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Duke guard J.J. Redick has his good points, including that he may become the all-time leading scorer in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

9. He's unselfish. Although Redick shoots 17.2 times per game, he averaged 2.7 assists in his past 10 contests before the North Carolina win.

Double-teamed on nearly every catch against N.C. State, Redick delivered a season-high six assists in a 13-point Devils win.

"There's really not an aspect of the game that he's weak in right now," Krzyzewski says.

10. He's motivated by all the harassment. You could sense that, probably. You could discern that from his 18.9 career scoring average in ACC road games. It's not getting to him. Sometimes, he has fun with it.

"This is going to sound terrible," he says. "At Wake Forest, I hit a shot in the second half. It was a tough shot, off a spin move, and I was going down the front row — this is going to make me sound like a jerk — but I just shook my head and said, 'Man, I'm really good tonight. I don't know what it is, but I'm just really good.' I said that to the entire front row. That's probably the reason people dislike me so much. I guess that's part of the persona I have on the floor. I would never say that off the court." Redick had 32 in that game, an 18-point Duke win. He was really good.

11. He has hair. After three seasons of an on-again, off-again relationship with a buzz cut, Redick is allowing himself to look his best. In the year of the NBA dress code, isn't that important?

"The buzz was kind of like my thing in high school. A cleansing thing," he says. "But it's so hard to grow your hair out when you buzz it so short because it grows back in different places, different lengths in different parts of your head. From the feedback I've gotten, I'm going to keep my hair. My mother and my girlfriend — they want me to have hair."

12. He's a monogamist. Though he sometimes gets the teen idol treatment from young ladies after games at road arenas -- they wait outside the Duke locker room for him to walk toward the team bus -- Redick has been dating the same Duke student, a junior from Minnesota, for about 18 months.

13. He's not perfect. Redick did not have a detailed plan to arrive where he is today. He had a grand plan: hard work. But when he went into the gym last May to turn himself into a more complete offensive player, he had some instructions from his Duke coaches and improvised the rest.

He had a rebounder with him occasionally but did not work with a personal trainer. He wrote down what he wanted to do for a daily workout on a scrap of paper, then wadded it up and made one more shot — into the wastebasket. The next day, he came back with something else. "For me, that made it fun," Redick says. "Every day was a different day. It wasn't like I got into this routine."

A history major, he admits to being equally disorganized with his classwork. He writes down an assignment, then — as the due date approaches — ends up scrambling through his things to dig up that essential piece of information.

So this package you see — everything from the good looks to the shooting form that almost seem to be manufactured — really is human and fallible. When it comes to making jump shots from long distances, Redick is just less fallible than most.

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