Anyone know if Chase Jeter...
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I don't know, but it could get even more interesting next year since Duke is going after Mohamed Bamba and Wendell Carter.
Jeter needs to improve big time or else he could really get lost in the shuffle if Duke gets those two.
Jeter needs to improve big time or else he could really get lost in the shuffle if Duke gets those two.
Throw Bolden in there as well once he's buried behind Jefferson/Giles by late November and once he realizes that the minutes he actually does get will feature his standing around watching a team without a point guard somehow magically negotiate shots for Allen, Tatum, Giles, Kennard, and Jackson.
This thing could get infinitely more entertaining than we first imagined.
This thing could get infinitely more entertaining than we first imagined.
So the impetus is with the players not producing as expected? I doubt it. More like Duke recruited guys with limitations but sold those same prospects on being something they weren't. Duke needed Jeter for depth last year just like it needs Bolden for depth this upcoming year. Those two guys were always going to be recruited over, thus making Capel's song and dance and its implications on the recruiting trail very disingenuous.
That's the way Duke sets up its plausible deniability in these scenarios. Sell a kid on being a game changer, but really understanding that from a coaching staff-only dialogue, the young man will be and will remain a role player. Meanwhile, keep loading up on likes of Carter and Bamba. When a kid like Jeter "doesn't improve enough", the plausible deniability sets in and K and his cronies wield the counter measure of, "Well, Jeter and Bolden had their chance." The reality, however, is that the kid never had a real chance outside of a depth necessity level.
Chase Jeter will be a 4 year player at Duke. He is in no way an NBA prospect at this point; he could have a ceiling of Brice Johnson by his senior year if he keeps improving and putting on strength and a floor of a Marshall Plumlee if he doesn't improve. Its all up to him.
You aren't guaranteed a starting spot at any of the bluebloods, you have to earn it. We would gladly show Briscoe the door if we could nab Josh Jackson somehow.
You aren't guaranteed a starting spot at any of the bluebloods, you have to earn it. We would gladly show Briscoe the door if we could nab Josh Jackson somehow.
He'd still see time. Remember Giles is coming off his second torn ACL, so my guess is Coach K won't just want to rush him back full speed. Plus Bolden still hasn't officially picked Duke yet, although it looks considerably more likely today than I thought it was a month ago when I was 70 percent sure he was gonna pick Kentucky. Then Jefferson has to come back from a broken foot as well.
Plus Coach K has talked Jeter up big time in practice. They say it's a matter of him putting it all together. I don't get to see practices obviously, but if that's true, obviously it has to translate to the court in games at some point.
Circumstances are a bit different this coming year than they were last year. Last year it was Jefferson and Plumlee up front and then nothing behind them. Then Jefferson went down and essentially Duke's chances of doing anything significant in the NCAA Tournament went down with him. This forced Ingram to play a lot of the four spot out of necessity since Jeter obviously wasn't anywhere near ready even though the opportunity was there. This upcoming season, it was supposed to be Giles and Jeter looked at as the starters since Jefferson was a senior, but him breaking his foot did change all of that. But Giles doesn't really want to play the 5 spot (although I'm sure he will at times) and he's got his second ACL injury to come back from while Jefferson has to come back from his broken foot. Now I don't expect Javin DeLaurier to play a lot this coming season, but maybe he'll show more than I expect him to. I'd expect Bolden to be the first or second big off the bench if he chooses Duke. Depends on how he looks in comparison to Jeter over the summer.
I will agree with you on selling Jeter on being something he wasn't. Maybe in time he'll develop into what Coach K and Duke were selling him on, but I honestly watched some highlight tapes of him in high school and thought he looked a little overrated. I just wasn't that impressed with him physically or athletically and thought he looked like more of a project than a guy who was supposed to be a consensus top 15 or 20 recruit and McDonald's All-American. Turns out I was correct there. Shows how weak the 2015 high school class was IMO.
I still don't get that. K has always favored smaller lineups but Carter & Bamba are both pure centers. I find it hard to believe they'll get both.
QUOTE="jrpross, post: 4376505, member: 7400"]I still don't get that. K has always favored smaller lineups but Carter & Bamba are both pure centers. I find it hard to believe they'll get both.[/QUOTE]
I hear you on K favoring the smaller lineup and I'm not going to guarantee Duke gets both or even one of them, but one of them could definitely play the four. Bamba especially. He needs to add some weight (even for the college game) to bang down low at the five spot unless he's added a ton of weight recently which I'm unaware of.
I hear you on K favoring the smaller lineup and I'm not going to guarantee Duke gets both or even one of them, but one of them could definitely play the four. Bamba especially. He needs to add some weight (even for the college game) to bang down low at the five spot unless he's added a ton of weight recently which I'm unaware of.
Chase Jeter will be like the Plumlees. He will contribute by time he leaves Duke, but he was never an impact Freshman and when you're recruiting like Duke, he's easily going to be facing comparable incoming big men every year he stays.
How does Jeter contribute if he never sees significant PT. Please don't say practice. If you don't get the opportunity to play through your mistakes in real time, you never get better. With the addition of Bolden, where is Jeter going to play if Giles shows up healthy. The young man would be better of transferring now or resign himself to being a spectator. I doubt the Obi dude from Rice is going to settle for the bench either.