It has been a fun offseason if you’re a Duke fan. While Jon Scheyer raced ahead and landed the No. 1 high school class along with arguably the No. 1 player in the Transfer Portal in Wisconsin’s John Blackwell, North Carolina, and new head coach Michael Malone have been left to pick at what’s left. And they’ve even struggled to do that.
Nonetheless, the Tar Heels roster appears to be coming together ahead of Malone’s first season in Chapel Hill. With the pending commitment of international big man Alexandros Samodurov, UNC fans are celebrating a “completed puzzle.”
Which is technically true. But if you compare rosters to puzzles, then Duke’s is a 5000-piece jigsaw puzzle, and UNC is one of the ones you find in a child’s waiting room at the doctor’s office that only has a few pieces, and most of them are broken, missing, or otherwise chewed up…