Men's Basketball Preview 2022

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Editor: Jonathan Levitan Managing Editors: Micah Hurewitz, Sasha Richie Blog Editor: Andrew Long Assistant Blog Editors: Rachael Kaplan, Ana Young

In his first season as head coach, Jon Scheyer leads a new-look staff | PAGE 4

Big-man duo Dereck Lively II and Kyle Filipowski are the answer in the frontcourt | PAGE 7

Proctor’s path Tyrese Proctor brings international experience to the backcourt | PAGE 8

Photo Editor: Alyssa Ting

Freshman class How did Duke assemble the nation’s topranked recruiting class? | PAGE 10

Associate Editors: Em Adler, Leah Boyd, Franck Djidjeu, Molly Honecker, Alex Jackson, Suresh Kannoth, Campbell Lawson, Annaleise Linkenhoker, Sam Mickenberg, Robert Miron, Jake Piazza, Jonah Pilnick, Max Rego

Roach’s return In his third season, Jeremy Roach takes on a new role for the Blue Devils | PAGE 11

Scheyer begins After a year of waiting, Jon Scheyer takes on his most difficult task yet | PAGE 12

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Special thanks to: Editorin-Chief Milla Surjadi, Micah Hurewitz, Sasha Richie, Graphics Editor May Fu and Staff Photographer Samantha Owusu

On a young team, Duke’s graduate transfers take center stage | PAGE 13

Guessing game

What are the possible outcomes for Duke’s first season under Scheyer? | PAGE 15

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COACHING OVERHAUL

Inside the making of Duke’s new coaching staff

By Jake Piazza Sports Associate Editor

Mike Krzyzewski’s fingerprints will forever be all over the Duke men’s basketball program, but the reins are now in the hands of Jon Scheyer.

As he has been preparing his team for its Nov. 7 tipoff against Jacksonville, Chris Carrawell, Amile Jefferson and Jai Lucas have been alongside him doing the same thing. The quartet makes up Duke’s official coaching staff for the first year of post-Krzyzewski basketball.

“The staff chemistry has been great. Amile is new and has amazing energy. Jai is a great teacher, Chris is a great teacher as well,” Scheyer said.

“They’re just great complements to one another and each of them in their own ways make me better every single day.”

Scheyer had some work to do in order to assemble his current coaching staff. With his promotion and Nolan Smith’s departure, Duke had two vacant assistant-coach positions. He first went out and hired Mike Schrage as special assistant to the head coach. Schrage was most recently the head coach at Elon but was Duke’s director of basketball operations in the early 2000s. Schrage was a key hire for Scheyer, but both assistant-coach roles were still open.

His next move was promoting Jefferson to assistant coach. The former five-year letterman returned to Durham last season as director of player development and quickly made an impact working with the bigs on last year’s team.

Scheyer’s elevation of Jefferson made him the second former Blue Devil on his staff alongside associate head coach Chris Carrawell, a trend that Krzyzewski rigorously followed for many years.

Then Scheyer diverged from Krzyzewski’s

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Aside from associate head coach Chris Carrawell, Duke’s staff sports a new look. path—he went outside of The Brotherhood to fill his final spot.

At the end of April, Scheyer courted Jai Lucas away from head coach John Calipari at Kentucky and brought him on as an assistant coach. Lucas came to Durham with a well-established track record as a skilled recruiter—both former firstround NBA Draft choice TyTy Washington and projected 2023 lottery pick Cason Wallace were Lucas signees.

As odd as it may sound, the 44-year-old Carrawell is the elder statesman on this year’s coaching staff. He jokingly calls himself the “OG” now that Krzyzewski is gone, and between

Carrawell and the three other coaches, their average age is just 35.3 years old.

Carrawell believes that the span of years between the youngest member (Jefferson at 29 years old) and himself gives plenty of unique ways to look at the game. The coaches in their 30s have their own perspective and Carrawell has his.

“I think we kind of feed off each other,” Carrawell said.

One perk of the staff’s youth is that their playing days are not so far behind them.

Jefferson and Lucas still get into drills at practice, which can be a double-edged sword for the players.

“Sometimes they lose to [Jefferson],” Carrawell said with a chuckle.

Jefferson feels like he, as well as the three other coaches, are in a sweet spot in coaching.

Their younger age allows them to remember the coaching tips that helped them as a player, but they are old enough to where none have the ego or desire to still be a player.

Outside of the age angle, this year’s coaching staff has something that Krzyzewski’s hadn’t had for a while: fresh eyes. Lucas had no formal Duke connection, but he is familiar with the inner workings of a Blue Blood from his time with Calipari. In addition to that, he coached alongside Rick Barnes and Shaka Smart at Texas, all of which played into Scheyer’s decision to bring him on. The experience and new perspective was important to Scheyer in the hiring process, and he ultimately just felt Lucas was the right person for the role, regardless of if he was or wasn’t a former Blue Devil.

There’s not much of a hierarchy amongst Scheyer and his coaching staff. His name is of course preceded by “head coach,” but he wants all of his staff members to be comfortable speaking their mind.

None has a formal role with specific positions or players they have to work with either, but each has developed a specialty. Jefferson works heavily with the big men, something he got a shot at doing last season while Carrawell was on leave recovering from a knee surgery. The wings get tutelage from Carrawell, and Lucas has gravitated toward the guards, which lines up with his own position from his playing days.

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FRESHMAN FRONTCOURT

Lively, Filipowski take center stage for Blue Devils

By Rachael Kaplan Assistant Blue Zone Editor

In the 2022 NBA Draft, Duke fans patiently waited as five beloved members of the Blue Devils’ Final Four roster heard their names called out by league commissioner and Duke graduate Adam Silver.

But a chunk of the starting lineup departing for the NBA is a yearly occurrence in Durham.

New year, new team.

The hole left in the frontcourt by Paolo Banchero and Mark Williams is by no means small. Luckily for Duke, this next team has plenty of size to fill it.

Head coach Jon Scheyer’s first-ranked 2022 recruiting class features the top two big men in the country—Dereck Lively II and Kyle Filipowski. The first- and second-ranked centers, respectively, will both don Duke blue this season.

This year’s frontcourt has high expectations to live up to. This season will be the eighth since Duke’s last national title, and the Blue Devil faithful are itching for a championship after falling just short in April. The guy with the biggest shoes to fill, however, stands on the sidelines: Scheyer is replacing the winningest Division I basketball coach in history in Mike Krzyzewski, who ended his career with 1,202 victories. That shift in leadership, though monumental, has not fazed this year’s group.

“Everyone has a first time for something,” said Filipowski at the team’s media day Sept. 27.

‘Opportunity’

Lively’s bio might say that he is 7-foot-1, but the center appears to tower over any player he goes up against. Hailing from Philadelphia,

Lively grew up in a basketball family as his mother Katherine Drysdale was an 1,000-point scorer at Penn State and his grandfather played for Xavier. Even with the sport in his blood, Lively wasn’t its biggest fan at first.

“I didn’t really like it at first,’’ he told The Athletic in 2021. “I didn’t want to play it at all.’’

With time, he changed his tune, growing into a 6-foot-6 middle schooler and boarding at Westtown School, three hours from his home in Bellefonte, Pa., per his mother’s request.

The decision was a good one. Lively led Westtown, former Duke star Cam Reddish’s old stomping ground, to the 2022 Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association state championship. He averaged 14.0 points and 14.0 rebounds as a senior and earned himself McDonald’s All-American honors.

What is most impressive about Lively, however, is not his size or his skill: It is the circumstances under which he obtained them.

When Lively was seven years old, his father—and namesake—passed away. Just two years later, Drysdale was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a type of blood cancer that attacks the lymphatic system. After losing his father, nine-year-old Lively had to face the very real possibility that he might lose his mother, too.

“I was forced to grow up at a young age,” said Lively at Duke’s preseason media day. “So I just face life.”

His positive outlook and persistent mindset served him well throughout high school; when the time came for him to commit, Lively had his pick of the litter—and he chose Duke.

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Dereck Lively II (right) enters this season as the Preseason ACC Freshman of the Year. four years, and the coach you can play for?”

Drysdale told The Athletic. Ultimately, she and Lively decided that coach was Scheyer.

The freshman is now a key part of Scheyer’s inaugural team during a potential turning point for the program.

“I’m just someone who just likes to take care of opportunity.”

And opportunity is not something that Lively lacks.

‘High expectations’

Filipowski also has basketball in his genes.

His father, aunt and uncle all played college basketball. His mother, Rebecca Hagerdon Filipowski, was captain and MVP of her high school team that won the New York state championship in 1982, before she

advanced to the Elite Eight at Long Beach State. After suffering a career-ending knee injury, she turned to coaching, and the Filipowoski twins—Kyle and Matt—were the beneficiaries.

