Patrick Ngongba II

You listed a bunch of guys who sickos will remember from last year.

Like, you know, Ngongba, I'm talking about returners.

Ngongba, Brielle Mullins, Amari Allen, Thomas Houck got paid a bazillion dollars to go back to Florida.

Like, there's all kinds of guys, right? I can't remember the exact year that was the last time a non-freshman, non-international player went number one overall.

Is there anybody that's not a freshman that could go to number one overall? You could just say no.

Even Virginia Tech football doesn't hold a candle to my feelings about Duke men's basketball.

Yes, they get Patrick Ngongba back.

Can he guard Tester Ritter? Well, he's 6'11", yeah, but he's going to be guarding setters.

He's not mobile enough to chase Tess out on the perimeter.

Um, [lips smack] one more quick one.

Pat Ngongba of Duke is one of these players I struggle with because I kn- I loved him as a senior in high school.

I loved him as a freshman at Duke.

I was like, "Man, Pat, their backup, big Pat, I love him.

He's gonna be too young, so he's going to play two years there, or Duke fans are hoping.

Um, after that, it's pretty wide open where it comes to, like there's a lot of names that could take that intrigue.

We talked about Pat Ngongba.

I think Dami Sarr could be one of these names that really has a good year.

I think...

I mean, Patrick Ngongba has kind of been the same dude for a couple years.

I wonder if Yvonne could kind of get into this 13-14 kind of range, right? And I think Moe Krivas is kind of going to be like...

it's kind of going to depend on what you think.

Um, but the, there are a lot, a lot of returners who I think have an awesome chance to go top 10 because this draft class is wide open, especially at the very top, in the middle, at the late first.

Um, so obviously Mo Crevas is one of those guys, but Trey McKinney, Tunde Yesufu, Billy Richmond, Braylon Mullins, Dom Isar, Duke Harris, Amari Allen, Ivan Karchenkov, Pat Ngongba, Shelton Henderson, Tyler Tanner.

Like there are so many more too that could really easily work their way into top 20 lottery, top 10 conversations, and it be for legitimate reasons that aren't just like, "Oh, well, who else are we gonna, gonna take?" There, I think there's so much talent returning, um, this year to college basketball.

Ton of talent.

fourth-ranked program in the ACC when you're comparing the frontcourt rotations.

I think Duke, obviously, with Patrick Ngongba, you add Cameron Williams, you add Bryson Howard, you add Joaquin Boomjay Boomjay and four-star Maxim Meyer.

I think, again, those are four players who can all play center, all play forward.

So, again, I think North Carolina really had to – and really prioritize strengthening that front court rotation.