Manu's dunk on Yao

[TheAuthority]

Reading people's minds and putting in "would haves" is lame. Let me make this simple for you, as you have obviously never played basketball and are easily dazzled by ESPN highlights:

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.

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.

He makes it look easy, that's the idea. That's why it's impressive.

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.

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.

You do realize that even if Yao doesn't jump his hands go ten inches higher than Duncan's do, right?

You do realize Yao is a bad defender and isn't a shot blocker, 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.

Authority.

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[TheAuthority]

yeah, and his head was even w/ the top off the glass too

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.

[WalterBenitez]

I don't get where people are saying Manu dunk off of 2 feet.

hmmm... probably he's using a new "rockets shoes"

[Roxsfan]

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.

I was being sarcastic, and I don't think the dunk itself was spectacular.

The total play was very good, the steal and finishing with a dunk. But the dunk was not Amazing.

[still.focused]

Thanks for the gif

[Pandaemonaeon]

Does anyone have a torrent of the ESPN version of this game?