“My mom holds us to high expectations,” Kyle Filipowski told On3.com in March. “She has pushed us because she wants the best for us and sees the potential.”

The now-18-year-old arrived at Wilbraham and Monson Academy in a slightly unique situation—he was a repeat sophomore.

Filipowski had started school early as a small child and was a grade ahead of his age.

By repeating his sophomore year, thereby reclassifying from the class of 2021 to 2022, he moved back to his appropriate grade.

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PROCTOR’S PATH

After leaving his mark in Australia...

By Micah Hurewitz Sports Managing Editor

As one of the best players in the country and someone who competed with his national team, preparedness should hardly be a question for Tyrese Proctor. He has more experience than could be asked of an 18-year-old.

In his journey from Australia to Durham, he traveled just about as far as possible on our planet, and he is doing it to continue showing his mettle.

Proctor is just the second Australian player to wear a Duke uniform, and despite the wealth of talent Down Under, his commitment to this Duke team was hardly a certainty. Playing among the nation’s best with Canberra’s NBA Global Academy, he starred on nearly every one of his teams by showcasing his developing shooting touch and smooth handles.

Unlike plenty of his compatriots and teammates through the years, he chose to play in the ACC and for a first-year head coach instead of staying in Australia and testing its NBL, or even the rapidly growing NBA G League pipeline.

Duke was already in a state of transition when Proctor announced in April that he would be joining the class of 2023, shoring up a strong second season in the post-Krzyzewski era of Duke basketball. In the two months following Proctor’s announcement, four Blue Devils announced their own moves to the NBA while shooting guard Trevor Keels mulled over his own future.

Less than 24 hours had passed between when Keels’ decision was made and when Proctor had his own bit of news to deliver. “[Head coach Jon Scheyer and I] spoke before, a couple of weeks before Trevor announced he was declaring [for the draft], so the idea was there,” Proctor said at the team’s Sept. 27 media

day. “And then it was just sort of in the hands of me and my family, and we just felt like it was the best decision to come this year.”

A striking turn for the Blue Devils, Proctor’s reclassification is looking like it will have a major impact on this season.

He was already a dominant combo guard Scheyer was thrilled to have on board, but his momentous big-stage performance in the months to follow elevated his prospects from a somewhat uncertain reclass project to perhaps the most exciting newcomer for the preseason No. 7 team.

A land Down Under

Proctor was recruited to the Boomers squad for its FIBA World Cup Qualification over the summer, though he was not there for playing time alongside longtime Australian centerpieces Mitch McCarron and Matthew Dellavedova. The veteran team—ranked third globally—had little room for the just-turned-18-year-old Proctor on the court, but he was more than ready to learn all he could since he had announced he would be heading to Durham for the 2022-23 season.

Proctor only saw the floor for 2:40 in a July 3 game against China during which he grabed a rebound and blocked a shot in garbage time.

Mike Kelly, the Boomers coach during those qualifiers in Melbourne, said that Proctor, by that point a bonafide five-star recruit, was able to hold his own despite his youth and size.

“He wanted to play against men,” Kelly told The Chronicle.

Proctor’s teammates often went after him—a slender 175-pound guard—but he did not let physicality get in the way of his successes while representing his country. He was crafty with how he used his body, quickness and length. He was

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Before arriving at Duke, Proctor competed at the FIBA Asia Cup in July and August. by no means outmatched as he was also selected to the roster for the Asia Cup, set to take place in Indonesia following the qualifiers. With the physical, pesky backcourt leader in Dellavedova— in addition to former Duke forward Jack White—unavailable while resting ahead of the NBA season, Proctor was set to take on a larger responsibility while being the youngest member of the team.

Kelly spent extended time with Proctor through practices and film sessions, remarking about how he was not ordinary in his approach to learning the game.

“When young players come in, I think that they always show a willingness to work,” Kelly said. “But he seemed like he wanted to do all the extras and he did it at a level that was impactful

… He showed that he could play at that level and compete at that level.”

A quick look at some of Proctor’s highlights from the tournament show he indeed held his own and crafted an enlarged role for himself off the bench as he continued to play alongside several experienced pros, some of them former NBA role players like the star of his Asia Cup team Thon Maker. Proctor averaged 21.5 minutes while scoring 10.5 points on 40.7% shooting from deep.

Victories against Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Japan and New Zealand pitted the Boomers against Lebanon in the Cup final.

Up 72-70 and staving off a ferocious comeback from the Lebanon squad, Proctor took to the freethrow line with 8.7 seconds and calmly sank both for Australia before Lebanon was forced into a

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...Proctor arrives ready at Duke three-quarters-court shot as time wound down.

His squad won the premier Asian international basketball competition and a kid in the midst of just preparing to make the leap to the brightest stage in college basketball was on the floor when the buzzer sounded.

Talk about making an impression and capitalizing on an opportunity.

In spite of playing with 11 other players, eight of whom are on NBL rosters, two pros in Japan and Israel, and another, Alex Ducas, playing his senior year at St. Mary’s, Proctor thinks that now is the time to pack up shop and take it on the road—to Durham.

“I proved as much as I could in Australia,” he said, eager to take the floor with the Blue Devils.

After tearing through national competitions, then being named to the Nike Hoop Summit and the Australian national team, he had certainly left his mark. He was just that good.

“Seeing him play against pretty high-level guys, I think basketball-wise, he’s ready,” Kelly said after mere weeks of watching Proctor compete.

He knew he was ready for the leap in June. His performance in Jakarta proved to the world he was right.

‘Home away from home’

Proctor’s father Roderick was a college basketball player at Mississippi College in Clinton, Miss., before playing pro in Australia. He is now on the coaching staff with the developmental league in Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney.

His mother is the principal of a Sydney-area public school.

Family in America offers Proctor support and a sense of familiarity with the way of life nearly 10,000 miles from his home in New South Wales.

“I think that’s helped me a lot and then just knowing people if stuff gets hard, I can always go and see them,” Proctor said. “It’s not too far away.”

Experience with the NBA Global Academy, which provided Proctor and his teammates opportunities to travel to top-tier events for high school prospects in the U.S. combined with American influence from his father and his family give him unique perspectives among his peers. That allowed him to engage in some interesting meal-time conversations with Kelly and teammates who had stuck closer to their homes in Australia while abroad in July.

“He sees the world differently than just a young Australian or just a young guy who’s grown up in America,” Kelly said. “He showed that in some of our conversations, talking about the world’s issues and COVID and all the stuff that was going on in America at the time … He didn’t seem like a normal 18- or 19-year-old kid.”

As Proctor developed and inched toward his commitment amid a high-profile recruiting tour, he also made sure to follow college hoops in spite of the 16-hour time difference. A typical evening Blue Devil game that students attend following a day of classes would be on at 11 a.m.

“There’s a couple of weekends that you get to wake up a little bit earlier or sort of late afternoon.

Just get to sneak it in,” Proctor said.

Following his announcement that he would be in Durham and the polishing off of the 202223 roster with the final transfers, he joined a team meeting via FaceTime. But the Blue Devils— whom he was mostly unfamiliar with by the time he stepped foot on campus for the first time officially as a Blue Devil—were not the only peers abroad he was in contact with. In yet another example of the tight network that has defined

Australian basketball, Proctor has remained wellconnected with young NBA players Dyson Daniels and Josh Giddey—his teammates and friends from the Academy—and looks forward to speaking more with veteran guard Patty Mills.

“We talk to each other pretty much every day,” Proctor said of Daniels.

Daniels, a 6-foot-6 wing, was selected eighth overall in the 2022 NBA Draft by New Orleans.

Giddey is entering his second year with Oklahoma City after being selected sixth overall in 2021.

Daniels and Giddey, unlike Proctor, developed as pros: Daniels in the G League and Giddey in the NBL. Showcasing the myriad routes to the NBA, Proctor’s Aussie counterparts make his emergence and commitment to Duke all the more intriguing.

“These guys are so willing to help each other and it’s a special group of players out here—the people, the Australian guys—so I think that support is good because it just shows the young guys a way, and shows the young guys that they can have success at a very high level,” Kelly said.

But regarding the redirecting of the Australiato-NBA pipeline via professional leagues like the NBL or G League, Kelly, an assistant coach with the Perth Wildcats in domestic competition, feels some players want to take the next step by dropping class from their schedules entirely.

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INCOMING CLASS

How Duke’s talented freshman class came to be

By Andrew Long Blue Zone Editor

Those familiar with Ancient Greek mythology likely know the tale of Atlas—beyond the edges of the observable world stands a titan eternally tasked to hold the globe steady on his broad shoulders.

In a similar way, college basketball’s five blue blood programs—Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA, North Carolina and Duke—are Atlas, and the yearly pressure and attention piled upon them because of their past successes are his proverbial globe.

In recent years, that weight has increasingly fallen on freshman shoulders.

