Duke Basketball Star Not Content With Early Season Dominance

We have to give Duke a lot of credit for what it's going to look like on both sides of the basketball this season if everything goes as planned. 

Duke has continued to show us why it has a real opportunity to be the best team in America, playing extremely well during the exhibition stages of the year and dominating the first contest of the regular season against Army.

What makes things even more impressive is that Duke has a bunch of guys who just want to play basketball at a high level. 

These guys aren't necessarily worried about who is going to do what, who's going to score as many points as they can, or any other factor.

All these guys want to do at Duke is win a national championship, and that's a lot of credit to head coach Jon Scheyer. 

Scheyer does an excellent job recruiting a lot of these players out of the portal, but the fact that he's able to bring them in and change their mindsets right away goes to show the type of coach he is and why he's so respected.

Speaking to reporters, one of his returners had a lot to say about the mindset that Scheyer brings to this program. It's also very impressive to hear that none of them are content with how they've played to start the year.

“Coach talked about some little things that are our identity,” Dame Sarr said, per Chip Alexander. “Things like diving to the floor for every loose ball. Those are things we can’t just bring to some games. We have to be the type of team that can do that every single time. I think it’s about learning from this game and going on to the next one.”

”There’s so much more for us to grow and learn about ourselves… There are a lot of things for us to clean up. I think the zone kind of threw us off and we didn’t share the ball like we can.”

Just because Duke won a couple of exhibition games and was able to blow out an Army team that shouldn't have been on the same court as it doesn't mean that it doesn't have to get better. 

If one team understands that around the country, it's Duke, and Scheyer is the reason why. It's also easy to do so when you have guys like Sarr walking around and being leaders for this program. 

I'm very curious to see what happens when this team faces some adversity throughout the year, but these comments go to show that guys are going to have each other's backs no matter what.