Duke males’s basketball opened up the 2024-25 season in opposition to the Maine Black Bears this week in a nod to stud freshman Cooper Flagg’s residence state. Flagg is poised to be school basketball’s essential character this yr, however the first few days of the season have already given us so many different cool moments, from Creighton’s Ryan Kalkbrenner popping off for 49 factors within the opener to Tre Johnson torching the nets for Texas to Joe Few changing into a family title for getting dunked on.
As Flagg was placing collectively a formidable efficiency in his school debut, it was a supervisor for Maine that stole the present. Simon Allen — who scored greater than 1,000 factors as a highschool basketball participant within the state — taunted the Cameron Crazies after which placed on a tremendous pre-game dunking show.
Duke crushed Maine within the opener, however Allen is getting simply as many social media views as Flagg or freshman teammate Kon Knueppel. The Duke followers had no concept what they had been in for when the Maine supervisor began chatting with them. Now everybody is aware of what Allen is able to. Watch the viral video right here:
Get this child on the crew! Maine hasn’t completed over .500 since 2009-2010. Subsequent yr, the Black Bears have Cooper Flagg’s twin brother Ace coming in. Are you telling me there’s no spot on the crew for a succesful highschool scorer with legit above-the-rim athleticism?
Solely school basketball can produce a viral second just like the dunking Maine basketball. It’s so nice to have the game again in our lives.
