Billy Dat
05-21-2009, 09:43 AM
(Mods - I looked for an older thread to post this in, assuming there was a Duke players in the NBA thread, but I couldn't find one and gave up.)
I just saw the following in David Thorpe's ESPN chat yesterday and thought it was an interesting take on Duke players success in the NBA, one that I hadn't heard before:
Bill (Jacksonville): How will Gerald Henderson be in the NBA?
David Thorpe: Very talented. I only question his motor, Coach K gets everyone to play so hard but few NBA coaches do that.
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I've always felt that one of K getting his teams to play harder was an explanation for a lot of Duke phenomena (e.g. our gaudy records in the first 1/2 of the season), but never thought that it might part of the a reason why a guy was more successful at Duke than in the pros.
I just saw the following in David Thorpe's ESPN chat yesterday and thought it was an interesting take on Duke players success in the NBA, one that I hadn't heard before:
Bill (Jacksonville): How will Gerald Henderson be in the NBA?
David Thorpe: Very talented. I only question his motor, Coach K gets everyone to play so hard but few NBA coaches do that.
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I've always felt that one of K getting his teams to play harder was an explanation for a lot of Duke phenomena (e.g. our gaudy records in the first 1/2 of the season), but never thought that it might part of the a reason why a guy was more successful at Duke than in the pros.