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Top 5 Husky dunkers of all-time.

Excalibur said:
Only in Chief world does one’s actual words constitute a straw man.
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I said I wasn’t sure about Ray being the all time dunker - suggested Rudy and Sticks. Quite frankly, it’s a silly argument since I said nothing negative about Ray or that he did not deserve it - I guess some here wanted a coronation - but it’s a sports forum - where these types of questions will get various names thrown in the hopper.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Tony Robertson's dunks would come out of nowhere, much like most of Robertson's game. He would be invisible to the point that you would forget he was on the court, and then out of nowhere would come a crazy dunk.

Edmund Saunders would dunk like the rim owed him money.

Lyman Depriest was a good dunker, and I think that is the only way he could score.
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Whatever became of Robertson?
And Depriest didn't need to score. Just ask Dana Barros. For him to do what he did to shut down Barros (as a freshman yet) in the NIT Semi was unbelieveable.
 
Scrutiner said:
As an apprentice Chief, I'll admit I knew that but just couldn't think of Rogers' name.
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There is something else about that play I really didn’t want to say. It wasn’t a dunk. He stole the ball by jumping over Rogers and grabbing the ball when he came down. It was right in front of me and one of the most athletic plays I’ve ever seen
 
Sticks Robinson is one of my favorite all time Huskies because of his dunking ability. Dude could ignite a crowd instantly.
 
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Chief00 said:
I said I wasn’t sure about Ray being the all time dunker - suggested Rudy and Sticks. Quite frankly, it’s a silly argument since I said nothing negative about Ray or that he did not deserve it - I guess some here wanted a coronation - but it’s a sports forum - where these types of questions will get various names thrown in the hopper.
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You didn't put him in the top five.
 
Scrutiner said:
Whatever became of Robertson?
And Depriest didn't need to score. Just ask Dana Barros. For him to do what he did to shut down Barros (as a freshman yet) in the NIT Semi was unbelieveable.
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He played overseas for a while then came back to UConn and finished up to earn his degree. I forgot what line of work he's in now, but he's doing pretty well.
 
Charlie V could flush it awfully well.

Saw a 360 at the Meadowlands against Seton Hall that I’ll never forget.
 
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Zionn said:
also surprised not more mention of Dyson. Guy attacked the rim.

DM's 360 vs the Hall will always be my fav dunk
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He did attack the rim in a sometimes spectacular fashion; does he get demerit points for his misses?
 
Lyman’s dunk from top of the key in the NIT game against VCU brought the house down in the old field house and loved UCONN basketball after....
 
So soon we forget Kirk King. He had a couple that were up there (pun intended) with the afore mentioned great dunks. And to add one more Scotty within the space of two minutes blocked a shot by Motumbo and then dunked over him. JC said at one point that Scotty was the best athlete he ever coached.
 
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Dogdeacon said:
Not to be a party pooper but Burrell jumped over RRodgers and stole the ball. It wasn’t a dunk but it was in ACC-BE challenge.

My recollection of Scotty’s last year is they weren’t a great team, but Burrell would get one alley oop to highlight every game.
My top 5
Burrell
Sticks
Donyell
Ray
Boat

Honorable mention TRob for best dunk ever
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I think Calhoun used to let his warrior players highlight their potential NBA position in their senior year. Burrell became more of an outside shooting 2 guard his senior year. The same think happened with K Free. He was a warrior down low, but he had no shot at the NBA with that game. His senior year I remember him playing outside the paint a lot more.

Re Burrell's athleticism, I played tennis with a number of the players in 1992. All were decent guys. Most were terrible at tennis regardless of being D1 athletes. It was clear that Burrell was the most natural athlete of all of them. I tried to lob over him once... once.

Someone stated that he remembered Toraino's famous dunk seeming more spectacular. I remember that one, and Burrell's alley oop at the first Gampel St. John's game being fantastic, but I agree that they seem more commonplace in highlights. My theory is that: i) there were a lot less highlight dunks back in the early 90s; and ii) Calhoun's teams, in particular, back then didn't dunk as much as other teams. I know he didn't tell them not to dunk, but I'm assuming if they missed they knew they'd get the treatment (probably right on the court).
 
Trying to bring this post back to the top - when all said and done do we think Bouk will join the list of top 5 dunkers in UConn history? I think he’s well on his way already..
 
T-Squared said:
In no particular order:
Norman Bailey
Stanley Robinson
Ray Allen
Tony Robertson
Rudy Gay

Honorable Mentions:
Jeremy Lamb for that baseline dunk over a Columbia poster victim.
Ryan Boatright, best dunker pound-for-pound.
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Can't believe I had to get to page 3 to see some love for the boat show!
 
Madmannsucks said:
I was going to him. Many of us remember ESPN using his dunk against BC as part of the game opening montage for most of a season.
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It was their Dunk of the Year that year.
 
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Storrsbred said:
Billy Gray, from, I think, Hillhouse. Was here when Shable was coaching. “Could take a quarter off the top of the backboard.”
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Basketball Jones could do that and leave 15 cents change!
 
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