Duke Basketball: Stock up, stock down after Blue Devils Canadian Tour

As the third game of the Duke Basketball Canadian Tour is now complete, it’s time to once take a look at which players helped and hurt their stock going into the last game of the tour.

The Duke Blue Devils went up to Canada and put on a show, winning all three of their Canadian Tour games in blow fashion as Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett displayed their very unique skill sets to the world.

As the Blue Devils seemed to gel very quickly and look connected while they were on the floor, some players greatly exceeded the expectations that were placed on them in the very early portion of the season, while some players fell short of what fans had thought they would produce during this tour.

We will look the Duke Basketball players who best helped, and hurt, their stock going during the Canada Tour, as Duke still has two more exhibition games in late October and before the first regular season game against Kentucky on November 6 in the Champions Classic.

Two players that obviously helped their stock were both Barrett and Williamson.

In the three games in his home country, and the first two in his hometown of Mississauga, R.J. Barrett put on a show for his family and friends as he exploded for 31 points per game, six rebounds, and five assists as he was forced to play more point guard due to the absence of Tre Jones.

The other freshman phenom, Zion Williamson, averaged 30 points per game, 11 rebounds, three assists, and too many jaw-dropping dunks to count.

Both of these players were better than advertised and they should only get better as the summer rolls on and the Blue Devils begin to get healthy once again, but now as we transition to players that were not so talked about before the Canadian Tour who performed above and below expectations, we’d like to remind fans that it’s only August and many things can change from now until November.