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Article from Mike Anthony of the Courant.
“They should be excited,” said Brian Fruscio, Jackson’s coach at Albany Academy. “He’s really good. The dunks, we see them so much. He tries to rip a stanchion off, and I don’t even react. He does it so much for us that I think the [UConn] fan base is going to get used to the craziness of his athleticism. But what makes him special — and what’s going to make him special at UConn and what’s going to make him special after that — is that he can guard 1 through 4, he passes the hell out of it, he can handle it and he rebounds the hell out of it, too.”
“They should be excited,” said Brian Fruscio, Jackson’s coach at Albany Academy. “He’s really good. The dunks, we see them so much. He tries to rip a stanchion off, and I don’t even react. He does it so much for us that I think the [UConn] fan base is going to get used to the craziness of his athleticism. But what makes him special — and what’s going to make him special at UConn and what’s going to make him special after that — is that he can guard 1 through 4, he passes the hell out of it, he can handle it and he rebounds the hell out of it, too.”
Mike Anthony: UConn-bound Andre Jackson’s dunks are mesmerizing displays and signs of his potential
Every Andre Jackson dunk is basically social media wildfire, loud bleacher-shaking moments worth reliving over and over again. UConn fans see a windmill, an alley-oop or something ridiculous off th…
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