Jon Scheyer Very Happy With Duke's Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje to Start Career

Throughout Duke's first couple of games, it's obvious this is one of the best teams in the country by a wide margin. It's very impressive what we've seen on both sides of the basketball from guys, but we also have to give a lot of credit to some of the youngsters. 

Guys like Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje have shown us why people have been so high on him entering the year, even if there are some things he has to work on. 

The young man is expected to be one of the best players in the country this season, though it's also important to recognize that he's only 17 years old.

The young Duke star hasn't been bad by any means to start the season, but there have been some times when he looks like he needs to continue working on his game. 

He didn't play too well against Coastal Carolina on Friday night, scoring just nine points in 19 minutes. He was 2-of-5 from the field, scoring four of his nine points from the free-throw line. He also had three turnovers, but there are other factors that go into this.

One of those is that he's very coachable, according to everybody who has talked about what has impressed them throughout the early stages of him being in Durham. That includes head coach Jon Scheyer, who had some great comments about the young man.

“It’s the reason he’s here, to continue to expand his limits," Scheyer said. "He’s doing really good things, but we’re coaching him hard. That’s what he came here for; that’s what his family wanted. He wants to be great. …He’s hard on himself. So I want him to continue to work through a game of not being perfect and getting to the next play. He’s done that; he’s been really coachable.

"We want to continue to help him speed up the process of what an impactful player he can be. I’ll tell you what: he’s even further ahead of schedule than I thought of where he’d be. What he’s doing at the youngest player ever for us, the impactful minutes he’s playing, has been terrific. But we want to continue to just speed up that process, and he wants the same thing,” Scheyer said of Boumtje Boumtje, per FanSided.

Scheyer has never felt like a guy who was going to beat around the bush, and he's definitely not somebody who is going to play a kid if he doesn't believe that he's ready. 

It's obvious that Boumtje Boumtje is more than ready to play at this level, but as Scheyer touched on, there are just little things that guys have to learn when they come play college basketball. 

While he has different experience than the typical high school kid because he played overseas, that didn't mean he was instantly going to come in and be a perfect player.