Cooper Flagg has regarded each bit nearly as good as marketed for the Duke Blue Devils to this point, however he’s coping with a problem that seemingly has the workforce’s teaching workers in some sizzling water.
Duke head coach Jon Scheyer was considerably vital of himself and his workers after Flagg missed the majority of the second half of Saturday’s 100-58 win over Military. Flagg was coping with cramping, and Scheyer urged the workers had not finished sufficient to care for Flagg.
“Yeah, we’ve obtained to assist him,” Scheyer stated, through Kyle Boone of CBS Sports activities. “We’ve obtained to assist him. I’m not joyful about it, for him. We’ve obtained to assist him — and we are going to. Proper after this, I can promise you I’m going to be assembly [with Duke’s staff]. I don’t care if it’s all evening. We are able to’t have that occur, backside line.
“It’s all of us. It’s me, our coaches, our medical workforce, sport efficiency. It’s all of us. We’ve obtained to assist him. He’s doing the whole lot he must in preparation. He prepares his butt off: he drinks, eats the best method, does the whole lot he must. We’ve obtained to assist him care for this. Now.”
Flagg nonetheless wound up with 13 factors and 11 rebounds in 25 minutes of motion, however Duke clearly needed to get him a much bigger workload. The soar from highschool basketball to varsity is a giant one, even for a man like Flagg, so these rising pains are to be anticipated.
Flagg held his personal in USA Basketball camp, however the depth of that also doesn’t evaluate to precise video games. He must be high quality, and Duke’s workers has definitely been placed on discover to ensure that’s the case.
