.

Clemson’s large men Schloss Flagg, who only had four points in the game, only four points, and she dominated No. 2 Duke in the color and on the glass and withdrew with a 77-71 victory.

“The second half,” said Clemson coach Brad Brownell, “that’s about as good as possible.”

The performance follows one of the worst achievements of the tiger of the season, a triple loss against Georgia Tech, in which striker Viktor Lakhin played only 15 minutes due to bad difficulties.

As a result, Brownell Lakhin preached a word.

“He probably circled this word 20 times when he spoke to me,” said Lakhin on Saturday.

The lesson paid immediate dividends. Lakhin ended with 22 points, 4 rebounds and 3 blocked shots and handicapped the much shorter flag, which tried to find his shot.

Clemson enforced Duke 40-22 in the color and ended with a 36-23 lead in the decline.

Brownell said he knew that Clemson (19-5, 11-2 ACC) could have an advantage near the basket, and believed that Duke (20-3, 12-1) would put his defensive focus on the To stop tiger perimeter shooting.

Schieffelin’s Dunk with 6:39 to play Clemson around five. At that time, Flagg only had four points with a sad 2-from 11 shoot.

But Flag followed the flood with two free throws and a 3 pointer, which followed the flood after a 15-5 clemson run.

Flagg had 14 points in the next five minutes, and he had the ball with 14 seconds before the end and the chance to bind the score. However, when flag attacked the basket, he slipped to a wet place on the square and was asked to travel. Clemson never looked back.

“He has the advantage down, and I take it every day of the week,” said Duke coach Jon Scheyer. “But there was a wet spot, and sometimes it works. But in the last few minutes he has really played every game just to become us.”

Flag’s spotty performance – a jewel of a finish that Scheyer chases “Coop as Coop” after a shaky first half – could be a sign that the newcomer has been through a physical game in recent weeks. Scheyer noted that Flagg, who had not reached in the high school, had to struggle a little in practice last week.

“We put so much on his shoulders,” said Scheyer. “I have to help lose weight because it is this time – we have to refresh and rebuild his body. We have to get it back. We know that there is more and we have to help him recover.”

However, if there was a secret sauce for the suffocating flag, Brownell and the tiger were not led.

“We haven’t done anything that didn’t do anything else yet,” said Brownell.

It was just a good schedule that matches a strong execution, said Lakhin. But when the fans sang “overvalued” in the last seconds before they stormed the square after a victory against No. 2 team, Lakhin said that the performance was a prelude for bigger things.

“(Flagg) is a great player,” said Lakhin. “We did a good job with him, but he will bounce back. Hopefully we’ll see him again in the (ACC) tournament and we will then do a good job.”