Just wondering, has anybody ever seen him dunk the ball? Are there any players on the Rockets who just cannot dunk? Moochie?
Yes, Bull can dunk. I've seen him in warmups before, and he did it once in a game this year(don't remember which). ------------------
Moochie Norris can dunk. Sometime last year in a chat on www.cba.com Norris said he can dunk, but it is not his style. ------------------
You better believe it...Bullard can dunk on your a$$. I think almost everyone in the NBA can probably dunk. (maybe not Brent Price/Matt Maloney) ------------------ ------------------ Hakeem: "Exit Suugar Lan"
Most NBA players can slam it unless they are freakishly short like Bouges and Boykins or old like Stockton who most likely can still dunk. Dunking is easier than you think, with all the weight lifting these days its not uncommon to see middle schoolers (7-8th grade) getting up there, at 5'10 and up most training athletes can dunk. Matt at 6'10" with 2.5ft armspan can get 9.3ft without jumping meaning he only needs to jump 10 inches to "boom". ------------------
Rudy threw down on Wilt the Stilt, and Wilt hated him for the rest of his career. I would love to see a similar situation with Bullard and Shaq, minus the animosity. ------------------
Wow TPL, I was prepared to say "no way" when you claimed Boykins and Bogues could dunk. A quick Google search proved me wrong. Those two are amazing. ------------------
muggsy can dunk????? anyone got a link for that? ------------------ president of the sleepy floyd to hall of fame club. http://www.it-is-truth.org
Here is the link. Please do not draw any conclusions from the source. _______________________________________ A topic no one wants to discuss? 'Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' By Jon Entine February 1, 2000 Web posted at: 9:53 a.m. EST (1453 GMT) (CNN) -- John Entine claims in his book that scientific research now definitively proves that blacks are better at most sports. So, he asks, why are whites so uncomfortable about it? CHAPTER THREE By The Numbers More than twenty years after his retirement as a competitive runner, Brooks Johnson looks as fit as the day he last laced up his spikes. Lean and handsome, with a touch of gray at the temples, he looks more like a professor than a college running coach. On this day, the former Olympic and Stanford coach takes his athletes -- almost all of them are white -- through a demanding drill mixing fast bursts with relaxed jogging. Coach Johnson shouts encouragement as one runner after another throws his exhausted body over the finish line. "I've been an Olympic coach twice," he muses as he reviews the lackluster times of his charges. "I've had Olympic champions, world-record holders. The big challenge left for me is to put these silly notions to rest. To rub their noses in it. I want to find the white Carl Lewis. That's my mission." How could it be, Johnson is asked, that elite white sprinters are virtually extinct? "It's racism, pure and simple." He pauses. "But against whites." Johnson speaks with conviction but smiles impishly. It is not clear whether he believes his own words. "Whites are brainwashed to think that because I'm black, I'm going to be faster than you. That means that from the time you were a little kid, you were scared every time you saw me at the starting line, and that gives me an unbeatable edge." Johnson is repeating a popular, if tired, refrain from the late 1960s, as the racial transformation brought about by desegregation rippled through America. Blacks began to dominate the most popular American sports, erasing once-and-for-all the Anglo-Saxon myth of white physical superiority. According to sociologists, in reaction, whites began to believe that they could not compete in certain sports. "The 'white race' thus becomes the chief victim of its own myth," wrote Harry Edwards in 1973. By his own admission, Coach Johnson has become obsessed with disabusing people of what he believes is the silly notion that blacks are naturally superior athletes. He sighs, acknowledging for a moment the quixotic nature of his quest to find a white 100-meter champion. "I'm going to find him. In fact for every Carl Lewis, there are nine white Carl Lewises out there. I'm going to find one of them." "Dear Brooks," wrote San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Scott Ostler when he heard of Johnson's comment, "Pack a lunch." Biology Circumscribes Possibility Simply stated, the opposing and incompatible claims that black athletic success can be explained by environmentalism or evolution are equally simplistic. Sports success is a bio-social phenomenon. There is extensive and persuasive research that elite black athletes have a phenotypic advantage -- a distinctive skeletal system and musculature, metabolic structures, and other characteristics forged over