NCAA Tournament – #1 Houston loses Jamal Shead to injury, falls to #4 Duke in Sweet 16

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Jason Fitz, Krysten Peek and Danny Green discuss the Blue Devils’ victory over the top-ranked Cougars, analyzing the ramifications of losing one of Houston’s key players.

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JASON FITZ: Love him or hate him, everybody’s got an opinion on Duke. Well, guess what, you can continue to run those opinions through everybody all the way into the Elite Eight as Duke takes down top-seeded Houston 54-51. Krysten Peek, Danny Green, Jason Fitz for Yahoo Sports.

Danny, this game came down to the wire. And the real story of this is Jamal Shead. The superstar for Houston gets injured early on. And it felt like Houston could never recover. What do you do as a player when your floor general really goes down and you don’t have an answer for it?

DANNY GREEN: I mean, you can’t do it with one person. It can’t be hero ball. You have to pick it up with everybody. It has to be a collective group thing. And they just couldn’t find it.

This team has had injuries all year and just tough ones during this tournament. Jamal Shead being out really, really hurt them. And Emanuel Sharp just couldn’t find the rhythm he normally had– well, had last game anyway. But beside that, I had give him a lot of credit.

They fought till the end, but there was some not great execution or drawn up plays in that fourth or the last possessions for them to get a better shot. A one-on-one flat in college, if that’s Kevin Durant, cool. If that’s Kyrie Irving and somebody like that– not to take anything away from Emmanuel, he’s a good player, but I don’t think he’s one of those guys. Step back, contested, it wasn’t the best choice for me.

JASON FITZ: Yeah, I mean, KP, I want the story of this game to be about Duke advancing because that’s obviously significant. It’s just hard to put the context around that and not acknowledge everything Houston went through in this game and that it was still so close.

KRYSTEN PEEK: Absolutely. I mean, Danny touched on it. When you lose a player like Jamal Shead, I mean, he averages 6…

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Publish date : 2024-03-30 05:57:03

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