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The 5 five stars give hope every year, but they won’t win it all. It’s just wash, rinse, and repeat with that formula.
7I'm not sure they're a tease. The last NC Duke won was a team that was led by 3 freshmen 5-stars with a 4th that was extremely important in the postseason. It's certainly possible, and, like all NC teams, a lot needs to go right.
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True but that team also had Amile, Quinn and Matt, the optimum role players for the '15"team.The '17 team was a tease by far: Tatum, GilesJackson, Bolden,and the others on team didnt mesh well with the freshmen.Finally the '18 team and '19 team were teases because we relied probably TOO MUCH on freshmen. Adding one late didnt help chemistry in '18 either! OFC
But that's just my opinion.
It's a hard balancing act for sure. We have recruited for depth, but guys like Jeter, Thornton, Tucker and O'Connell have transferred when they don't get the PT. I just hate having 4 freshman starters, no matter how good they are. This year will be nice as we have 2 sophomores and a senior and a junior.
Context is everything here. Are the five-star guys an absolute sure thing like Deng, Parker, Okafor, Tatum, Bagley, Carter, RJ, Zion? Or are we looking at guys like Marques Bolden and Greg Paulus?
I guess if you phrase it as the “best player at each position in a given class,” than it would depend on the year. Some classes are loaded and some are not, this past years freshman class was weak nationally. The 2021-2022 freshman class is supposed to be insane.
Duke has won zero national titles without blending five star guys to four star guys, so I think K should keep doing what he’s doing. To think you can’t win with freshman based on the past 2 Duke tourney losses (2018 and 2019) is idiotic, 2 bounces of the ball different and Duke could have 7 titles.