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We should refer to Dr. J to resolve this question.
Anyone have his email address handy?
It's a legitimate dunk
It's throw down
Do you have a Paypal account? You obviously need to get laid, I can send you some cash for a hooker or something.
Shut the up, you're making Spurs fans look bad.
We should refer to Dr. J to resolve this question.
Anyone have his email address handy?
I'm gonna have to agree with the other posters that the replay takes away from it..
When you watched it live, Kenny and them sold it well (along with the Dwight's superman cape) by saying "he was up so High! he threw it through!"
I still it think Dwight's were all fun dunks to watch.
Gerald Green didn't look happy in his reactions to all the dunks. And Moon shouldn't have released that teaser, because he couldn't do the dunk when it counted. I really wanted to see him do that long Dunk...but oh well, couldn't deliver.
Actually, it is the height that is amazing, because it directly relates to how long he is up there. http://www.kidzworld.com/article/409...ce-of-the-slam
I don't see why the NBA wouldn't raise the rim for him. That way we could see Green attempt a 13' dunk.
Unfortunately for you I do. And you might also understand, if you only know how to read.
your definition says DUNK -a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and attempts to thrust it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim.
THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, but this held means to hold, to touch the rim. I don't know how you would consider another way of doing it. So before bragging, read carefully. That's why your definition never failed to mention "held" and "rim".
No keep it, you need it to get laid. I'm getting plenty thank you. You know what they say about people without intelligence and without underwears, when you don't have one, IT SHOWS!
Wrong
Antoine sighting!
Hey, I'll let you know I've lowered my goal to 9' and dunked plenty of times, lol.
Nyuck nyuck nyuck. That's about as funny as claiming it's not a dunk because his hand didn't touch the rim, or acting like Gerald Green actually deserved to win this.
my point...end of discussion.Nyuck nyuck nyuck. That's about as funny as claiming it's not a dunk because his hand didn't touch the rim, or acting like Gerald Green actually deserved to win this.
Who cares, his first dunk from behind the backboard pretty much was the end.
He threw that DOWN
No point of questioning that. I liked it too, but I felt, it was unfair for everyone else that the "superman" thing got counted as a dunk. It's all in the spirit of fairness and nothing else.
There is really no reason for anyone to be complaining because well he won, its done you can't do much. I think it was an Awesome dunk personally. He owned Green and all them. He deserved to win , he got ripped off last year anyways.
The Definition:
slam dunk - a forceful dunk
dunk, dunk shot, stuff shot - a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket.
There is nothing about having to touch the rim or be so many inches away. Its just what it is. Don't try to take away from his victory. Dwight Howard was SuperMan for those 2 mins.
Gay...By definition maybe but by rule of thumb no.
Howard shouldn't even qualified for the finals if that dunk was nullified. Jamario moon's dunk was also great. We could have had a moon vs. green match up in the finals.
I don't think so, they have upto 2 minutes to complete a dunk and after the time expires, they still get two more chances to complete a dunk.
Last edited by jbspurs; 02-17-2008 at 03:14 AM.
Ok, time to bust out my inner
Just to be strict with definitions, 'held above the rim' in this case means that until the ball goes through the basket, the hands stay in a position above where the level of the rim would be.
gf13, you might be taking the definition too far if you take 'held above the rim' = 'holding on or touching the rim'. Those phrases mean two separate things.
A typical dunk has the dunker release the ball into the basket right before grabbing onto the rim, which would fulfill the 'held above the rim' condition.
So if the definition of dunks by Shoogarbear is indeed the correct one, Howard's Superman is indeed a dunk - if only because the definition doesn't say anything about holding onto or touching the rim.
If you still want to contest that with him, than you'd have to give another do ented definition of a dunk which explicitly states that rim-grabbing is mandatory.
It was clear from the get-go that everyone wanted Howard to win. His first dunk pretty much said that all the commentators would compliment his misses from then on. I voted as it not being a dunk, but damn, he sure did get some height on that one.
And yes, Gerald Green's shoeless dunk was way overrated but what everyone saw was the same between-the-legs dunk he had done right before. He should have switched it up. The game seems to be more about props and hype now than actual dunking. Moon did a similar dunk that was close to the free throw line, only, minus the cape and star appeal.
D12's hands were never above the rim on the Superman attempt. He didn't have the distance to get his hand over the rim. At some point in his flight, his hands were above "the height" of the rim, but not directly above the rim itself. His hand was several inches short of reaching the rim and that's why he threw the ball in. The attempt was amazing in itself. And, arguing semantics does nothing if you want to go by the literal meaning of a dunk. Technically, you can argue it was a dunk. But, I think it's generally agreed that a dunk would consist of one or both hands touching or grabbing the rim as the ball is put through the hoop. If a 7 footer shoots a baby hook in the lane where his hand is above the height of the rim but doesn't come close to touching the rim, would most people consider that a dunk?
D12 supermanned that ho!
Wasn't technically a dunk, but the point is he was so far above the rim that he could throw it down!
He won the dunk contest on his first dunk from behind the backboard IMHO. That was SICK! Why that wasn't his showpiece for the final I don't know...
Yeah all his dunks were quality dunks. He rose the bar.
Who cares about the technicalities of his superman "dunk"
My favorite one of his was his tap off the backboard switch. His weakest one was probably the basketball hoop grab one.
The dunk from behind the backboard was sick but there was a sicker one at the 2006 All Star Dunk Contest by A.I. and A.I.:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w6z9-l4hnMM
From a thread in nba forum:
Some definitions of a dunk:
A shot thrown downward through the basket, with one or two hands. Also: slam, slam-dunk, jam
www.wnba.com/about_us/glossary.html
A shot in which a jumping player slams the ball down into the opponent s basket from above.
www.nbagambling.us/terminology
Making a basket by stuffing the ball down through the rim and into the net.
http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php/C...asketball_Terms
To force the ball down into the basket with one or both hands.
en.beijing2008.cn/89/33/article212013389.shtml
a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
A slam dunk (or simply a dunk) is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air and manually powers the ball through the basket with one or both of his hands, then grabs the rim shortly after the ball passes through the hoop. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam dunk
Is a field goal made by slamming the ball thruogh the basket from above the rim.
http://library.thinkquest.org/5028/...llglossery.html
As you can see, only the definiton in wikipedia includes "grabbing the rim".
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