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Favorite dunker

Who was your favorite Husky dunker?

  • James Bouknight

    Votes: 14 9.3%

  • Ray Allen

    Votes: 8 5.3%

  • Rudy Gay

    Votes: 25 16.7%

  • Stanley Robinson

    Votes: 66 44.0%

  • Andre Dyson

    Votes: 22 14.7%

  • Jeremy Lamb

    Votes: 2 1.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 13 8.7%
  • Total voters
    150
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XLCenterFan said:
I feel like Amy Klobucher when she couldn't remember the name of Mexico's President. Or that Libertarian Presidential candidate (Gary Johnson?), who couldn't remember what or where Aleppo was.
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Don't forget Rick Perry and his 4 agencies to cut.
 
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Ostrout has Kwintin Williams #10 on his list. That same Kwintin Williams that has as many in-game dunks (and points?) in his career as Andre Dyson. Hilarious
 
UConn2SF said:
Ostrout has Kwintin Williams #10 on his list. That same Kwintin Williams that has as many in-game dunks (and points?) in his career as Andre Dyson. Hilarious
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Here's his top 10. I should have put it in my original post. He has a short write up about each one but I'm just listing the players here.

No. 10. Kwintin Williams (2017-19)
No. 9. Ray Allen (1993-96)
No. 8. Ben Gordon (2001-04)
No. 7. Norman Bailey (1980-83)
No. 6. James Bouknight (2019-present)
No. 5. Andre Drummond (2011-12)
No. 4. Jerome Dyson (2006-10)
No. 3. Donyell Marshall (1991-94)
No. 2. Rudy Gay (2004-06)
No. 1. Stanley Robinson (2006-10)
 
HooperScooper said:
Here's his top 10. I should have put it in my original post. He has a short write up about each one but I'm just listing the players here.

No. 10. Kwintin Williams (2017-19)
No. 9. Ray Allen (1993-96)
No. 8. Ben Gordon (2001-04)
No. 7. Norman Bailey (1980-83)
No. 6. James Bouknight (2019-present)
No. 5. Andre Drummond (2011-12)
No. 4. Jerome Dyson (2006-10)
No. 3. Donyell Marshall (1991-94)
No. 2. Rudy Gay (2004-06)
No. 1. Stanley Robinson (2006-10)
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Ray and Ben should be 5/6. Get Kwintin off the list. First 4 seem fair
 
tcf15 said:
Kirk King truly underrated in the best dunkers at UConn discussion.
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Played in a summer league at Conn College against Kirk and Kevin Freeman back in the day. They were both freakishly athletic.
 
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Sticks for his screams after every dunk.
 
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Dyson had two ridiculous dunks in back-to-back games early in his junior or senior year. One was on Memphis and was ridiculous.

Marcus Johnson was super athletic and I have no memory of him ever playing against good teams until seeing that video.

I'd kill for a Doug Wrenn dunk comp. It probably would be a 15 second vid but he was (JCs words, too) the best leaper we've ever had. I only remember two, actually. One was early in his freshmen year against some cupcake and he swooped in TRob style along the baseline and the other was against GTown when Khalid put it off the glass for him. Wrenn had ridiculous spring

Sticks was not athletic enough to play in the BE so I would not have him #1. Our best dunker was Rudy, imo. When he was at full speed and leaping it was sorta Drexler-esque with the glide, spring, and long arms.

Donyell is also missing from the list. His swooping one-hand dunks and the two sorta 360s were pretty memorable.
 
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tcf15 said:
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Great job as always tcf but let’s keep it real for a second...as athletic and explosive as Johnson was he really isn’t even in the convo for BDOAT at UCONN and imo not even in the convo for top 5. To even be considered as a candidate the guy either needs to be able to dunk over someone or be able to add some flavor and do different types of dunks. Every single dunk in that montage was either an alley oop or a breakaway where he only did a standard 1 or 2 hand finish. Not good enough imo. Think Donyells 360 on a partial breakaway or some of Rudy Gay or Ray Allen’s breakaway dunks....to me that’s the standard to even be considered.

I had a feeling Stanley would run away with it and that’s fair (tho I voted for Ray) but Stanley was strictly a 2 foot jumper and to me 2 foot dunkers look way less impressive. Stanley absolutely 100% is the best put back/rebound dunker of all time.
 
Phil Nolan at the Garden vs MSU is one of my top 10 considering the circumstances. Got Warde excited as well which which is a nice sidelight as he goes in.
 
boog204 said:
Marcus Johnson was super athletic and I have no memory of him ever playing against good teams until seeing that video.
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I had the same thought. I couldn't recall seeing him play, but when I watched the highlight reel, I saw myself on the sideline in a bunch of the clips (cheerleading team).
 
Deuce said:
To even be considered as a candidate the guy either needs to be able to dunk over someone or be able to add some flavor and do different types of dunks. Every single dunk in that montage was either an alley oop or a breakaway where he only did a standard 1 or 2 hand finish. Not good enough imo.
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There's something to be said for power though. A lot of those dunks featured defenders literally running/falling away from him. The one against Indiana at 2:28 of the vid is particularly fun.

I guess I'm a Jerome Lane disciple. Ballet's nice and all but give me a guy who can send it in.

Have to admit though that I remember virtually none of the Marcus dunks in the video. I remember a very athletic guy who couldn't shoot very well, but I don't remember a master dunker.
 
Denham had some underrated poster dunks.

I always thought this one by Hilton was pretty sick. Don't see too many in-traffic reverses.
 
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