Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer spoke this week about what makes incoming freshman Cooper Flagg such a unique talent.
It's been a while since incoming Duke basketball forward Cooper Flagg, No. 1 overall on the 247Sports 2024 Composite, was on the losing side in a basketball game. AsAnd as his future head coach, Jon Scheyer, suggested during an appearance on the ACC Network this week, it's no coincidence the clear-cut best prep team in all the land had the 6-foot-9, 200-pound Flagg on its roster:
"It's been a joy to watch him play in high school," Scheyer, fresh off constructing a loaded roster for his third season at the helm in Durham after compiling back-to-back 27-9 campaigns in his first two years as a head coach, told the ACC PM crew. "No matter when I've seen him, if it's Sunday morning at 8 a.m. after playing for a few days, whether it's watching him play on ESPN in the national championship game this year, he always plays the same way.
"He always competes, 100 percent effort. And I think that's the separator. Obviously, you look at his athleticism, talent, size, and skill — it's off the charts. But to me, it's how he competes and who he is as a teammate."Cooper Flagg will join 2018-19 one-and-done RJ Barrett as the only two Duke basketball players to ever arrive in Durham with a 1.0000 composite rating on 247Sports.The potential No.
They'll be alongside two returning scholarship Blue Devils in Tyrese Proctor and Caleb Foster, as well as four inbound transfers in Maliq Brown, Mason Gillis, Sion James, and Cameron Sheffield.Matt Giles is the editor and publisher of FanNation's Blue Devil Country and All Tar Heels, covering the Duke Blue Devils and UNC Tar Heels on SI.com.
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