Way off? He has 30+ recently and is averaging 17 on a team that has a ton of scorers. He has been injured all season and is still getting into shape and his injury was to his foot which is such a pivitol part of his game of driving and getting to the rim / line.
The tripping stuff is silly but I don't really care or see it as dirty. It is in the rule book as a violation, with a defined penalty, the same as a shooting foul, or lane violation, or traveling. It's a technical foul and you move along. If you do it again you get ejected. Players make decisions to violate the rules all the time in exchange for the established penalty and we don't define them as dirty. See the last 60 seconds of any close game. Dirty is Chris Paul punching people in the nuts all the time while at Wake Forest.
Allen's reaction last night was likely this:
K told him that to get your number retired at Duke you (in the modern era generally) need to win a national player of the year award (offensive or defensive) and win a natty (already done) or many ACCs (not done), and that it would be tough for GA to win a NPOY if he did that again. And in the spur of the moment he did it again and his realization of it and it's implications caused his emotional reaction.
K probably also told him his playing time would be diminished if it happened again not as a penalty but because it actively hurts the team with FTs and loss of possession. So that was hard for him as well.
GA will be his normal hard charging, get after it self for the ACC schedule.
The tripping stuff is silly but I don't really care or see it as dirty. It is in the rule book as a violation, with a defined penalty, the same as a shooting foul, or lane violation, or traveling. It's a technical foul and you move along. If you do it again you get ejected. Players make decisions to violate the rules all the time in exchange for the established penalty and we don't define them as dirty. See the last 60 seconds of any close game. Dirty is Chris Paul punching people in the nuts all the time while at Wake Forest.
Allen's reaction last night was likely this:
K told him that to get your number retired at Duke you (in the modern era generally) need to win a national player of the year award (offensive or defensive) and win a natty (already done) or many ACCs (not done), and that it would be tough for GA to win a NPOY if he did that again. And in the spur of the moment he did it again and his realization of it and it's implications caused his emotional reaction.
K probably also told him his playing time would be diminished if it happened again not as a penalty but because it actively hurts the team with FTs and loss of possession. So that was hard for him as well.
GA will be his normal hard charging, get after it self for the ACC schedule.