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“Definitely.”

That’s not typically the response you’d expect from a student-athlete when asked whether or not their team plans to play with a chip on its shoulder in the season to come.

You almost always get the politically correct, scripted soundbite that focuses on the individual’s desire to move on and forget about a past that had been marred by disappointment.

But Duke sophomore Marques Bolden is not going to pretend he is unaware of how last season ended for the basketball program, or that he would ever consider turning a blind eye to it.