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Can you dunk?

Can you dunk?

  • Yes

    Votes: 15 6.3%

  • No

    Votes: 165 69.0%

  • No, but I could back in the day.

    Votes: 59 24.7%
  • Total voters
    239
Viet Vet said:
Dunk: The most overrated, overemphasized, overhyped and overly telecast play in basketball. Worth two points.

Lay-up: Worth two points.
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Addendum: Two free throws are also worth two points. Take note, UConn.
 
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Guys,

NYC former hoops freak here - 75 years old now, 6'4" (Was 6'5-1/2" - HA!)
  • 1st dunk - 12 y.o - 7th grade - 5'10"
  • Last dunk - 54 years old, on a metal knee in a league game
  • Played Div. I & Euro pro

I've had both knees & hips replaced, arthritic spine & operations, etc. - all badges of honor for playing 48 years straight. Now, I talk about the Glory Days - HA! Gaining yet more weight sitting around during COVID.

Was one of the lucky white kids w/ hops in the 60's. Used to go into gyms around the city & could hear murmurs of "white boy" in the background. They'd go crazy when I threw down.

First points in high school were typical: At Boys & Girls High School (Brooklyn) They didn't box me out, long missed shot from the corner, two-hand slam "at he top of the square" over the other high-flyers off weak-side rebound.

Because the NCAA thought it would hurt one extraordinary contemporary player named Lewis Alcindor from Power Memorial, dunking was outlawed for ten years after my junior year. We all really missed out for H.S. & college dunks.

I once tip-dunked over Jimmie Walker (Jalen Rose's famous NBA dad) in a summer pro/am tournament at the West 4th Street court near Father Demo Square. And was dunked on incessantly by one Julie Erving, a younger friend from the Island playing 'one-o-cap' many times at Hempstead's Kennedy Park. Sometimes joined by a skinny frequent-flyer from Mineola, a great kid named Bill Corley - ring a bell?

Dunking was once a very special deal when hoops was almost a city cult game for tall kids. Now, everybody can fly, & it's almost a cliche. In Zion's case, it defies physics & gravity.

Father Demo
 
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Get a Job said:
At my peak (literally and figuratively) I could get 2 knuckles above the rim. Not bad for 5'9", but still not close. Nowadays, I can clip the bottom of the net if I'm warmed up.
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This could be my answer, and when I read @mauconnfan's, I felt one of the few regrets of my life that I never thought of or tried a tennis or golf ball. I'd much rather have that as my answer.
 
Viet Vet said:
Dunk: The most overrated, overemphasized, overhyped and overly telecast play in basketball. Worth two points.

Lay-up: Worth two points.
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Most amazing IMO is that Carlton can do neither at 6'11".
 
Minicoop69 said:
Being 6'4" and having a wingspan of 7ft, yes I could dunk when I was younger, but it is very true that White Men Can't Jump.

When I used to play at Washington Park in Waterbury, I was so good because those rims were like 9'8" maybe and I could jam on anyone. Those were the good old days.
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Dude I grew up on Washington Hill in the late 70s early 80s. Do you remember Mr. Kane at the park house? Or Nelson at Ralph’s market? How about jumping the fence at the pool at night and going for a swim? ... Sorry, that comment just threw me back four decades.
Minicoop69 said:
Being 6'4" and having a wingspan of 7ft, yes I could dunk when I was younger, but it is very true that White Men Can't Jump.

When I used to play at Washington Park in Waterbury, I was so good because those rims were like 9'8" maybe and I could jam on anyone. Those were the good old days.
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BarkingDog said:
Dude I grew up on Washington Hill in the late 70s early 80s. Do you remember Mr. Kane at the park house? Or Nelson at Ralph’s market? How about jumping the fence at the pool at night and going for a swim? ... Sorry, that comment just threw me back four decades.
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I grew up in the blue house right next to the main entrance during the 90s. If you remember, during Christmas, we would put up a lot of Christmas lights on our property.

3 doors down from the pool. Definitely got worse, since when you grew up there.
 
Demo Square said:
Guys,

NYC former hoops freak here - 75 years old now, 6'4" (Was 6'5-1/2" - HA!)
  • 1st dunk - 12 y.o - 7th grade - 5'10"
  • Last dunk - 54 years old, on a metal knee in a league game
  • Played Div. I & Euro pro

I've had both knees & hips replaced, arthritic spine & operations, etc. - all badges of honor for playing 48 years straight. Now, I talk about the Glory Days - HA! Gaining yet more weight sitting around during COVID.

Was one of the lucky white kids w/ hops in the 60's. Used to go into gyms around the city & could hear murmurs of "white boy" in the background. They'd go crazy when I threw down.

First points in high school were typical: At Boys & Girls High School (Brooklyn) They didn't box me out, long missed shot from the corner, two-hand slam "at he top of the square" over the other high-flyers off weak-side rebound.

Because the NCAA thought it would hurt one extraordinary contemporary player named Lewis Alcindor from Power Memorial, dunking was outlawed for ten years after my junior year. We all really missed out for H.S. & college dunks.

I once tip-dunked over Jimmie Walker (Jalen Rose's famous NBA dad) in a summer pro/am tournament at the West 4th Street court near Father Demo Square. And was dunked on incessantly by one Julie Erving, a younger friend from the Island playing 'one-o-cap' many times at Hempstead's Kennedy Park. Sometimes joined by a skinny frequent-flyer from Mineola, a great kid named Bill Corley - ring a bell?

Dunking was once a very special deal when hoops was almost a city cult game for tall kids. Now, everybody can fly, & it's almost a cliche. In Zion's case, it defies physics & gravity.

Father Demo
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@Chief00, take notes, this is how you name drop on a message board. A+
 
Deepster said:
Creating this poll off CliffSpliffy's comment below.

Right now, can you dunk a regulation men's basketball on a regulation hoop? I would guess the Yes result is 5% or less. We'll see.
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Make the poll answers public dummy.
 
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uconnfan68 said:
Way back in time, I was able to get a ball in my hand over the rim, but not sure it qualified as a dunk. Couldn’t actually palm any old basketball, but could with some.

Put me down as a “no”....
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You gave it a great try...
 
5’10” (34 years old) and used to be a very good one legged jumper (ages 16 to 23) could dunk both one and two handed but mostly off self alley-oops passes. Would jump my highest in layup lines when the pretty girls walked into the gym...

Never could dunk off two feet

Noway will I ever try to dunk again
 
Viet Vet said:
Dunk: The most overrated, overemphasized, overhyped and overly telecast play in basketball. Worth two points.

Lay-up: Worth two points.
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it's worth more than 2 pts in terms of getting the crowd and team going
 
Kenny11 said:
I'm 5'10 (was listed as 6'0). I have a few legitimate dunks out of thousand of attempts but never in a game. But rim-grab layups were my thing as well as slapping the backboard as hard as possible on layups, block attempts, after shots, in warmups, etc.
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I took so much pride in slapping the backboard during layup lines in rec hoops.
 
Judging by my experiences playing pickup in high school/college/after, I feel like a decent chunk of the 27% of people saying they could dunk at one point may be getting a bit loose with the definition of "dunk".
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
This is like my CYO career. I started at center and worked my way down to point guard when everyone ended up taller than me.
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When I was in elementary school, I was both the youngest and tallest kid in my class. Doctors told me I would be 6'5" to 6'7". Never broke 6 feet.
 
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