Dunking in pregame

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10. Vulture already has the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player award locked up.

If you missed it, Vulture is a Kansas State walk-on who received a technical for dunking in warm-ups before his team’s game against Kentucky. History will look back on this as the coolest trillion ever recorded. And yes, it’s still technically a trillion since he had one technical foul and no other stats, including minutes played. This means he very well could be the only person in the world to dunk and get a trillion in the same game. If I were Vulture, I would never stop reminding people of this glorious achievement.

http://grantland.com/features/ncaa-tournament-march-madness-mark-titus-kentucky-wichita-state-louisville-michigan/

[MakeItRain]

It's not like teams are going to have dunk contests in pre-game. It's a dumb rough ridin' rule. Period.

Great!


Anyway, I would be surprised if the rule went away. There isn't a clamoring to let players dunk during warm-ups and athletic directors don't want to risk having to replace the rims in pregame. The rule has been around for 40 years, no need to change a rule that so infrequently gets violated.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

So you can dunk the eff out of the ball twenty minutes and 1 second before tipoff, but not 19 minutes and 59 seconds before, because at 20 minutes the rim all of the sudden becomes susceptible to breaking and at that point in time it's too late to timely get a new one installed?

MIR, your blinding hatred of white people, Butch Redledder in this case, has caused you to take an unbelievably irrational and ignorant position regarding this archaic and seldom enforced rule from the pre-breakaway-rim era of basketball, back when pubic hair spewed from the confines of polyester thigh high form fitting shorts.



It's a stupid rough ridin' rule that is never enforced despite being broken 100 times per half. It's what jaywalking is, if jaywalking were enforced 1/100th of its current enforcement rate.  Shut The eff Up

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

 

[MakeItRain]

Butch Redledder

Who? Aww who cares, I don't, peckerwood.












The term "Peckerwood," an inversion of "Woodpecker," is used as a pejorative term. This word was coined in the 19th century by Southern blacks to describe poor whites. They considered them loud and troublesome like the bird, and often with red hair like the woodpecker's head plumes

[Deez Nutz]

Stan Weber discussed this in detail with Nate and Steven on the Border Patrol this morning.  Pretty interesting.  This is a link to the podcast in case you missed it.  Also discusses the oscar to Marquette rumors later in the interview.

http://www.810whb.com/page.php?page_id=140

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

should make this our thing. like, we get a guy to go up and just tomahawk slam it right before pregame ends every game and give the other team a 2 pt lead. its a lot like a coach getting a T to fire his guys up, except were trying to fire up the crowd and our players at the same time.

[kslim]

Has it been mentioned how rough ridin' stupid this rule is?

What is the intent of the rule? How does it improve or protect the game?

I've always assumed it was to prevent damage to the goal close to game time.

Mike Decourcey(sp??) was on 810 this morning and he said that is exactly the reason the rule was put in place. Back when basketball goals were made out of wood and peachbaskets they didn't want someone to damage or break the goal which would obviously delay the game.  He says now with breakaway rims it's nearly impossible to break a backboard these days and that technology has passed that rule by.

Decourcey as usual is an idiot. I've seen a high schooler break a backboard; lets see what happens when we see guys 6'7" 255 with 6 percent body fat dunking as hard as they can undefended every night.

not to nitpick here (i dont care about this dumb rough ridin' rule one way or the other) but im guessing most high school backboards arent as advanced as say a d-1 college or arena would have. carry on

[Bloodfart]

Butch Redledder

Who? Aww who cares, I don't, peckerwood.












The term "Peckerwood," an inversion of "Woodpecker," is used as a pejorative term. This word was coined in the 19th century by Southern blacks to describe poor whites. They considered them loud and troublesome like the bird, and often with red hair like the woodpecker's head plumes

Thanks for the vocabulary lesson.  WTF? LOL

[slobber]

mir, your best comparison would be victor ojelay.  engineering, walk-on, from kansas, black.  he even has a last name that i don't know how to spell, just like rhodeler

What if Marcus Foster was a white guy walk on from Seneca? Fans would love him so much!What if oscar was black?  Everyone would say he has anemia instead of aspergers.

I cannot speak for the entire fanbase, but I would love it if we had this!

[star seed 7]

should make this our thing. like, we get a guy to go up and just tomahawk slam it right before pregame ends every game and give the other team a 2 pt lead. its a lot like a coach getting a T to fire his guys up, except were trying to fire up the crowd and our players at the same time.

i'm all in

[MakeItRain]

Has it been mentioned how rough ridin' stupid this rule is?

