Duke basketball: Best insta-offense lineup for 2020-21 Blue Devils
By Matt Giles
Instant-offense Duke basketball lineup: THE SPOT-UP SPECIALIST
6-7, 210. Junior. Joey Baker. W. player. 434. Scouting Report. Pick Analysis
Granted, unless the admirably energetic Joey Baker has overhauled his dribbling skills during quarantine, Duke could suffer in the long run with the Fayetteville product at the two-guard. No worries, for this is just a proposed lineup for unique situations; plus, each player to come here comes with solid handles as part of his repertoire.
What Baker has shown the potential to do, though, is drain one 3-pointer after another with minimal misses in between. As a sophomore last season, though he averaged a measly 5.0 points across 12.1 minutes per game, his accuracy from downtown finished at an impressive 39.4 percent — not to mention his 91.7 percent clip from the charity stripe — and included his 5-for-7 mark from beyond the arc against Wofford in December, anchoring his career-high 22 points:
No doubt buckets like those above from Joey Buckets could be critical next go-round. Sure, the 2020-21 candidate for captaincy will probably still have to pick his spots — a nice way of saying he struggles to create his own shot — but that shortcoming wouldn’t be a problem considering some of the creators who would be surrounding him in this group, especially this next guy…