Can you dunk a basketball? [Archive]

Skip Towne

03-29-2006, 08:46 PM

Or do you have "white man's disease" where you run too slow and jump too low? In high school I could grab the rim and hang by it but couldn't get the ball over the rim to dunk it. The coach told me to stop doing that so I only did it before he got to practice. I'm only 5' 10" but I did a lot of squats with heavy weights.

Rain Man

03-29-2006, 08:47 PM

I can jump up and touch the bottom of the net, so I learned during the recent Villanova game that I can still commit a goaltending foul.

Halfcan

03-29-2006, 08:48 PM

I not ugly enough to be a basketball player.

seclark

03-29-2006, 08:48 PM

nope...
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Bigwigbob

03-29-2006, 08:48 PM

I am 6'8 so yeah I can dunk it pretty easy

Hootie

03-29-2006, 08:49 PM

yeah, but I'm tall. Only with one hand though.

Phobia

03-29-2006, 08:50 PM

I can dunk all day long. I can't do 360 dunks, though.

Skip Towne

03-29-2006, 08:53 PM

I can dunk all day long. I can't do 360 dunks, though.
I think you lie. Fatasses can't dunk. Especially SHORT fatasses.

Dunit35

03-29-2006, 08:54 PM

Nope and last time I tried it I tore up my ankle. So I now am unable to jump like I use to be able to in high school.

Bigwigbob

03-29-2006, 08:54 PM

8 foot goals dont cout either

Phobia

03-29-2006, 08:55 PM

I think you lie. Fatasses can't dunk. Especially SHORT fatasses.

I'm not lying. I'll show you one day. You can stand under the hoop and verify my flight with your long, white cane.

Braincase

03-29-2006, 08:56 PM

Back in the day, absolutely.

milkman

03-29-2006, 08:56 PM

In high school, I was able to touch the rim.

I'm 5'7", so I had pretty good hops.

burt

03-29-2006, 08:56 PM

I can dunk ........doughnuts.........

Skip Towne

03-29-2006, 08:59 PM

I'm not lying. I'll show you one day. You can stand under the hoop and verify my flight with your long, white cane.
Somehow I just can't picture you taking off from the free throw line and still being 10' off the ground at the basket. How tall are you? 5'11"?

Just Another Joe

03-29-2006, 09:03 PM

I'm 4'23" and can dunk one handed when I can keep a grip on the ball.

I can do volleyballs pretty easy, but the basketball is just a little too much diameter to get my short fingers around.

Phobia

03-29-2006, 09:03 PM

If I stand up straight, I'm 6'. I expect to die at about 5'10".

I noticed the rule addition in post 10. I don't think I can dunk on a 10' hoop any longer. I might not even be able to dunk on a 9' goal.

Boozer

03-29-2006, 09:05 PM

I've always had white man's disease. I'm 6'2", though, and back in high school I could dunk a tennis ball after doing a moderate weights regimen. Now than I'm fat and weak again, I can barely swish the net. :shake:

Buster's Dad

03-29-2006, 09:05 PM

our high school team won the class 4 a state championship this year, we had 2 kids who could dunk one was 6-6 and the other one 6-2, and the 6-2 kid could get up higher, and both are white :clap: :clap: :clap:

Boozer

03-29-2006, 09:06 PM

Back in the day, absolutely.

At your height, you should be able to dunk if you've got "phone book ups." I'm guessing you're regressed to "pizza box ups."

chiefsfaninNC

03-29-2006, 09:11 PM

I'm 4'23" and can dunk one handed when I can keep a grip on the ball.

I can do volleyballs pretty easy, but the basketball is just a little too much diameter to get my short fingers around.

Does this mean you are 5'11" or is that some kind of metric crap.

Just Another Joe

03-29-2006, 09:38 PM

Does this mean you are 5'11" or is that some kind of metric crap.

Just means that I can jump high enough to dunk a basketball other than the grip part. Stickum worked pretty good back then.

I'm a little older and weigh a little more than I did in school.

