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Insider: Frayer dunk goes viral
1/3/2018 10:08:00 AM | Men's Basketball, Paul Coro, Lopes Insider Blog
GCU sophomore's follow slam viewed 2.3M times
Oscar Frayer just was making an instinctive play to help his teammates and please his coaches.
The way that the Grand Canyon sophomore did it caught more than 2 million more sets of eyes.
During Saturday's loss at Illinois, Frayer soared over an Illinois player to slam back a missed jump shot as he was fouled. He jumped so high and threw the carom back through the rim so hard that the reverberations shook social media.
The Frayer putback dunk was viewed at least 2.3 million times so far on various platforms with a giant boost from ESPN SportsCenter's social media outlets. SportsCenter's Twiitter account retweeted the GCU men's basketball account video with a "#SCtop10" hashtag. The SportsCenter Instagram account's post of the dunk garnered about 830,000 of those views.
"That's crazy," Frayer said.
The monster number for a monster slam is still jarring but not totally surprising to Frayer given that his phone froze Saturday night because he received so many notifications. Two of the retweets came from NBA players Ivan Rabb of the Memphis Grizzlies and Marquese Chriss of the Phoenix Suns, who are Frayer's friends and fellow Northern Californians.
"Jeez!" Chriss commented and "I see you brother," Rabb commented, in retweets of Bleacher Report's tweet that included an "OH MY" comment.
The play occurred when teammate Joshua Braun missed a corner jump shot and Frayer read the rebound bounce from the opposite side of the rim to break a tie game with 15:23 remaining. Frayer elevated to where his waist was above the shoulders of 6-foot-6 Illinois forward Kipper Nichols, who fouled him.
"I crash all the time," Frayer said. "It's really nothing new. It was just a better dunk. I just crash every time. That's what Coach Majerle asks me to do and that's what I want to do. Whatever helps make the team better. That just happened to be one of the crazy ones.
"It just happened. Something clicked and I was already in the air that high and it just went in."
Frayer was still disappointed in two things -- that he missed the ensuing free throw and that the Lopes lost the game.
Frayer has been partial to his one-handed fastbreak alleyoop off a Fiifi Aidoo pass against Illinois-Chicago last season but Saturday's slam is his new favorite. He even drew an audible sound of awe from the crowd of 13,762 fans at State Farm Center in Champaign, Ill.
" I used to jump higher in high school," Frayer said. "That's the crazy part."
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The way that the Grand Canyon sophomore did it caught more than 2 million more sets of eyes.
During Saturday's loss at Illinois, Frayer soared over an Illinois player to slam back a missed jump shot as he was fouled. He jumped so high and threw the carom back through the rim so hard that the reverberations shook social media.
The Frayer putback dunk was viewed at least 2.3 million times so far on various platforms with a giant boost from ESPN SportsCenter's social media outlets. SportsCenter's Twiitter account retweeted the GCU men's basketball account video with a "#SCtop10" hashtag. The SportsCenter Instagram account's post of the dunk garnered about 830,000 of those views.
"That's crazy," Frayer said.
He THREW it! #SCtop10 pic.twitter.com/8ezYtQS7ra
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 31, 2017
The monster number for a monster slam is still jarring but not totally surprising to Frayer given that his phone froze Saturday night because he received so many notifications. Two of the retweets came from NBA players Ivan Rabb of the Memphis Grizzlies and Marquese Chriss of the Phoenix Suns, who are Frayer's friends and fellow Northern Californians.
"Jeez!" Chriss commented and "I see you brother," Rabb commented, in retweets of Bleacher Report's tweet that included an "OH MY" comment.
Jeez!! ?? @Oscar_Frayer https://t.co/MkB3vUvWEV
— Marquese Chriss (@quese) December 31, 2017
I see you brother ?????? @Oscar_Frayer https://t.co/fnNPTkYu0m
— Ivan Rabb (@YoungIvee) December 31, 2017
The play occurred when teammate Joshua Braun missed a corner jump shot and Frayer read the rebound bounce from the opposite side of the rim to break a tie game with 15:23 remaining. Frayer elevated to where his waist was above the shoulders of 6-foot-6 Illinois forward Kipper Nichols, who fouled him.
"I crash all the time," Frayer said. "It's really nothing new. It was just a better dunk. I just crash every time. That's what Coach Majerle asks me to do and that's what I want to do. Whatever helps make the team better. That just happened to be one of the crazy ones.
"It just happened. Something clicked and I was already in the air that high and it just went in."
Frayer was still disappointed in two things -- that he missed the ensuing free throw and that the Lopes lost the game.
Frayer has been partial to his one-handed fastbreak alleyoop off a Fiifi Aidoo pass against Illinois-Chicago last season but Saturday's slam is his new favorite. He even drew an audible sound of awe from the crowd of 13,762 fans at State Farm Center in Champaign, Ill.
" I used to jump higher in high school," Frayer said. "That's the crazy part."
Follow Paul Coro on Twitter: @paulcoro.
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