Even with his limitations in strength and physicality and footwork, he had a stretch of great shot blocking. If he keeps progressing and K develops him and gives him PT, he could really become a force by the time he is a junior.
the trouble is K is bringing in high profile freshmen next year, sure to garner 30-35 mpg. While Williams gets 5 minute, if the patterns if past years are an indication.
(People want to defend K on minutes by some theory about practice, but that is not the story and further should not preclude getting at least a healthy 10 mpg. It has been a recurring pattern where bench player X as a good game or two, then is inserted the next game, makes a mistake or two, and sits on the bench the rest of the way. And the next game it’s two minutes of garbage time if he’s lucky.). Don’t get me wrong, I love Coach K and think he’s a great human being and became increasingly passionate about Duke because of his teams in the early 80s. But this is an area where I think he has some flaws and it’s pretty demonstrable overtime. But particularly so over the past two decades. There were many teams in the 80s and 90s where eight or nine players averaged 10 minutes or more a game. The bench got a lot shorter in the 2000s.
