Dear Juwan Durham: Please stay healthy

[Matrim55]

His length and skill are both obvious, but his quickness – even while shaking off two years of rust – is what can make him special, and what made him a 5-star player.

I have hope that he can become a Brimah-like rim protector and a Facey-like offensive threat, except with better finishing at the rim. He has all the tools.

Please, please, please stay healthy. Everybody pray to the god of your choice to make it so.

 

[UConnDan97]

He definitely has a smoothness to his game...

 

[Huskyforlife]

Showed potential explosiveness tonight. Great game for our future at the big positions.

 

[EROCK CONN]

That second half reverse jam -- not going lie, i got a semi.

 

[HuskyHawk]

He definitely has a smoothness to his game..

Instinctive is the word that comes to mind. And unlike like every big since Adrien, he looks to dunk.

 

[champs99and04]

The Davis comps are too obvious not to be made. Really think he'd have been one of the best frosh in the country w/o the second tear.

 

[Matrim55]

Instinctive is the word that comes to mind.

You can see he grew up playing the game. Our other bigs – Facey, Brimah, Enoch – did not.

 

[UConnSwag11]

That second half reverse jam -- not going lie, i got a semi.

Missed it

 

[UConnSwag11]

That second half reverse jam -- not going lie, i got a semi.

The dunk

 

[ctchamps]

The dunk

How about the screen he set for CV. Vital missed the dunk. But I haven't seen a screen that beautiful in a long time. Kids got game.

 

[superjohn]

The Davis comps are too obvious not to be made. Really think he'd have been one of the best frosh in the country w/o the second tear.

Slow the fark down.

 

[3rdbass]

Yeah the dunk was fast ad powerful. Love seeing that. Seems like both our big guys(JD and SE) have come back refreshed from a the few games off due to injuries.

 

[Matrim55]

Slow the fark down.

Amen. Let's go with "potential rich man's Kentan Facey" please.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Amen. Let's go with "potential rich man's Kentan Facey" please.

That's a pretty damn good college player though.

 

[Matrim55]

That's a pretty damn good college player though.

Agree! I'm pumped for that to be the case, and think a healthy Durham could end up being a high lottery pick.

But Davis is a no-go for comparisons as far as I'm concerned. Dude was on a different level.

 

[elmcityboy]

couldn't watch it (cbs sports...) but when durham made that dunk, joe d's call was "HELLO DONYELL MARSHALL" and i got pretty stoked on that

 

[superjohn]

Durham has a chance to be damn good. With his wingspan, fluidity, skill he could possibly become one of our best offensive bigs ever. He won't ever be Anthony Davis like though, we've never had a player in our history who was Anthony Davis like.

 

[Matrim55]

couldn't watch it (cbs sports..) but when durham made that dunk, joe d's call was "HELLO DONYELL MARSHALL" and i got pretty stoked on that

That's what I thought as well, but I'm still too scared to go there.

Just give me a better-finishing Kentan. That's all I want. Once we have that, we can start getting greedy for more...

 

[superjohn]

Amen. Let's go with "potential rich man's Kentan Facey" please.

I hope he's an uber-rich man's Facey.

 

[champs99and04]

Comparing Durham to Davis =/= he's going to be as good as Davis

Durham is to Davis what Enoch is to Cousins.

 

[gtcam]

Not going to compare him to anyone
BUT the kid looked comfortable, mobile and eager to defend, set pics, rebound and score
Its great to get a glimpse of what we all hope to see the next few years

 

[superjohn]

Comparing Durham to Davis =/= he's going to be as good as Davis

Durham is to Davis what Enoch is to Cousins.

What Noyes is to Ray Allen.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

What Noyes is to Ray Allen.

What superjohn is to BigErnMcCracken.

 

[champs99and04]

What Noyes is to Ray Allen.

That's an insult to Noyes to cap his ceiling there.

 

[UConnSwag11]