Is this the year Lucy lets Charlie Brown kick the football?
In Duke basketball terms is this the year when Mike Krzyzewski channels his inner Nolan Richardson, plays his entire roster, runs and presses exhausted opponents into rubble?
We hear some variation of this every pre-season. Duke is going to play lots of people, play up tempo, run-and-gun-and fun.
Then February arrives and Duke is playing a half-court game with seven, maybe eight players in the rotation.
And what’s wrong with that? Duke has won national championships with seven-player rotations. Duke has had at least one AP All-American every year since 2013.