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The legendary Faculty of Basketball Coach Jim Boeheim had great praise and exalted comparison, for Duke star Cooper flagg.
Boeheim, 80, asked how good flagg was compared to some of the NBA greats.
“I think it’s over – for me it’s [Larry] Birds, a little. In addition to being faster, faster, athletic, he is also not shooting, but his blow comes, “Boeheim said during a recent performance in Ouskick’s”Don’t @ me with Dan Dakich. “
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Duke of Blue Devils Cooper Flagg (Rich Barnes-Imagn Pictures)
In the 27 games played, Flagg plays on average 19.5 points per game, with an average of almost eight rebounds and four assists per game.
18-year-old maine is a catalyst for a team of 24-3 Dukes currently in the country in the country Behind Auburn.
For Boeheim, it is clear that Flagg is the best player in college in college.
“People who say other people are better than him, they just don’t know anything about basketball. I think it’s just crazy. I think they have to be – I don’t know what they look at. Maybe they just try to be contrasting or something, I don’t know,” said Boeheim.
Illinois’ Kylan Boswell (4) drives past Duke Cooper Flagg. (Wendell Cruz-Hagn Pictures)
“Cooper Flagg, he is the best player in the sense that he does all the things in college basketball I saw. I think there are better shooters, better jumps, better passers -by, but he is a defender.”
There is something else that Boeheim says that Flagg brings a table, except that he is one of the best players.
“I talked with [former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski] about this. He has an advantage. He doesn’t give up on anyone and in a good way, “he said.
During his long coaching career, Boeheim saw a lot of great basketball players, including Carmela Anthony, who helped lead cheese to the 2003 National Championship.
Boeheim was Chief Coach Syracuse from 1976 to 2023 and collected a career record of 1,015-441.
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Jim Boeheim (Mark Konezny-Usa today sports)
Boeheim led Syracuse to Final four five times and was a regular Big East champion 10 times while he won the Big East tournament five times.
If Boeheim is right and it turns out that Flagg has a career like Larry Bird’s, no matter what the team that draws it will delight it.
The bird is in the Basketball Hall of Fame. He was a triple MVP and a triple NBA champion while making 12 All-Star games.
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