One-and-done players have dominated college hoops for more than a decade now, ever since an Anthony Davis-led Kentucky blasted itself to a runaway national title triumph in 2012. The Jayhawks, Tar Heels and Bruins have followed suit to a smaller extent, but the Blue Devils have eagerly and wholly adopted the philosophy, employing it to a monumental effect.

NBA first-round selections Kyrie Irving, Jabari Parker, Jayson Tatum, Marvin Bagley III, Zion Williamson and Paolo Banchero jog recent memory, but for a program with perennial aspirations of winning the Big Dance, Duke sure has relied a whole lot on fresh faces to do so.

Much of that has to do with four-year starter, nine-year assistant and current head coach Jon Scheyer. The 35-year-old is the youngest Power Five head coach and ushers in yet another topranked recruiting class for his first year at the post, and his fifth since he joined the staff in 2013. In fact, the Blue Devils have yet to sit outside the top three in recruiting since his appointment.

That begs the question: why? And for this year’s

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Mark Mitchell is part of Duke’s top-ranked freshman class. top-ranked class, what inspired their commitment featured in ESPN’s top 30 and three (Lively, to be a part of Scheyer’s historic season of firsts?

Whitehead and Mitchell) performed in the 2022 McDonald’s All-American Game. In that game, ‘This is his time’ Mitchell led both teams in scoring while Whitehead As a four-year player with the Blue Devils and earned the game’s MVP award. Four-star guard trusted confidant of former head coach Mike Jaden Schutt—a well-known sharpshooter—and Krzyzewski, Scheyer has long been known for three-star center Christian Reeves complete the his tactful communication skills on and off the class. Five-star 2023 guard Tyrese Proctor then hardwood. As a point guard, this helped spearhead reclassified for 2022 in June, adding a seventh Duke’s 2010 run for its fourth national title, and as player to the already stacked group. a coach, it has allowed him to bring star upon star Throughout the recruiting process, Scheyer to Cameron Indoor Stadium’s hallowed halls. struck early and often to nab the guys he wanted.

That is certainly the case with this year’s class.

He helped bring Lively, Whitehead and Mitchell to Originally, Scheyer’s 2022-23 crop featured six 2021’s Countdown to Craziness, where they stood players. Four of those—Dereck Lively II, Dariq in the student section and got their first glimpse of Whitehead, Kyle Filipowski and Mark Mitchell— Duke’s legendary home crowd.

On a more micro level, Scheyer made an effort to connect with his potential pupils beyond just basketball, even when he didn’t know that the head coach job was going to soon be his.

“He felt really comfortable with Jon [Scheyer] very early on,” Filipowski’s high school coach, Michael Mannix, told The Chronicle. “I think Kyle also appreciated that Jon was watching him a little bit from afar before they got to know each other over the phone.”

“When I ended up sending some film to Jon and he checked it out, a couple months after that, he was on the phone with the family,” Mannix added. “I think that gave him a lot of confidence that they really understood and had a really good feel for who Kyle was as a player.”

It’s a sentiment echoed loud and clear by the whole class, not just Filipowski.

“During recruitment, it was really just a relationship I started to build with coach Scheyer,” Lively said at the team’s preseason media day.

“Being able to know I could put my trust into someone that is really betting on me, I’m just looking for the same benefit from him.”

“He really does mean everything he says and he’s gonna tell you the truth, anything, if it’s good or bad,” Whitehead added.

Evidently, hands-on, honest and clear feedback are staple pieces of Scheyer’s coaching philosophy and those of his assistants. Practice is divided into three distinct pieces with three individual coaches: Amile Jefferson works with the bigs, Jai Lucas with the guards and Chris Carrawell with the wings.

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CAPTAIN ROACH

‘This is my team’: Jeremy Roach finds his voice for year 3

By Sasha Richie Sports Managing Editor

In the past decade or so, college basketball has undergone a seismic shift. As NBA-bound freshmen—the proverbial “one-and-dones”— increasingly bear the burden of teams’ success, the days of four-year forces like Christian Laettner and Tim Duncan sink farther below the horizon.

Still, at Duke, the role of the veteran playmaker is a coveted one. Most recently, Wendell Moore Jr. took up the mantle, following in the footsteps of Nolan Smith, Quinn Cook, Grayson Allen and others.

This year, it is junior point guard Jeremy Roach’s turn to carry that torch. However, unlike those who have come before him, Roach is facing a journey through the complete unknown.

Since the end of last season, former head coach Mike Krzyzewski retired, Smith, an assistant coach, left for Louisville, three veterans transferred out and five of the team’s top six players were drafted into the NBA. This sort of change in the program hasn’t been seen in four decades, and Roach is the thread connecting a bygone era of Duke to a dawning one.

It’s a heavy weight to shoulder, and it’s still unclear how it will all shake out; for the Blue Devils, there are really no expectations. But for Roach, there is a clear expectation: Be the undisputed leader of a Blue Blood team.

“We expect a lot of things from him this year,” sophomore guard Jaylen Blakes, the only other returner who saw the court last season, said at the team’s media day in September. “Because he’s a great player, great person, a great leader.”

At the same event, cameras and microphones shoved in his face, Roach wore a bashful smile,

unwavering in his confidence, even at the young age of 20—now 21. Through all the uncertainty around the program, there is one thing everyone, including Roach, seems to agree on—there is no one better suited to meet these expectations.

“I’ve been here for two years. I’ve been through the rough times, I’ve been through the good times, so I know the ins and outs of the Duke program.

I’m ready for this,” he said.

“This is my team, for sure.”

‘The entire summer’

On Oct. 7, Duke announced that Roach would be the sole captain of the team, making him just the seventh solo captain since 1980, when Krzyzewski took over the program. The Leesburg, Va., native joins the likes of Tommy Amaker, Trajan Langdon and Allen in taking on such a role, and by all accounts has hit the ground running.

“He’s very much embraced it,” graduate transfer Kale Catchings said.

For Roach, that has meant preparing to lead the team since its elimination from the 2022 NCAA tournament. Though those paying attention knew of Roach’s on-court prowess much earlier, he rose to national prominence during Duke’s latest run to the Final Four, during which he averaged 11.8 points and 3.0 assists per game en route to a spot on the NCAA West Region All-Tournament Team. However, unlike his fellow star Blue Devils, Roach elected to stay in Durham another year instead of entering the NBA Draft, and as early as May, Scheyer hinted at him being next in line for the captaincy.

“I already kind of knew I had a big leadership role coming in early in the summer, but being named captain—it’s an honor. It’s an unreal

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Roach, a key player for Duke during its Final Four run, returns as the lone team captain. moment. You grow up watching Duke play, and to be in this position of being captain, it’s an amazing feeling,” Roach said at ACC Tipoff in October.

Roach said former Blue Devils texted him to congratulate him, but the most in-depth conversation was a pep talk with Cook at K Academy about what it means to be the guy at the top. This year, arguably the most important part of Roach’s job description, not only as captain but as the only returning starter, is working with Duke’s freshmen so they gel on and off the court.

According to the freshmen themselves, he has done that. Every one of them commented on his leadership at some point during media day, and his effort with them started long before he officially received his title.

“He’s been great the entire summer, from the

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first day all the way to now,” five-star freshman forward Dariq Whitehead said at media day. “Just seeing how he came in here and took a bunch of young guys and he’s leading us. The way he is, I feel like he’s gonna definitely turn a lot of heads this year.”

“Jeremy has been great. Since day one I got here he’s helped me on and off the court, just giving me little pointers here and there on stuff that I can do,” said Tyrese Proctor, the freshman phenom from Australia who will likely start alongside Roach in the backcourt. “In practice, just telling me what he sees, what other people might see, and just helping me out on the call, whether it’s defense, offense, whatever it is. He’s just always talking in my ear.”

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NEW COACH Scheyer takes on latest challenge in first season as head coach

By Jonathan Levitan Sports Editor

Mike Krzyzewski sat in front of a small crowd gathered on the court bearing his name, one day after news of his plans to coach one last season at Duke rocked the college basketball world. Far beyond the walls of Cameron Indoor Stadium, all eyes fixed firmly upon the winningest head coach in the history of the sport.

That day, and the season that followed it, revolved around Krzyzewski’s goodbye to the game. But when the buzzer sounded in New Orleans and Krzyzewski’s final chapter officially drew to a close, those eyes slowly turned toward the man waiting at his side to take his place.

Now, as Jon Scheyer makes his final preparations for the first season of the rest of his life, his turn has come.

“You can look at the 2010 national championship,” Krzyzewski said of Scheyer June 3, 2021, one day after Scheyer was named Duke’s next head coach. “I believed in him and Nolan [Smith] running our team. Any of the guys who work for me, they were my former captains. They all had great résumés, and I tell all of them when they come on, ‘I only want you here if you want to be a head coach.’”

