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Duke guard Jared McCain: 'I think we're going to learn from our mistakes'
Duke freshman guard Jared McCain discusses the Blue Devils first loss of the season in Cameron Indoor Stadium against Arizona, 78-73.
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Duke freshman guard Jared McCain discusses the Blue Devils first loss of the season in Cameron Indoor Stadium against Arizona, 78-73.
Um first time you, you had a chance to play in a game of top 25 this magnitude. Uh, what, what was your overall experience? What was your main takeaway from just being able to compete in something like this? Yeah, I mean, um, coming into this game, I just wanted to win, like just play, play, play myself. I, I write it down in my journal every day just to be myself, um, blow with energy and just do what I can do the little things and, uh, you know, just couldn't get the win out, but I think we're gonna learn from this, learn from our mistakes. Uh I felt like we were, I mean, just one shot away at that one point. We need to stop just certain little things that we could clean up, obviously, second game of the season. So I think we'll be able to learn from it and then we got to build from it and, um, come back for a good one on, uh Tuesday to play a game this season. It's difficult, but it also feels like you can learn a lot with some of those mistakes that you could I mean, uh, for one, they outrebounded us by 12. Um, so I think they had like 15 offensive rebounds. So with playing with three guards, we have to be able to rebound. Um, so I'm just gonna learn, be able to learn from that and, uh, I gotta start, I gotta rebound even more. Um, I think just defensively just going, I think offensively actually, we played a little, a little selfish here and there. So just cleaning it up and, uh, you know, understanding everybody's role in this team and just coming together as one and, um, to beat teams. How, how did those conversations, um, you know, in the huddle in those time outs as you all were kind of closing out, what were those, like, how would you compare that to what you saw in high school? Yeah, I mean, um, not much, not much different just, you know, telling us what we should do better, what, what we can, uh, improve on. Um, obviously it's a little different with the, with the crazies in the background the whole time. But, um, yeah, not much different from high school. Just, um, yeah, just moving on to the next play at time outs. I'm always kinda, just, kinda trying to center myself and go back to my breathing. Um, so, yeah, just build it from that.