To me he has some Caron butler in him besides the post game. The way he rebounds and becomes a point forward with the ball. He is surely an exciting player that I hope we see here next year as the star leading to us championship number 6.
He seems like a man among boys sometimes on the floor. I use to get the same feeling from Caron.
Not a bad comparison. Caron started his UConn career like a bat out a hell the first half of his freshman season. The team road on his back, then he struggled mightily the 2nd half of that first season through the first half of his sophomore one. I remember many criticizing him saying he was far from being NBA ready, while I kept on saying that he was a consistent jump-shot away from being a 2-and-done which is what happened. I kept on harping how his J went line-drive with little arc for a long spell and all he needed to do was put a little more air under it. I don't know who picked up on it...not implying it was my posts, but what the coaches saw from his play, but he began to put a little more air under his J and they begin to fall at an alarming rate and almost got us in -4 his sophomore season.
My point is DHam is starting out as a do-it-all type freshman who can fill it. He's going to have some monster games this season. I would not be shocked in the least if he ends up a 1-and-done if he strings a nice stretch of big time hoops at the end of the season. I hope he turns out to be a 2-and-done, but I doubt we get any more than that if not just one year. I'm going to enjoy him as long as he's here. I hope it's more than one.
Unlike the team that Caron joined his freshman year, this team has a big time scorer in Boatright, so the team does not have to rely on Hamilton's scoring. But he's close to the all around player that Caron was, though as you pointed out, 3drbass, Caron was a rare player who could bring his offensive game to the post when his outside game was failing him. DHam is not the post player Caron was, but the rest of his game is eerily similar (great handle, great J, good driver, good passer, sees the floor well, good rebounder and on and on). Caron was a stronger and bigger framed kid when he hit the scene. He was also a tad older (by 2 years I think), having to sit out a year in prep school and maybe another one year before that. He had some off-the-court troubles early on but matured leaps-and-bounds before he arrived due to some solid mentoring that continued under JC who considers Caron one of his sons. But I digress...