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Alan Swank
3/5/2019 11:32 AM
bobcatsquared wrote:expand_more
There is a certain amount of coordination that goes with dunking
Doesn't hurt being 6-6.

6'4 3/4" as of two weeks ago.
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giacomo
3/5/2019 12:05 PM
There were not many dunks in my day and I never dunked in a game my entire career. You might remember that the break away rim was not implemented yet and the rules were very strict regarding grasping and hanging on the rim. The refs would call a technical foul if you as much as grasped the rim. You didn't see much dunking in traffic, but rather only on wide open fast breaks, and then not too thunderously. In the preseason we would get a session with a few MAC refs and the question was always asked: "what if we are dunking and get undercut and have to grasp the rim to protect ourselves"? Answer: " grasp the rim if you need to protect yourself, but we'll call the technical anyway."
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bobcatsquared
3/5/2019 12:55 PM
Before Giacomo's time it was against college rules to dunk (Wilt Chamberlain rule, I believe). If memory serves me, I think this was around the time I saw highly ranked Notre Dame, led by freshman Adrian Dantley, play in St. John Arena and a middling OSU basketball team. In a game too close for the favored Irish, Dantley was T'd up for dunking. Almost cost ND the win.

Of course my memory might be skewed by all the years since.
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Alan Swank
3/5/2019 1:55 PM
bobcatsquared wrote:expand_more
Before Giacomo's time it was against college rules to dunk (Wilt Chamberlain rule, I believe). If memory serves me, I think this was around the time I saw highly ranked Notre Dame, led by freshman Adrian Dantley, play in St. John Arena and a middling OSU basketball team. In a game too close for the favored Irish, Dantley was T'd up for dunking. Almost cost ND the win.

Of course my memory might be skewed by all the years since.
Dunking was banned in the NCAA from 1967 to 1976. Many people have attributed this to the dominance of the then-college phenomenon Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar); the no-dunking rule is sometimes referred to as the "Lew Alcindor rule."
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Cats5
3/5/2019 2:49 PM
I could dunk when I was a freshman in high school. I was about 6'2 at the time but never was able to in a game. Timing is everything when you try to dunk. I never was a fast guy but knew when and where to jump to dunk.
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SBH
3/5/2019 3:08 PM
Having played a bit of roundball with BobcatSquared, I can tell you I never saw daylight between his shoes and the floor. He couldn't dunk on a 6-foot nerf rim. But don't tell his son, who has been fed a lot of tall tales over the years.
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OhioCatFan
3/5/2019 3:11 PM
TheOptimist: Now, palming that ball, that I can do. I have very long fingers, so bad they aren't real coordinated.
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shabamon
3/5/2019 3:29 PM
I have dunked on Ping rims, but I think some of them are 2-3 inches short of 10 feet.
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OUs LONG Driver
3/5/2019 4:33 PM
First Dunk was Sophomore year in HS. Game dunk my junior year, missed a dunk my senior year by hanging on rim and it popped out almost to the roof when I let go. That was embarassing. Only a handful of ping game dunks and I played a ton. Coed intramurals was the prime time to get some dunks in. Last dunk was about a year ago at age 35 so I made it 20 years at 6'-4". A ruptured achilles 4 years ago means 1 foot only since then and I have my doubts I still can today. I would almost rather not try again and pretend I still got it rather than admit defeat to father time!
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bobcatsquared
3/5/2019 4:48 PM
SBH wrote:expand_more
Having played a bit of roundball with BobcatSquared, I can tell you I never saw daylight between his shoes and the floor.
Sounds like the aforementioned Adrian Dantley, one of my all-time top 5 basketball players. However, I once touched the rim at the Convo.
Last Edited: 3/5/2019 7:07:19 PM by bobcatsquared
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bobcatsquared
3/5/2019 4:49 PM
Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
Before Giacomo's time it was against college rules to dunk (Wilt Chamberlain rule, I believe). If memory serves me, I think this was around the time I saw highly ranked Notre Dame, led by freshman Adrian Dantley, play in St. John Arena and a middling OSU basketball team. In a game too close for the favored Irish, Dantley was T'd up for dunking. Almost cost ND the win.

Of course my memory might be skewed by all the years since.
Dunking was banned in the NCAA from 1967 to 1976. Many people have attributed this to the dominance of the then-college phenomenon Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar); the no-dunking rule is sometimes referred to as the "Lew Alcindor rule."
Thinking and typing on the fly during my short lunch time, I wasn't sure the rule was because of Wilt or Danny Nee's high school teammate, Lew Alcindor. There was a rule change due to Wilt, though. Widening the lane, perhaps? Guess I mixed up the two.
Last Edited: 3/5/2019 4:50:30 PM by bobcatsquared
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OhioCatFan
3/5/2019 6:10 PM
bobcatsquared wrote:expand_more
Having played a bit of roundball with BobcatSquared, I can tell you I never saw daylight between his shoes and the floor.
Sounds like the aforementioned Adrian Dantley, one of my all-time top 5 basketball players. However, I did once touch the rim at the Convo.
I once touched the bottom of the net at Ping! ;-)
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longtiimelurker
3/6/2019 9:24 AM
Pretty good synopsis and historically seems to be pretty accurate from all I have read. http://mentalfloss.com/article/62428/brief-history-slam-dunk
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oldkatz
3/6/2019 12:30 PM
OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
Having played a bit of roundball with BobcatSquared, I can tell you I never saw daylight between his shoes and the floor.
Sounds like the aforementioned Adrian Dantley, one of my all-time top 5 basketball players. However, I did once touch the rim at the Convo.
I once touched the bottom of the net at Ping! ;-)
And I have set up, taken down, and moved the baskets/standards at the Convo, Oilcanman.
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SBH
3/6/2019 1:37 PM
bobcatsquared wrote:expand_more
Before Giacomo's time it was against college rules to dunk (Wilt Chamberlain rule, I believe). If memory serves me, I think this was around the time I saw highly ranked Notre Dame, led by freshman Adrian Dantley, play in St. John Arena and a middling OSU basketball team. In a game too close for the favored Irish, Dantley was T'd up for dunking. Almost cost ND the win.

Of course my memory might be skewed by all the years since.
Dunking was banned in the NCAA from 1967 to 1976. Many people have attributed this to the dominance of the then-college phenomenon Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar); the no-dunking rule is sometimes referred to as the "Lew Alcindor rule."
Thinking and typing on the fly during my short lunch time, I wasn't sure the rule was because of Wilt or Danny Nee's high school teammate, Lew Alcindor. There was a rule change due to Wilt, though. Widening the lane, perhaps? Guess I mixed up the two.
I believe one Wilt-induced rule was that you couldn't jump from the foul line to sink a free throw.
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OhioCatFan
3/6/2019 1:37 PM
oldkatz wrote:expand_more
Having played a bit of roundball with BobcatSquared, I can tell you I never saw daylight between his shoes and the floor.
Sounds like the aforementioned Adrian Dantley, one of my all-time top 5 basketball players. However, I did once touch the rim at the Convo.
I once touched the bottom of the net at Ping! ;-)
And I have set up, taken down, and moved the baskets/standards at the Convo, Oilcanman.
But, I didn't need a step ladder, ricepaddygrunt!
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Brian Smith (No, not that one)
3/6/2019 3:48 PM
shabamon wrote:expand_more
If you can jump high enough, a dunk is a high percentage shot and not necessarily show boating.
Especially if you're getting them with your own ability to get to the rim and not just cherry picking dunks off the work of your teammates.

Giannis craters an opposing defense because of the threat that he's going to dunk from anywhere inside of a 10-foot radius of the rim.
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