The good news is Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski trusts and treats his starting point guard as if the freshman is more of a well-oiled machine than a human being. The bad news is Tre Jones is as much human as the rest of us — and oiling him up would be pointless, not to mention a little strange.
According to Captain Obvious, the 6-foot-2, 185-pound native of Apple Valley, Minn., has lungs instead of pistons. And no matter how healthy those 19-year-old lungs may be, like all other body parts — heck, even engine parts — they would benefit from occasional breaks, especially when considering how often Jones operates with his pedal to the metal.