No one is going to argue that how Duke played in Raleigh was acceptable. Jeremy Roach didn’t. Kyle Filipowski didn’t. Jon Scheyer certainly didn’t.
No one was happy.
A lot of people are going to look at this game and think, well, that would never have happened under Coach K!
But it did, and with a certain regularity. Not to say that Mike Krzyzewski’s teams took beatdowns on the regular, but they did happen and it would be silly to argue they didn’t.
For his part, Coach K used them as testing material and while he detested losing, he always said that failure was valuable.