Jon Scheyer addresses Duke’s turnover issues against Miami

No. 19 Miami burst Duke’s balloon on Monday night with their 81-59 blowout win. After the Blue Devils just handled business against their rival North Carolina, they were incredibly sloppy last night in Coral Gables in a game that they never led in.

Jon Scheyer said after the game that every point about what went wrong began and ended with their turnovers. It’s difficult to beat anyone in your league on the road to begin with. If you give them 21 extra possessions on top of a rough night on the glass, though, things can get out of hand just like they did for Duke inside the Watsco Center.

“It starts with the turnovers. If you give any team, but a team as good as Miami, 21 turnovers for layups and dunks in transition? It’s gonna be a heck of a night for you,” said Scheyer. “Some of them were aggressive where they were in the passing lanes. But other times we just lost the ball. I mean literally just lost the ball. That’s gonna make it difficult.”

“Then you add in the offensive rebounds and second-chance points?,” Scheyer added. “Those are the two things against these guys that you have to do very well. And, obviously, we didn’t execute that.”

Duke doubled their turnovers from the first time these two teams met in Durham just over two weeks ago. They went from 10 to 21 and, therefore, the Hurricane’s points off turnovers shot up from eight to 23.

Once you pair that with their 16 offensive rebounds and 24 second chance points? We’re looking at several extra possessions and baskets that helped Miami’s lead bloom from the jump and reach as much as 26 points.

Duke’s win this weekend over UNC was their fourth in five games. It seemed like their victory over the Tar Heels could have been used as a launching pad for the rest of February. Instead, after splitting the series with Miami, Scheyer and the Blue Devils are headed back to the drawing board as they now prepare for a second straight difficult road trip this weekend to No. 8 Virginia.