Rookie phenom Jalen Johnson scored the Blue Devils’ first five points of the afternoon, all in the paint including a +1.
Knowing he’d come off the bench in Duke’s last outing at Pitt, and put up 24 and 15, I jotted this knee jerk musing in my game notes. “Hold it to just Johnson, Win Game.”
Kind of like, “I don’t need no head of Alfredo Garcia, just bring me the rest of his stinkin’ gang.”
Will I never learn?
So, of course, he only tallies four the rest of the game, gives it away six times, only grabs 4 rebounds, and spends as much time on the pine as between the lines.