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Article: Jeffries Has High Hopes Heading Into Season
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 10, 2004
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Jarvis Hayes streaked past a defender and appeared to have a clear
path to the basket when he flipped up a finger roll. Easy bucket,
Hayes thought to himself, until Jared Jeffries came bounding toward
him like a 6-foot-11 pogo stick to swat the ball out of the air.
Jeffries's hand, Hayes recalls, was almost two feet above the rim.
"He's touching the top of the square going for a block," Hayes said
in amazement. "This guy has got some rise in his legs."
Rising has never been the problem for Jeffries, the Washington
Wizards' third-year forward. "It's the coming down," said Jeffries,
who tore his right anterior cruciate ligament after an awkward
landing in practice 20 games into his rookie ...