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NCAA | Derek Lively and Kyle Filipowski, Duke’s twin towers

Despite the departure of five players to the Draft last June after a bitter end to the season against North Carolina (Paolo Banchero, Mark Williams, AJ Griffin, Wendell Moore Jr. and Trevor Keels), Duke’s workforce will always look good this season.

In large part thanks to a bloated recruiting class in the high school class of 2022, with no less than seven new “freshmen” joining the ranks of the Blue Devils.

Among these seven newcomers, there are in particular Dereck Livelyranked first among the best high school students of the class of 2022, and Kyle Filipowski, ranked fourth. Two giants (2m13 for the first, 2m10 for the second) who will be associated in the racket of Duke this season, in a configuration reminiscent of that between Banchero and Williams last year, even if the first was slightly smaller (2m08 ).

And while training officially resumed on American campuses a short time ago, the twin towers of Durham thus give the first impressions of their association.

It’s exactly what we expected, because we know that we are interchangeable » so declared Kyle Filipowski. ” We can both play both offshore and indoors, so we complement each other and benefit from each other. »

Both players do indeed show a natural ease in getting out of the way, as can be seen below. Modern pivots par excellence.

For his part, Derek Lively, particularly appreciates the ability of his friend of the racket to put the ball on the ground. Which then tends to trigger defensive aids, to his benefit.

He is comfortable dribbling. He can trigger his shot after his dribble, or pass his player added the Pennsylvania native. ” And it forces my defender to come and help, so it allows me to get open shots. And conversely: when I have the ball, the player who defends on him helps. So we create opportunities for each other. »

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