Three reasons to be excited about Cam’Ron Fletcher
By Alex Weber
Athleticism
Cam’Ron Fletcher. With a name as basketball-savvy as that, you gotta be athletic. Do you want some evidence that Fletch can jump higher than the Easter Bunny and cut through the lane with a euro step so sharp it might cut your skin off?
Here you go, ya bunch of heathens (it’s ok guys, I know half of you are gonna stop reading after watching the highlight tape).
Jesus Christ, this dude really is a Kentucky Wildcat. He’s already wearing freaking blue and white checkerboard uniforms! What a psychopath!
The actual basketball being played in the video by our main man Fletch was something I could not replicate. That’s a good sign. I’m never encouraged when recruits look clunkier than I do on a basketball court (I’m a narcissist when it comes to analyzing my own talents on the court, so take that last comment with a volcano-sized grain of salt).
Cam’Ron Fletcher can effing jump. He’s 6-6 but he dunks as comfortably as Giannis Anetetokounmpo. After intensely studying BJ Boston’s explicit skill and footwork last week, sitting back and watching Fletch boing and slam dunk on Geometry students was a breath of fresh air (that’s all the above video includes, FYI).
If there’s one trait on the basketball court that translates to the next level 100% of the time, it’s athleticism. If you can move your body like Fletch with a 6-6, 180-pound frame, you won’t be a total albatross in college. Without diving any deeper (yet) into the finesse aspects of Fletch’s game, I know he’ll be of use solely because of the athleticism portrayed in the above video.
When you are that much more athletic than everyone else, you’re going to dominate. I played basketball with a group of six-year-olds the other day at work. I dunked like every time. That’s Fletch. He can seemingly dunk whenever he damn well pleases. Pogo stick athleticism generally grants a player two things: 1.) the much-envied ability to dunk a basketball in any situation, and 2.) elite defensive foundation. By pure athleticism, Fletch has the tools to hit for the basketball cycle.