{"id":5701,"date":"2023-07-17T14:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2023-07-17T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:25:02","slug":"jaden-akins-coen-carr-best-athlete-seen-with-own-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=5701","title":{"rendered":"Jaden Akins says Coen Carr is the best athlete he&#8217;s seen with his own eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jaden Akins had some glowing praise for Coen Carr and his elite athleticism. He said that he&#8217;s the best athlete he&#8217;s ever played with.<\/h2>\n<p>We are a few weeks into Moneyball and Coen Carr is already standing out.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for the freshman to make a name for himself not only within the Michigan State fanbase, but on a national level. His dunks have been all over social media and everyone is raving about his athleticism.<\/p>\n<p>Carr is an elite athlete but <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/michigan-state\/article\/michigan-state-basketball-coen-carr-freshman-moneyball-pro-am-212791679\/\">he did admit to 247Sports&#8217; Stephen Brooks<\/a> that he has more to his game. He&#8217;s excited to show fans just why he believes that dunking may be his best asset, but there&#8217;s more he&#8217;ll be known for. I, too, am excited to see him grow as an all-around player in the green and white.<\/p>\n<p>But, like I said, dunking is his best asset and everyone knows that. Teammates and coaches are already raving about him, including returning junior Jaden Akins.<\/p>\n<p>After testing the draft waters, the athletic guard decided to return and team up with the No. 4 freshman class in the nation. And he&#8217;s seeing just what guys like Carr are capable of.<\/p>\n<p>Akins has seen and played with a number of elite athletes, but he said that Carr takes the cake.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Akins starts talking about Carr about seven seconds into the video shared by @PeachJames_.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">At a certain point all you can do is laugh maniacally at the absurdity that is Coen Carr <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/451HsydyCA\">pic.twitter.com\/451HsydyCA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\udf51 at the lake (@PeachJames_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeachJames_\/status\/1679167977436987392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Akins had some glowing remarks about him, Carson Cooper also chimed in. He said that he pulls out some new move every day and laughed that he&#8217;s not human.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/even-malik-hall-is-amazed-by-coen-carr-and-his-moneyball-dunks\/\">Malik Hall previously gushed about Carr<\/a> during Moneyball after a between-the-legs dunk on a breakaway.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not often you see this much praise and hype surrounding a player, let alone a true freshman who hasn&#8217;t even suited up yet. Coen Carr is going to be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who isn&#8217;t impressed with this kid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[291,59,190,189],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-coen-carr","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}