During Tuesday’s episode of The Brotherhood Podcast, former Duke basketball player Jay Bilas sat down with head coach [autotag]Jon Scheyer[/autotag] to ask about how a coach builds camaraderie on a team with two returning players.
Scheyer, entering his third season as Duke’s head coach, laid out a simple plan: grueling workouts.
“What I’ve learned in my time at Duke,” Scheyer said. “You really bond by doing hard things together.”
The Blue Devils coach said previous summers at his program focused on individual work and easing back into form and shape. Instead, Scheyer said the offseason ahead of the 2024-25 season will revolve around harder work and conditioning and team exercises.
“We’re going to do things differently this summer,” Scheyer told Bilas.
“We’re going to challenge these guys.”
Scheyer has spent the entire offseason praising the competitive nature of his incoming recruits, especially No. 1 prospect [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag]. The Duke head coach already mentioned that no player was promised minutes or playing time ahead of the 2024-25 season.
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Duke fans got their first look at Scheyer’s new squad during K Academy social clips last week.