tens of thousands of years of evolution. While people of African descent have spent most of their evolutionary history near to where they originated, the rest of the world's populations have had to modify their African adaptations after migrating to far different regions and climates. Preliminary research suggests that different phenotypes are at least partially encoded in the genes -- conferring genotypic differences, which may result in an advantage in some sports. But all such differences are mediated through experience, from our prenatal health to the educational opportunities while growing up. In other words, our environment and culture can enhance or diminish whatever tiny variations linked to evolution that may exist. Considering the wide variation within each geographic, racial, and ethnic population, such differences may appear minuscule, but at the elite level, they are the stuff of champions. These inbred differences influence who does how well and in what sports. Asians, who constitute about 57 percent of the world's population, are virtually invisible in the most democratic of world sports, running, soccer, and basketball. The smallest of the major "races," those with sub-Saharan African ancestry, comprise approximately 12 percent of the world's 6 billion population, yet their hold on many sports, particularly running, is staggering. In the United States, 13 percent of the population is black. In the mid-1960s the racial breakdown in the National Basketball Association (NBA) was 80 percent white, 20 percent black; today it's almost exactly reversed. Women's pro basketball is 70 percent African American. The National Football League (NFL) is 65 percent black. In college, 60 percent of men's basketball players and nearly 50 percent of football players are African Americans. Becoming a professional athlete is still a long-shot for aspiring teenagers, but it's a lot longer for whites. A black male would have about 1 chance in 4,000 of playing in the NBA, as compared to about a 1 in 90,000 shot for a white. And even as African Americans are abandoning baseball in droves for basketball and football, more than one-third of Major League Baseball and a higher percentage of the top stars are blacks from North and Latin America. Even these eye-popping numbers grossly understate the trends. Check the NBA statistics: not one white player has finished among the top scorers or rebounders in recent years. White running backs, cornerbacks, or wide receivers in the NFL? Count them on one hand. Roll the calendar back decades, to the 1950s, to find the last time a white led baseball in steals. A white male toeing the line at an Olympic 100-meter final? Not in decades.* Don't expect to see a white man set a world record in a road race -- any race, at any distance from 100-meters to the marathon. It may happen. In some future decade. But don't hold your breath. There is a new racial barrier in sports. Positions that require speed and jumping ability are almost exclusively black. In street parlance this phenomenon is blamed on a malady, virulently infectious but apparently limited to Caucasians -- white man's disease. "The NBA is perhaps the only arena of American life," opined sports writers Bob Ryan and Terry Pluto in their book "48 Minutes," "where to be white is to be immediately judged inferior. [It is] not necessary to have a Ph.D. in kinesiology to realize that the average black player can jump higher and run faster than the average white player." Standing 5 feet, 7 inches tall in high-tops, former NBA guard Spud Webb used to dunk the ball in warm-ups. "Just to keep everybody honest," he would say. Even Mugsy Bogues, 5 feet, 3 inches short, can dunk. White players, many of whom line the bench, wonder what kind of future they have. "White people can't jump as high," sighs Scott Brooks, a white guard who bounced around the league in an undistinguished NBA career. Another itinerant guard, Jon Barry, son of Hall-of-Famer Rick Barry, believes he is the last of a "dying breed." Only the demand for mutant giants of any background is likely to forestall a near total washout of nonblacks in coming years. ------------------
He's 6'10", so of course he can dunk, but we will never see that again as he would be required to cross the 3-point line to accomplish this. ------------------
There are very few players in the league that cannot.....silly! ------------------ There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
What's up with saying Scottie Brooks had an undistinguished NBA career? The guy's got two championship rings. ------------------ RealGM Gafford Art Artisan Cakes
Yeah, he can dunk. I've seen footage. As a 3 pt specialist, he hasn't this year. The real question is can Cato dunk. Seems like he always rims it out. ------------------ Matt Bullard Fan Club www.AirBullard.com