I'll convert to metrics tomorrow when I can get to a computer.

Boozer

03-29-2006, 09:42 PM

Just means that I can jump high enough to dunk a basketball other than the grip part. Stickum worked pretty good back then.

I'm a little older and weigh a little more than I did in school.

I'll convert to metrics tomorrow when I can get to a computer.

Skip! This guy has found out how to post to the Planet from a typewriter. Send him a telegram so he can teach you his magic.

Bowser

03-29-2006, 09:42 PM

I've got MAD ups.

On XBOX basketball games.

Alphaman

03-29-2006, 09:46 PM

I graduated from Ruskin High School in 1985. Our high school team had 12 players and 11 of us could dunk (the starting point guard is the only one who couldn't). We ended up 24-4. I was about 6' even then and could 1 & 2 hand dunk. I could bounce the ball off the floor, catch it and 2 hand dunk.

I did my best dunking my freshman year in college. I grew 3 inches my freshman year. I could throw the ball of the backboard, catch it and two hand slam. I could also do reverse dunks and "cup" the ball between my hand and wrist and dunk it (that means I was hitting the rim with my arm about 6 to 8 inches above my wrist).

At the time I was 6'3" 180 lbs. Now 20 years later I'm 6'3" and about 245. So I don't (er...can't) dunk anymore. In fact I retired from the game about 4 or 5 years ago. I'm into losing little white balls in water and trees on golf courses now.

ChiefsFire

03-29-2006, 09:46 PM

i dunked once on my nieces little tikes hoop

sombitch had a breakaway rim

whod a thought you couldnt hang from it

Braincase

03-29-2006, 10:10 PM

At your height, you should be able to dunk if you've got "phone book ups." I'm guessing you're regressed to "pizza box ups."

I was that oddball white boy that had ups... 6'6" high jump...

PastorMikH

03-29-2006, 10:11 PM

I used to be able to dunk the mini-basketballs and junior sized Bballs on a 10ft rim.

I can still dunk on an adjustable rim.

Prince22

03-29-2006, 10:12 PM

I'm white but I don't have "white mans disease."

But no I can't dunk. I use to be able to grab rim but I'd be lucky to dunk on a 9' goal now days.

morphius

03-29-2006, 10:18 PM

At 5'8" in HS I could only get rim, but I was able to hang in the air for a good amount of time, but when the guy I played with was 6'4" I had to be able to hang for a long time otherwise I was stuffed. I remember having to pull off a quadruple pump fake followed by a windmill, all in the air.

Boozer

03-29-2006, 10:20 PM

I remember having to pull off a quadruple pump fake ....

If you can't sell the first three fakes, a fourth ain't gonna help.

CHENZ A!

03-29-2006, 10:23 PM

I can dunk 1 handed on 10', but never have in a game, sometimes I get up high enough where I think I should, but just lay it in, so as not to blow the points. I am 6'3"(in shoes) and a white guy.

morphius

03-29-2006, 10:24 PM

If you can't sell the first three fakes, a fourth ain't gonna help.
Which is why I had to break down to a windmill to get under the bastards arms.

Reaper16

03-29-2006, 10:25 PM

I can Candice Parker-dunk if I'm in shape.

Boozer

03-29-2006, 10:28 PM

I first remember dunking in 1984...but that was on a cardboard Dr. J hoop. I loved that thing.

Skip Towne

03-29-2006, 11:00 PM

Skip! This guy has found out how to post to the Planet from a typewriter. Send him a telegram so he can teach you his magic.
Nope. I don't have no truck with n00bs.

Skip Towne

03-29-2006, 11:03 PM

Well, I couldn't dunk but those layups from 2 inches away were money.

SLAG

03-29-2006, 11:14 PM

This thread has an n00b Feeling to it

Spicy McHaggis

03-29-2006, 11:18 PM

I'm still pretty young here so I haven't lost my hops yet. Can dunk one handed but usually don't in games because half the time i go up I get hacked by some huge fat guy in the lane.

