If you read our message board you already know that Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton have made there way down to Duke after the NBAPA Top 100 Camp.  What you may not know is that [private] they'll be working out a lot with Nolan Smith who just got back from D.C. where he worked out with Michael Beasley.

The visitors will also be there when Harrison Barnes visits Durham on Tuesday of this week.  Barnes left for Chapel Hill with his mom and sister in tow where he'll get to know Roy Williams and the players.  He will participate in the camp while there and you can bet they'll do what they can to thwart his visit to Durham. If you are counting, this would make his third trip to Duke but do not look for a verbal for this one will last a good while longer.

Duke will also have a few ex players left over from the camp.  In fact, they are working with current players early and often.  Two of those players are Mason Plumlee and Ryan Kelly.  Both incoming freshman are working hard in the weight room to get stronger and prepare for the rigors of competing at the highest level.

Back to Barnes for a moment, as you have seen on the message board, he was hanging out with Andre Dawkins, Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton.  After Barnes final play off game, he sat and talked with Dawkins for a good while and Thornton came over as well.  Kendall Marshall's father saw me taking a picture (hate that happened) and beamed in on them.  Marshall, who goes by mrtiger on the Scout boards, loves to meddle, especially when it involves Duke or UNC players.  If you think he wouldn't help Carolina's cause you're crazy and I implore you to not trust what he says.  While he'll get some things right, he will also meddle about with rumors or staunch opinions.  He runs about picking at prospects and others while at AAU events and worse, he sits in the stands and rails on other prospects if they make bad plays while playing with his son.  He berated one well known recruiting guru for not ranking his son high enough, constantly dropping every curse word in the book regardless of who was around and yes, in front of his own younger children.  He epitomizes the worst case scenario in a little league father and I am surprised Scout allows him to hang around.  Kendall is a fine young man though and he is impressive  both on and off the court in every way.  I just hate to see little league fathers acting in a way that I feel in inappropriate.

Enough on him, back to recruiting talk.  Ray McCallum seems to be inclined to wait on his decision for a bit and I feel he's hoping Duke offers.  That will be dependent on how Duke feels about Kyrie Irving who had a sluggish start to the tournament.  Irving has not played in a ton of AAU tournaments, haven stayed on the East coast most of last year.  He was stymied by the talent and not being the man or getting the ball where he wanted it.  In fact, as the interviews roll your way, you'll hear several prospects say the same thing.  Irving emphatically told me that there was no truth to him being an Indiana lean and discussed the rumors and false information that hit the boards where Andrew and myself let you know the real deal after the Rumble in the Bronx.  I expect Irving to visit Duke by the end of summer and they should know of his interest level at that time.  Unfortunately, my batteries gave way during the interview and much of the good stuff was missed, but I will reconstruct what I can.

Fab Mello answered two questions before turning his back to the media and saying he couldn't speak our language much to his AAU coaches chagrin.  He wasn't doing that bad, but seems to have trouble handling pressure.  This will not bode well for him with concerns to landing in the kind of position he wants to in college.

McCallum is a pure point guard and plays within his capabilities, but he got dusted by Joe Jackson in a head to head match up.  However, McCallum bounced back after that game and played his best ball of the tournament.  Jackson?  He's a blur with the ball and can light it up on offense.  He is of course the teammate of Tarik Black on his AAU team, the Jackson Tigers.  Brick Oettinger said he'd move up significantly in his rankings and I must admit that I came away impressed.  We have an interview coming with him as well where he mentions that Duke's Nate James has been in touch, but Kentucky and Memphis are the leaders.  We talked with Black as well and yes, I caught another sites writer on film looking at my notes on press row while I was away.  I will give you one guess where they were from;)

Dominique Ferguson said that Duke just came out of nowhere, but he is seriously entertaining the notion as are many kids.  Nate James has really helped broaden the Duke name on the trail and he will likely continue under the tutelage of Chris Collins and Wojo.

One more thing ... we told you that Josh Hairston would be transferring to Montrosse Christian Academy, but that has not be officially announced yet, so we'd appreciate you keeping that here for nobody from Scout or Rivals has a clue about this.

We'll continue to bring you coverage from the NBAPA Top 100 camp all this week and you will surely enjoy actually hearing the players for yourselves.  I will have the audio updates in a more timely fashion next time around, so thanks for the patience while we worked through that. [/private]