Miami Basketball Needs Everyone to Step up Against No. 3 Duke
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If the Miami Hurricanes want to achieve the impossible, it needs to be a full team effort on both sides of the ball.
The Hurricanes will play No. 3 Duke looking to avoid the series sweep against the Blue Devils. The last outing was not close, but interim head coach Bill Courtney wants everyone to be on the same page.
However, after the Virginia Tech game, the team feels disconnected on the defensive side of the floor. There was no Matthew Cleveland against the Hokies and others stepping up was the only option for the Canes.
It happened for some but others still struggled to take that next step.
"You want everybody to step up," coach Bill Courtney said. "you want everybody to play the correct way. We want everybody to play defense. That's the main thing you know if you miss a a good shot on offense that's okay as long as it was a good shot but you have to defend got to have pride in yourself defensively individually to get a stop."
the effort is still there but against the Blue Devils, there needs to be more than just effort. The Canes have to play clean basketball, something the team has only done twice in conference play.
"I think our group is still giving effort," Courtney said. "I think they're trying. We just make critical mistakes and then we kind of get down ourselves we haven't yet learned to fight through adversity and that's the thing. We keep preaching and we got a few games left and we got to just see if we can learn those lessons and be better."
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Justice Sandle is a graduate of Mississippi State University earning a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Communications with a concentration in Print and Digital Journalism. During his time in Starkville, he spent a year as an intern working for Mississippi State On SI primarily covering basketball, football, baseball, and soccer while writing, recording, and creating multimedia stories during his tenor. Since graduating, he has assumed the role of lead staff writer for Miami Hurricanes On SI covering football, basketball, baseball, and all things Hurricanes related.