Dwight Howard Blew My Mind

[playstation]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rp__vGs3fa8

this superman thing is on another level. that was fantasmic. in my opinion, that's the best dunk i've ever seen in a contest. VC's all-around performance in 01 i think was better, but this specific dunk, and on the 1st attempt no less, was just too much.

 

[Covert Rain]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rp__vGs3fa8

this superman thing is on another level. that was fantasmic. in my opinion, that's the best dunk i've ever seen in a contest. VC's all-around performance in 01 i think was better, but this specific dunk, and on the 1st attempt no less, was just too much.

Not even close. The showmen ship was great. However, look at the replay. He didn't even really dunk. He threw the ball in the basket. If he had actually dunked it touching the rim that would have been different.

 

[YouJustGotSUNSD]

It was sweet, that's for sure. But I read somewhere that the dunk isn't complete until the rim is touched/grabbed. His bounce off the backboard jam was pretty amazing imo.

I was a fan of the birthday cake myself.

 

[green machine]

It was sweet, that's for sure. But I read somewhere that the dunk isn't complete until the rim is touched/grabbed. His bounce off the backboard jam was pretty amazing imo.

I was a fan of the birthday cake myself.

His one off the backboard reminded me of Igoudala's dunk a couple years back.

Maybe Howard didn't deserve it this year, but he sure did last year and that makes it OK with me.

 

[arwillan]

howard absolutely deserved it this year. Green was excellent too, but the shoeless one couldn't compete with superman and the behind the backboard dunk.

 

[nurnay]

Not even close. The showmen ship was great. However, look at the replay. He didn't even really dunk. He threw the ball in the basket. If he had actually dunked it touching the rim that would have been different.

I thought the fact that he threw it so hard from a few feet away *instead* of dunking was more impressive. He had to get high enough (higher than a normal dunk) to pull that off. Incredible performance! My fave was his first one, though.

 

[Phxchris1989]

Good showmanship, but I thought the one where he bounced it off the backboard and then dunked it took more skill. Same with the one after that.

 

[dodie53]

the 'superman dunk' was not a dunk

 

[D-Dogg]

You do not need to touch the rim for it to be a dunk. All you have to do is throw it DOWNWARD through the net. That is a dunk.

The rim itself has nothing to do with the definition of a dunk.

It was a dunk, plain and simple. And it was spectacular.

 

[D-Dogg]

I thought the fact that he threw it so hard from a few feet away *instead* of dunking was more impressive. He had to get high enough (higher than a normal dunk) to pull that off. Incredible performance! My fave was his first one, though.

That first one was one of the sickest dunks I've seen. The "tap" dunk was special too...he is so damn creative and gets up SOOO freaking high.

I was hoping with that nerf hoop though that he'd dunk a nerf ball and the regular ball on both hoops or something. It was anticlimactic after the entire thing.

OT, that Moon kid was something else, too. He has sick hops. His first dunk was under-rated...he was so far from rim but he has ridiculous length.

 

[schutd]

Amazing athleticism to get that high, but nowhere near the best dunk Ive ever seen.

 

[D-Dogg]

dunk shot
–noun Basketball. 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.

dictionary.com

No other definitions mention the rim. All of them simply say "propel the ball downward through the net."

 

[schutd]

For howard, they should amend the definition to:

–noun Basketball. a shot in which a player 12 freaking feet from the basket jumps 12 freaking feet in the air with the ball and throws it through the basket with one hand at a velocity never before seen in the history of the league.

 

[D-Dogg]

For howard, they should amend the definition to:

–noun Basketball. a shot in which a player 12 freaking feet from the basket jumps 12 freaking feet in the air with the ball and throws it through the basket with one hand at a velocity never before seen in the history of the league.

haha!

The more I see the dunk, the more I think that's actually exactly what he wanted to do. Like he was flying by and just threw it through. He didn't want to touch the rim, because Superman wouldn't.

He's a freak of nature.

 

[schutd]

You may be right, but if he could have elevated that high and jumped forward far enough to rattle the rim, THAT would have been a mind blower based on where he took off. Its possible, that with that jump he was going for height and hangtime, but I would have loved to see him hit that rim.

 

[Louis]

Birthday Cake
Moon's 1st dunk

Were the best dunks of the night IMO.

Howard rehashed the off the back of the board dunk, the superman dunk wasn't as spectacular as the showmanship, and his only really great dunk IMO was the one where he tapped the ball to himself in midair.

The off the back of the board dunk is stuff my friends and I were doing in PE in high school.

I still put Vince Carter's performance as the single greatest collection in this contest.

 

[Joe Mama]

I thought Howard's second dunk (at least I think it was the second) where he tapped the ball off the backboard and then slammed it was his most impressive. I don't really care what the online dictionary says, imo you should be within 3-4 feet of the basket if you are going to consider it a slam dunk. I don't necessarily think that the hand has to touch the rim, but it should at least be somewhere near the rim.

As far as creativity goes, I thought the birthday cake was great.

Howard's show yesterday was impressive, but I still think Carter in 2000 was far and away the best overall.

Joe Mama

 

[BeeBeard]

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You do not need to touch the rim for it to be a dunk. All you have to do is throw it DOWNWARD through the net. That is a dunk.

The rim itself has nothing to do with the definition of a dunk.

It was a dunk, plain and simple. And it was spectacular.

I still remember when it was against the rules to touch the rim in college when dunking.

The off the back of the board dunk is stuff my friends and I were doing in PE in high school.

Not on a 10 foot rim.

I was hoping with that nerf hoop though that he'd dunk a nerf ball and the regular ball on both hoops or something. It was anticlimactic after the entire thing.

I thought the little Nerf hoop was going to be put at the 12 foot mark, and then Howard was going to dunk that at 12 feet with one hand and then a basketball with the other.

 

[Suns_fan69]

I must be the only guy in the world that wasn't impressed by the Birthday cake dunk. If the dunk contest was HORSE style like Simmons has been advocating for years, I'm pretty sure all 4 contestants could have done it.

IMO, Jamario Moon should have been in the finals. His two dunks were both pretty impressive although he probably lost points for lack of creativity. The TNT crew is right though, he shouldn't have put the tape down on his FT line dunk. Left foot, left hand off a bounce from a teammate?? Ridiculous...

 

[jbeecham]

I wasn't impressed with the birthday cake dunk either. The dunk itself wasn't special or difficult....the only draw was that he blew out a candle while doing it. Sure that adds some difficulty, but I would think all of those guys would be able to get their head up to the rim.

 

[Bufalay]

he should've eaten the cupcake.

 

[Shane]

You do not need to touch the rim for it to be a dunk. All you have to do is throw it DOWNWARD through the net. That is a dunk.

The rim itself has nothing to do with the definition of a dunk.

It was a dunk, plain and simple. And it was spectacular.

Sorry. That was not a dunk. It was spectacular no doubt. But a dunk it was not.

 

[arwillan]

Sorry. That was not a dunk. It was spectacular no doubt. But a dunk it was not.

by the dictionary it was a dunk. and it wasn't like he couldn't dunk it the traditional way. he threw it that way on purpose because it made the dunk more difficult.

 

[D-Dogg]

Sorry. That was not a dunk. It was spectacular no doubt. But a dunk it was not.

Your wrong and your dead.

 

[Louis]

Not on a 10 foot rim.

Yes on a 10 foot rim. Any lower and we would've probably suffered concussions from banging our heads against the board.

We used to put stickers on our fingers and see who could put'em up the highest. My personal best was about an inch above the top of the white box that's above the rim.