Joey Baker is a junior at Duke, which means he'll be one of the team's leaders. He talks about his leadership style, the team's versatility and the importance of confidence
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00:00 I think I've always kind of been a guy that leads by example more than vocal.
00:08 Working hard every day, competing every day, bringing enthusiasm and talking and
00:13 kind of just showing what needs to be done on a daily basis. But obviously as
00:21 an older guy there's times when I need to be a leader in a way that I haven't
00:27 been before. So I'm learning as well how to try and show the
00:34 younger guys how everything works on and off the court here. And so that's
00:40 been an awesome experience for me because I've grown from it as well.
00:44 I think we're, like you said, we're versatile. We have a lot of different
00:49 guys that can do a lot of different things. I think one area that it really
00:54 helps us is defensively. We have a lot of athletes that are 6'6", 6'7", 6'8"
01:00 and they're long. So I think we'll be really good defensively and it'll
01:06 play to our advantage. I think we could set that up eventually. But DJ has
01:11 been awesome. He's a hard worker. He comes every day and competes and he's
01:17 always getting extra work. I was in the gym last night shooting and he walked in
01:21 and we talked for a little bit. But he's always putting in the extra work and
01:25 I'm really excited to see what he does here. I think a lot of it is the
01:31 technical stuff that you mentioned. The different footwork, stuff like that. But
01:36 it's also confidence. Just having confidence to consistently produce and
01:40 do what you know you can do. So going into this year that's a big thing for me.
01:44 I feel like I'm more confident in myself than I have the past two years and
01:50 Hopefully that helps us win more games this year than before.