‘Vampire Hours’ at Fazoli’s with The Alien? Lakers’ Anthony Davis ‘did it all in one year’ at Kentucky

In the heated debate about greatest freshman seasons in NCAA basketball history, you could make a case for Carmelo Anthony or Kevin Durant or Zion Williamson, but this much is certain: There has never been one quite like the alien invasion of Anthony Davis at Kentucky. You don’t know what he really is until you see guys like LeBron and Durant and Westbrook grab the ball and stop the game and go, “Wow, Anthony, how did you do that?” Those guys have seen everything under the sun in basketball, but when you get in the air and you go Gumby, where your heels and your hands are basically touching, arched the wrong way, backward, catching impossible lobs, even the other great players recognize that you’re a freak of nature. “You’re so light that if we throw you the ball in the post and you get bumped, you’re going to throw up a BS shot and fall down and Cal’s going to stop practice and tell your teammates, ‘Don’t ever throw him the ball in there again.’ ”He’s looking at me like, “Come on, man, he ain’t gonna do that.” First day of practice, what do you think happened? From time to time those little things would come out and you go, “Wow, he’s a 7-foot-tall superstar, but he’s still a child.” On the court, Davis rapidly became a full-grown man. He says, “Look, I don’t know what’s going on, but I can’t make a basket, so you guys go do your thing and I’m going to play great defense, block shots and get every rebound.