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Arizona’s Derrick Williams taking it to the next level (with dunk video)

by on Nov. 24, 2010, under Sports

This could be a short story about Arizona forward Derrick Williams. It’s as New Mexico State coach Marvin Menzies said last week: “He’s an NBA player. What can I say?”

That nicely sums it up. He will be an NBA player. Shoot, that’s probably going to happen next summer. He’ll be next in Arizona’s pipeline to the pros.

But what else can we say about the sophomore star? Well, plenty.

Even in Arizona’s low-energy, poor-shooting, snooze-a-palooza Tuesday night in a 78-45 home victory over Bethune-Cookman, Williams did about the usual — 19 points, six rebounds … and one highlight reel dunk.

This game won’t be long-remembered — Bethune who? — but Williams’ fast-break 360-degree dunk will be a digital favorite for a long time. He took a pass from Kyle Fogg near the lane and, in one move, jumped to spin away from a defender and came full circle for the dunk.

“I don’t even know what that was,” Arizona senior forward Jamelle Horne said in amazement.

“You should have seen Coach (Sean) Miller’s face. You should have seen my face. All I know is that was a great play. That’s something that is definitely going to be on SportsCenter. I can’t believe he did it. But he’s crazy like that.”

Miller can live with that kind of crazy all season long.

Please continue reading the rest of my story on Williams at FoxSportsArizona.com

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  • Carlos J. M.

    Can someone please explain how that dunk after catching it on the fly, on the bounce and then in one motion turning 360 degrees and slamming it home with a B-CU man coming at him full-force doesn’t get Arizona’s Williams in the Eastern-biased to Sell Punks Network’s Top Ten for Tuesday night? 

    I mean yes, we’re talking Tucson zip codes versus Durham zip codes here, and we all know how much the kind and considerate, fair and balanced folks there in Bristol just love giving our Wildcats their due, but c’mon! 

    If ESPN can give us ad nauseam Dookie V swallowing Coach K whole last night as he was slobbering and sweating and lovingly gazing all over him and his 800th win (seriously, when is enough adulation enough adulation for God’s sake?!), you’d think that the so-called “worldwide leader in sports coverage” could spare a little time and a slot in the Top Ten for such rare athletic fetes as we witnessed last night in McKale.

       

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