Favorite 5 Duke Players of All Time...

Tlass

Junior
Sep 26, 2011
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325
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1. G. Hill
2. Laettner
3. Dawkins
4. Banks (I'm with you on this Sky)
5. JJ (let it rain) Redick
 

Dattier

All-American
Sep 1, 2003
9,374
5,634
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Rivers
Duhon
Thorton
Ferry
G Henderson
I loved Rivers killer instinct and cocky attitude, but I always thought he killed the team chemistry and was a bit to selfish, in the way win or lose I need to get mine.
Sorry, but that has to be the weirdest fave 5 ever.

It was Austin's cocky attitude that gave the impression of self-centeredness. I don't know that we can have the positives related to confidence w/o the impression -- impression -- that he was "me first." Even his iconic shot to beat UNC -- there's that angle where he can be seen waving Seth off, sort of a calm-down-I-got-this gesture. There was never any doubt he was going to take the shot, never a thought that he might pass.

The way I heard it, the issues w/ that team were more about Miles and Seth resenting Austin than Austin doing anything the coaches didn't accept as our best chance to win that year.
 

christophero

Heisman
May 2, 2017
16,623
19,995
113
Man this is tough. 1. Grant Hill. 2. Shane Battier 3. T. Langdon 4. Elton Brand 5. Kyle Singler