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I don't get where people are saying Manu dunk off of 2 feet.
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I don't get where people are saying Manu dunk off of 2 feet.
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Originally Posted by dirk4mvp
yeah, and his head was even w/ the top off the glass too :rolleyes
I don't know Yao's actual vertical. My point was even though he is 7'6, there are clearly some dudes much shorter that can clearly outjump the difference in height. This is why he gets dunked on say every other game....Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarian
Yao jumped up, and can't jump as high as Manu (which is obvious, watch the replay again). He is already standing under the basket. Manu is coming at him with a full head of steam and jumped towards the goal. Yao did not jump towards him...he just jumped up. And again, Manu clearly can get up higher than Yao can even though Yao is clearly taller.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obstructed_View
If you put Yao and Duncan side by side and say jump Duncan will get up higher than Yao. This is one of the reasons Yao rarely wins a jumpball...one of the reasons he gets dunked on so much in a league full of athletic cats that can jump. When it comes to jumping/blocking dunks his height isn't that much of an advantage because I would say 60% of the league can get up higher than he can.
yeah, didn't we lose that game? Nash and James can have all the highlights for all I care, give me the W's.Quote:
Originally Posted by TDMVPDPOY
I don't have to put in "would have". It's a fact: Duncan did not try to block the shot because he would have gotten posterized. He cannot jump with LeBron, especially with the kind of authority he was going to the hole with on that particular drive. He knew he couldn't jump with him, that's why he didn't. I saw Vince Carter do the same thing to him. He tries to block Kobe and gets dunked on by him sometimes. Why does he try to block Kobe? Because Kobe has no hops and he has a great chance to block him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obstructed_View
He makes it look easy, that's the idea. That's why it's impressive.Quote:
Dunking when you have a 44" vertical and a head of steam on a guy 3 inches taller than you who doesn't jump = easy.
Again, he's slow-footed, isn't a shotblocker and just flat out isn't a good defender. Size means little-to-nothing when you get 6'11" and above. It's about shot blocking ability, which Yao has little of.Quote:
Dunking on a guy 13 inches taller than you who jumps and hits you in the face when you have two steps and jump off both feet = difficult.
You do realize Yao is a bad defender and isn't a shot blocker, right?Quote:
You do realize that even if Yao doesn't jump his hands go ten inches higher than Duncan's do, right?
Beyond all of that, Manu puts his left leg into Yao to catapult himself up. Not nearly as impressive as the LeBron dunk. I think the number of highlights shown of that dunk last season confirm that.
Obstructed_View :lolQuote:
Authority. :lol
You mean after he put his left leg into Yao to catapult himself? I saw him try to dunk 2 hands the very next game and he barely was able to dunk the ball. It wasn't even a dunk really. It was more like a 2-handed lay-in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roxsfan
hmmm... probably he's using a new "rockets shoes" :nerdQuote:
Originally Posted by dirk4mvp
I was being sarcastic, and I don't think the dunk itself was spectacular.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAuthority
The total play was very good, the steal and finishing with a dunk. But the dunk was not Amazing.
Thanks for the gif
Does anyone have a torrent of the ESPN version of this game?