Paolo Banchero knows what Duke can do for any player.
Over the past few decades and throughout a lot of its existence, Duke has undoubtedly been the best team in all of college basketball when it comes to putting players in the NBA. Not only has Duke done a ridiculous job of putting players in the NBA, but it has had a lot of guys selected first overall, lottery picks, and eventually NBA stars.
Paolo Banchero, Kyrie Irving, Jayson Tatum, and Cooper Flagg are just a couple of them to name a few in recent years. There's a reason why Duke has done such a great job recruiting, and a lot of it is because of its ability to put players in a position to make the NBA and succeed at that level.
Speaking to reporters recently about whether he believes that Duke is still the marquee program in the country, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Banchero had a lot to say about why players should choose Duke if they believe they want to play in the NBA and have a chance to do so one day.
"If you wanna be what you say you wanna be, if you want to be the No. 1 pick, if you want to go to the NBA and accomplish what great players accomplish, there's nowhere else you should go, there's no one else you should play for," Banchero said.
"I feel like when I left, I was 10 times the player I was when I got here."
Banchero really developed a lot of his game at Duke and has impressed a lot during his time in the NBA.
It's interesting to hear that he developed much more than was even noticed, as he came in with a lot of skill. However, the fact of the matter here is that he's been a lot better since being at Duke, and that's really cool to hear him say that he thinks a lot of that is because of what the Blue Devils were able to do for him.
It also isn't too difficult to see why kids want to play in North Carolina when guys like Banchero and Tatum, as well as others, make the comments that they do about the school.
