ACC Basketball: Analyzing each team's overall offense for 2020-21 season

ACC Basketball: Analyzing each team’s overall offense for 2020-21 season

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - FEBRUARY 10: Teammates Jordan Goldwire #14, Wendell Moore Jr. #0 and Tre Jones #3 of the Duke Blue Devils react after a play against the Florida State Seminoles during their game at Cameron Indoor Stadium on February 10, 2020 in Durham, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 22: Wendell Moore Jr. #0 of the Duke Blue Devils (Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images) /

Duke Blue Devils

2019-20: 82 ppg in ACC play

One needs very little insight into Duke Basketball to know that things are going to look different after losing their three top scorers to the NBA Draft. With starters Vernon Carey Jr. (17.8 ppg), Tre Jones (16.2 ppg), and Cassius Stanley (12.6 ppg) departing for the pros, Coach Krzyzewski put together the third-best recruiting class to once again reload and build the team in his image.

While coaches do adapt year-to-year according to the players they have, coaches do recruit with their coaching systems in mind and it is a lot easier to find guys to fit your system as opposed to finding a system to fit numerous guys.

As expected Coach K utilized his two best players in a pick’n’roll extensively, something that he can continue to do with two new freshmen. Point Guard Jeremy Roach was No. 20 on the RSCI and attacks the basket with or without a screen and could rival Jones’ 36 percent from beyond the arc. Roach will not be left to get to the basket himself, just as Jones had Vernon Carey Jr, Roach will have No. 25 on the RSCI Mark Williams. Williams will not be as dangerous offensively but he is more than capable to finish with a dunk after a Roach dish.

Coach K had Matthew Hurt (9.7 ppg) and Carey Jr set opposite high screens, this year it should be a trio of freshmen as Roach uses Williams’ screen as No. 11 on the RSCI Jalen Johnson cuts high post to draw the defense and leave Hunt open in the corner for three. All this and Wendell Moore Jr’s ability to dribble drive and kick out to the perimeter or dunk in traffic has not been mentioned.

The bench is stacked with talented big men who Coach K cannot put all on the court at the same time. Columbia transfer 6’10 Patrick Tape dunked on a lot of players in the IVY league for eleven points last season. Combo guard No. 24 on RSCI DJ Steward and No. 33 Jaemyn Brakefield who would be freshmen starters on numerous other teams in the ACC, will contribute heavily off the bench. Senior Jordan Goldwire will be able to instill the ‘Blue Devil Way’ in the locker room and give a different type of look to defenses in the backcourt coming off the bench.