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Duke's Sean Stewart after win against NC State
Duke forward Sean Stewart scored 12 points in a season-high 26 minutes for the 9th-ranked Blue Devils against NC State on Monday, March 4, 2024.
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Duke forward Sean Stewart scored 12 points in a season-high 26 minutes for the 9th-ranked Blue Devils against NC State on Monday, March 4, 2024.
Quite a task going up against DJ Burns. Just talk about that match up. I mean, it was a huge task, great player, real experience, but I just try to compete my hardest. I work on, you know, my guard flip, Brian Mark every day in practice. So I mean, that helps me a lot. But like I said, he's a great player. He had a great game. What was it like? Kind of realizing that a lot of the game hinged on you tonight with Kyle Phillipos being in foul trouble early. I mean, I'm ready. I work on, I work really hard every day just to when my name is called, be as ready as possible and, you know, the work paid off tonight. So, yeah, that's all I say. It's been paying off more than I know. It feels good to get a little more playing time and show, you know, all of that hype you had for me in as a, as a fresh. Yeah, just wait on my name to be called whenever my name be called, be ready. You know, coach, I always say be ready. All the coaches makes me in that mentality. So, yeah, that's all I have going into every game. Is it just a matter of playing time and confidence or have you been doing things in practice to kinda improve in areas, uh, just working hard every day in practice with the coaches before practice, after practice in the mornings. Just like I said, when my name's called, put all the show, all that work that I put in 26 minutes tonight. When you're out on the court, you play with a lot of emotion, whether it's good or bad plays, you show that just, um, my dad always taught me when I was younger just to play with as much energy as possible. And when you make a play, make a good play, you got to show it. So whenever I get a dunk or a block and when I just scream and let all my energy up, how much fun has these last three games been for you? I mean, they'd be really fun. You know, there've been a lot of great team wins. Um, just, we've been working real hard as a team. We've been really locked in on the scouts and everything. So just to have all that show in the games and show us how locked in we are in that we're ready to compete. Did you get a bloody nose? I saw you had a couple of tissues and nose after the game. Yeah. When I do it for that ball, I don't know who dove on me but elbowed me in my nose. It was gushing pretty bad. It wasn't from Burtons back then. No, no, no, it might have been anything else for Sean, just me. Did you guys do a lot more diving after the first couple of minutes of the game? Uh, yeah, I mean, DT love when we dive on the floor so whenever it's on the floor, we gotta go get, it was time out like three minutes into the game. Why you started diving more? I mean, I mean, yeah, he, he got on us but you know that we, he teaches us that every day in practice and practice. If there's a loose ball, we don't dive on these stuffs, practice just, you know, get on it. So that's just instilled in us when the balls on the ground. It, so what was the message during that first time now, uh just that, you know, we need to, we need to get it together. Um That's not how we play because our me, our motto is first four, come out on top, um come out strong. So we didn't do that at first four, but after that first four, we came out, came out swimming last one for Sean Sean. What have you noticed about what you guys have been able to do on the road this season? Uh We just real games, you gotta be extra locked in and in the scout, we we take real pride in our scouting practice and being locked in on the other team's plays and all that stuff. So that's all, that's what I do appreciate it.