Duke basketball fans know all too well the potential longterm setbacks from ACL injuries to five-star prospects (refer to the caution and fragility of Harry Giles during his one season in Durham).
The Blue Devils cannot afford anything less than what a five-star rating ranking implies they should be receiving in Jeremy Roach, who preceded Jalen Johnson by two months in becoming Duke’s first of now-two 2020 commits.
Last November, during a Paul VI Catholic (Fairfax, Va.) preseason scrimmage, the 6-foot-2, 180-pound point guard, who ranks No. 17 on the 247Sports Composite, came down crooked on the last step of one of his signature slashes into the lane.