Jon Scheyer has only officially been Duke’s head coach for less than 10 days so we don’t know for sure everything he’s thinking and changes he may make. We have gotten some insights from his early hires though. He retained Chris Carrawell and Amile Jefferson, his colleagues under predecessor Mike Krzyzewski and hired Mike Schrage, who had worked for Coach K earlier, as a special assistant, luring him away from a head coaching job at Elon.
Lucas is the son of Durham native John Lucas, who attended Maryland and went on to a lengthy college basketball career.
The younger Lucas is seen as a rising star and obviously a huge asset to Kentucky’s John Calipari.