What is the intent of the rule? How does it improve or protect the game?

I've always assumed it was to prevent damage to the goal close to game time.

Mike Decourcey(sp??) was on 810 this morning and he said that is exactly the reason the rule was put in place. Back when basketball goals were made out of wood and peachbaskets they didn't want someone to damage or break the goal which would obviously delay the game.  He says now with breakaway rims it's nearly impossible to break a backboard these days and that technology has passed that rule by.

Decourcey as usual is an idiot. I've seen a high schooler break a backboard; lets see what happens when we see guys 6'7" 255 with 6 percent body fat dunking as hard as they can undefended every night.

not to nitpick here (i dont care about this dumb rough ridin' rule one way or the other) but im guessing most high school backboards arent as advanced as say a d-1 college or arena would have. carry on

most are though

Not very interestingly enough I ordered two basketball goals a couple of months ago also not very interestingly enough this is the second time I've had to do this. Anyway I could get into some real dorkiness about plexiglass and perforated polycarbonate but the bottom line is that the quality of the rim and boards don't vary much. Even if you can't be convinced that the quality isn't much different, you can certainly recognize the difference in strength from a high schooler and a college basketball player with the benefit of a S & C program.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Backboards don't break anymore. It's basically impossible to do.

[ksupamplemousse]

Backboards don't break anymore. It's basically impossible to do.

Agreed, Wally Judge and Jam Sam used to routinely come out early and try to rip the rough ridin' rim off before warmups. I don't recall there ever being a problem with the goal after they were done with it.

[MakeItRain]

Backboards don't break anymore. It's basically impossible to do.

Has it ever been anything but "basically impossible?"

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Backboards don't break anymore. It's basically impossible to do.

Has it ever been anything but "basically impossible?"

Was probably easy when it was wood and a peach basket. 

[BRo33]

should make this our thing. like, we get a guy to go up and just tomahawk slam it right before pregame ends every game and give the other team a 2 pt lead. its a lot like a coach getting a T to fire his guys up, except were trying to fire up the crowd and our players at the same time.

i'm all in

Me too.

[MakeItRain]

Backboards don't break anymore. It's basically impossible to do.

Has it ever been anything but "basically impossible?"

Was probably easy when it was wood and a peach basket. 

no one dunked then,I guess we'll never know

[puniraptor]

Part of the reason my new years resolution (for 3 years now) was to slam dunk a basketball was to live out the fantasy of getting called down onto the court at half time to do some silly game where I shoot for chipotle burritos or something and throw down an immense tomahawk chop monster jam and the cat fans just go wild and rush the court and I get one free burrito a week for a year.


would that be a technical?

[MadCat]

Part of the reason my new years resolution (for 3 years now) was to slam dunk a basketball was to live out the fantasy of getting called down onto the court at half time to do some silly game where I shoot for chipotle burritos or something and throw down an immense tomahawk chop monster jam and the cat fans just go wild and rush the court and I get one free burrito a week for a year.


would that be a technical?

technical-ly awesome!

[pissclams]

they used to not let you dunk at the rec during pick up games for this very reason but the guys and gals who worked there loved me and my dunks were mind blowing so they said eff it 'sclams, we can't cage your beautiful wings, be free to dunk at will and i did.  still had a few n00bs kick me out from time to time but hey, that's the price you pay for having more hops than sam adams 

[420seriouscat69]

they used to not let you dunk at the rec during pick up games for this very reason but the guys and gals who worked there loved me and my dunks were mind blowing so they said eff it 'sclams, we can't cage your beautiful wings, be free to dunk at will and i did.  still had a few n00bs kick me out from time to time but hey, that's the price you pay for having more hops than sam adams

[star seed 7]

being able to dunk a basketball has to be a great feeling

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Backboards don't break anymore. It's basically impossible to do.

Has it ever been anything but "basically impossible?"

Was probably easy when it was wood and a peach basket. 

no one dunked then,I guess we'll never know

Good point. That was back when kids actually learned the art of a left handed layup. Times have changed.

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

being able to dunk a basketball has to be a great feeling

it is. nothing like tossing that bad boy up like youre in the sprite slam dunk contest, having it bounce once about 9.5 feet in the air and then jumping up and letting the whole gym know you came to party.