Being able to dunk is a huge advantage in basketball

DrStale · 01-09-10, 02:40 PM

Yeah, and in baseball, being able to hit home runs also a very big advantage. Surprised this hasn't caught on.

bettilimbroke999 · 01-09-10, 02:44 PM

Comparing the skill involved in hitting a HR and a player making a dunk is a good idea, Im sure theres a lot of guys that hit 100% HRs

podunk · 01-09-10, 02:46 PM

haha

williams22 · 01-09-10, 02:46 PM

A few things:
1. Welcome to basketball.
2. Dunks can be blocked.
3. There are actually relatively few dunks each game in comparison to layups.

DrStale · 01-09-10, 02:48 PM

Point being, your argument is consistently made by 6 year old's everyday. How you thought this was enlightening to the board is beyond me.

mmike032 · 01-09-10, 02:49 PM

your not gonna find many D1 players that cant dunk.
dunking over a defender however is another story.

bettilimbroke999 · 01-09-10, 02:50 PM

I have seen Lebron make 500 dunks, I can honestly not recall the last time he had one blocked, he's missed a couple before tryin to show off but blocked without a foul being called

bettilimbroke999 · 01-09-10, 02:51 PM

Originally posted by DrStale

Point being, your argument is consistently made by 6 year old's everyday. How you thought this was enlightening to the board is beyond me.

At least I had a point, 6 year olds know hitting a HR is harder than a player dunking

UntilTheNDofTimE · 01-09-10, 02:53 PM

You cant make this shit up. Were you dropped onto your head. How many dunks to baskets made did shaq have in his career? Still about 5/1. You cant stand in the paint for 10 minutes and call for the ball like in the 50's. Guy musta been sniffing elmers glue.

pavyracer · 01-09-10, 02:54 PM

Being able to stop shots is a big advantage in NHL goalies.

UntilTheNDofTimE · 01-09-10, 02:55 PM

So no one in the nba should ever shoot? Just dunk or get a 24 second violation?

bettilimbroke999 · 01-09-10, 02:56 PM

Originally posted by mmike032

your not gonna find many D1 players that cant dunk.
dunking over a defender however is another story.

I agree shooting a bank layup around a defender is obviously a necessity but when driving to the hoop I cant tell you how many D1 players try to lay it in over the front of the rim while a 7 footer comes in and swats it away, makes no sense if they can dunk to let the ball leave their hands for a block, it is usually the shorter players that this happens, the taller players almost always slam it

DrStale · 01-09-10, 02:57 PM

Originally posted by UntilTheNDofTimE

So no one in the nba should ever shoot? Just dunk or get a 24 second violation?

Of course not, the short guys are still allowed to shoot, but the tall guys need to try and dunk every time.

I'd love to see Broker coaching a team.

bettilimbroke999 · 01-09-10, 03:03 PM

Originally posted by UntilTheNDofTimE

So no one in the nba should ever shoot? Just dunk or get a 24 second violation?

No one that can dunk should ever try to lay it in over the front of the rim on a poorly defended shot allowing the taller defender (off to the side) to come in and swat it away, obviously a clear path to the rim is not always available, it is almost always the shorter players in D1 ball that will try to do this

podunk · 01-09-10, 03:04 PM

UntilTheNDofTimE · 01-09-10, 03:08 PM

Originally posted by bettilimbroke999

No one that can dunk should ever try to lay it in over the front of the rim on a poorly defended shot allowing the taller defender (off to the side) to come in and swat it away, obviously a clear path to the rim is not always available, it is almost always the shorter players in D1 ball that will try to do this

well everyone should try to get to the rim when they can, but your point becomes comedy when you try to assume dunks are 100%, first of all no ones a 100% FT shooter, and most of these guys that get up shoot 70%, you no all those fouls around the rim? yea you seen those before. If not for those half of them would be dunks.

bettilimbroke999 · 01-09-10, 03:11 PM

Anyone else watching the Miss St/Miss game has seen 2 examples of exactly what Im talking about the first time it was blocked at the end of the first half the 2nd time it just fell off front of the rim, traveling is called so much more in college than in NBA perhaps the players fear any palming of the ball prior to dunking will result in a travel call idk where in the NBA they go 3 and 4 steps on a slam dunk and its all good, the blocked shot in the first half though could've easily been called for traveling and he tried to lay it in anyway

StraitShooter · 01-09-10, 03:16 PM

some of you young bucks may not know..that while Lew Alcindor played at UCLA the dunk was banned from college hoops..as soon as he left to Milwaukee it was reinstated..thats how dominating he was

Of course he changed his name to Kareem Addul Jabbar..Bucks shipped him to LA and rest his history

bettilimbroke999 · 01-09-10, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by DrStale

Of course not, the short guys are still allowed to shoot, but the tall guys need to try and dunk every time.

I'd love to see Broker coaching a team.

I have applied for the HC position at Kentucky

williams22 · 01-09-10, 03:18 PM

Originally posted by bettilimbroke999

Anyone else watching the Miss St/Miss game has seen 2 examples of exactly what Im talking about the first time it was blocked at the end of the first half the 2nd time it just fell off front of the rim, traveling is called so much more in college than in NBA perhaps the players fear any palming of the ball prior to dunking will result in a travel call idk where in the NBA they go 3 and 4 steps on a slam dunk and its all good, the blocked shot in the first half though could've easily been called for traveling and he tried to lay it in anyway

Have you ever watched basketball before today? No player lays it in at the front of the rim for no reason. Usually it is because they are defended, or have to take off in a position that makes dunking difficult. This isn't NBA 2k10 where you just hit the dunk button and, voila, the guy dunks. If you thought this was an insightful thread I think you need to move on from basketball.

StraitShooter · 01-09-10, 03:21 PM

the most powerful dunker of all time was Chocolate thunder, from the planet Lovetron, Squawking, tawkin Darryl Dawkin s

smashed a few back boards with his gorilla thunder in dr J`s heyday on the Championship 6ers

bettilimbroke999 · 01-09-10, 03:25 PM

Originally posted by williams22

Have you ever watched basketball before today? No player lays it in at the front of the rim for no reason. Usually it is because they are defended, or have to take off in a position that makes dunking difficult. This isn't NBA 2k10 where you just hit the dunk button and, voila, the guy dunks. If you thought this was an insightful thread I think you need to move on from basketball.

Driving right to the hoop head on this guy tried to lay it in and was blocked, my thread is not that players that can dunk dont its that players that cant dunk are at a huge disadvantage, I assure you Kobe/Lebron etc etc would have slammed it home

Chi_archie · 01-09-10, 03:28 PM

in baseball pitchers that can make the ball curve or drop have a distinct advantage

bettilimbroke999 · 01-09-10, 03:46 PM

SBR posters are on meth today Im out of this thread, comparing a player dunking a ball to the high skill level involved with controlling spin for a pitcher or hitting a HR for a batter just shows theres some hard drug use going on today