Jason
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My bet is in the next week or so we'll get a good hint as to what Pat is thinking about doing, whether it be the NBA or returning to Duke.
I don't think he's considering the portal at all.
And once we know about that, Duke will begin to allocate resources toward โ
toward a big man.
I think that whether it's Pat or Flory or someone else as the starter, Duke will also look for a backup big man in the portal.
So yeah, big man is going to be one of the major places that the Blue Devils are looking to.
I say portal, but there are freshmen, there are international bigs that Duke's also looking at that are possibilities, but we won't get into all of that.
I want to get to a couple other things about roster construction.
The first one is, especially with the way we've seen Darren Rippey playing in, you know, in the McDonald's practices, McDonald's all-star game, it's clear that Darren Rippey is going to play a lot of minutes at point guard next year for the Duke Blue Devils.
And I'm just going to go ahead and say, I think that makes it
a little bit less likely that both Caden Boozer and Caleb Foster will be back at Duke.
I hate to say that.
I would love for Duke to retain all the guys who are not going to the NBA.
I just don't think that's going to be the case this year.
I think it's just going to be harder to make everything fit.
My bet would be, if I had to go out on a limb, my bet would be that
Caleb Foster is sort of the least point guarding of those three guys.
Darren Rippey is clearly a point guard.
I think Caden Boozer is clearly a point guard.
I don't think either of them are sort of well suited to play off the ball.