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You may not have watched the game, but you’ve probably seen the photograph: Mike Krzyzewski flanked by Deron Williams and Jason Kidd, sporting a dozen gold medals-proof that a game played in the middle of the night really happened, that a supposedly undersized squad could run up a perfect record in Beijing, that a collection [...]
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POSTGAME: Some key stats to point out from Duke’s huge win: Stanford finished 12-of-27 from the free throw line, while Duke made 17 of its 22 offerings. Jayne Appel, in particular, struggled from the stripe, as the 87 percent shooter shot 4-of-12…. Karima Christmas enjoyed what was easily her best game in a Duke uniform, [...]
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At his annual summer press conference Tuesday, Mike Krzyzewski said he would not appoint his own successor, because it wasn’t in his right as a men’s basketball coach–that decision belongs to Duke, and Duke only. Earlier in the day, Krzyzewski told The Chronicle in an exclusive interview, though, that he would use his input in [...]
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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has announced that Nate James will fill the open assistant coach spot on the Duke bench. James captained Duke’s 2001 national championship team and is currently the squad’s strength and conditioning coach.
He succeeds former associate head coach Johnny Dawkins, now the head coach at Stanford. He joins fellow former Blue Devils Steve [...]
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Some minor updates since our last post about Duke’s effort to replace former associate head coach Johnny Dawkins on the sidelines:
Jason Williams told WRAL he was not interested in the post, opting to remain with the “freedom” of TV as a CBS analyst.
Nate James told WRAL that he is extremely interested in the position. “It [...]
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Miles Plumlee, a 2008 power forward, committed to Duke Thursday, just one week after he was granted a release from his Letter of Intent at Stanford before former Duke associate head coach Johnny Dawkins was hired. Plumlee is the older brother of 2009 Duke recruit, Mason Plumlee.
Miles will join combo guard Elliot Williams and power [...]
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Phoenix Suns head coach Mike D’Antoni (or, per SI.com, former Phoenix Suns head coach) works under Mike Krzyzewski on Team USA and had a major influence on this year’s Duke team. After a summer with D’Antoni, Krzyzewski incorporated some of the NBA coach’s innovative offensive techniques to allow Duke to spread the floor and maximize [...]
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Over at the Charlotte Observer, Ken Tysiac offers his opinion that Duke should try and replace former associate head coach Johnny Dawkins on the bench with an outsider. “Loyal though he is to his former players, Krzyzewski ought to resist the urge to hire any of them,” Tysiac writes. “He should hire somebody who doesn’t [...]
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Before Johnny Dawkins could utter his first public words as Stanford’s new head coach, the Cardinal’s athletic director, Bob Bowlsby, stole the spotlight.
“Coach Krzyzewski said that Johnny was a likely successor to him,” Bowlsby said at the press conference, citing a recent conversation with Mike Krzyzewski.
Of course, the idea that Dawkins could be the man [...]
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One of the more overlooked aspects of men’s basketball associate head coach Johnny Dawkins’ taking the head coaching position at Stanford is how the whole process began: with former Director of Athletics Joe Alleva, of course.
Alleva became LSU’s new athletic director April 4.
Alleva hired former Stanford head coach Trent Johnson April 9.
Stanford hired Dawkins Saturday.
One [...]
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