{"id":1407,"date":"2011-03-20T20:52:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T00:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2011-03-20T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T00:52:20","slug":"duke-goes-small-with-four-guards-to-hold-off-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"Duke goes small with four guards to hold off Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duke played most of the second half of its 73-71 win over Michigan with four guards on the floor with either forward Kyle Singler or Ryan Kelly in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>Al Featherston, veteran sports reporter writing for GoDuke.com, wrote an interesting piece about that angle. He wrote, &#8220;It\u2019s not something Duke has used before \u2013 or even could have used while freshman point guard Kyrie Irving was sidelined with a toe injury. However, with Irving\u2019s return this weekend, Mike Krzyzewski can not only put four guards together on the floor, but four guards that few opponents can match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four are Nolan Smith, Andre Dawkins, Seth Curry and Irving.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Krzyzewski said, \u201cWe have confidence in all of them. You can\u2019t have equal minutes [for four guards], but for Michigan, thank goodness we had them. [Michigan] did a really good job against us, but they would have done a better job if we were real big. They can slice you up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read Featherston&#8217;s piece, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goduke.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?&#038;ATCLID=205120354&#038;DB_OEM_ID=4200\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke played most of the second half of its 73-71 win over Michigan with four guards on the floor with either forward Kyle Singler or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}