Making the leap: John Fulkerson

Last time, we talked about Yves Pons, and it was wonderful because the title of this series fit well with Pons’ skill set, so I enjoyed the word play, and we all got to revel in Pons gliding through the air like a fish gliding through water. If you’ve missed any of the other stories in this series, you can read about Lamonte Turner and Jordan Bowden here and about Jalen Johnson here.

Fulkerson carved out a spot in Rick Barnes’ mostly-eight and sometimes-nine man rotation partly because Tennessee lacked quality depth in the post. He’s listed at 6-foot-9 (that’s probably at least an inch too generous, but that’s really neither here nor there) and was one of the few scholarship players on the…