Those audacious signature pull-ups from 30-plus feet have returned to ESPN airwaves and with them a familiar question, one that will always percolate across social media platforms when a shot of his touches the twine of the net.
If the answer is yes, then there is a more pertinent question, which is: should he? The debate over Jimmer Fredette’s game has been seemingly waged forever, because he represents something spectacular that should work, but up to this point hasn’t — at least not the way his supporters have always envisioned.
So as the former BYU megastar is back in American gyms across the country rising from unfathomable distances, still draining highlight-reel 3’s, still cutting through the lane and finishing at the hoop from awkward angles, that debate that has raged on in the depths of the sports Twitterverse for nearly a decade has returned.