As Duke Is Opposing Pittsburgh In Quarterfinal Round Of Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Today Former Duke Assistant Coaches, Players Jon Scheyer, Jeff Capel Are Going Head-To -Head
As a Special Assistant, Assistant Coach, Associate Head Coach at Duke to now retired Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski Jon Scheyer helped spark the Blue Devils to two ACC championships and the 2010 NCAA title as a player from 2007-10, has helped Duke compile a 219-62 (.779) record, a national championship (2015), two Final Fours (2015, 2022) and two ACC Tournament crowns (2017, 2019) during his time as an assistant or associate head coach.He helped mentor Tyus Jones in Duke’s 2015 national title season, as the Blue Devils finished the year ranked third nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency. Jones was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player in Indianapolis and was a first-round pick in the 2015 NBA Draft after just one college season.
In 2017, Jon Scheyer helped mold Luke Kennard into a consensus All-American after a breakout sophomore season that saw him rank second in the ACC in scoring and three-point field goal percentage. He also helped develop Frank Jackson into one of the most dynamic young guards in the country during the 2016-17 campaign.
Luke Kennard and Frank Jackson were selected 12th and 31st overall, respectively, in the 2017 NBA Draft.
After Grayson Allen finished his career in 2018 as the 12th-leading scorer in Duke history with 1,996 points, he was drafted in the first round by the Utah Jazz. Allen joined Scheyer as two of just five Blue Devils in history with 1,900 or more points, 400 or more rebounds and 400 or more assists (Grant Hill, Danny Ferry, Johnny Dawkins).
The 2019 campaign saw Tyus’ brother Tre enjoy a breakout year as a freshman by setting the program’s single-season record for assist-to-turnover ratio (3.62), while establishing himself as one of the nation’s premier defensive players. Jones’ classmate, RJ Barrett, finished his remarkable freshman season at Duke as a consensus first-team All-American, the USA Today National Player of the Year, and the overall No. 3 selection in the NBA Draft.
R.J. Barrett broke a myriad of program and ACC records, including both the Duke and conference freshman scoring record with 860 points. His 860 points were surpassed on the program’s single-season scoring list by only J.J. Redick’s 964 points as a senior in 2006. Barrett averaged 22.6 points and was the only major conference player in 2018-19 to score 13+ points in every game of the season.
Under Jon Scheyer’s guidance, Tre Jones parlayed his phenomenal freshman season into a decorated sophomore campaign that ended with him as the 2020 ACC Player of the Year, the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, and an All-American. After two seasons as the starting point guard, Jones declared for the NBA Draft, leaving Duke as the program’s career record-holder in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.88) and ranking third in assists per game (5.8).
Throughout the 2021-22 season, Jon Scheyer worked closely with ACC Freshman of the Year and consensus second-team All-American Paolo Banchero. He also helped guide second-team All-ACC pick Wendell Moore Jr., into performing as one of the nation's most complete players. Moore capped his season winning the Julius Erving Award as the nation's best small forward.
Paolo Banchero capped his collegiate career as the overall No. 1 pick in the 2022 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic, one of a record five Blue Devils drafted in 2022, including four in the first round. In Jon Scheyer’s time at Duke, he has helped mentor 26 Blue Devils to be drafted – 20 being first round selections.
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As a player for Duke for now retired Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski Jon Scheyer was one of the most versatile players in Duke history, concluding his playing career as the only player in school history to record at least 2,000 points, 500 rebounds, 400 assists, 250 three-point field goals and 200 steals. He averaged 14.4 points per game while scoring in double figures 114 times (sixth-most in Duke history) and leading the Blue Devils to a 115-29 (.799) record.
A two-time team captain, Jon Scheyer scored 2,077-career points and still ranks 10th on Duke’s all-time scoring list. He ranks third in Duke history in free throws made (608), fourth in free throw percentage (.861) and three-point field goals made (297) and sixth in free throw attempts (706). He played in 144 consecutive games, tied for the second-longest streak in Duke history.
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Jeff Capel spent seven seasons at Duke University (2011-18), including the final four seasons as associate head coach under Mike Krzyzewski. In that span, he helped guide the Blue Devils to a 200-55 (.784) record, seven NCAA Tournament appearances, the 2017 ACC Tournament championship and the 2015 National Championship. In that time, Capel also helped secure commitments from 19 McDonald’s All-Americans as Duke signed a top-two class in each of the past five years, including the top class in 2014, 2015 and 2018.
During the 2016-17 season, he served as acting head coach for seven games following Krzyzewski’s back surgery. Capel led Duke to a 4-3 record over that stretch, including consecutive road wins at Wake Forest and Notre Dame that sparked a seven-game winning streak in the midst of ACC play. Capel also led the Blue Devils to an 89-71 win over Wake Forest during the 2017-18 season when Krzyzewski was sidelined due to an illness.
