Wendell Moore on Duke's 2020-21 Team
Duke sophomore Wendell Moore Jr. says that quickness will be the strength of this year's team, and the Blue Devils will be able to use it to pick apart mismatches
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00:00 I think the biggest thing for me wasn't so much anything physically,
00:04 but it was more mentally.
00:06 So coming in with the confidence that I need to be able to play,
00:10 just letting the game slow down in my mind.
00:13 And I'm just trying to be more in the moment instead of
00:17 focusing on things I can't control.
00:19 I would say normally, I would have led more by example.
00:25 But now since our team is so young, including myself,
00:28 we have seven new faces.
00:30 It's kind of forced me to become more of a vocal leader.
00:33 Since I've been around for two years, I kind of know what kind of things are going on.
00:38 So just any time I get a chance to help the younger guys and
00:42 Pat being an older guy, but he's still young to the program.
00:47 Anytime I get a chance to help them be better,
00:49 I'm just kind of doing anything I can to make their transition smooth.
00:55 >> I would say yeah, because we know who we're gonna play,
00:59 when we're gonna play them, where it's gonna be.
01:02 I mean, but I think for us, we were always ready.
01:06 We're just ready for that first game to come around.
01:08 I can say definitely for this year's team, we're really hungry.
01:11 All the guys come in every day ready to work.
01:14 And I mean, we're just ready to play some basketball.
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01:19 I would say the strength of our team is our quickness.
01:22 Coach mentions all the time that we're not gonna be the biggest team on the floor.
01:26 There's probably gonna be one or two guys on their team that are always bigger than
01:29 us.
01:30 So we have to use our quickness to our advantage, whether it's in transition,
01:34 or whether it's on the defensive end.
01:36 And we just have to pick out mismatches.
01:39 Cuz like I said, we have Matt Harrett at the five.
01:42 There's a chance he's gonna have a 6'11" center on him.
01:46 And if he's able to stretch him out to the three point line,
01:49 I think we can pick apart our mismatches.
01:50 I'm like I very easily.