Lahaina, Hawaii-with the way Mike Krzyzewski lent 1st space in Duke Blue Devils-just to pacify everyone who was in front of them, including a secondary school took the 2nd space in the pre-season sampling survey the Associated Press-people began to wonder, which team, in the end, finds out this astonishing collection of talent in the 1st time.

We had an answer on Tuesday.

The answer was chestnut.

In order to be clear, the Baron practically jumped to a tremendous lead before, as a rule, and rose to a solid 17 points in the first half. For example actually I quite understand if some of you flatly refuse to play. But Auburn never stopped dragging, never stopped fighting, and when Jared Harper dropped the 3-pointer with the remaining 8: 19, the blue devils were ahead of only 61-56, in fact, which means that the actual coach K and all the others here in the civilian center of Lahaina, in the end, had a chance to see how freshmen Duke will respond to the real pressure of the game.

"I feel, in fact, that we coped with the data quite well," said Tre Jones, and the new player did not have the opportunity to be more faithful in their own assessment. Due to the fact the fact that through just 12 seconds later such as Harper cut the lead Duke to 5, Cam red, each team of freshman Jones, buried personal personal 3-pointer, to return the Baron to 64-56.

"And I thought, in fact, that it was the biggest shot in the game," said Krzyzewski. "They hit their own 3 to 5, after that he went down, and it wasn't caused or anything else, he was elementary ... boom. He brought us back to 8: 00. It's a huge performance. I thought, in fact, that it was a game in this game."

Taking into account, in fact, that Auburn never again did not return to the five-point this Irge, and taking into account, in fact that the Baron eventually won 78-72, in order to run to the title of this Irge Maui Jim Maui Invitational, shot Reddish, probably was a game.

Bruce pearl was definitely impressed.

When the red shot went down, coach Auburn arranged a small interval from this, in order to be obviously upset 3 civil servants, who called 24 fouls in their own team and only 13 on Duke. Pearl watched as the ball flows through the net, smiling and elementary shrugged, as you sometimes create, when nothing happens.

"We threatened them," said the Pearl, " but they were never afraid."

And this is the big takeaway from Tuesday. Baron played with an opponent, in fact returned 6 of the 8 goals from the team that demarcates h constant season title last season, a competitor, which in real time is number 8 in a survey by the associated Press, the competitor who received 10 3-pointers to start the rear, and for a second you felt like the blue devils will lose but the new star of Zion Williamson was like upset, actually what Krzyzewski had a chance to remember him in order to "smile and be happy."

"Now he was not himself," - said Krzyzewski.

And yet Duke still won just as well.

Practically no question.

Finally, now the blue devils 5-0 with an average margin of victory of 25.2 points-and some whispers about the likely invincible season. On this subject, I will not say that it is impossible, due to the fact that at the technical level it is impossible. But it's pretty unlikely-not least due to the fact that Duke still has 13 games of the constant season, in order to speak in front of teams that in real-time are rated in the top 25 in KenPom-starting Wednesday with Gonzaga, which occupies the third space in a sample survey AP-5 and 12 games will be the real road games. The blue devils must go to Virginia. The blue devils are bound to go to North Carolina.

The fastest way is to catch them somewhere.

It is likely a number of some where.

"Beat us," - which-as stated Krzyzewski, but no matter how unusual. "You can get hit [during a game] is excellent [in the ACC]."

I can't help but agree.

But actually what seems true - and including more honest subsequently this victory in 6 glasses, it seemed later than any of the previous blows of the Duke - that's actually what the blue devils just go down for anyone. Duke's freshmen were tested in the 1st one on Tuesday. They gave the answer sparkling.

They were in danger.

But they were never afraid.

"It's a special group," said the Pearl. "They're really not bad. And they understand that they are not bad."