Dunit35

03-29-2006, 11:18 PM

I first remember dunking in 1984...but that was on a cardboard Dr. J hoop. I loved that thing.

Could you throw the football a quarter mile back then too?

Halfcan

03-29-2006, 11:53 PM

Well, I couldn't dunk but those layups from 2 inches away were money.

Was that when "Basket ball" was still a peach basket nailed to a board.

Munson

03-30-2006, 12:21 AM

I have the White Man's Disease, even though I'm not white. I'm only 5'9", and have never played organized basketball. In high school, my football coach measured everyone's vertical jump. If I remember right, my vertical was either 19" or 20". I know, its pathetic. I had no hops. I couldn't even touch the net.

ChiefsCountry

03-30-2006, 01:00 AM

I'm a white boy and I can dunk. I'm still young, but I lost alot of my hops. In high school, I won a couple dunk contests. Used to do 360s, 2 hand, but my best was I jumped over my teammate sitting in a school desk and over a ball rack. Now in college, I can still dunk but its just one handed pussy dunks. I'm 6'4 and I used to be able to get the top of the backboard.

Too bad basketball isnt about dunking or I could have played alot more, my coach liked defense way too much.

greg63

03-30-2006, 02:00 AM

StcChief

03-30-2006, 06:01 AM

Use to in HS Touch rim....at 5'11 (I guess White man's disease)

I can Palm the ball though.

Just Another Joe

03-30-2006, 06:46 AM

Skip! This guy has found out how to post to the Planet from a typewriter. Send him a telegram so he can teach you his magic.

I'm surprised that you picked that up so quick! Who is skip?

Gaz

03-30-2006, 06:54 AM

My vertical leap is measured in millimeters and still does not clear single digits.

xoxo~
Gaz
Not built for basketball.

Eleazar

03-30-2006, 07:42 AM

One of those mini basketballs, but that's it.

JBucc

03-30-2006, 07:45 AM

I can grab a stack of dimes off the backboard.

So long as they're taped to the bottom.

Skip Towne

03-30-2006, 07:49 AM

I'm surprised that you picked that up so quick! Who is skip?
Who is Skip? WHO IS SKIP? Why, you n00b, I oughta ...............

greg63

03-30-2006, 08:12 AM

Who is Skip? WHO IS SKIP? Why, you n00b, I oughta ...............

ROFL

He's just a n00b Skip; we'll all have to be patient with him.

ROYC75

03-30-2006, 08:16 AM

I use to be able to stand under it and jam it home, But that was 1975 and I weigh 100 # less than I do now.......

Sucks to get the bulge.......

jidar

03-30-2006, 08:20 AM

Can't quite get the ball over the rim. Er.. I should say "couldn't", it's been years.

Saulbadguy

03-30-2006, 08:22 AM

I can touch the bottom of the net, sometimes.

Lzen

03-30-2006, 08:31 AM

No, I can't dunk. I'm only 5'10". I never have been able to dunk it, though. But that never stopped me from playing.

Scaga

03-30-2006, 08:45 AM

Nope...
I'm a fatass.
6'4" 245lbs with 5 knee surguries.
I'm lucky to get my ass out of bed in the morning.
:crybaby:

Extra Point

03-30-2006, 09:22 AM

Twice in my life, in my mid-twenties. Whitemanitis runs deep in the family. I'm 46 and 6'0". I will only jump and touch rim if I want to feel pain for days. My 6'3" right-handed son can barely dunk but can sky a pretty left-handed layup.

fan4ever

03-30-2006, 09:32 AM

Dunked easily in High School and College (6'5") and noticed a real advantage off of a wood floor. Tall, but hands not huge so I had to cradle the ball between hand and wrist, which require more clearance. I'm 46 now and sprained my ankles so much that is very hard to go off of one foot. Last time I dunked (about 4 years ago) I had to use a volleyball and go from two feet standing still. I've gained weight in the past couple of years so if I tried now my knee caps would explode and I'd probably kill somebody.