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Bouk Club Poll - Who is the Comp?

Watching Bouk the last month, who do you consider his closest comp?

  • Rip

    Votes: 42 20.9%

  • Ray

    Votes: 23 11.4%

  • Rudy

    Votes: 12 6.0%

  • Caron

    Votes: 7 3.5%

  • Lamb

    Votes: 99 49.3%

  • Kemba

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 7.5%

  • Madison Square Gordon

    Votes: 2 1.0%
  • Total voters
    201
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Watching Bouk the last month, who do you consider his closest comp, adding together the hodge podge of skills, potential, fan excitement toward, potential game altering dominance, etc....

No real right or wrong answer in my eyes, almost more of a who does he make you most reminisce about when watching him.
 
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He’s a scorer like Rip. Silky smooth.

Second place would be Jalen Adams in that he has slow starts. Hope this changes.
 
To me, he is better than them all as a freshman in terms of ability to score in so many different ways. I don't remember any UConn freshman who could do all the things he does on offense. He scored 19 points Sunday with only 7 field goal attempts. You won't see that in the box score very often.
 
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Huskybass said:
To me, he is better than them all as a freshman. I don't remember any UConn freshman who could do all the things he does on offense.
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Rip, was similar to Bouk as a frosh but Rip had to take over because of player suspensions vice player injuries.

Overall, Bouk is more similar to Lamb with the near set shot on his J's and overall length on the floor.
 
He reminds me a lot of RIP, with a dash of Ray around the rim. With RIP, you could tell he was a scorer on day 1. It was a just a matter of him getting a little strength and confidence.
 
I don’t see the Lamb thing at all
or RiP.
His combination of skills remind me of of a smaller Rudy but I voted other because he reminds me so much of Tony Hanson.Rudy never had that same aggressive “I’m going to take this game over stop me if you think you can attitude” possessed by those two.
 
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lamb was twice the defender he is as a freshmen
 
Lamb is the most logical comparison but I actually feel he has some traits of Caron. He’s not afraid to grab a rebound and he’s just kind of a badass.
 
Silly thread. I don’t think he’s like any of them. He’s certainly no Caron but I think he might be better than Lamb
 
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I always thought he is a taller Jalen Adams. Very similar skillset and playing style, but Bouk is 2-3 inches taller.
 
Yankees32123 said:
I always thought he is a taller Jalen Adams. Very similar skillset and playing style, but Bouk is 2-3 inches taller.
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I see the similarities but to me one of the biggest differences, besides being insanely more athletic, and this is a huge plus, is that Bouk doesn’t avoid contact at the rim like Jalen did. It would drive me nuts how many points every game Jalen would piss away because he just would not take the hit. How many more games would we have won with Adams getting another 2-3 points at the stripe each game?
 
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The fact that he brings to mind so many different former Huskies shows that his game is more versatile than any of his predecessors. The kid is a talent like none we have seen before.
 
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Huskybass said:
To me, he is better than them all as a freshman. I don't remember any UConn freshman who could do all the things he does on offense.
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He's not at the level of Rip or Ray's freshman years. I don't think he's as complete a scorer as Rip was at this point (watch Rip's highlights from the '97 NIT -- he could get wherever he wanted to and scored at will), and Rip was a better defender even as a freshman.

Ray was so explosive, even as a freshman, and was a better shooter.
 
He doesn't really remind me of any ex UConn guys. I'd need to think about comparisons, but they are kind of pointless.

I get the sense that the game slows down for him at times. Everyone else seems to be in slow motion. He's seeing things and using that speed and quick leaping ability to be in the right place before other players recognize what the right place is. That's what makes him unique, and I don't recall any of the guys on the poll doing that in quite the same way. They were all great and many did things James can't do, yet.
 
Excalibur said:
He's not at the level of Rip or Ray's freshman years. I don't think he's as complete a scorer as Rip was at this point (watch Rip's highlights from the '97 NIT -- he could get wherever he wanted to and scored at will), and Rip was a better defender even as a freshman.

Ray was so explosive, even as a freshman, and was a better shooter.
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I disagree. Bouknight is more versatile than either of them as freshmen. Bouk hits 3s, mid-range shots, putback dunks, reverse layups, floaters...neither of them were doing all that as freshmen. Offensively, he is the most versatile freshman we have had in my 40 years of watching UConn basketball. I'm not saying he is better than either of them as freshman, but I am saying he scores in more different ways and that a highlight video would show that.
 
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2north said:
Ben Gordon’s game with Lamb’s body/frame.

He’s more athletic than Rip.
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This is actually a great description. Ben is probably most similar, but Bouk does some things that even Ben didn't do, especially as a frosh.
 
He's like an upgrade on Tony Robertson. 6-3, 200 pounds. TRob was an very explosive player. Good handle. Fast. Aggressive. Good at getting to the basket, good dunker, very good three point shot.

Here's the difference. In every area that TRob was good, Bouk is GREAT. TRob shot 39% from three which should be where Bouk ends up. And Bouk will blow away his rebounding and scoring numbers. When Bouk heads to the basket, I see a lot of Tony in him.
 
Huskybass said:
The fact that he brings to mind so many different former Huskies shows that his game is more versatile than any of his predecessors. The kid is a talent like none we have seen before.
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We’ve seen 6 first team All-Americans.

Ray Allen is in the HOF.

Caron Butler averaged 15.3 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 3.1 apg and 2.2 spg his freshman year.

Love the kid but come on...
 
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