Brandon Knight Posterized

[Gee!]

This is humiliating.. Damn

http://www.freshhoops.com/2013/03/1...lates-brandon-knight-with-the-alley-oop-slam/

 

[95pro]

that was pretty sick

 

[BC867]

And a lefty throwing it down with his right hand, in such a powerful slam. Wow!

 

[Errntknght]

This is humiliating.. Damn

http://www.freshhoops.com/2013/03/1...lates-brandon-knight-with-the-alley-oop-slam/

Sheesh, Knight is only 6-3, he'd be lucky to get a hand in the poster.

 

[Superbone]

I give it up for Knight. He's much shorter and 80 pounds lighter and yet he was willing to throw his body in there to try to disrupt the dunk.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I give it up for Knight. He's much shorter and 80 pounds lighter and yet he was willing to throw his body in there to try to disrupt the dunk.

That's because you're old enough to remember when it wasn't embarrassing to be dunked on, it was just a part of playing defense.

Steve

 

[Cheesebeef]

I give it up for Knight. He's much shorter and 80 pounds lighter and yet he was willing to throw his body in there to try to disrupt the dunk.

agreed. it's an awesome play, but it's embarassing that a little guy tried to actually do something to keep a guy who's MUCH bigger then him from scoring?

this wasn't Kendrick Perkins, who's a league bruiser getting faced. or Hakeem getting dunked on by KJ.

 

[SirStefan32]

Yeah, I don't really see what a big deal is. This would be like me knocking a 5'3/ 150lb guy on his ass. Good for Knight for trying to draw a foul/ affect an easy dunk.

 

[Errntknght]

Yeah, I don't really see what a big deal is. This would be like me knocking a 5'3/ 150lb guy on his ass. Good for Knight for trying to draw a foul/ affect an easy dunk.

Actually, a 5'3 guy who weighed 150lb might be quite rugged... better stick to 120 pounders. (For you youngsters or foreigners of any age, the icon for guys you can beat up on easily is the 'I was a 120 pound weakling' who adorned Charles Atlas body-building ads on the backs of comic books for a couple of generations.)

 

[AzStevenCal]

Actually, a 5'3 guy who weighed 150lb might be quite rugged... better stick to 120 pounders. (For you youngsters or foreigners of any age, the icon for guys you can beat up on easily is the 'I was a 120 pound weakling' who adorned Charles Atlas body-building ads on the backs of comic books for a couple of generations.)

Maybe I'm misremembering but I always thought the Charles Atlas claim was to build up a 97 (or maybe 98) pound weakling. I know the Monkees/Mickey Dolenz thing was for a 99 pound weakling. Regardless, I never gave the Atlas program a try as I'd already been burned by my X-Ray glasses.

Steve

 

[Superbone]

Maybe I'm misremembering but I always thought the Charles Atlas claim was to build up a 97 (or maybe 98) pound weakling. I know the Monkees/Mickey Dolenz thing was for a 99 pound weakling. Regardless, I never gave the Atlas program a try as I'd already been burned by my X-Ray glasses.

Steve

I built my personal submarine and traveled down to greet my sea monkeys.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I built my personal submarine and traveled down to greet my sea monkeys.

Ha. That sounds like fun but you'd have been better served learning to draw.

Steve

 

[BC867]

Maybe I'm misremembering but I always thought the Charles Atlas claim was to build up a 97 (or maybe 98) pound weakling. I know the Monkees/Mickey Dolenz thing was for a 99 pound weakling. Regardless, I never gave the Atlas program a try as I'd already been burned by my X-Ray glasses.

Steve

Yup, the Charles Atlas plan made a man out of Skinny.

I thought I remembered something about the skinny "before" guy having sand kicked in his face on the beach.

 

[Errntknght]

Maybe I'm misremembering but I always thought the Charles Atlas claim was to build up a 97 (or maybe 98) pound weakling. I know the Monkees/Mickey Dolenz thing was for a 99 pound weakling. Regardless, I never gave the Atlas program a try as I'd already been burned by my X-Ray glasses.

Steve

You're right, a 97 pound weakling. This is embarrassing... how could I forget that!

 

[BC867]

I did a little more research, guys. It was "97" and "98". Charles Atlas (born Angelo Siciliano) was a seventeen year old "97 pound weakling" who ultimately developed and advertised a regimen for "98 pound weaklings".

And, as I thought I remembered, the ad was about a skinny guy sitting on the beach with a girl, then he has sand kicked in his face by a bully.

Ten-year old Angelo Siciliano arrived at Ellis Island, an immigrant for Italy in 1903. He was a small weak spindly child and endured his youth being picked on and beaten up by bullies.

Angelo was a seventeen year old "97 pound weakling" when he paid a visit to New York's Prospect Park Zoo. He was fascinated by the lions and spent hours watching them stretching their muscles. Angelo concluded that the lions built strength by "pitting one muscle against another."

He developed a workout regimen to strengthen his muscles with isometric and isotonic exercises that did not require equipment and weights. A statue of Hercules at the Brooklyn Museum inspired him to faithfully keep up his workout program.