At 33, Scheyer was the same age on the day that athletic director Nina King’s name popped up on his phone as Krzyzewski was when he became head coach in 1980. Unlike his predecessor, though, Scheyer’s path to where he now stands—as the 20th head coach in program history and first new hire in nearly half a century—has run through Duke all along.

“It was the best phone call I’ve ever received in my life. … You immediately go back to the first time you pick up a ball, to the first time I was recruited to play here, to all the moments with those guys back there,” Scheyer said at his introductory press conference in June 2021.

“The ups and the downs, the blood, sweat and tears, and then it comes to that moment. I’ll never forget that in my life.”

In Durham, Scheyer has proven himself to be a champion and competitor at every junction. His next task, as he put it at his introduction, is nothing short of “the hardest job in the history of sports.”

There is plenty of belief in Scheyer to conquer that task. Take a walk back along his path—from the first time he picked up a ball to today—and the reason for that belief is clear.

‘Always ready’

With time ticking down in Glenbrook North High School’s Chicago-suburb showdown at Proviso West, head coach David Weber sat down on the bench and handed his clipboard to a team manager, his Spartans trailing 71-58. Even for the unlikely reigning Illinois state champions, the thought of mounting a comeback was a preposterous one.

No one, evidently, told this to Scheyer.

“All of a sudden, Jon is stealing the ball and shooting threes, hitting threes, getting fouled, getting four-point plays, stealing the inbound,” Weber recalled, chuckling, in an

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Jon Scheyer is set to begin his first season as head coach more than a year after his appointment in June 2021. interview with The Chronicle. “And I was like, we’re right back in this game.”

What happened over the course of the next 75 seconds of basketball became instant legend, both in Northbrook, Ill., and beyond.

Scheyer, already a Duke commit in his senior season, hit five 3-pointers and six free throws between 1:24 and fouling out with nine seconds to play.

As a dejected Scheyer walked off the court, his 52-point effort not enough for the Spartans, the crowd rose to its feet, giving the rising star a standing ovation.

“Coach K said this and it hits me: Jon is always ready,” Weber said. “Jon is always ready for a big moment, he’s always ready for that.

And he was in high school. The bigger the game, the better he played, and I think he’ll be that way as a coach now. I do.”

Scheyer’s biggest moment at Glenbrook North came one year earlier, as he lifted a team with no other Division I talent to the 2005 Class AA state championship, nearly breaking the state tournament scoring record along the way.

Before scoring 27 points in the title game against Carbondale, Scheyer burst for 48 points in a super-sectional win over Waukegan. Only then did Weber know that he was dealing with a team that could go the distance.

“Everybody said we couldn’t win a state championship because we weren’t that athletic, we weren’t that talented,” Weber said.

“But he was the heart and soul of that team.

He was the leader of that team.”

For Weber, his star provided a constant challenge: Even in high school, Scheyer would find a way to have his games filmed so that he could review. Weber had to watch that same film, too, knowing that Scheyer was going to

arrive at practice the next day and “tell me things we did wrong and things we need to work out.”

That attention to detail served Scheyer well, helping him to become a champion and bring a championship to his hometown.

“Nowadays you don’t have what we had back then,” Weber said. “He wanted to win a state championship for the community that he grew up in. … And he did.”

After reaching the top of Illinois basketball as a junior, Scheyer committed to Duke, where fellow Glenbrook North graduate Chris Collins was assistant coach, over Illinois, where Weber’s brother, Bruce, was head coach.

When he left Northbrook for Durham after his senior year, Scheyer was a two-time Gatorade Player of the Year in Illinois, a McDonald’s All-American and the fourthhighest scorer in state history. Before he ever suited up as a Blue Devil, he had already begun to preview what was to come.

‘A lifetime decision’

Scheyer got off to a fast start at Duke.

The Blue Devils had a down year, finishing 8-8 in the ACC and bowing out of the NCAA tournament in the first round, but Scheyer made an instant impact, entering the starting lineup and earning ACC AllFreshman Team honors.

By season’s end, he was starring in Duke University Improv’s two-minute featurette, “Jon Scheyer in 75 Seconds.” On his mission to get to class on time, Scheyer hops out of bed, commandeers a bike, stops at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life and saves a baby, all in the time it once took him to score 21 points.

The message, while hilarious, is clear: Scheyer was Duke’s do-it-all point guard,

progressing from his high-scoring high school self to the Blue Devils’ floor general. He took on a bench role in his sophomore season before sealing Duke’s ACC tournament title with a late 3-pointer as a junior. Still, heading into his senior year, the Blue Devils had fallen short of the Elite Eight five years running.

Scheyer, though, was ready to do what he had done in Northbrook. The Blue Devils, led by co-captains Scheyer and Lance Thomas and senior Brian Zoubek, finally broke through in March—and April.

“For the seniors it was do or die,” Andre Dawkins, a freshman on Duke’s 2009-10 national championship team, told The Chronicle. “For that whole group, together, just having been through the devastation of losing in the tournament, losing as a higher seed, I just think they were able to really have a sense of urgency then that was passed down really through all of us.”

With 23 points in the Final Four against West Virginia and 15 more in the national championship game against Butler, Scheyer and No. 1-seed Duke held on to once again become champions as Gordon Hayward’s half-court prayer rattled off the rim.

Three months later, a graduated and undrafted Scheyer, now playing for the Miami Heat’s summer league squad, took a poke in the eye from Joe Ingles. The permanent damage to his right eye halted his NBA dreams, leading him to Israel, Spain, and back to Duke as a special assistant in April 2013.

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‘Building a new culture’: New group of graduate transfers enters amid transition

By Max Rego Sports Associate Editor

For Duke, what’s old is new.

It started with Patrick Tapé in 2020-21, the first graduate transfer of the Mike Krzyzewski era. Now, with new head coach Jon Scheyer at the helm, four graduate transfers—guard Max Johns (Princeton), wings Jacob Grandison (Illinois) and Kale Catchings (Harvard) and center Ryan Young (Northwestern)—have entered the fold.

During the program’s preseason media day Sept. 27, Scheyer was noncommittal about adding graduate transfers down the road, saying “We don’t plan on that being the main way for us to continue to put our roster together.” But the 35-year-old, acknowledging the effect that Theo John and Bates Jones had on the floor a season ago, also noted “We feel Ryan Young and Jacob Grandison will have that same impact on the court for us,” in the upcoming campaign.

Each has taken a unique path to this point, but their goals are the same. To provide depth, college experience and a steady head as Duke, with seven freshmen in the fold, embarks on this new era under Scheyer.

But how, exactly, did they each get here?

‘Changed almost year to year’

For the first time in nearly five years, Northwestern knocked off a top-10 team on the road. In the raucous Breslin Center Jan. 15, the Wildcats outlasted then-No. 10 Michigan State 64-62.

A massive reason for that was Young.

With regular starting center Pete Nance—now set to replace Brady Manek as North Carolina’s starting power forward—out with an ankle injury, Young made his first start of the season that night in East Lansing, Mich. But the then-redshirt junior, thanks to having “accepted being a starter who doesn’t start,” according to Northwestern assistant coach Brian James, was prepared.

In 27 minutes, Young notched 18 points, eight rebounds, two steals, two assists and went 6-of-8 from the charity stripe. After multiple and-ones, the New Jersey native let out a mighty yell, his intensity evident.

“We played tough for 40 minutes, we outrebounded them, we got to the free-throw line more than they did, and yet the best player on the floor was Ryan,” James said.

To get to that point, though, Young took a winding journey. A native of Stewartsville, N.J., an unincorporated community just more than an hour west of New York, Young was a standout at Bethlehem Catholic High School (thirty minutes away from Stewartsville in eastern Pennsylvania) averaging 16.3 points and 12.3 rebounds his senior year as the 2017-18 Golden Hawks reached the state semifinals.

Once Young arrived in Evanston, Ill., to play for former Duke point guard and assistant coach Chris Collins, he got acclimated thanks to a pair of mentors.

“I had two really successful bigs ahead of me, it was a senior, Dererk Pardon and a junior, Barret Benson, when I was a freshman,” Young said of that redshirt season during team media day. “And I came into college, I was not ready to play, I was undersized, I didn’t have the right touch, and I really appreciate [what] those two guys did for me, at such a young age.”

As a redshirt freshman in 2019-20, Young started all 31 games at center and averaged nine points and 6.1 rebounds per contest.

But starting in 2020-21, Collins elected for a small ball starting five, sliding Nance over to center and relegating Young to the bench for all but five games. His minutes (25.7 to 18.9), points (9.0 to 7.8) and rebounds (6.1 to 4.8) all dropped as his Northwestern career transitioned from the developmental stage to the hectic stage.

“It’s changed almost year-to-year for me,” Young said of his role after the Michigan State win.

