The blog The Athlist posted a YouTube list called 20 Ways To Die While Dunking A Basketball. It is a fairly humorous set of videos but the best one is #20:
20. Being a Duke basketball player (Greg Paulus) and flopping. If the reDEEM team makes one flop in their Olympic run, I will refuse to watch again. We’re Americans and we jump OVER floppers (i.e., Vince Carter in the 2000 Olympics). The only thing more dangerous than a horrible athlete coming up with creative ways to reach the rim is the horrible athlete throwing his body in front of an airborne opponent. That’s right Duke, while the other 19 dunk attempts ended horribly, nothing is more embarrassing than a no-called flop.
Well said. Now I will publish this post and resist the urge to post Danny Green’s dunk again.
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But you can’t really APPRECIATE the post without the visual evidence.
Can’t get enough of the “tea-bag” dunk. For all the Dook fans who still claim it was a charge, 1) Paulus was already falling under the basket before Danny made contact, and 2) he raised his arm to ward-off what he saw coming at his face which is a defensive posture and is not supposed to happen in a true charge. The Washington thing is just too funny. Now that was a full face-shot for Paulus of Washington’s “twig & Berries”!
If anything, I think you could make an argument that it was a foul on Paulus. What Paulus did was not a typical defensive basketball move. That could have potentially put Danny’s safety in jeapordy. I remember a technical foul that Maktar Ndiaye received one time when Battie was backing him down. He pulled the chair right out from under him (you know when the offensive guy bumps you while he’s backing you down so he knows where you’re positioned. To me, what Maktar did was more of a defensive basketball move than what Paulus did. I know, I know, Makhtar throwing the ball is what got him the T, but that foul should have never been called, and I think that the no call was fitting for Danny Green, but however, they did reserve the right as an official to call that foul on Paulus, but didn’t.
Now I will publish this post and resist the urge to post Danny Green’s dunk again.
Step 1. Check.