Capel was instrumental in the development of that young talent as the Blue Devils produced 15 first-round picks in the NBA Draft during his tenure, including nine lottery picks. Duke had at least one first-round selection every season and multiple first-round picks in five of the seven years with Capel on staff. Eight of the 19 McDonald’s All-Americans Capel helped recruit to Duke were lottery picks.
In 2016-17, Capel was a major influence on Jayson Tatum, an All-ACC selection and the No. 3 overall choice in the NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics. In his final season at Duke, Capel mentored National Freshman of the Year and consensus first team All-America selection Marvin Bagley as well as All-ACC selections Wendell Carter, Jr. and Gary Trent, Jr. Capel also helped Duke secure one of the highest rated recruiting classes in NCAA history in 2018 as the Blue Devils signed the top three players in the class – R.J. Barrett, Cameron Reddish and Zion Williamson – along with two additional five-star players in Tre Jones and Joey Baker.
Capel was vital to the rapid ascent of Brandon Ingram from elite recruit to NBA lottery pick, helping mold him into a Freshman All-American and the ACC Freshman of the Year in 2016 before the Lakers took him with the No. 2 overall pick in that year’s draft.
He was crucial to the signing of the 2014 class that was ranked No. 1 in the nation and featured Grayson Allen, Tyus Jones, Jahlil Okafor and Justise Winslow. That class was the catalyst for Duke’s fifth national championship. Capel’s close work with Jabari Parker (2014) and Okafor (2015) led to both being named All-Americans, earning National Freshman of the Year honors and being top-three picks in their respective NBA Drafts. Winslow and Jones were also taken 10th and 24th overall, respectively, in the 2015 NBA Draft.
As a player for Duke for now retired Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski Jeff Capel served as a team captain in both 1996 and 1997 and earned third team All-ACC accolades as a junior in 1996.
He made an immediate impact at Duke and was a four-year starter for the Blue Devils, leading the team to 83 wins and a trip to the 1994 national championship game. He racked up 1,601 points, 433 assists and 220 three-point field goals, finishing among Duke’s career leaders in minutes played, three-point field goals made, three-point field goal percentage and assists.
As Duke Is opposing Pittsburgh in quarterfinal round of Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament today former Duke Assistant Coaches, Players are going head-to -head where the winner will advance to semifinal Friday where Thursday afternoon winners will oppose each other because Duke is tipping off the Atlantic Tournament in Greensboro in quarterfinals while Pittsburgh has already played a game in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament as they played Georgia Tech in second round Wednesday, advanced to quarterfinal Thursday with 89-81 in Greensboro at Greensboro Coliseum as Blake Hinson was 4-10 on field goals, 2-5 on 3 pointers to go along 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 12 points. Federiko Federiko was 7-7 on field goals to go along with 8 rebounds , 1 assists, 19 points. Jamarius Burton was 10-15 on field goals, 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along 3 rebounds, 8 assists, 21 points . Nelly Cummings was 3-10 on field goals, 1-3 on 3 pointers to go along with 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 11 points. Greg Elliott was 4-5 on field goals, 4-4 on 3 pointers to go along 6 rebounds, 1 assists, 16 points. Jorge Diaz Graham was 0-1 on field goals, 3 pointers to go along with 1 , 0 points while identical twin brother Guillermo Diaz Graham was 1-3 on field goals, 0-1 on 3 pointers like his identical twin brother to go along 2 rebounds, 1 assists, 5 points. Nike Sibande was 2-4 on field goals, 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along with 2 rebounds, 5 points.
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Duke, Pittsburgh Jon Scheyer, Jeff Capel opposed each other once during regular season when Duke hosted Pittsburgh in Durham on Wednesday January 11, 2023 where Duke defeated Pittsburgh, Jon Scheyer defeated Jeff Capel 77-69.
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Duke was down 43-32 to Pittsburgh at halftime Wednesday in Durham Duke came back to beat Pittsburgh 77-69.
As Duke came back to beat Pittsburgh 77-69 Wednesday in Durham Mark Mitchell was 2-9 on field goals , 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along with 9 rebounds , 1 assists, 10 points. Dariq Whitehead was 2-11 on field goals , 2-7 on 3 pointers to go along with 5 rebounds , 1 assists, 6 points . Kyle Filipowski was 8-14 on field goals, 1-4 on 3 pointers to go along with 15 rebounds , 2 assists, 28 points . Ryan Young was 3-6 on field goals to go along with 10 rebounds , 7 points . Tyrese Proctor was 4-9 on field goals , 1-4 on 3 pointers to go along 5 assists , 14 points. Dereck Lively II was 3-6 on field goals to go along 4 rebounds , 1 assists, 6 points . Jaylen Blakes was 0-5 on field goals, 0-4 on 3 pointers to go along with 3 rebounds , 1 assists though, he contributed 0 points.Jacob Grandison was 2-6 on field goals, 2-6 on 3 pointers to go along 1 rebound, 2 assists, 6 points.
