Duke Recruiting General Discussion

[Dukenation12]

Wonder what took so long? AJ is a STUD!

They didn't want to waste their time. He wasn't going to be playing in college.

Gotcha. Where does Duke stand in the race?

 

[rome8180]

Not sure, because the offer happened so recently. I'll ask some people. Like others have said, I have to think that the fact that Ignite no longer exists and that Cal moved to Arkansas makes us one of the frontrunners.

 

[rome8180]

In general, I imagine a lot of recruits will be watching this year's Duke team. Scheyer hasn't had a truly elite prospect yet. Lively went lottery and Flip probably will too. But that's the end of the lottery. What Scheyer does with Flagg, and to a lesser extent Maluach, matters.

Probably doesn't apply to Dybantsa. I imagine he'll be making his decision in November like most recruits do.

 

[dukeboy911]

Also surprised it took this long. Feel like this kid has been hyped for a while. Are him and the better Boozer mutually exclusive?

Think the strategy is definitely to target the top ~10 HS prospects each year, and then build around them via the portal with experienced role players. We leaned way too heavily into the blue chip prospects at the expense of continuity/having veteran leadership to help round out the team. Gotta imagine Scheyer knows this.

 

[bdotling]

 

[deepdarkblue]

Is he 12 years old?

 

[childress22]

I saw this dude play in person! He was on the team that I watched Flagg play against in Peach Jam. He was pretty scrappy and athletic and got a few buckets, but he was like the tallest player on his AAU team at 6'6". He had to guard Flagg, and Flagg had a monster game, but Greer at least tried to challenge him a lot.

Anyway, he'd be a good offer. Has enough all-around game and give-a-fuck to see the floor.

 

[Pantone287]

Plot-twist: he's actually a long-armed athlete whose shot is still developing. Didn't see that coming.

Where are all these white guys with long arms coming from recently? And by "all", I of course just mean "two", but that's a 200% increase over our previous total of "Austin Nichols".

 

[childress22]

Just looked up Greer's stats from that game. He finished with 22 points in 30 minutes on 9/20 shooting, with a block and 4 boards, and 3/7 from outside.

 

[dukeboy911]

Question is, would he stay around long enough? Because at first glance he screams like the type of recruit we've had the past decade+ that doesn't play much his freshman/soph year and then transfers out.