Duke freshman Henry Coleman discusses this year's Blue Devils team, comparisons of him to Justise Winslow, and his favorite author, Henry Thoreau.
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00:00Yeah, I think, honestly, even before a lot of this was happening, we were already close.
00:06Most of the guys we had known each other through camps, through even playing together.
00:10But then with these things coming along, it's definitely brought us closer.
00:15We've just been able to, you know, to talk about a lot of the stuff that's been going
00:18on.
00:19But then we kind of use basketball as this safe haven.
00:21You know, we're out there shooting around, joking around and just playing.
00:25Everything else in the outside world kind of goes away.
00:27We're just, you know, you're focused on making that shot, getting that steal, you know, or
00:31just getting that win.
00:33So we use that basketball as that safe haven, kind of, you know, kind of to get rid of the
00:37outside world and kind of focus on just basketball.
00:40A guy that can get downhill, you know, use his frame.
00:43But I think on that 2015 team with Justin, a lot of people kind of looked over us, how
00:48good of a leader Justin was.
00:49Now he always just brung energy.
00:51Whether or not he had three points, he had 30 points, he brung energy and was always
00:55ready to play.
00:56I think he had a knack for winning and it's something that I hopefully, you know, can
01:00do for this team and I know that I have.
01:03For right now, we're just kind of, you know, in our little basketball bubble, you could
01:07say.
01:08We still have the option of going into our in-person classes.
01:12Some of the guys still do that, you know, Duke is doing a great job of socially distancing
01:17those classrooms and, you know, having smaller groups.
01:20But for right now, we have not talked about that as a team.
01:23We just continue to kind of stay in our little bubble that we have now.
01:28I'm definitely working a lot with Coach James on my shot, being able to hit that pick and
01:32pop three.
01:33And then also attacking off the wing and in the trail position.
01:37He calls those his money spots, you know, guys can really get paid a lot of money, you
01:43know, doing those things.
01:45So I've just been working on those things.
01:47But Coach and I have talked about it, just, you know, continue to be a consistent shooter.
01:52And I think for my game right now, that's the biggest thing I need to work on.
01:55I continue to work on it, it's getting a lot better, getting up, you know, a lot of shots
01:59every day.
02:00I'm a huge, hopefully a lot of people know this, but I love to be outdoors.
02:05I love to go fishing, my life, just being out in nature, you know, one of my favorite
02:11authors is Henry David Thoreau, he's a guy, you know, he always preached on, you know,
02:16being out in nature.
02:17So that's one of my favorite things to do.