Best Dunkers in UConn history?

[Price0809]

Interesting read. Who did they miss in the UConn draft of best dunkers in Husky history?

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As we wrote earlier this month, Andre Jackson Jr. and Stephon Castle recently repped UConn in the 2025 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. While neither could dethrone serial dunk champ Mac McClung, Castle’s second-place finish was the best ever by a Husky, and his third dunk earned the first perfect score...

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[Deepster]

My issues:

1) No way Cliffy should be that high. 2 rounds ahead of Andre Jackson and Tony Robertson?
2) Hasheem Thabeet is an absolute failure of a pick.
3) Getting Ray Allen and Ben Gordon back to back at the Rd 2/3 turn is a crime.
4) If any of them took Doug Wrenn in Rd 4 or 5, they win in a landslide.

 

[imno1]

No Jumpman Big? Or are they talking in game dunkers?

 

[HooperScooper]

Not to ruin a new thread....

Top 5 dunkers ever

Donny Marshall keeps saying that Andre Jackson is an olympic level athlete but he’s the 3rd best ever at UConn. I have some ideas, but who is better than him?

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Favorite dunker

The title says "favorite," not "best." Who was your favorite? I'm partially very bored right now, but I also just love seeing poll results. Plus, I'm anxiously awaiting the results of navery's sheep game to be unveiled! So we've have had some awesome dunkers throughout the years, but I had...

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Top 5 Husky dunkers of all-time.

Here's mine from oldest to most recent: Donnyell Ray KFree Rudy Stix Honorable mention: Scotty B. Doug Wrenn If Kwintin Williams can earn some pt, and get enough dunks in, you know he would be on here. Who ya got?

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[superjohn]

Boatright belongs on that list and he belongs right up there with Stanley. Dude is 5'10 and he was constantly catching alley oops. Crazy athlete.

 

[HooperScooper]

Boatright belongs on that list and he belongs right up there with Stanley. Dude is 5'10 and he was constantly catching alley oops. Crazy athlete.

And someone on here yesterday compared him to Mahaney. I'm still laughing.

 

[uconngb]

Uconn basketball existed before 1990……Norman Bailey is the best dunker we’ve ever had and it’s not even CLOSE

 

[Chin Diesel]

It's Sticks and then the rest.

And that's okay.

 

[superjohn]

And someone on here yesterday compared him to Mahaney. I'm still laughing.

What? Haha

Boat is the most accomplished player who isn't in the Huskies of Honor, IMO. I would like to see him get that honor.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

Boatright belongs on that list and he belongs right up there with Stanley. Dude is 5'10 and he was constantly catching alley oops. Crazy athlete.

Insane athlete and the amount of steals that turned into these dunks in this highlight were insane.

You could not leave the ball exposed with him. One of our best perimeter defenders here.

 

[bendm]

What? Haha

Boat is the most accomplished player who isn't in the Huskies of Honor, IMO. I would like to see him get that honor.

It’s a crime. He’s top 10 all time in two statistical categories and was the second best player on a champ team

 

[Spaceman213J]

My top 5 have to be Sticks, Jackson Jr., Yell, Ray Allen and Bouknight. Gay and butler are really hard to leave off.

For me, it is about viciousness at the rim.

I think younger fans think of Ray as being a 3 point shooter and forget how athletic he was when he was younger and he attacked the rim as well as anybody on the list.

 

[Palatine]

Sticks by a lot.

 

[BuffaloHusky]

I realize he’s a bit of a persona non grata but what about Bouk?

 

[HooperScooper]

What? Haha

Boat is the most accomplished player who isn't in the Huskies of Honor, IMO. I would like to see him get that honor.

O.K. I took a little liberty with that. They were just comparing their size. Mahaney is definitely taller than Boatright but Boatright had extreme athleticism so it's tough to put the 2 in the same sentence. If Boat was taller he would have been in the NBA.

 

[87Xfer]

And someone on here yesterday compared him to Mahaney. I'm still laughing.

Who??

 

[Hunt for 7]

You kind of forget just how quick and explosive he was. He had next level quickness. I had forgotten about all the steals he had by using his quick hands and long arms.

Watching him jump it almost looks like he is levitating when he gets to the top of his jump.

There was a call on the radio I think it was the 80’s the announcer and I should know his name used the line they just spotted (blank) on the radar at Bradley International Airport.

Sticks was a ridiculous dunker.

 

[Price0809]

My top 5 have to be Sticks, Jackson Jr., Yell, Ray Allen and Bouknight. Gay and butler are really hard to leave off.

For me, it is about viciousness at the rim.

I think younger fans think of Ray as being a 3 point shooter and forget how athletic he was when he was younger and he attacked the rim as well as anybody on the list.

Agreed, thinking about viciousness at the rim, Stanley had that and bounce. Boatright, Gordon, even Bouknight I think of just bounce but that obviously has to do with their height too.

 

[CTBasketball]

Marcus Johnson, Edmund Saunders, and Tony Robertson threw down some slams as well.

I’d take one of them over Cliff.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

For me it was Sticks and Rudy then everyone else. Rudy was a part of team flight brothers back then which was a big deal.

He put on a show on fast breaks.

That dunk in the BET against Syracuse was chefs kiss

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