Despite the performance against Michigan State, Young was once again the backup center three days later against Wisconsin. He ended the year averaging 9.0 points and 4.2 rebounds in just more than 17 minutes per game, and once the season ended, he wanted to spend his remaining two years of eligibility elsewhere.

“I really did love my experience at Northwestern,” Young said at Duke’s media day. “I love the coaching staff and my teammates there, and I love the school. But through four years, we just really didn’t hit the goals that we wanted to in terms of winning and losing.”

After the season ended, Young connected with Scheyer and assistant coach Amile Jefferson, noticing the former’s “passion for coaching and his will to win.” His commitment was secured.

In the same vein that Pardon and Benson helped him as a freshman, Young will be a source of guidance for the younger Blue Devil bigs—Dereck Lively II, Kyle Filipowski and Christian Reeves.

It’s a role that Young is ready for.

“Change is sometimes daunting and scary,” Young said. “But in this instance, and most of the way that I just approach my daily life and life in general, is that change is exciting and good and you can learn about new experiences.”

‘Finding the niche’

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Jacob Grandison is one of four graduate transfers on this season’s Duke roster. how to make others better. He plays at a great pace, he’s not about himself, he’s not about his statistics.”

Then, there is his ability to shoot the rock. In his final year with the Fighting Illini, Grandison shot 41.1% from downtown on 134 attempts, including 54.8% on 42 corner attempts, according to CBB Analytics. Is he Ray Allen? No, but the 24-year-old will be in the running for best shooter in the rotation, alongside freshman Tyrese Proctor and Filipowski.

In Grandison’s eyes, though, he is more than just a shooter.

“Honestly, I’m a good shooter,” Grandison said.

“But that’s kind of a product of what I was doing at Illinois. … So I think I’m pretty good at finding the niche, finding what I need to do to make a team successful and it doesn’t.”

As a defender, Grandison views his versatility as a strength, saying that “I understand how to guard a smaller person, someone my size or someone bigger.”

On his journey to Durham, Grandison has been well-traveled. An Oakland native who played for Team Lillard in AAU, Grandison graduated from high school in the final year of the Obama administration. He then took a post-grad year at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, winning MVP of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council Class A championship after a 20-point display.

Then came Holy Cross, then Illinois—where he received an undergraduate degree in earth, society and environmental sustainability and a graduate degree in business management from the GIES School of Business—with a stint on the Finnish national team (his mother, Carina, is Finnish, and Grandison holds dual citizenship) in an Olympic prep tournament two summers ago sprinkled in.

Now, he is at Duke, a program that is “all about winning” in his eyes. Grandison spent the summer rehabbing a shoulder injury he suffered late last season, but now, he is ready to roll alongside the young guns.

“One of the most relieving things is how much chemistry we actually all have, and I’ve seen so-so chemistry, I’ve seen great chemistry, I’ve seen it all,” Grandison said at ACC Tipoff.

Rewind to the 2021 NCAA tournament.

Heading into the Big Dance, Illinois was 23-6 (including an 83-68 win against Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium) and received a No. 1 seed for the first time since 2005.

Much of the buzz for that Illinois group centered around dynamic point guard Ayo Dosunmu and bruising center Kofi Cockburn. But every championship contender needs a supporting cast, and by the end of the year, Grandison, who started his college career at Holy Cross before transferring to Illinois prior to the 2019-20 season, was playing a key role.

Upon entering the starting lineup Jan. 19 against Penn State, Grandison averaged six points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists while shooting 66.7% from two and 38.5% from three. You might not think six points per game is an overwhelming stat, and in a vacuum, you might be right.

But basketball is more than just takeover scoring. Grandison moves extremely well without the ball, can run the floor and is an active perimeter defender. With the Oakland, Calif., native in the starting lineup, Illinois went 14-2 through its run to the conference tournament title.

That cannot be fully credited to the 6-foot-6 guard, but Scheyer feels that highlights Grandison’s greatest strength.

‘Not afraid of the moment’ “His best quality is he’s a winner,” Scheyer said.

During a Christmas break practice in the midst “He knows how to play the game, and he knows of the 2017-18 season, the Liberty High School

Eagles were struggling. But it was not head coach William “Chip” Sodemann who got things steered in the right direction.

It was Kale Catchings.

“Kale actually kind of stopped the play himself,” Sodemann told The Chronicle. “And he took over and he very passionately told his teammates that what they were doing just wasn’t going to make us any better, and that they needed to step up their intensity and their physicality in order for us to become a better team.

“And he was absolutely right,” Sodemann said.

Catchings transferred to Liberty High in the St. Louis area after three years at nearby Christian Brothers College High, making the transition from private to public school. Upon his arrival at Liberty High for summer workouts, Catchings’ competitive nature and his “great smile,” in Sodemann’s words, stood out.

“There are guys that are sometimes competitive.

And then there are guys that are on the next level, and Kale was an elite competitor. He was not afraid of the moment,” Sodemann said.

Catchings committed to Harvard and head coach Tommy Amaker—another former Duke point guard and assistant—early in the school year, a move that he was excited about, according to Sodemann.

In three seasons at Harvard (the Ivy League canceled all sports during the 2020-21 school year), Catchings averaged 6.5 points and three boards per contest, while shooting better than 47% from the field and 35% from distance. Last year, he set career highs in nearly every major statistical category, and graduated with a degree in economics.

Catchings said his skillset is “very conducive to position-less basketball,” and said he enjoys watching glue guys like Draymond Green and PJ Tucker.

“I think I just could be a spark plug and bring whatever the team is lacking and kind of bring that feistiness,” Catchings said at media day.

Plus, Catchings’ aunt is Tamika Catchings, was a seven-time All-WNBA first teamer, the 2011 WNBA MVP and 2012 WNBA Finals MVP for the title-winning Indiana Fever. Tamika Catchings also overlapped at Tennessee with Duke women’s basketball head coach Kara Lawson.

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Setting expectations for Scheyer’s start

As Duke embarks on its 2022-23 season, head coach Jon Scheyer embarks on what he surely hopes is the start of a long and prosperous journey himself. Duke has a new head coach for the first team in 42 years, and it’s no secret that setting the tone early in your career is crucial to success in the future. For Scheyer, or any coach that banks on top recruits year in and year out, it is essential to avoid playing catchup in the first few seasons. Presenting as a strong leader and Alex Jackson making a seamless transition would be formative for setting the tone of Scheyer’s career. But what exactly can the world expect of this year’s team?

From my point of view, there are three paths for the Blue Devils this year: “Seamlessness and glory,” “stumbling to success” or “a rocky road.”

However, with significant roster turnover, it is hard to say exactly how this season will play out.

Aside from losing its Hall of Fame coach, Duke also loses 10 rostered players from April’s Final Four squad. This includes all five of the team’s double-digit scorers. Of course, Scheyer is also bringing in the nation’s top recruiting class and a handful of transfers.

There are a lot of moving pieces, and this season’s outcome is less defined than ever before.

Seamlessness and glory

Repeating Final Four runs is extremely difficult, especially when navigating a head coaching change and fielding, essentially, a whole new team this year. But if there is one man who could do it, it is Scheyer. The new commander of the Blue Devils has had his fair share of

The Tar Heels lost nearly every high-powered matchup to start the year and narratives even swirled that Davis might not be “the guy” when his team fell out of the AP Poll.

But this was all before the Tar Heels rebounded in the most spectacular way. To close out the regular season, they won five straight including at Duke, a team that had blown them out by 20 just a few weeks earlier.

Although North Carolina would exit early from the ACC tournament, falling to eventual champion Virginia Tech, it would carry its prior momentum into the NCAA tournament. March Madness was nothing short of spectacular for a North Carolina team that seemed lost in January.

It would take down No. 1-seed Baylor, No. 3-seed UCLA and No. 2-seed Duke before falling to No. 1-seed Kansas in the championship game.

The Blue Devils may have a similar experience this season. Scheyer will bring that same homegrown grit to this Duke team that Davis brought to the Tar Heels when everyone was counting them out last year. But that is not before Duke hits a seemingly inevitable rough patch.

Transitioning head coaches can be rough no matter how talented the newcomer. Each team is bound to go through some growing pains as the next man up attempts to fill the shoes of his forerunner (or attempts to right the ship).

Additionally, this Blue Devil team is bound to experience some growing pains with this much change to the roster. Despite all their talent, they are still young and searching for guidance from a Stumble to success A quick look into North Carolina’s 2021-22 young (and new) head coach. season and we may be able to draw some eerie Duke is bound to face some major adversity, similarities to how Duke’s season could turn whether it be at the beginning, while the team out. New head coach Hubert Davis took a very is still finding its footing, or toward the end, talented squad through a rocky regular season. when the lack of experience cracks through

experience despite being only 35. He was captain of a national championship team in 2010 and coached the 2015 Blue Devils to another as an assistant coach. Not to mention, he served as Mike Krzyzewski’s No. 2 through this previous season’s run, and has a spotless record as acting head coach in his predecessor’s absence.

