"Deron Williams is one of the best guards in the world. I was really impressed with not only how well he played but how well he accepted his role. Basically, he said, 'I'll do anything you want me to do — play no minutes, five minutes or start. I'll do anything you want, coach.'"

But Williams is caught in the team's logjam of point-guard talent.

"At certain positions, we're kind of overloaded, and the point-guard spot happens to be one of them," Colangelo said. "Jason Kidd, Deron Williams, Chauncey Billups and Chris Paul — it's going to be a tough selection."

For Krzyzewski, he has an admitted affinity for all 33 players currently in his U.S. program. "We feel like teenagers at a dance," he said. "You fall in love with everybody."

Joining the U.S. Men's Senior National Team last May, Boozer and Williams are two of the 10 roster members that have been added since the original 23 selections were named in March 2006.

On the bronze-winning U.S. team at the 2004 Athens Games, Boozer played in seven of the eight games. He helped Duke to a pair of NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances and finished as the Blue Devils' all-time leader in field-goal percentage (.631).

Williams played in all 10 U.S. games in Las Vegas last summer, averaging 4.7 points and 4.6 assists in nearly 15 minutes a game while shooting 61 percent from the floor and 50 percent behind the arc.

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