Angelo gradually started growing into the image of his hero. He developed a 47 inch chest and 32 inch waist. He became a body builder and a model for sculptors. Angelo changed his name to Charles Atlas.

He entered a body building competition at Madison Square Garden in 1921 and won. He was proclaimed "The World's Most Perfectly Developed Man." He won the contest again in 1922. The promoter permanently cancelled future contests saying, "What's the use of holding them? Atlas will win every time."

Charles/Angelo's prize for winning the contest was either a screen test for a Tarzan movie or $1000. He took the cash and started his business selling his fitness program by mail order.

The business didn't take off until he met Charles P. Rowan in 1928. Rowan was an adman who gave Charles Atlas' methods a name-"Dynamic-Tension." He then came up with the ad the company has been running in magazines for over 70 years.

The famous ad was a comic called "Insult that made a man out of Mac." The comic begins with a "98 pound weakling" sitting on the beach with a girl, then he has "sand kicked in his face" by a bully who taunts him saying, "Hey Skinny."

Mac takes the Charles Atlas course and is transformed into a strongman and becomes "Hero of the beach."

Charles Atlas and Charles Roman became millionaires almost overnight and the company was doing so well it was unaffected by the stock market crash of 1929.

http://www.freeenterpriseland.com/BOOK/ATLAS.html

 

[Errntknght]

Tanks for history, BC.

I always wanted to try out the course but I lacked the wherewithal... heck, a dime for a comic would bankrupt me in those days. Beside my mom forbade me to buy them or even borrow them. She was so adamant I thought there must be some scandalous ones but try as I might I never found any...

 

[Shane]

Not impressed

 

[BC867]

Not impressed

And that's how you get your post count up to 44,699.

 

[sunsfan88]

He got posterized again last game

http://uproxx.com/dimemag/2015/10/clint-capela-posterized-brandon-knight/

Is anyone concerned that our $80 million guard continues to be on the bad end of so many highlights EVER SINCE ENTERING THE LEAGUE AS A ROOKIE? Not just getting dunked on, but getting his ankles broken and missing wide open layups etc. Even the article above will tell you that Knight is no stranger to be on the humiliating side of things.

Other than Javale McGee and Kendrick Perkins, I don't think anyone was on Shaqtin a Fool more than Knight. Him and Nick Young were probably tied. That's not good company to be with.

If you google or look up Brandon knight on YouTube, you can see all the head scratching, highlight worthy plays that he makes. I like Knight as a person and he's a really good shooter and so far shown somewhat a decent job of running the offense but man, this stuff on a constant basis is pretty troubling.

 

[Mainstreet]

He got posterized again last game

http://uproxx.com/dimemag/2015/10/clint-capela-posterized-brandon-knight/

Is anyone concerned that our $80 million guard continues to be on the bad end of so many highlights EVER SINCE ENTERING THE LEAGUE AS A ROOKIE? Not just getting dunked on, but getting his ankles broken and missing wide open layups etc. Even the article above will tell you that Knight is no stranger to be on the humiliating side of things.

Other than Javale McGee and Kendrick Perkins, I don't think anyone was on Shaqtin a Fool more than Knight. Him and Nick Young were probably tied. That's not good company to be with.

If you google or look up Brandon knight on YouTube, you can see all the head scratching, highlight worthy plays that he makes. I like Knight as a person and he's a really good shooter and so far shown somewhat a decent job of running the offense but man, this stuff on a constant basis is pretty troubling.

I think getting posterized is overrated. What I see in this video is a PG getting dunked over by a center. Knight did not bail out on this play like many would have done. He gets points for hanging in there in my book.

 

[Mainstreet]

Also forgot to mention but Knight was trying to draw the charge from Capela.

 

[sunsfan88]

I think getting posterized is overrated. What I see in this video is a PG getting dunked over by a center. Knight did not bail out on this play like many would have done. He gets points for hanging in there in my book.

If this was a real game and a PG stood in the way of a wide open dunk by a big man, it's considered a terrible play.

Why? Because a guard like Knight is not gonna block a big man and he's giving up the "and-1" foul which will be called against better players and in the reg season plus he's allowing the opposing players and fans to get into the game.

And this isn't the only play. This may be his least embarrassing lowlight but there's plenty more of it on YouTube and the Internet.

Whenever he's played the Clippers, he's continuously trued to block DeAndre Jordan and ended up on the wrong end every single time. For those of you who are active on social media know there's popular memes about it as well. I don't think Bledsoe can even make these type of blocks and he's ALOT more athletic than Knight and a way better shot blocked than Knight yet even Bledsoe's smart enough to know when to try and make a play and when not to give the opposing team and fans more energy.

 

[Mainstreet]

Sunsfan88, Knight was clearly trying to draw the charge as I pointed out. His feet were set but unfortunately just inside the circle. Knight was not trying to block the shot. Was a foul called on the play? Just curious. His arms were straight up.