Duke freshman Cassius Stanley has some big shoes to fill this season.
The 6-foot-5 California native went viral this week after he broke a program record in the vertical leap that had stood for ... exactly one year.
That’s right.
We now have definitive proof that there is a player on the current Duke roster that might end up being a better dunker than the guy on last year’s roster:
🚨🐰 MAX VERT RECORD 🐰🚨
— Duke Men’s Basketball (@DukeMBB) September 18, 2019
🚁 @cassius_stanley ‼️
We’ve had some alarmingly athletic hoopers. Cassius has the new record. 👀😈⚠️ pic.twitter.com/2xLlsX2P3I
LOL.
Yes, of course I’m kidding.
Zion is from another planet.
But that doesn’t change the fact that Cassius Stanley has been known as a freak athlete for years now, and that he’ll find a way to put at least one defender on a poster this season.