Duke junior Joey Baker is one of the experienced leaders on the team now. He talks about how early practices are going and what he worked on individually over the offseason.
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00:00 Practice has been great.
00:02 We have a deep team, obviously reloaded with a good freshman class.
00:09 And those guys have been great.
00:10 They bring it every day.
00:11 They have enthusiasm, they compete.
00:13 And then you match that with our returning players, myself, Jay Goldwindale, Matt Hurt.
00:21 And it's made for some awesome practices.
00:24 Really excited to be able to officially start practice pretty soon here.
00:29 And get going under the season.
00:31 And it'll be a good year with this group.
00:33 Yeah, well, I mean, the goal for us always here at Duke is to win a national championship.
00:39 So that's number one.
00:40 That's my number one personal goal as well.
00:42 I feel like if we all gear towards that, everything else will take care of itself.
00:48 But a big thing is the older guy on the team now is just kind of showing the way for the
00:52 younger guys a little bit.
00:53 Just stuff that I've learned as a younger kid over the past two years.
00:57 So trying to help them out and making their life easier as they transition to playing
01:03 this level.
01:07 I'd say just being confident.
01:09 I feel like I know the system well.
01:11 I know what I need to do.
01:12 I know my strengths and my weaknesses.
01:15 So kind of just playing to those and just working on all areas of my game and letting
01:22 the rest take care of itself.
01:23 Just trying to win.
01:24 I mean, that's the number one goal at the end of the day.
01:28 So, absolutely.
01:29 I mean, I think all areas of my game needed improvement and they still do.
01:35 But I'd say, say defensively, I wanted to improve a lot.
01:40 Being able to defend and stay on the court for long periods of time without fouling and
01:44 stuff like that.
01:45 So that was a big area of focus this over the quarantine, the time that we had off.