I must clarify, I love Jabari, and he was really good for Duke but he wasn't a tough player, was a complete liability on defense, and didn't help team chemistry...I know some of that is a team construction issue, but to continue with my point; Parker's team lost one of the most embarrassing losses in our programs history because he had no clue how to step up when times got tough.
I said that these guys will end up reaching their potential like he is in the NBA now, but that simply does not help Duke. I wasnt knocking Jabari, he just became one of my scapegoat's to make my point that these ultra talented kids like him normally hurt Dukes chemistry more than they help it, and then they are gone.
The 2015 team was THE PERFECT group of freshman, all hand picked by the basketball God's and all dropped onto Duke's roster and just isn't likely to happen again, as bad as we want it to.
We need more of the hardest working guys on the court like Duke was known for, most of K's career. We were so damn hard to beat cause every player on the court with a Duke jersey on were gonna slap the court as a unit, body you up as a unit, shut you down and just play too damn hard for most teams to hang with. We have not been the hardest working team much lately and that's cause of the weak or inexperienced mentality of most of these freshman.
My frustration with this season is bringing this feeling out more than normal, but since the one and done era we've seen Duke less and less be the hardest playing team on the court and that's the one thing I cannot accept. If we lose playing our hardest it's always OK, I just want these guys to play their asses off again.
