Lucas: Growing Pains
Posted Mar 13, 2011
Sometime down the road Kendall Marshall will win a big game, as Raymond Felton and Ty Lawson did before him, and he'll reflect on the lessons he learned from the Blue Devils in a 75-58 loss that may not have been as close as the score indicated. It's still just as excruciating to go through, of course. We watch them struggle and wonder if they'll ever learn. They don't, not as fast as we want them to. But eventually, they do.
(Tar Heel Blue)
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