Duke Basketball Report

6 days ago | dukebasketballreport.com | Donald Wine II

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The cool thing about the summer is that when we get any nuggets about how the team is shaping up, we get to overscrutinize it! Thanks to some intel we received from K Academy, we’re able to discuss some notes about the first practices of the summer on DBR Bites #108. Jason received some tips about how some of the Duke players did in a practice behind closed doors, so he and Donald go through some of the information we received.

1 week ago | dukebasketballreport.com | JD King

Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images We have a lot of thoughts about the new ACC conference basketball schedule, but for one example, for the first time since 1919, UNC and NC State will not play home-and-home. But that’s not the only stupidity. UNC plays Duke home-and-home, has Wake at home and NC State in Raleigh. Wake Forest plays home-and-home with NC State, but only plays at Duke and at UNC.

1 week ago | dukebasketballreport.com | JD King

Jason Williams left Duke in 2002 which means that a lot of people weren’t born in time to see him play for Duke. And that’s a shame, because Williams was unbelievably, impossibly great. He was take your breath away great. In this video, Williams just shreds Kentucky for 38 points, including seven threes in a 95-92 overtime win, and as Dick Vitale says here, Duke needed them all. What made Williams great? A lot of things, really. He could shoot, pass and defend. He was supremely athletic.

1 week ago | dukebasketballreport.com | JD King

Photo by Lance King/Getty Images The ACC released the conference basketball schedule for next season and Duke will get home-and-home matchups with UNC and Louisville. And that’s it. The Home Only games are Boston College, Clemson, Georgia Tech, SMU, Syracuse, Virginia, Wake ForestThe Away Only games will be California, Florida State, NC State, Notre Dame, Pitt, Stanford, Virginia TechDuke and Miami will not play at all during the regular season. This has all gotten rather stupid.

1 week ago | dukebasketballreport.com | JD King

We didn’t know a whole lot about Sebastian Wilkins when his name started to come up, to be honest, but what quickly became obvious is that he’s a guy who has the potential to become a really good player, if not as a freshman, then during his time at Duke. He’s tall, powerful and a hard worker. What was less obvious to us when Wilkins committed, but increasingly obvious since, is this: he has wanted to be a Blue Devil for years.