Scheyer hauled in a loaded recruiting class, as well. Dereck Lively II and Dariq Whitehead are the two headliners as ESPN’s No. 1 and No. 2 freshmen, respectively. But they only begin the list that includes No. 7 Kyle Filipowski, No. 26 Mark Mitchell and No. 50 Jaden Schutt. With captain Jeremy Roach returning for a third year, the pieces are all there.

Last year’s team was composed in a very similar fashion. Although they boasted a little more veteran talent with junior Wendell Moore and sophomore Mark Williams, if Roach can step into a Moore-like leadership role this year and seasoned transfers Ryan Young and Jacob Grandison aid in transitioning the young guys to collegiate basketball, there is little stopping this season’s squad from finding the same success.

If Scheyer’s aforementioned accolades tell any story about him, it is that he will have the ability to step into this role without turbulence.

With Krzyzewski’s successor at the helm and a star-studded squad, taking this perspective means there is no reason to set expectations at anything less than a seamless repeat of last year’s run.

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The addition of Ryan Young will factor into Duke’s potential this season. and begins to show, as seen with Duke teams in the past.

A rocky road

Of course, there is a scenario in which all goes wrong for the Blue Devils. There are plenty of concerns about the previous two outlooks and Duke could find itself struggling to balance them all if it stumbles out of the gates.

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‘If I’m not talking, who else?’

That voice hasn’t always been easy for Roach to access, though.

“Roach has always been a guy who led by example. He’s gonna work. He’s not going to talk— I’m talking about his first two years,” associate head coach Chris Carrawell said at media day. “This year, he’s adding the talking. You can see him visibly like talking to guys on the side, being a voice at a practice, and that’s going to help. Because when one of your best players is a guy who can lead by example, but also vocally, I think that helps the team.”

In an interview with The Chronicle, Glenn Farello, Roach’s high school coach at St. Paul VI, pointed out that today’s point guards face a steeper learning curve in becoming that loud floor general because of how young they start and how structured their journey into basketball is.

“It used to be, when you were younger, you had a lot of opportunities to be a voice within a practice, within a pickup game, when you guys are just having open runs, whatever it may be,” he said.

“Nowadays, these kids are in jerseys at the age of six, right? [There are] parents, coaches, officials, and so they don’t have a chance to really develop their voice at times.”

For Roach, who Farello described as a “laidback, fun-loving kid” by nature, that curve has perhaps even been steeper, but just as he understands what his role is, Roach understands how he has to embody it. “[Being vocal] is definitely not natural to me.

I’m kind of like a to-myself guy,” he said at ACC Tipoff. “But I mean, with the team we have now, the guys we brought on, we have, what is it, 11 new guys? So I mean, I have to be vocal. If I’m not talking, who else is gonna be out there talking?”

In all fairness, Roach doesn’t have to shoulder the burden alone, and he said as much at ACC Tipoff.

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I’m not doing it alone. I’ve got great coaches with me. … And even the grad transfers.”

This season’s large group of graduate transfers, aside from filling in crucial on-court roles, also brings a veteran presence. But even they have had to adjust to the grind of Duke, and Catchings said that Roach has been instrumental to “bridging the gap” between the transfers and the young guys.

Roach also has had to work even closer with the coaching staff, especially as it has taken on a completely new look.

“We have a great relationship, but he’s figuring out what I’m like as a head coach and the things that I’m looking for him to do. Hopefully that means it can be exciting, because it’s not like you’re just doing the same thing,” Scheyer said at media day.

‘20 minutes’

The root of that collaboration, though, comes from a mutual love and respect for both each other and the team.

“He’s gonna be our guard, and I’d put him up against any guard in the country,” Scheyer said.

“It’s great that I know that my head coach has my back and has all the confidence in the world for me to go up against anybody,” Roach echoed.

With that, though, comes a commitment: “[Scheyer’s] the head coach, but…I’m an extension of the head coach.”

Farello noted a similar relationship between Roach and himself back in Roach’s high school days, especially during the season he lost to an ACL tear.

“During that junior year, he spent a lot of time with his teammates and became like an assistant coach. He was in our huddles, he was in conversations. He would not just wait out the year and worry about his own recovery,” Farello said.

In his interview with The Chronicle, Farello told a story. When Roach was diagnosed with an ACL injury, meaning he’d have to sit out the season, it fell on Farello to announce the news to the team ahead of their season-opening scrimmage.

“I’ve never seen a locker room like this. All

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Jeremy Roach drives for the layup in Duke’s Countdown to Craziness scrimmage. the players, even a couple of the coaches, started crying,” Farello said. “I was talking to [Roach] on the phone—he got the results, and he called me to tell me about it—and he said, ‘Okay, Coach. I’ll see you in about 20 minutes.’

“I was like, ‘What? You don’t need to come to the scrimmage. Go home, and take it all in.’ And he’s like, ‘No, Coach. I’m gonna be there for my teammates. I’ll be there in 20 minutes.’

“Just the look on all my players’ faces, when I told them—seriously, tears streaming down their faces; they were very upset for their teammate because they love him so much—and I’m like, ‘You’ll be able to tell him yourself in about 20 minutes how much he means to you.’ And they’re all like, ‘He’s coming to the scrimmage right now?’’’

Nothing has changed on that front since Roach got to Duke. On March 11, after the Blue Devils had advanced to the ACC title game and just weeks before Roach would write his name in the basketball history books, Krzyzewski spoke on his growth.

“Jeremy, I think, just keeps evolving. … It’s more of a natural growth, too. And I credit these guys because they really love one another, they like one another. … They’re not envious of one another, and so they have fertile soil to grow,” he said.

Meanwhile, Farello, who keeps in contact with all his former players, including Roach, and watches their college games, said, “Jeremy Roach loves Duke. He absolutely just loves it.

He was so excited last year to be able to help the team make it to the Final Four. He’s excited to be back. He really just loves being part of Duke basketball and everything that goes with it.”

He loves the atmosphere at Cameron Indoor Stadium, he loves seeing the fans lined up for the North Carolina game, he loves getting to know other Duke students and he loves his team.

After taking the court for the first time this season at Countdown to Craziness, Roach simply said, “You gotta love it.”

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FROM PAGE 9 day or lifting and practicing, rather than going to school as well. They want to be done when they’re done and then just focus on playing pro basketball.”

A testament to Proctor’s maturity and commitment to learning both in the classroom and the film room, he chose to develop in front of a national audience and packed arenas while still attending class during the week and otherwise enjoying life as a college student. While quickly adjusted to life at Duke, he still enjoys his favorite Australian snack foods, Tim Tams and Caramello Koalas, and has an Australian flag hanging on a wall in his bedroom. He lives in a suite with fellow freshman Kyle Filipowski on Duke’s East Campus where he plays NBA 2K, Madden and FIFA video games—and beats his Duke teammates consistently.

The defense is at his mercy when he has the ball in his hands.

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With everything falling into place ahead of the season, Proctor feels at home.

“The community environment—that was one thing that popped out at me on my visit,” he said.

“That is one of the reasons why I came here—just like a home away from home kind of feeling.”

The second Australian player to join Duke in recent years—after White, who played in Durham from 2016-20—showcases the reach of the Blue Devils and “The Brotherhood.” Perhaps the two are just the start of something brewing from one side of the world to the other.

As the Blue Devils gathered for the first time as a team, six freshmen and four transfers assembled in the practice gym next door to Cameron Indoor Stadium. The blue team scrimmaged the white team and summer practices rolled on.

Something was missing.

Blue Devil veterans would say it was the 2022 NCAA championship banner they were so close to raising. Others would ask where former head coach of 42 years Mike Krzyzewski was on the sidelines.

But what the Blue Devils were missing until August was Proctor, who returned only after claiming his trophy while his teammates got their start on class work.

A question surrounding Proctor has been how well he has fit in with the team since his arrival Aug. 18, after the first several team scrimmages had already taken place. Proctor immediately established a commitment to learning from players like captain Jeremy Roach, watching film and getting both stronger and more physical.

“Definitely doing extra, that’s a big thing, watch a lot more film,” he said. “I don’t necessarily feel behind. I think I’m on the same page as everyone else.”

Three weeks later, he was receiving votes as the ACC’s top freshman, with widespread praise and rave reviews from his performances in practice.

He has yet to shy away from a challenge, and in the Countdown to Craziness scrimmage in October, he flashed his dribble moves when he broke down his suitemate Filipowski before cruising to the rim for the two points. Mostly cheers emerged from the crowd, as Duke scored against… Duke. But that just allows the Blue Devils to get the firsthand experience of guarding him.

