Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by BigC:

I thought the superman dunk was worst thing I have seen since Cedric Ceballos with that ridiculous blind fold. However, I thought the dunk Dwight did starting from behind the backboard was nice. As far as Green, How many times is he going to do the same dunk?

It seemed like he could do the backboard one in his sleep. (I think he just messed up on the throw off the backboard the first time, but you could tell the 2nd time that he had no difficulty.) The superman throw down I think he could complete very rarely: It's almost impossible to throw it that hard from that great a distance from the rim and have it go in. That's probably why people dunk by touching the rim with their hands rather than throwing it down. I'm actually shocked it did go in.

Posted by BigC:

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by BigC:

I thought the superman dunk was worst thing I have seen since Cedric Ceballos with that ridiculous blind fold. However, I thought the dunk Dwight did starting from behind the backboard was nice. As far as Green, How many times is he going to do the same dunk?

It seemed like he could do the backboard one in his sleep. (I think he just messed up on the throw off the backboard the first time, but you could tell the 2nd time that he had no difficulty.) The superman throw down I think he could complete very rarely: It's almost impossible to throw it that hard from that great a distance from the rim and have it go in. That's probably why people dunk by touching the rim with their hands rather than throwing it down. I'm actually shocked it did go in.

I hear what you are saying Bonn. The main reason why I was not impressed is because he did not dunk it. I was a huge Shawn Kemp fan. So looking at Howard dunking the ball did not really impress me. I also know guys that are 6'4 that can do 360's off the verticle. So looking at someone just throwing the ball in the hoop does not do it for me. I think what Jason Richardson did a few years back was 10 times better. Richard did a dunk that VC has yet to do. J-Rich threw the ball off the backboard caught the ball through his legs and dunk the ball while doing a windmill.

Well, I would count what Howard did as a dunk. He won the contest for creativity more so than degree of difficulty. I think after about 20 years of dunk contests we've seen so many different kinds of dunks that now you have to do something really creative to impress people. I actually think Gerald Green's (or was it Rudy Gay?) dunk where he threw the ball off the backboard from the side was more impressive than Dwight Howard's but Dwight did his first. I got the impression that Dwight could do that dunk in his sleep where he threw it to himself off the backboard too. No one else could, but I think he could.

[Edited by - bonn1997 on 02-17-2008 5:13 PM]