Duke’s Grayson Allen, All Grown Up
“He does valuable things for us, or else we wouldn’t be sitting here right now,” Krzyzewski said of Jones, Duke’s sixth-leading scorer, adding, “There are valuable things
that only people who want to look deeper into it see.”
This year, the Duke Senior is Allen.
Before the 2015 title run, Krzyzewski said “our most valuable guy” was the senior Quinn Cook, even though by objective measurements
that honor belonged to one of the three freshmen who were selected in the first round of the N. B.A.
“He has chosen another path: He has recruited less athletic players that will stay around campus for four years.”
But since then, Krzyzewski, the Hall of Famer and leader for coaching victories in major men’s basketball, has turned Duke into the most formidable
factory of so-called one-and-dones, those highly sought players who spend a single season in college simply to fulfill N. B.A.
Despite the debacle, Coach Mike Krzyzewski said he was glad Allen had taken the late shots, not
because he is Duke’s lone senior, but because they were open.
ON COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Despite playing every minute of Saturday’s game against St. John’s at Madison Square Garden, the Duke senior Grayson Allen had not done much.
“Maturity of the game, not just individually but collectively, is something we have to teach in a condensed period of time,” Krzyzewski said.
Recruiting one-and-done talents has a clear upside — it gets you the best players — and in 2015 it produced Krzyzewski’s fifth national title.