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Following Duke’s come from behind 77-69 win over Pittsburgh Wednesday Jon Scheyer who is coaching his inaugural as Duke Head Coach had this to say for his opening statement! On the decision to start switching on defense and why it was such an effective strategy. On the difference Tyrese Proctor makes when he is on the floor. On Kyle Filipowski’s 28-point, 15 rebound performance. On the crowd’s energy in Cameron tonight and how take energy to road games.
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Jon Scheyer who is coaching inaugural season as Duke Head Coach wasn’t the one to share his thoughts following Duke’s come back win over Pittsburgh 77-69 as freshman forward Kyle Filipowski, freshman guard Tyrese Proctor, freshman forward Dariq Whitehead did as well.
Freshman center Kyle Filipowski had this to say for his Opening Statement on what Jon Scheyer said to the team at halftime “I think a big thing was just turnovers in the first half for us. [Reducing the turnovers] gave us a lot more shot attempts in the second half. And also, just our defense – we let up around 40 points in the first half. That wasn’t really our type of defense. I don’t know how [many points] we let up in the second half, but it wasn’t nearly as much. That also turned into offense for us. We were all on the same page tonight and it was a really good win overall.” “We’ve just got to build off this now. We know how great of a team we can be. We know we still have a lot better things to do as well, like take care of the ball a little better, and things like that. This is a just a little sneak peak of the potential we have and how good all of us can be.”
Freshman guard Tyrese Proctor had this to say for his opening statement on the play of the Duke freshman tonight.
Especially with Jeremy [Roach] being out, on court I’ve got to be the leader – I’m playing point guard. He’sstill impacting us off the court, grabbing guys through little bits of the game and just talking to us. But when I’m on the floor, I’m going to be the most vocal to everyone and just try to get everyone on the same page. The main message I was giving to them was don’t give up and keep fighting.
“Everyone’s saying we’re all soft and all young, but we don’t let that slide and we wanted to come out and prove everyone a point – that we can hang with everyone and we can play the way we want to play. Everyone around the country’stalking about our age and how young we are, [teams] trying to out-tough us and be more physical with us, but we hear that and we just take it on and use it to build confidence. We came out and wanted to prove a point and I thought we did.” “It wascrazy. We just fed off the Crazies and the crowd tonight. It was a great atmosphere and I’m happy we got the win.”
Freshman Dariq Whitehead who unlike his freshman teammates Kyle Filipowski, Tyrese Proctor is a forward had this to say following Duke’s come back win over Pittsburgh for his opening statement, when asked if this game felt like a turning point for this Duke team.
“It’s the first day of class, the Crazies came back, so we fed off that energy and it was huge for us. I honestly feel like they changed the game, really.” “We’ve just got to continue to grow in practice, limit the turnovers. I feel like if we just continue to play as a team and just continue to share the ball, then the sky’s the limit for this team.”It should be a turning point for the team. Just us seeing how well we share the ball together, I feel like it should be huge for this team. That should continue down the road.
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Pittsburgh lost to Duke in the only regular season meeting 69-77 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 in Durham though, Blake Hinson was 3-8 on field goals, 2-5 on field goals to go along with 3 rebounds , 10 points Federiko Federiko was 2-3 on field goals to go along 4 rebounds, 4 points. Jamarius Burton was 7-17 on field goals, 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along with 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 16 points. Nelly Cummings was 5-11 on field goals, 2-6 on field goals to go along 1 rebound, 14 points. Greg Elliott was 2-6 on field goals, 1-4 on 3 pointers to go along with 1 assists, 9 points . Guillermo Diaz Graham was 1-1 on field goals, to go along 2 rebounds, 2 assists. Nate Santos was 1-4 on field goals, 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along 2 rebounds, 2 points . Nike Sabande was 4-8 on field goals, 1-4 on 3 pointers to go along 6 rebounds, 11 points.
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Tip off is set for 2:30pm from Greensboro Coliseum where the winner is going to advance to play winner of Miami, Wake Forest on semifinal Friday.
The game is going to be televised on ESPN with Dave O’Brien, Cory Alexander, Andraya Carter!
Cory Alexander was a Virginia guard who played 1991-1995 where he played in 85 games averaging 15.1 points, 3.5 rebounds, 4.7 assists per game being drafted by San Antonio Spurs in first round as 29th pick in 1995 NBA Draft.
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