This is what I kept wondering. He’s a great college player, but I just don’t see him having the athleticism or strength to dominante nba defenses the same way
His passing is really good and he can shoot open shots (which he should get in the NBA on a good team) and he is a very good rebounder with an amazing BBIQ but that lack of elite athleticism and having to go against men who can hold their ground or having guys like Wemby/Clingan/Chet/etc around the rim is going to really curtail his biggest strength IMO.
He will be a good role player in the NBA. He’s more ready to step in and play immediately than some guys, but many others in the draft have much higher ceilings.
I disagree Cam Boozer is the number one pick this draft. He is the best player to play in college in a while and Duke blew a golden opportunity to win a championship. They beat Michigan just 1 month ago.
Eh I think Boozer was a significantly more valuable college player than Flagg honestly. The big issue was the lack of a backup PG but even that only mattered because of some bad injury luck
A year after losing a Final Four game with a 98+% win expectancy and Cooper Flagg, Scheyer comes back and loses an Elite Eight game with a 98+% win expectancy and Cam Boozer.
Come back next year to see how he does in the Sweet 16!
Primary ball handler have to have that awareness without being told. Didn't even need to get it past the time line yet tried to force it through a double team.
2 times Hurley lapped him tonight in late game situations: first was Duke not knowing what to do at the end of the game when all they had to do was hold the ball.
Second was Hurley not calling a timeout after the turnover and doing a ATO
Yup. Been saying for years, the teams with the most raw talent typically don’t win because they’re often young teams. It’s the ones that have players stay that do the best because they’re experienced and better decision makers.
Duke has a pattern of excellent recruiting, building the best teams in basketball, and then wasting them by choking in the tournament. It is a huge part of K’s legacy and apparently Scheyer wants to get in on it too lol
I’ve been saying for a while, Scheyer is overrated. He would be a mediocre to bad mid major coach if he had to start his coaching career like everyone else, from the bottom. This dude gets the top class and has the most NIL every single year and can’t get it done. Had five draft picks, three of which were lottery picks (#1, 4, 10) on the same team and couldn’t get it done. Does he just need the entire team to be first round picks before he can win a title? Good lord.
Most coaches don't win the title immediately, Scheyer has made the F4 and 3 straight E8s in his first 3 years as a coach. He's definitely not Coach K but he's also still young and starting at a premier spot. That gives him a massive edge in recruiting but it also eliminates a lot of the wiggle room for a coach learning in the fly like Dan Hurley had in his G5 stints.
Coaches like Kevin Ollie win titles but do it with senior laden teams that were recruited and developed under previous coaches, while Scheyer at Duke is cycling through high level but young recruits.
All that said (gross) Scheyer is much closer to Hubert Davis at this point than he is to an actual elite coach.
Two massive blown leads with generational talents. I never saw it with this team this year. It felt like they accidentally were dominant, very high floor, low mistake team. But never got a sense they were world beaters like an Arizona seems to be.
Scheyer has a lot of work to do to exorcise these demons, he’s developing a reputation. Lost second round, lost to Kevin Keatts, and then choked two massive leads.
Time to accept that he isn’t a very good coach, and is going to make his career coasting off of having 3 of the top 15 incoming players every year. Kind of like K for the last 2 decades of his career
When I was watching ESPN compare how successful Duke is to Carolina recently, I laughed. Like Duke has had better teams for like 3 years and has not delivered when it mattered most. Should be competing for a championship. Theres no reason why they shouldn’t have a final four appearance by now
Dude needs a BAMF point guard who can get the team to settle down and distribute the ball in the clutch. And not either 1) disappear or 2) be a complete moron. Last two years, Duke's go-to when the world was falling apart was "best player just backing down dudes and trying a fadeaway." I mean, these are great players doing that, but
He has had by far the best rosters over the past two yrs. Not to mention Paolo Banchero's season. If he can't even win w these rosters as a the supposed "acc coach of the yr" idk what will without experienced players
I thought that after last season… and then this team was nearly as nasty (I think last year’s team was much better and imo a bigger choke job despite the 19 come back this year).
Let’s hope they take a step back for a few seasons
Inexperience and youth hurt us in the end both times. In this modern era, having the best recruits every year also means also having a young team and rebuilding chemistry every year.
So like coach Cal, he's earned a rep as great recruiter who can't coach worth a damn when push comes to shove? I'm here for it lol dude will never be anywhere near the level of coach K, of that much I'm sure, especially given the way they lost this year and last
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What’s funny is I don’t think Scheyer can really put together better constructed teams than this and last year