Perspective: It took a man to beat these Duke kids. The man was Cassius Winston.
By Barry Svrluga Barry Svrluga Sports columnist with beat writing experience on baseball, golf, the NFL, college basketball and college football Email Bio Follow Sports columnist March 31 at 10:56 PM In the final seconds of the 108th game of Cassius Winston’s college basketball career, he had a wide-open lane to the basket, no Duke player between him and the rim, and he dribbled away, toward the sideline. He did this not because he was confused but because it was precisely the right thing to do.
Think about what Winston knows that neither Williamson nor Jones nor their fellow freshmen RJ Barrett and Cam Reddish — all presumed gone for the NBA, just puffs of smoke in college — will never understand about the college game’s demands, its nuances.
“He was a freshman at one point, man,” said Spartans freshman Aaron Henry, an infamous target of Izzo’s public prodding. “It’s easy for freshmen to get lost a little bit. Cassius, how much he was gotten on as a freshman, he just shows why, when Coach gets on me the same way he used to get on him, it’s like he sees something in me that I could be a player of his caliber.”
“There’s two paces,” Michigan State assistant coach Dane Fife said. “There’s Cassius’s pace, and then there’s Michigan State’s pace, and the two have formed this tumultuous marriage. . . . There were always bright spots, but for Cassius to put it all together the way he has, this is what’s supposed to happen when you come to a program like this. You’re supposed to trust the process.”
Duke, of course, could not make the right play at the right time. And in the end, it didn’t have that poise.
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