Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski built a championship program his way. To sustain it after more than three decades, he took nearly the opposite path. How Coach K mastered the one-and-done era.
The game ended a while ago, but Cameron Indoor Stadium is still packed and rocking. Duke fans and students are here to say goodbye.
On this night, the four youngsters applaud their older teammates on Coach K Court, whose namesake and the architect of all this once vowed that he’d never do it like . . . this. “Talent still overcomes a lack of experience in a lot of cases,” said Jim Boeheim, a longtime friend of Krzyzewski’s and head coach of ACC rival Syracuse, though Boeheim points out the past three NCAA champions — since Duke won with a group of freshmen in 2015 — were packed with upperclassmen. “You have to build a culture from the ground up in one year.”
In 1994, Krzyzewski took the Blue Devils to their seventh Final Four in his first 14 seasons. The right way Shortly before his first championship, Krzyzewski was maybe the only staffer who thought Duke could win. 1986: Krzyzewski makes the Final Four for the first time with a team that features four seniors among its top six players. The Blue Devils finish 37-3, setting a program record for wins in a season that will be matched by the 1998-99 team.
The years passed with more success. The things that built successful basketball programs evolved. But Krzyzewski didn’t, and he’d come to believe that’s why he needed major back surgery in 1994. It’s why, when doctors told him to take a month to recover, he was back at practice two weeks later; why, when he kept ignoring medical advice, he would lose feeling in his extremities, need counseling, step away for most of a year.
In 2005, when the NBA was considering a rule change that required players to be at least 19 before entering the draft, Krzyzewski was asked about the implications for Duke. In his mind, there were none. “‘You’ve got to give a f—,’” Kidd remembered Krzyzewski saying almost immediately, and didn’t that perfectly sum up the Americans’ plight?
2001: Krzyzewski wins his third national title, 82-72 over Arizona, to tie him with mentor Bob Knight. To begin with, he listened, inviting Kidd, James, Kobe Bryant and Wade in for individual meetings. What was their ideal work schedule? Which offenses did they like and dislike? How did they suggest defending the pick and roll?
“I don’t think I ever did zone, ever, in college at Duke, ever,” said Boozer, a key member of the Blue Devils’ 2001 championship team. “Maybe he realized that, hey, the times are changing,” said Kevin Boyle, who coached Irving at St. Patrick High and, nearly a decade later, current Duke player Barrett at a Florida private school.
One day in 2008, not long after West Virginia upset Duke in the NCAA tournament’s second round, Krzyzewski walked into a coaching staff meeting. The Blue Devils, as he saw it, had two choices: They could either recruit the nation’s best players or accept that Duke would be playing against them. Krzyzewski and his players watch 'One Shining Moment' after defeating Wisconsin during 2015 national title. Still burning On a recent afternoon, Krzyzewski lowers himself into a leather chair in a lounge inside Cameron Indoor Stadium and begins an inventory of some further change.“A year and a half,” he says of the age of one artificial knee, before tapping his right knee. “Three.”
2015: Krzyzewski becomes the first major-college coach to win 1,000 games, then wins his fifth national championship a little more than two months later. Three freshmen from that 35-4 team — Tyus Jones, Jahlil Okafor and Justise Winslow — go on to enter the draft.
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