Chris Carrawell on Wendell Moore Jr.
Wendell Moore Jr. returns to Duke for his sophomore year, and assistant Chris Carrawell is impressed with his confidence. He also says that "in his day" Moore's freshman performance would have him on magazine covers this preseason
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00:00 Yeah, he, Brendan, he's been, he's been tremendous this this preseason.
00:06 You know, the growth from from your freshman year to your sophomore year.
00:10 So we look at Matt Hurt and Wendell Moore in a one and done era.
00:15 You know, a lot of people really think you would think they had bad years, so to speak, right.
00:20 But I mean, for freshmen to play those type of minutes and for those averages,
00:27 if you look at their average in my day, I mean, coming back for the sophomore year,
00:31 they would have been on covers of magazines and they would have been like, I mean, really.
00:36 And so it's just different now. But the the most the main thing,
00:40 the most important thing that I've seen out of Wendell has been his confidence.
00:44 It will be times in games last year when he was open and he would shoot the ball
00:48 and you can hear the bench and then some fans yelling, shoot, shoot.
00:55 And he would pass up open shots. I think just a year older,
01:00 you know, working on his game all summer and then you come back, you older, you're more confident.
01:05 And he's playing with extreme confidence now. And so for us, that's going to help us
01:11 because he can shoot the ball, but you wouldn't know it because he wouldn't shoot.
01:15 And so now he's when he's open, we encourage him to take a shot because it's a good shot.
01:21 Even if he misses it, he shoots such a good ball that it's easy to rebound it.
01:26 And so, you know, his confidence has been the main thing from freshman year to sophomore year.