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Prepare to have your duke fandom questioned for leaving off st. HurleyI'd say you have to pick at least one guy from each decade of the coach K era.
PG- JWill
SG- Dawkins
SF- G. HIll
PF- Parker
C- Laettner
Well I threw in one guy from each decade K has been coach so it made it impossible to have 3 guys in the 90s.Prepare to have your duke fandom questioned for leaving off st. Hurley
J will
Kyrie
Reddick
Parker
Laettner(and yes I just threw up
No retired jersey, no OAD and not current?
Chris Duhon
Jim Spanarkel
Gene Banks
Mark Alarie
Elton Brand
Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer are so close to being on here, but Gene and Mark were just better.
I saw a thread on the TDD where your all-time team couldn't include any players that had their jersey retired, no OADs, no current players. So with that said:
Nolan Smith
Jim Spanarkel
Mike Dunleavy
Gene Banks
Mason Plumlee
One player from each championship:
Jason Williams
Jon Scheyer
Justise Winslow
Grant Hill
Christian Laettner
How about another variation? Duke has 5 championships. Pick one player off of each of those teams to form a starting 5..
Hurley (1991)
Scheyer (2010)
Battier (2001)
Laettner (1992)
Okafor (2015)
You could claim Laettner for the '80s, if you wanted.Well I threw in one guy from each decade K has been coach so it made it impossible to have 3 guys in the 90s.
2010 starting 5No retired jersey, no OAD and not current?
C'mon people. Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow only make sense if you're eight or so.
Duke has been playing basketball a long time.
Long enough to have nine different players named national POY, 13 ACC POYs and 16 consensus first-team All-Americans.
Makes sense to me to start with those guys.
As opposed to a list of greatest players that automically excludes the greatest players.
Rumor has it that Duke even played basketball before Mike Krzyzewski showed up.
Imagine that.
Even if you're just going with a subset of guys from the title teams, then Jones would be trumped by Hurley, Jason Williams and Scheyer and Winslow by Grant Hill, Battier and Singler.
I guess I'll just wait for jimlsumner to tell me what I'm allowed to think.
Here's my all-time Duke teams.
Based solely on Duke career, minimum three years at Duke (sorry Elton).
First Team
C.Laettner
F.Battier
F.Heyman
G.Dawkins
G.Redick
Second Team
C.Gminski
F.G.Hill
F.Ferry
G.J. Williams
G.Groat
Third Team
C.S.Williams
F.Mullins
F.Singler
G.Verga
G.Hurley
Fourth Team
C.Denton
F.Alarie
F.Banks
G.Langdon
G.Scheyer
Fifth Team
C.Lewis
F.Marin
F.Carrawell
G.Duhon
G.Smith
Why five teams? Why not? And it's fun. But it also suggests the depth of Duke's tradition
And we could go much, much deeper. Vince Taylor, Tommy Amaker, Mason Plumlee, Gerald Henderson, Phil Henderson, David Henderson, Steve Vacendak, Tate Armstrong, Ronnie Mayer, Seth Curry, Ed Koffenberger, Bob Fleisher, Steve Wojciechowski, Carlos Boozer, Mike Dunleavy, Thomas Hill, Gary Melchionni, DeMarcus Nelson, Quinn Cook, Joe Belmont, Daniel Ewing, Chris Collins,Jeff Capel, Howard Hurt, Doug Kistler, Bill Mock, Ryan Kelley.
Et. al.
We're 50 deep without talking about the one-and-dones and the two-and-dones and the transfers like McLeod, D. Jones and Hood (Curry meets my three-year threshold).
You get my drift. A lot of really, really good players have played at Duke.
For that particular list, I was trying to mix it up w/ guys who hadn't played together, so Carrawell eliminated Trajan, and I'd already used the 2010 players, so no Nolan. Additionally, I was limiting myself to K era (Banks was a stretch for me, as I only remember as early as '82-'83), so no Spanarkel or Verga, and 4-year guys, so no Seth. Seth is also dwarfed by Mason and Ryan even in his senior year for me, so I may underrate him.As an aside, better Duke shooting guards than Thomas Hill who do not have a retired jersey and were not OAD; Bob Verga, Jim Spanarkel, Trajan Langdon, Nolan Smith, Seth Curry.
Dat Verga was a SG who imo is the best shooter we have ever had.He took the same degree of difficulty shots that JJ did without having to run off screens.If there had been a three point line in his era I think that he would have had 2000 points in slightly over eighty games and probably have the highest per game average in our history.He more than any other player in our history should have his jersey in the rafters followed closely by Banks and Alarie