Milwaukee Bucks: Getting to know new two-way player Trevon Duval

Duval’s lone year at Duke

Despite the impressive résumé he built during his stops on the high school level, Duval’s one-and-done year with the Duke Blue Devils played out far from what he envisioned when committing to the school.

Across his 37 appearances with the school last year, 34 of them coming as starts, Duval posted 10.3 points on shooting splits of .428/.290/.596, along with 5.6 assists, 2 rebounds and 1.5 steals.

All throughout the year, Duval couldn’t find a consistent groove to mesh alongside lottery talents like Marvin Bagley and Wendell Carter Jr. as he was asked to play a more complementary role under Coach K.

The fact that the complementary role he was asked to play revolved around some of his biggest weaknesses didn’t do him any favors in finding confidence to make a regular impact for the basketball powerhouse.

As a result of all that, Duval’s strengths only came through in flashes while at Duke as then-assistant head coach Jeff Capel relayed to Forgrave in his profile on the 19-year-old:

"“There is the flash, and that’s kind of his reputation coming in, the whole ‘Tricky Tre’ thing,” Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel said. “The things he can do with the ball, the things he can do with his passing, his vision – you don’t want to completely tone it down, but you have to steer it in the right way. He has gifts and tools, but his dad used to say this when we were recruiting him: He’s raw. He’s being taught certain things about the point guard position. But he can make plays that you can’t teach.”"

With his role very likely being diminished even further with another wave of premier recruits coming through Durham, Duval officially declared for this year’s draft over a week after Duke were bounced out of this year’s NCAA Tournament by the Kansas Jayhawks.