Sitting Jeremy Roach out for Saturday’s game against proved doubly beneficial for Duke: it allowed Roach a 10-day window to heal his toe and also let Dariq Whitehead step up.
So what did we see?
It’s still early, but Whitehead appears to be in a fairly small class of Duke players that includes Luol Deng, Mike Dunleavy, Jack Marin, Danny Ferry, Gene Banks, Arts Heyman, Jeff Mullins, Jason Williams, Zion Williamson and Grant Hill.
You’ll notice that most of the players on this list are mid-sized; today, we’d call them wings. In the 1960’s, the 6-5 Heyman was a power player and Marin wasn’t as skilled overall as later players would be (he was plenty skilled by the standards of the day, however).