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Marvin Bagley’s second jump is developing into a devastating weapon

Marvin Bagley’s scouting report advertised a young player chock-full of exciting possibilities after his remarkable freshman season. The Duke product scored with reckless abandon, averaging 21 points per game, while knocking down 40% of his shots from deep. He terrorized opposing defenses while in transition as the occasional primary ball-handler and cleaned the glass better than an industrial-sized bottle of Windex, recording 11.1 boards per contest. Those traits, while impressive, are also quite common for top-5 frontcourt prospects, but one unique ability also stood out for the young big man: his legendary second jump. Perhaps his most dramatic collegiate play was the result of a pair of offensive rebounds and a key put-back against the U.