Jason Evans

Hei there, Duke-fans. Boy, this is not fun at the moment, but we're going to do it anyway. DBR podcast, DBR Bytes, episode 159. Actually, on the one yesterday I said the wrong number, I said 156. You know, can't even keep up with the numbers anymore. Jason Evans here. Like I said, I was here with you almost exactly 24 hours ago talking about the departure of Darren Harris from the Blue Devils. Here to talk about another one of those, I'm joined by Donald Wine this time.

Yeah, and we're specifically referring to the fact that Nick Jimena has announced that he will be transferring from Duke. I guess he has an official, he's entering the transfer portal.

Onko jokainen tapauksessa, jolloin Duke haastaa häntä takaisin? Luulen, että jos jokainen aloittaa portalin, se on aina mahdollista. Se on melko todennäköistä, ei aina tapahtua niin usein. Se tuntuu olevan sellaista, kuin jos pari Carolina-yhtiöä aloittaa portalin, mutta heillä on uusi koulutus ja voit nähdä tapauksia, jolloin heidät haastavat takaisin.

with a sort of a new situation, even though it's at the same school. You don't often see guys occasionally. Actually, Flory Badunga last year, I think, entered the portal, then went back to Kansas. Bottom line, I don't think anyone, there's not a lot of talk that Nick Hemenia has entered the portal with the intention of maybe coming back to Duke. So, in all likelihoods,

Nick will be a one and done, so to speak, as a Blue Devil, that being his freshman year and then moving on elsewhere. I will go ahead and say that...

This one stings. Far, far worse than the Darren Harris departure. Not that it has anything to do with how beloved or anything like that, but just in terms of contributions and expected roles and the such. It's very, very easy to see where you would think that Nick was going to be a key player. Probably not a starter, but sixth or seventh man. Same kind of role, maybe slightly elevated from what he had this past season. And you would go, dude, 20 plus minutes a game.

You know, if not starting games, finishing a pretty fair number of them, why don't you want to stick around? Well, Donald, the reality is...

Duke ei todennäköisesti tarjoanut hänet aloittamalla. Olemme kuulleet toisia kouluja, toisia Power Conference-kouluja. Olemme kuulleet isoja kouluja, jotka tarjoavat hänet aloittamalla, ja jotka tarjoavat hänet aloittamalla minuutteja. En usko, että on... Jotkut onnistuvat, Donald. En usko, että on tilanne, jossa voisi luonnollisesti suunnittelemaan, että Nick Hymenia pitäisi pelata 30 minuuttia peliä Dukella ensi vuonna. Luulen, että esimerkiksi UCLA tai Gonzaga, jotka ovat kaksi koulua, joita olen kuullut liittyviä hänelle,

Duke this this season especially considering he was a freshman a freshman with a role that moved around a lot like he would he was backing up Cameron Boozer he was also backing up guys on the wing there were times when Duke had to kind of go small and Cam would move to the five and Nick would play the four uh you know Nick was being asked to do a lot of different things in terms of

On offense he was primarily a passer and a stand alone shooter, but on defense he was given a variety of different assignments and the such. Not a high usage guy by any stretch of the imagination was Nick. His usage rate at Duke was under 15%. Remember, there are five guys on the floor. If everyone's equal usage is 20%.

The stars tend to be up above 25%. Well, Nick was down at 15%, which is pretty low, because Duke didn't ask him to do a lot on offense, but he found so many other ways, other places.

to impact the team. Donald, did you know his steal percentage? He had one of the top 20 steal percentages in the ACC this past year in conference play. A dude with a defensive reputation found a way to be very, very effective on defense. Really good rebounder. Remember the game in the ACC tournament against Clemson? He was one of Duke's top couple players on the floor that day.

Hän oli 14 pointtia, on saanut 3-3 pointeja, on saanut 6 rebauneja, on pelannut 31 minuuttia Clemsonin kanssa. Seuraavassa pelassa, Virginiaan ja ACC-kampioon, hän on pelannut 32 minuuttia. Hän on saanut 9 pointtia ja 6 rebauneja. Tämä on iso rooli. On helppo katsoa, mitä hän on tehty, ja sanoa, että voin suunnitella hänestä hieman enemmän ja enemmän. Ja muuten, luulen, että kouluja, jotka hänet pysyvät,

Olemme puhuneet, että se oli todennäköisesti viisimäinen, viisimäinen henkilö Dukea ensi vuonna, todennäköisesti viisimäinen henkilö. Nämä muissa kouluissa puhutaan Nickistä, että haluamme sinut tuomaan ja olla yksi niiden parhaimmista pelaajista. Luulen, että haluamme kuulla, että Nick on Suomessa. Luulen, että hän menisi takaisin Suomeen. On vaikeaa olla todella, todella lähellä teidän perheestä.

And it's a long way to go east coast from west coast. So my bet is he goes back to the west coast. UCLA is already talking about like, we're going to bring in Nick Kemenia and he's, I've read an article. UCLA is like, we want to bring in Nick Kemenia to help turn around this program and return us to national relevance. That's, I mean, that's a huge role. And that's not a role he would have gotten at Duke.

people are just like players are loyal to the school for a year the school is loyal to them for a year except now it's more transactional in the form of a contract yeah i i want to i want to say something and i i i alluded to this a little bit over the past couple episodes but i want i know that there are a lot of people out there a lot of duke fans

who are super upset and like, you know, why are these guys leaving and why can't we have continuity? I mentioned this yesterday, folks. There's no loyalty left in the sport. Duke got, in my opinion, extraordinarily, I don't want, lucky is the wrong word, but it took a lot last year at this time for Duke to retain as many guys as we did. Mm-hmm.

tuoda takaisin Patin ja Isaiahin ja Darrenin. Ja Malikin. Ja Calebin. Tuo oli suuri alku, jota tuoda takaisin joukkueeseen. Se ei ole enää yliopistokoulua. Se ei toimi niin kuin se on nyt. Ja kun puhun lojauksesta, en puhu pelaajista joukkueista tai joukkueista pelaajista. Puhun kuitenkin molemmista.

Siinä ei ole niin paljon kuin aiemmin. Meidän täytyy olla useampi, kuten sanoin, että kaikki ovat ilmaiset asiantuntijat. Luulen, että kun kaikki on jo tehty, niin helposti yli puolet koulutusjärjestöistä tulee portaaliin.

It's already happened. I already said it's over half already in the portal. Jason, that's not counting the guys who haven't entered the portal that are clearly getting calls from other teams like, if you enter the portal, we'll give you this. I mean, I think retaining three or four guys is going to become a huge cause for celebration and a surprise and not what happens all the time, especially at a big time program like Duke. And we just...