Tonight, Jon Scheyer will coach on the big stage for the first time. Is Duke’s 35-year-old head coach ready for Kansas? BrendanRMarks on the new era in Durham:
, has been held out with a calf injury. “His biggest thing,” Laury says, “is getting his full team back.” But time moves on, and Scheyer has had to make the best of it.“You want every practice to be great,” Carrawell says. “You have a vision on how you want it to go — and that one day, it didn’t meet his standard; it didn’t meet our standard.
Scheyer knows this criticism, or skepticism, is coming. The reason he’s been such a strong recruiter — helping haul in No. 1-ranked national classes like a kid does candy on Halloween — is because of the relationships he builds. He has always been the fun, young assistant, in contrast to Krzyzewski’s … well, crankiness. Or, candidness. “My job was to complement him,” Scheyer says, “and that didn’t necessarily mean to be as fiery.
Scheyer still texts regularly with Krzyzewski, too, but he initiates. Plus, it’s not always — or even frequently — about basketball. “He’s allowed me to be me ever since I was a player. I’m not surprised by how he is,” Scheyer says. “We talk all the time, and I don’t shy away from that. He gives me great perspective. I bounce stuff off of him; I’ll continue to do that. That doesn’t make me a worse basketball coach.
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