Jon Scheyer Steps Out of Mike Krzyzewski’s Shadow Leading Duke to Final Four

Scheyer cuts down the net after the Blue Devils won the East Regional to advance to the Final Four. | Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images

NEWARK—It’s an old coaching adage that you never want to be the guy who follows the guy.

Hard as it might be to follow a merely successful coach and keep things rolling, the theory goes, it’s even more of a Sisyphean task to come in after a legend. There are a handful of coaching titans who not only set an impossibly high standard for results but also have conditioned their fan bases to think there is only one way to win and win big.