“The defense is at his mercy when he has the ball in his hands,” Scheyer said following the scrimmage.

Kelly corroborates Scheyer’s view. “I think on the basketball floor he’s got some of those qualities of being able to be fluid with the ball

and go by guys, score, but also create for his teammates,” he said.

But as Proctor gears up for a season in which Duke faces defending champion Kansas, has a chance to duel Gonzaga and goes to war against a tough ACC slate, he will run into kinds of athletes that he likely has not seen before. The FIBA game and the pace of play are different, as are the types of players who are recruited and opt to play in the rigorous top-flight of college basketball. Players are longer, more athletic and the game moves at a different pace.

Kelly thinks Proctor has the tools to adjust: “The flip side where he’s bringing in something that will translate right away is playing against the physicality—I think that’ll be an edge for him,” referring to his experience with the Boomers and their physical, full-court play.

“I think I’m taking a big emphasis in my defense moving forward. It wasn’t a strong suit in the past. But I think after the tournament in Indonesia, I’ve really stepped up with that,” Proctor said. “The Boomers’ culture really hone in on defense and just being a pest … so I think just giving your best effort on defense is a big thing that I learned from that.”

A combination of a blossoming defensive mindset, increased strength on Proctor’s 6-foot5 frame and the offensive game of a future NBA star? A coach’s dream.

Scheyer said that his team will place an emphasis on defense this season, so Proctor’s brief but challenging test of defending at the FIBA level—and overall experience with the Australian brand of basketball—could offer his teammates something to learn from and Proctor a chance to lead, despite again being one of the youngest members of his team.

Whether it is by locking down the league’s top scorers, serving as a leader at 18 years old or helping Duke exceed already-lofty expectations, Proctor is here to deliver a spark.

COACHES FROM PAGE 4 ecosystem allows for players like versatile freshman forward Mark Mitchell to work on different parts of his game with all the coaches instead of just one.

Scheyer only officially had this last year to begin the planning process for his time as a head coach, but he had been preparing for it, knowingly or not, since at least his high school days. David Weber, Scheyer’s high school head coach, knew he had to watch the film immediately after their games because Scheyer would be ready to break the game down with him the next day.

“He’d know exactly what part of the game we didn’t do something right,” Weber said.

Weber’s sentiment is common. Since Scheyer’s announcement as head coach, many have spoken about his impressive basketball IQ. Carrawell described Scheyer’s innate ability to anticipate the other team’s next move as well as the way he sets up plays as two keys to why Scheyer will be successful.

Scheyer has had the benefit of being under Krzyzewski’s wing since returning to Duke in 2013. The year in waiting helped Scheyer understand who he was and determine which values he wanted to instill when he officially took over. That has come across in preseason.

The downside to being the protege of the winningest coach in college basketball history is that Scheyer has gigantic shoes to fill. As he figures out how he wants to do that, he understands the importance of being Jon Scheyer, and not trying to be Mike Krzyzewski.

“He has that ability to know that he has to do things his own way but also trying to keep some of the stuff that has made Duke successful too,” Lucas said.

Lucas’ observation is true about the overall construction of the coaching staff, too. It is unique in its assembly and has both pieces of Krzyzewski as well as Scheyer’s own flare.

Just like this season will.

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FRONTCOURT FROM PAGE 7 “What we got was a 15-and-a-half-year-old that was 6-foot-9,” Wilbraham and Monson head coach Michael Mannix told The Chronicle.

“Incredibly versatile, good basketball IQ, good skillset, like really good feel for the game.”

Filipowski excelled under Mannix, earning MVP honors in the New England Prep School Athletic Council Class AA championship as a sophomore. Then the pandemic struck, and along with countless schools nationwide, Wilbraham and Monson only played five games in the 2020-21 season.

Filipowski didn’t slow down—he sped up.

According to Mannix, the center put on around 25 pounds from the end of his sophomore year to the time he returned as a senior. He earned the Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year award as a junior, played on the Nike EYBL circuit and was a member of the gold medal-winning 2021 USA Basketball 3x3 U18 team, an experience that he credits with helping his spacing and teamwork. As the first recruit of the Scheyer era, Filipowski helped set the tone; Duke didn’t go anywhere.

Frontcourt legacy

Now that they have both arrived at Duke, Lively and Filipowski are joining an elite list of Blue Devil frontcourt duos. Last season’s iteration, the final under Krzyzewski, was comprised of Banchero and Williams, both of whom were selected in the 2022 NBA Draft as high choices. Banchero went first overall to the Orlando Magic and Williams rounded out the top 15, joining the Charlotte Hornets.

The combination of Williams’ size and Banchero’s overall skillset proved lethal.

Between the two of them, they averaged 28.4 points, 15.2 rebounds and 3.7 blocks.

The duo controlled the paint on both ends of the court and was a driving force behind the

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team’s Final Four run. When asked whether he thought that he and Lively could replicate last year’s dominating frontcourt, Filipowski’s answer was simple: “Absolutely.”

“A lot of people have some negative things to say about that just because, you know, ‘we’re not ready’ or ‘we have a lot to learn,’ ‘new coach,’ things like that,” said Filipowski. And while the pair is young and unproven at the college level, its ceiling is also sky high. “We have a lot of upside to what we bring.”

Each individual, a five-star prospect and topfive recruit, has plenty of upside in his own right.

The combination? Downright dangerous.

The pair, and the whole squad under Scheyer, centers its play around unselfishness. Because both can fill similar roles, they have had to learn how to play complementary basketball.

“One day he’s gonna have his games, one day I’m gonna have my games and just vice versa,” said Lively. “So we know that whenever he’s open, I’m gonna give him the ball. And whenever I’m open he’s gonna give me the ball.”

This team-first, selfless attitude is a staple for both players. If it translates to the court, you will be hard-pressed to find a team capable of stopping them.

“You look at us and you don’t really think that that’s something that could happen,” said Filipowski of the two playing well together.

“It’s really something unique and not many people in the country can do, so it’s something that everyone’s gonna be shocked with once we start playing.”

Filipowski’s opinion that the college basketball community is in for a surprise is not unique—Lively shared the same sentiment, not just of the duo, but of the entire squad: “I know everybody in the gym is just waiting for their time to shine. And I know that we all are ready to shock the world.”

It’s a new team, new coach, new era. But if the frontcourt has anything to say about it, the outcome will be just the same: dominant.

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FRESHMEN FROM PAGE 10 players first and about giving each the same level of attention that drew them to Duke in the first place.

Given this class and the eight that preceded it, it appears an attractive philosophy.

‘Something you always dream of’

In August, Tatum, Banchero, Cam Reddish and RJ Barrett, all key cogs in past Blue Devil machines, came back to Durham to work out in preparation for the upcoming NBA season.

Just last week, ESPN commentator and former Duke center Jay Bilas gave a talk to the team about competing in the last five minutes of close games. Stretching back to April, 96 former players flocked to witness Krzyzewski’s last game at Cameron Indoor. The program markets the longstanding connection past players and coaches have with the school eloquently and succinctly: the Brotherhood.

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“The Brotherhood is real,” Jefferson said. “We not only say it, but our guys show it every day …

I say this all the time, no matter if you’re here for nine months, four years, five years, six years: this place is forever.”

The unique connection Duke has with its past players no doubt plays into the maintenance of its culture despite the annual departure of top talent to the NBA. The other unique element that keeps the connection between student, athlete and school strong is the screaming bunch of sleepless students occupying the rickety wooden benches of Section 17.

With a home slate that features a rematch with Big Ten juggernaut Ohio State and an early February home date with preseason No. 1 North Carolina, Duke will need its famed fanbase in its corner every step of the way.

“It’s like no other,” Schutt said of the student section. “There’s just a lot of energy to play off of and I just can’t wait for home games and just to feed off that energy.”

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Dariq Whitehead is recovering from a right foot injury and could miss the start of his freshman season.

“Just having the fan base and atmosphere, that definitely did play into my decision a little bit,” Filipowski added.

With the 2022-23 season officially upon us, the stage these freshmen once watched has become the stage they now set, and the mythical rapture of the Cameron Crazies is now a legend these seven newcomers ascribe to, feed on and fire up.

According to Mitchell, that opportunity is “something you always dream of.”

‘One vision’

Fresh off of a Final Four appearance and ACC regular-season title, Duke is positioned to defend its crown against the onslaught of its conference rivals, including Hubert Davis’ marauding Tar Heels and Tony Bennett’s revitalized Virginia.

Under a new head coach, no less, the pressure these Blue Devils face to maintain their lofty standards is, to harken back to the earlier analogy, like Atlas carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Nonetheless, Scheyer and his staff have proven

that this is a challenge they welcome. A change in head coach has not stopped Duke from assembling another top-ranked and broadly talented recruiting class. It certainly has not stopped its ambition for a sixth national title—a trophy that would level it with North Carolina—or the insatiable hunger the Cameron Crazies have for endless success on the basketball court.

