Player Sean Stewart

[rome8180]

Yeah, I thought the defense looked just fine with him out there. Flip probably gets away with that travel, too.

 

[physicsfactor]

If Coach Scheyer cares at all about my watching Duke this season, he’ll play this dude a lot more of Young and Mitchell’s minutes.

 

[aiw]

Stewart 18 minutes
Young 9 minutes

Outside of FT, Mitchell was good tonight

 

[Dukenation12]

 

[physicsfactor]

Stewart 18 minutes
Young 9 minutes

Outside of FT, Mitchell was good tonight

It was a very enjoyable viewing experience.

FTR, I like Mitchell. I just want as much Stewart as possible.

 

[rome8180]

I'm okay if Stewart just takes the bulk of Young's minutes. Mitchell is playing well.

 

[Rollins]

something to make the old heads happy. his rebounding effort is noticeable.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

Also, he's not gonna get drafted this year. All this worry about Ngonbga and Budunga and all these other guys turned out to be nonsense as this board thought. Stewart is our starting 5 next year.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Having a monster big off the bench will be important toward the end of this season. The C/PF minutes in close games should be something like 30/30/15 for Filipowski/Mitchell/Stewart, which leaves a few minutes for smallball with all four guards on the court.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

*36 PER
**8.5 BPM
*138 ORtg
*80 DRtg
*67% TS
*.36 WS/40
**24% Usg
*27% OReb
*28% DReb
*4.5% Stl
**4.1% Blk
8.2% TO

* Best in Duke’s rotation
** Top 3 in Duke’s rotation

There is some possibility this may not hold up as he gets more minutes against real competition.

However, it’s reasonable to predict Stewart will be Duke’s most numbers-friendly (not best or most important) player and a 1st round pick by season end. He’s 18 and this draft is going to be historically bad, plus the main thing he needs to work on to become a better pro prospect (3pt range) is something that probably won’t get better faster than his age hurts him.

If Scheyer can somehow (1) get Stewart to keep playing like this against good teams, thereby playing a big role in helping Duke (2) win a national title, while (3) sandbagging Stewart enough to not want to go pro after winning a national title and putting up 30+ PER/50+ net efficiency rating, then Scheyer will be the best coach in college basketball.

 

[LastHearth]

Can you imagine a starting lineup of Stewart/Flagg/Evans/Foster/McCain next year? With a Ngongba/Reeves/Power/KK/Harris/Schutt off the bench.

 

[rhfarmer]

I, too, have moved on to next season.

 

[Dukenation12]

Can he be that bad of a practice player for Jon to refuse to play him?

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

It’s a rough look for Scheyer, whatever the reason really is.






He might suck, but Scheyer should consider proving it to everyone so he’s not thought of as an idiot. It would take 2-3 games of solid minutes against good teams, and then everyone would see how terrible Stewart is and get off this train of bashing Scheyer for not playing him. Duke would probably lose those games anyway, so there’s not much to lose from Scheyer’s perspective.

 

[rhfarmer]

Just assume this is his transfer announcement every time the thread has an unread post.

 

[bluedevilruss]

Thought one of our best athletes would have gotten some burn against another team full of athletes….how bad is this guy in practice?

 

[deepdarkblue]

I forgot he was on the team

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Unfortunately the writing is on the wall for a transfer after the season. With Flagg, Dongbro, Maluach, Reeves and Mitchell all on the roster next season, I agree with Scheyer’s approach on Stewart. Either be nearly perfect or develop 40% 3pt range, or make way.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Semi Ojeleye, sadly.

 

[aiw]

OR and DR rate. Also commits 7.3 fouls/40.