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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Mike Krzyzewski wants togetherness right now
more than 40-point wins.
And the Duke coach made a point to tell the Blue Devils just
that following a 104-62 victory over Portland on Sunday night,
spending 20 minutes with his team in the locker room after the
lopsided game.
"Coach is a little upset," Mike Dunleavy said. "He expects a
lot out of us. That Portland team played really together and played
hard and he's trying to teach us to do that."
Krzyzewski wasn't pleased with Chris Duhon's play, so he was
benched to start the second half. And at one point, he called a
time out to yell at his team as they were lining up for a free
throw.
"The game is not coached for just this game, it's to see
different things," Krzyzewski said. "If you're trying to figure
it out just for this game it's probably a square peg trying to be
put in a circle."
The Blue Devils, struggling from the outside again, got 20
points from Carlos Boozer and forced 27 turnovers to beat Portland.
Boozer, 11-for-11 from the field in a 33-point win over the
Pilots last season, made 8-of-14 this time and grabbed 13 rebounds
as Duke (4-0) had six players score in double figures and won its
20th straight home opener.
Dahntay Jones added 17 points, while freshman Daniel Ewing had
15.
Jason Williams, Duke's All-American guard who was 0-for-5 from
3-point range and scored just 10 points, took Krzyzewski's postgame
message to heart.
"We have to understand just because we're being hyped up as
`The Team,' we still have a lot to work on,"Williams said. "This
year's team has to realize that we don't have anything. We have to
have that hunger to go after it."
Casey Frandsen led Portland (1-2) with 28 points.
Duke shot 39 percent from 3-point range a season ago, but came
in with the Pilots hitting 33 percent after three wins in the Maui
Invitational. That number took a hit Sunday night as Duke missed 19
of its first 20 3-pointers and finished 5-for-25.
"We weren't as sharp as I would like us to be," Krzyzewski
said. "I don't know if that's all the travel or what. We can talk
about jet lag and all that stuff, but when you show up to play you
need to play sharp."
The Blue Devils missed their first nine beyond the arc and
finished the first half 1-for-15 as the Pilots, who lost in
overtime to Idaho State four days ago, remained in it.
While Duke's offense struggled in steamy Cameron Indoor Stadium,
its defense was super, forcing Portland into six straight turnovers
to start the game and 13 for the opening 20 minutes to build a
16-point lead.
The outside shooting and overall flow of the offense was so
poor, Krzyzewski dug deep into his bench to play Matt Christensen
and walk-on Mark Causey to try to find a spark.
It worked as Duke went on a 10-0 run.
Dunleavy made a follow shot and hit the team's first 3-pointer
with 5:06 left in the half, andJones added a pair of driving
layups for a 31-14 lead.
Dunleavy turned the ball over on Duke's first possession of the
second half as Krzyzewski put his hands over his face, but a 20-2
run minutes later helped put the game out of reach.
Boozer sparked the surge with a three-point play, a layup, a
bank shot and a free throw as the Blue Devils went away from
jumpers to a running game that produced some easy buckets.
Two steals byWilliams led to a fastbreak layup by the
junior guard and a dunk by Dunleavy as Duke went up by 31 with
14:43 left and cruised from there.
"We're not making shots, but we're really not connecting,"
Dunleavy said. "A lot of them are good shots but you've got to be
more into it, you've got to drive and kick the ball." | 