“We all genuinely have one goal and one vision, which is winning the national championship,” Whitehead said.

For the Blue Devils to realize that goal—that vision—this inaugural group of freshmen must once again assume the burden of expectation that comes with a five-time national-championshipwinning program undergoing its most significant change since 1980.

Given their attitudes, given their coach, given their fans, however, it can hardly be called a foolish pursuit.

“It’s gonna take a lot of heart, a lot of grit, a lot of time, sweat, blood and tears,” Lively said. “It’s gonna take everything we have and more.”

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Johns grew up in nearby High Point, N.C., and his family has roots in North Carolina basketball.

His cousin, George Lynch, averaged 14.7 points per game as a member of the Tar Heels’ 1993 nationalchampion men’s basketball team.

A man whose interests include fashion, chess and skating, per the aforementioned podcast appearance, Johns is unlikely to see the court much as a Blue Devil (he averaged 2.8 points and 1.3 rebounds in 7.4 minutes for the Tigers last year).

Upon his commitment in June, however, Scheyer called the 22-year-old a “high-character individual that will add a veteran presence in our locker room,” and someone who will “push our guys on and off the court.”

me as a baby as they competed against one another [in the WNBA] whenever I was younger,” Catchings said at media day. He added that Mike Sotsky, a Harvard assistant, was a Duke manager for the 2015 title team, so he could “see the common threads with Coach Amaker and how he runs his program and some of the traditions here.”

During summers growing up, Catchings would spend a week with his aunt at practice, being able to “see what it was like to be a professional player.”

With the Champions Classic against Kansas in Indianapolis, Catchings will be able to see his aunt’s jersey in the rafters, a “full circle moment” for the ‘Been through the hardships’ Young, Catchings and Johns are enrolled in 23-year-old.

“It’s how our family bonds, I don’t really the Fuqua School of Business, while Grandison know anything else,” Catchings said of his family’s is enrolled in Duke’s continuing studies program.

That basketball-academic balance seems to be an basketball focus. enticing one.

None of the four will lead Duke in scoring, ‘Fully looked into my soul, bro’ It was an otherwise ho-hum blowout win and the chatter for Scheyer’s first year is centered against Princeton in December 2018. Duke cruised around the top-ranked freshman class. But make to a 101-50 drubbing, with Zion Williamson’s no mistake about it, these four are set to impact remarkable rejection of Jaelin Llewellyn serving as the season.

“They’ve been through the hardships of the highlight of the night.

There was also the player who, in four minutes the college regular season,” point guard Jeremy Roach, the lone Blue Devil captain, said at of action for Princeton, attempted a single shot.

That player was Max Johns, who got his degree media day. “So they know that it’s gonna be in neuroscience in May. But it was not the first highs, it’s gonna be lows, but you got to just stay time he ventured into Cameron Indoor Stadium, the course.”

Rest assured, the graduate transfers, who as Johns went to the Duke Basketball Camp as an live in the same apartment building and go elementary schooler.

While he and some friends were joking around to trivia nights, according to Catchings, are while Krzyzewski gave a speech, the former Duke ready to show that old guys still matter in college basketball. head coach taught them a lesson.

“For us to be able to alleviate some of that “He stopped, and he fully looked into my soul, bro,” Johns said on the Go with the Flo podcast in [pressure] hopefully, and help guys in the locker November 2021. “I have never felt so small in my room on the court with just kind of those maturity life before, he was like, ‘Lebron doesn’t do this, Kobe aspects, is definitely a piece that helped me and I would never do this. When I’m talking everybody think that all that is going to be very conducive listens, and you guys are just laughing to the side.’ to building a new culture and building a new tradition,” Catchings said.

Bro, that was the scariest moment of my life.”

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EXPECTATIONS FROM PAGE 15 Filipowski, a key piece of the roster, may be struggling with his adjustment to the next level.

“My understanding of the intel that I’ve gotten so far is that he is way further behind where they were expecting him to be, on the defensive end in particular, in terms of his toughness,” ESPN’s Jonathan Givony said on the network’s Youtube show in October. “There have been some question marks from scouts coming out of there like, what kind of role is Kyle Filipowski going to have on this team?”

With Filipowski potentially filling a more minor role, some questions arise about where the Blue Devils will find their scoring.

Roach was an excellent shot creator to finish off last year, but he had his fair share of shooting struggles early in the season.

Whitehead is coming off foot surgery and Lively has also been injured—missing both Countdown to Craziness and Duke’s scrimmage against Houston.

The Blue Devils face off Nov. 15 against No. 5 Kansas. That means they will have three games to shape up before the first real test. A rough performance in the national spotlight could start a downward spiral with Scheyer trying to figure out how to be the reassuring voice on a young team.

Which will it be?

I have to believe that this year’s Blue Devils will likely be following the “stumble to success” path, and if not, it could be worse. I would love to be optimistic about the Blue Devils, but there are too many question marks.

Scheyer is the big one, of course, but even if he is as good of a head coach as Krzyzewski believes him to be, the team he has compiled has some concerns that not even the best coach may be able to fix in a single season.

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Scoring is what bothers me the most. Last year, Duke had Paolo Banchero, who could get the ball in any situation and have the best chance to score. Who is going to be that guy this year? Even if Whitehead bounces back from his injury, he has not had time to perfect his transition to be that guy, and Lively does not have the same scoring skillset as a player like Banchero.

I do believe that the Blue Devils could have a real shot at a tournament run if they get hot at the right time, like last year’s Tar Heels.

Everything I said before is not for a lack of recognition of the talent this roster carries, but it is just going to take time for the Blue Devils to figure it all out.

When this team hits its stride, there will not be many more dangerous. In March, I would not want to be on the opposing side of the floor.

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SCHEYER FROM PAGE 12 I could possibly have,” Scheyer said in June 2021. “If that’s not an example of Duke being a lifetime decision, I don’t know what is, and it’s set me on a path that has led me to this point today.”

Three years after winning a national title, Scheyer’s road led him right back to Durham. Dawkins, about to enter his graduate season, was there to see his old captain in his new role.

“He’s pretty quiet,” Dawkins said of Scheyer during the 2013-14 season. “That’s just kind of how he is anyway … but he’s definitely grown as a coach and kind of found his voice over the last few years.”

That growth has occurred in the nine years since Scheyer returned to Durham, won another national championship as an assistant and was tabbed for succession.

Quiet as he may be, Duke’s newest head coach appears to be the same competitor he was as a player.

“I think calm kind of implies a lack of intensity, which is not the case,” Dawkins said.

“He’s very intense, very driven to succeed and to win. He hates losing probably on a similar level to Coach, honestly.”

The unique thing about Scheyer’s appointment has been the turnaround time. In stark contrast to North Carolina’s changing of the guard—longtime head coach Roy Williams retired two months before Krzyzewski’s announcement—Scheyer has waited more than a year to take the reins.

But when Krzyzewski missed a January contest at Wake Forest, Scheyer had around 24 hours to prepare to be acting head coach for the second time in his career. The first, when he coached Duke to an 83-82 home win against Boston College in January 2021, came before his appointment.

Before it took the leap and became a

Final Four team, Duke was simply looking to bounce back from a home loss to Miami four days prior. Freshman forward AJ Griffin excelled in the first start of his career, helping Scheyer adapt on the fly as the Blue Devils bounced back with a 74-62 win. It was not the first time that Duke had to recover from a devastating defeat, and with a home loss in the regular-season finale to North Carolina and a runner-up finish at the ACC tournament still to come, it was not the last.

“I think last year is a perfect example of staying the course, of staying together,” Scheyer said at the team’s preseason media day. “We had a couple of tough moments. … You can’t get tougher without going through some adversity, going through some experiences. So to me, I look back at last year as a prime example.”

‘I want to win today’

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When Duke’s season ended in the Final Four and Krzyzewski’s retirement became official, Scheyer ceased to be head coach-inwaiting and took over, nearly a year after his appointment. Almost immediately, he was tasked with overhauling his staff and roster when assistant coach and former teammate Nolan Smith departed for Louisville and the bulk of the Blue Devils’ Final Four core joined the NBA ranks.

The result is a program that features 11 newcomers, the nation’s top recruiting class, one returning starter in Jeremy Roach and a pair of new assistant coaches. Duke has a foundation as strong as any, but that is a lot of change to endure after 42 years of stability.

“The biggest thing that I learned studying different successions and different plans is you don’t want to change too much too quickly,” Scheyer said at October’s ACC Tipoff, citing UCLA’s Gene Bartow and the Miami Heat’s Erik Spoelstra as case studies.

Scheyer and Lance Thomas celebrate after winning the national championship against Butler in Indianapolis in 2010.

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