the GOAT dunk is a stuff of legends, but which dunk you mean. no one in the dunk contest ever tried to do that or even marginally close to that

You play basketball but i bet you don't throw the ball tru the basket at the range dwight throws it for his superman dunk. At that range for a profesional career player it shouldn't be a problem not to mention the rim for NBA is slightly wider than most rims in Malaysia.


If you notice Dwight jumps two legged in his other dunks too. Another thing is in my opinion he wasn't really succesful in that superman dunk. He thought he would have reached. Before the actual superman dunk he went to check where he would jumped, a foot or two after the free throw line. Guessed he didn't make it.

well..
the dunk is funny..
if u say tat is worse dunk ever...
well,
i gonna disagree on tat..
cuz of his creativity...
and the fun he bring to us.

but,
i gonna agree tat it should be the worse 50 point dunk,
cuz it's not a real dunk

So most ppl is of the opinion that it's a bad one (or it's not even a dunk) bcos his hand didn't touch the rim.

Fine. But I must stress, it's not an easy one, the difficulty curve is certainly there.

Don't believe, go to any basketball court in a primary school. Try to throw the ball in when your hand's 3 ft away. REMEMBER!! The throwing point must be higher than the rim level. Better still, get someone to capture the whole act & post it here.

And go listen to what the commentators said during Howard's dunk "He was up so high he threw the ball through the basket".

Whatever the case, if Moon pulled off his second dunk, then the crowd and judges is gonna be back on Moon's end.
Its how it goes in a dunk contest. Get the crowd behind your back and you win.

moon did it at a further distance, with one hand. just without the glam and the suit

so we should give him a 50?

Moon was aiming to take off 1 ft behind the FT line , he put a tape on the spot.

But his actual took off point is 1 ft in front of the FT line.

If he didn't put the tape, nobody would know he messed up the foot step.

Further, dunking fr the FT line is nothing new. Dr J did it, MJ did it, Brent Barry did it, Josh Smith did it with 2 hands. Even the retired Jonathan Bender did it, using also the left hand. And if not mistaken, Josh Smith only got 38 performing that dunk last year.

no, moon mis-dunked his first attempt. which he took off before the free throw line and throw the ball in like you said above the rim and to make it closer to howard, as he was going down. so in all that motions he did satisfy all the throwing the ball in, actually his was far harder cause he only had time to tip it in which means lesser control and lesser aiming time.

Come on lah. Moon knew what he was doing.

So if you want to bring a fluke attempt into discussion. I rest my case.

well, fluke? ya. but if someone flukes a 360 you would still give him a 50 ya? lets see nate required 25 tries to make a dunk, in the previous dunk contest. he might be fluking the last attempt which went in.

but my point is not about fluking....

cause with you throwing the ball in it eliminates the reason of putting the ball in. if moon claimed that is his shot should you count that? throwing the ball eliminates the point of you reaching the basket, thats the beef i got with it. you dont need to be explosive, dont need to be fast, if you cant get there you can well throw it in or tip it in!

What??? Get your facts right...Josh Smith did NOT dunk from the free-throw line. And he did not take part last year as well.

I watched the Howard SuperMan dunk many times and if he is so good he would have reached the rim and dunked the ball in. But instead he couldn't reach for it so he just threw it right in. Luckily for him it went right in.

well...
i think its a nice dunk anyway...
dr j and magic know wat they doing...
if moon put on the superman suit,
i also think he can get a 50 for his dunk...

Hehe, I saw the Superman.... for the lulz!

He's tall but his dunk isn't that good... But all judges voted for him...

Sorry, I got the year wrong.

It's year 2006. He was eliminated in the 1st round with a total score of 85.

He attempted a 2 handed dunk from the FT line (score 41).

If you needed something to refresh your memory, you can view it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye6OOaYJI6A&feature=related

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Added on February 23, 2008, 11:58 am
Yes. If the fluke is non-noticeable.

And regarding Nate's MULTIPLE tries. The rules had since been amended to allow only 2 mins max for a dunk attempt.

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Added on February 23, 2008, 12:12 pm
And I stressed fr the beginning, my definition of throw in is "throwing point/ball 1 ft or more above rim level". I'm sure you know what's a tip-in.

This post has been edited by scorgio: Feb 23 2008, 12:12 PM

Scorgio was right. J. Smith's did 2 handed FT dunk last two year.

i think if a real superman do a dunk, he might do the same thing like Dwight because he fly too high. Well im just being imaginative

Josh Smith's dunk wasn't from teh free throw line. It was inside the free-throw line.
Thats why he didnt get that high of a mark.
Moon tried to dunk from further out.

well, im not arguing about tipping it in. im arguing about you dont need to get to the rim anymore, see im sure you understand that.

ur damn right... air jordan perfected the free throw line jump PERIOD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSC5m7AkbPg

Yea, he did the same dunk twice, how retard is that? I think that is the reason why judges didn't want him to win, don't impress them much.

Keep Moon out of the discussion pls.
Fine.
I saw Smith's heel on the FT line.

Well, if that doesn't qualify by YOUR standards, it's entirely up to you.

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Added on February 23, 2008, 9:29 pm
Can't understand.
When all 5 judges are not complaining.
There're people , so particular, want to debate the correct definition of "DUNK".


This post has been edited by scorgio: Feb 23 2008, 09:29 PM