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Duke Basketball: Princeton offense could test patience of Blue Devil D

By Kevin Connelly

HONOLULU, HI - DECEMBER 25: Ryan Schwieger #15 of the Princeton Tigers is called for an offensive foul as he makes contact with Sheriff Drammeh #23 of the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors during the second half of the 5th place game of the Diamond Head Classic at the Stan Sheriff Center on December 25, 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Photo by Darryl Oumi/Getty Images)
HONOLULU, HI - DECEMBER 25: Ryan Schwieger #15 of the Princeton Tigers is called for an offensive foul as he makes contact with Sheriff Drammeh #23 of the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors during the second half of the 5th place game of the Diamond Head Classic at the Stan Sheriff Center on December 25, 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Photo by Darryl Oumi/Getty Images) /
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The Duke Basketball team will be back in action after the bye week due to final exams but a tricky offense awaits them in the Princeton offense.

The Princeton offense will make an appearance at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Tuesday night and it’s not about who is on the floor for the Tigers, but more about how the offense runs.

The famous style of offense is based on bleeding the clock, excellent passing, hard screens, back door cuts, and constantly moving on offense.

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The Tigers will come to Durham with three big time players led by Devin Cannady who averages 21.3 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.4 assists, and 1.1 steals per game.

Cannady is an excellent shooter as well, making 50.5% of his shots from the field, 50.0% from three point range, and 95.7% from the free throw line.

Jaelin Llewellyn is also a player to keep an eye on as he is averaging 19.5 points, 2.0 rebounds, and 6.0 assists, and he is also an excellent shooter as he is making 54.8% of his shots from the field and 45.5% from three point range.

Llewellyn is a freshman from Mississauga, Ontario, the same hometown as Duke freshman R.J. Barrett, yet Llewellyn has only made his debut two games ago for the Tigers.

The last player that averages double figures for Princeton is Myles Stephens who adds 13.3 points per game for the Tigers. Stephens is also Princeton’s leading rebounder, pulling down 5.3 rebounds per game and adding 1.3 assists, 0.9 steals, and 0.7 blocks per game.

The Princeton Tigers only average 73 points per game on the season and will be very methodical in running its offense on Tuesday night against the Blue Devils.

Duke has shown a number of times that they want to turnover the opposing team over and turn its defense into transition offense where the Blue Devils have been so lethal this season.

If the Blue Devils can stay patient on the defensive end and force the Princeton Tigers to turn the ball over, Princeton will be forced to rush into their offense to try and catchup to Duke which will just cause more turnover and poor shots for Princeton.

The Duke Blue Devils and the Princeton Tigers will take the floor on Tuesday night at 6:00 pm ET and the game can be seen on ESPN2.

Stay tuned to Ball Durham at our Twitter, @Ball_Durham, and here at our website, balldurham.com, for complete coverage of the Duke Blue Devils vs. the Princeton Tigers. 

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