Duke's Cooper Flagg Revives College Basketball Excitement

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00:00What you have on the Duke side is something that's been missing from college basketball

00:10since we had Zion Williamson, which is the clear cut projected first overall pick a year

00:19in advance, actually playing at the college level.

00:25We haven't been getting this in recent years.

00:29Reza Shay goes number one to Atlanta.

00:33And if it wasn't him, it was going to be Alex Tsar.

00:36And look, Reed Shepard was awesome, but Reed Shepard wasn't even supposed to be a one and

00:40done player, right?

00:42Year before that, Victor Webenyama was the coveted prize of that draft.

00:47Now had Wemby been in college, that would have, that would have been, that would've

00:50been super exciting.

00:51Obviously it didn't impact his draft prospects one bit.

00:54You had the Paolo Chet year, which was solid.

00:58Don't get me wrong.

00:59Not this level of hype, a little bit more hype around Chet.

01:02That's kind of them when the Gonzaga thing comes in, they just playing in the WCC, he's

01:06only playing like 20 some odd minutes a game, right?

01:09Paolo was, was good at Duke.

01:10He wasn't, you know, world bending.

01:13And I think Chet was kind of the bigger prize anyway.

01:15Prospect wise, Kate Cunningham, there was definitely a lot of excitement about him as

01:19a, as a prospect.

01:20He went to Oklahoma state, right?

01:23I enjoyed watching that Kate team.

01:24I had, you know, various bets throughout that Kate Cunningham team, but nowhere near the

01:31same juice, right?

01:32Jalen Green wasn't even within that G league and Edwards, James Wiseman, LaMelo Ball, LaMelo

01:38not going to college was a big thing.

01:41Ant was awesome.

01:42We all know what Anthony Edwards is now, but Anthony Edwards, again, the comparison for

01:49him to Cooper Flagg doesn't exist.

01:52LaMelo was the star of that class LaMelo went and played overseas and then you get to Zion.

01:58So that's the run Duke to Duke signed a Cooper Flagg.

02:02We've not had this.

02:03So now you get Cooper Flagg in his first prime time spot.

02:07And that is enough reason to show up.