Wow...so close to the free throw line, but he still made it look easy. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QY68TTW5KQ4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QY68TTW5KQ4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Here's another angle, but it's an animated .gif: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/js6684/LBJ-Dunk-vs-Bucks.gif
oh crap i was watching the game last night and from the behind the basket angle they showed it was hard to tell where he jumped from but the dunk looked really simple. and i was thinking i thought he would tomahawk it or something. but wow now that i saw that gif
here's a shot of the dunk where lebron's holding the ball above the rim, right before the moment of throwing it down. the amazing aspect of the photo is that at this point he's holding the ball way above the rim, even though he's towards the end of his jump. he is sick sick sick sick sick. to do this in game, he is officially a freak of nature.
That was good, but the best dunk I've seen LeBron make so far this year was against the Bobcats. A.J. Augustine had the audacity to get in his way. LeBron simply went around him to the right, went up and threw the ball down with his right hand. What was funny is how the ball ricocheted off of Gerald Wallace's chest. If someone took dead aim and threw a ball at Gerald Wallace as hard as they could and hit him square, the ball wouldn't ricochet as hard as it did on that dunk. If it had been a facial, Wallace might have suffered another concussion.
I just want to say that the behind the basket camera angle blows hard. I hate when they go back to show a dunk, and they use that stupid angle. You get no sense of the elevation or aerial grace of a great dunk from that perspective.
I'm sorry . . . a slightly modified version of the James Worthy Statue Of Liberty Dunk he did when Magic feed him on the FastBreak is not impressive to me. Esp when you 6'8 I think people get more impressed by the name/personality than the actual dunk If Dirk Nowitski does the exact same dunk . . most folxx would be kind of Meh about it Rocket River
What you can't see from that video is that he took off just inside the free throw line. I'm not sure I've ever seen a player jump from that far away from the basket. Clyde Drexler had a dunk back in the 80s against the Lakers where he took off just a step inside the elbow. I vaguely recall a Shawn Kemp dunk where he leaped from just inside the free throw line. Other than that, I can't think of an in-game dunk with such distance covered.
check the gif out not the video the video is a terrible angle which i saw on tv last night. the announcers were going crazy and i just didnt understand why until i saw the gif posted and that may my eyes pop. lebron is just a complete athletic freak of nature i mean FREAK, the strength, speed, explosion and size all wrapped up in one body. its just amazing. he ends up dunking, and power dunking at that at the end of moves where most people his height would end up shooting a floater or at best a layup.
Name recognition will always add value to a dunk, just how it goes. Dirk taking off from the free throw line couldnt get a reaction? Thats like saying Yao doing a flying 360 from 12 feet out would just get a shoulder shrug. Yes the only thing distinctive about this Lebron dunk is the distance covered. But its not like any other 6'-8" players are doing that.
Wow, I watched it last night and had no idea he took off from that far. He made it look easy. Like me dunking on a plastic nerf basketball set in a kindergarten class. I agree the behind the baseline view sucks.
THANK YOU! this is so ****ing stupid it's almost hard to comprehend that it wasn't discontinued after the very first time it was used. what's crazy is it seems that they almost insist on going to this angle on break-away dunks that you can prepare for. does anyone ever see this angle and think "wow, i'm so glad they switched away from the angle where you can see how far they jumped and get a great view of any moves they did and to this angle where you can barely see anything except the dunk through the rim"? and when they show highlights, they never use anything but the tv angle and seemingly refuse to give us the full view of the court shot. the behind the basket camera does indeed blow hard.
Holy ******* ****! The guy is disgusting. He and Josh Smith get more "did he really just do that?" athletic plays in a single game than any other players in the league get in a month.
wow, now that i have seen the gif he really dunks the ball down into the hoop. he isn't just barely hanging on and just getting it over the rim. he does about 4 or 5 things every game that make you realize he's the biggest freak on the perimeter ever, and it's not even really close. like The_Yoyo said, the number of times he turns what would be a layup for everyone else into a power dunk is just amazing. or how often he just flies down the court on the wing after being behind on a fastbreak and almost has to slow up for the alley-oop because he's just that fast. or the backhand passes that are thrown on a frozen rope. the other night against the bulls against deng i think, he made a move where he broke deng's ankles twice, and then even when deng was still kind of in front of him, he spun, knocked deng back a little, and where everyone else would put up a little uncontested layup, he went up with 2 hands and just about tore the rim down. just incredible.
