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Duke’s Cameron Boozer Leads ACC Men’s Basketball 2025-26 Season Honors

Duke freshman forward Cameron Boozer has been voted the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, highlighting the 2025-26 All-ACC Men’s Basketball Team and award winners, which were announced Monday, March 9, by the conference office. The ACC’s regular-season...
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Donnie only missed third team by two players. So I don't feel quite as stupid for suggesting that might be possible in the Pitt game thread.
 
Maxsumm said:
Maliq Brown clearly made the correct business decision and made himself some future money this year with some kind of pro career. I doubt he would have developed under this coaching staff in the same way. He was quite impressive on defense against Carolina.
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Maliq made a good decision in transferring but he really hasn't shown a lot of improvement in his offensive output. He was ACC all defensive team at SU so I don't think Duke developed him any more than Syracuse would have. Offensively he might have been better off on a team that needed more from him.
 
"Maliq is as unselfish of a guy as I have ever coached," Scheyer said about Brown, "He's also as competitive of a player that I have ever coached.

"What he did last year, when he dislocated his shoulder twice, to come back in and play through it was one of the toughest things I've ever seen a guy do; he was out the whole summer because of it. He comes back and was dealing with a knee injury and wasn't able to practice and was not in his best form. He is just coming into his best form. I thought tonight was an example of how good he is on the floor. But for me, it's more the person, the teammate. He has been incredible for us"
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Meanwhile Syracuse fans dismiss him because he's not a scorer? Because Benny Williams was trash, Autry started Justin Taylor over Brown for reasons, promised the next season's starting job to a frosh Freeman and made Chris Bell and JJ Starling the focus of his team last year. Maliq went to Duke and got to play in the tourney both years, won some hardware, and has a good chance at a nattie.

A coach can't make those kind of decisions and expect to win many games. If you find diamonds in the rough who play as hard an unselfishly as Maliq does, you have to keep them. Scheyer must giggle himself to sleep at night thinking about how Maliq fell into his lap.
 
Fly Rodder said:
Meanwhile Syracuse fans dismiss him because he's not a scorer? Because Benny Williams was trash, Autry started Justin Taylor over Brown for reasons, promised the next season's starting job to a frosh Freeman and made Chris Bell and JJ Starling the focus of his team last year. Maliq went to Duke and got to play in the tourney both years, won some hardware, and has a good chance at a nattie.

A coach can't make those kind of decisions and expect to win many games. If you find diamonds in the rough who play as hard an unselfishly as Maliq does, you have to keep them. Scheyer must giggle himself to sleep at night thinking about how Maliq fell into his lap.
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A good majority of comments on Reddit were “thank you Syracuse” with the laughing emoji on the Duke page that announced his ACC selections.
 
Fly Rodder said:
Meanwhile Syracuse fans dismiss him because he's not a scorer? Because Benny Williams was trash, Autry started Justin Taylor over Brown for reasons, promised the next season's starting job to a frosh Freeman and made Chris Bell and JJ Starling the focus of his team last year. Maliq went to Duke and got to play in the tourney both years, won some hardware, and has a good chance at a nattie.

A coach can't make those kind of decisions and expect to win many games. If you find diamonds in the rough who play as hard an unselfishly as Maliq does, you have to keep them. Scheyer must giggle himself to sleep at night thinking about how Maliq fell into his lap.
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He left for a bag/to play on an actual good team. Not because of playing time here. He was playing 30 a game for us and started for half the season. Come on now. We would not have kept him even if he started/played 40 a game and Donnie was not coming in. He would have left even if we made the tourney that year, which we came close to doing. Duke came calling. That's it.

And who are these cuse fans dismissing him? Being pissed that he left does not equal dismissing him as a player. 98% of people here were just pissed that he left and acknowledge he can ball.
 
Whewwwwwwwwww

Maliq made the right decision.

He's an unreal player.

Anyone thinking he's a role player, good luck with that.

Anyone thinking he wasn't good on defense here even though we had guards that couldn't guard a JV kid so he was playing out of position while high end bigs were getting clear entry passes from up top, that was something.

It's fine. Lot of people here think PPG is the end all, be all. It's cool. Everyone has their thing.
 
DoctahLexus said:
He left for a bag/to play on an actual good team. Not because of playing time here.
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I don't buy that. There was some discussion on here that Donnie was going to come in and he would be coming off the bench as a frosh and Maliq told Mike/Donna he was staying. A couple of weeks later, Maliq was in the portal. That reversal doesn't happen if players feel valued and supported by the program.

But that's not even the point of my post. The coaching staff HAS to recognize what kind of talent they have and how they are going to fit the team and do everything in his power to keep the best players. I didn't see that with Autry. This program has repeatedly kept/retained underperforming talent in key roles and lost arguably better talent (because they weren't viewed as valuable as other teams thought). The win/loss record reflects this. And 60% of SU's total minutes this season came from guys who played elsewhere last season.

Despite the mercenary nature of the NIL era so far, good players tend to stick with the teams that value them. Players move and find new homes, but good players are staying put when they're in a good place. Maliq is the only transfer on Duke who gets minutes. Almost all of Arizona's players have been at Arizona for their entire career or at least multiple seasons, same as Florida. Michigan State has one transfer who played more than 300 minutes. Houston and Iowa St are the same. And its not just NIL: Miami (OH) has two transfers, both of whom are playing their second season there this year. Saint Mary's only has one transfer and it's his third year there.
 
Fly Rodder said:
I don't buy that. There was some discussion on here that Donnie was going to come in and he would be coming off the bench as a frosh and Maliq told Mike/Donna he was staying. A couple of weeks later, Maliq was in the portal. That reversal doesn't happen if players feel valued and supported by the program.

But that's not even the point of my post. The coaching staff HAS to recognize what kind of talent they have and how they are going to fit the team and do everything in his power to keep the best players. I didn't see that with Autry. This program has repeatedly kept/retained underperforming talent in key roles and lost arguably better talent (because they weren't viewed as valuable as other teams thought). The win/loss record reflects this. And 60% of SU's total minutes this season came from guys who played elsewhere last season.

Despite the mercenary nature of the NIL era so far, good players tend to stick with the teams that value them. Players move and find new homes, but good players are staying put when they're in a good place. Maliq is the only transfer on Duke who gets minutes. Almost all of Arizona's players have been at Arizona for their entire career or at least multiple seasons, same as Florida. Michigan State has one transfer who played more than 300 minutes. Houston and Iowa St are the same. And its not just NIL: Miami (OH) has two transfers, both of whom are playing their second season there this year. Saint Mary's only has one transfer and it's his third year there.
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Or, Maliq told Mike/Donna he was staying, DUKE CALLS HIM, and then a couple weeks later he is in the portal. Is that not a distinct possibility?? I have no idea how you can definitively say "the reversal doesn't happen" due to him not being valued, when we are talking about an opportunity to leave a non-tourney team and play on one of the very best teams in the country.

I am in agreement that Autry is horrible with carving out appropriate roles for his players and assigning more responsibility for his better players. He is horrible at a lot of things. But Maliq was not in a bad place here because we were giving him some kind of reduced role and disregarding his value. He was in a bad place here because the team as a whole/staff was bad! It's not like he was given the Kadary treatment and had some clearly inferior player taking his minutes. He played 30 a game for us. Maliq didn't leave because it wasn't 35-40.

Maybe you are right and NIL was not a factor (personally I doubt it), but Duke being elite/stacked and us being bad was absolutely a factor. More guys would leave those teams you mentioned if they were bad teams and they got an offer from an elite one, even if they were starters playing major minutes/having key roles.
 

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