I watched an entire Danville team dunk during warmups before the refs came out and watched a Boyle County team not dunk it one time in warmups.

 

Boyle won by 10.

 

 

Either you can play or you can't. Dunking doesn't matter.

1999 - Brossart's Justin Seiter broke his wrist dunking the ball in warmups. Got off-balance, came down wrong, used his hand to break his fall, out for the majority of his junior season.

 

In all your years of watching basketball you can only remember one person who got hurt dunking during warmups? That's a pretty good percentage.

I don't like the rule. Some of us played our best ball during warmups.

I remember not being able to dunk during warmups. Was just like not being able to dunk during the game.

1999 - Brossart's Justin Seiter broke his wrist dunking the ball in warmups. Got off-balance, came down wrong, used his hand to break his fall, out for the majority of his junior season.

 

Can't blame the dunk:

2010---My son runs down the court for a lay-up, not a dunk. Gets fouled, got off-balance, used his hand to break his fall, broke his wrist and was out for 6 weeks.

 

I don't think they should get a T for a dunk during warm-ups.

I don't see the harm, although I can see where some may get hurt. However, if coaches were concerned they would probably stop their players from doing it. I always wanted to dunk, but had to settle for barely getting the net.

A few problems with your argument, madman.

 

No team has many players that can dunk.

 

If a coach is more inclined to let his players dunk the entire time than work on shooting then that's on him. Why legislate just for stupid coaching?

 

If a team is intimidated by the other team dunking then that's on them. Why legislate against a team's irrational reactions?

 

I don't know how many games you've seen this year but I have seen several teams that have had at least 5 or more players who can dunk.

I don't like the rule. Some of us played our best ball during warmups.

 

 

I did my best scoring while the band played "Brown Eyed Girl", "Eye of the Tiger" and "Tequila". Not one dunk though.

Senior Day at Georgetown College in 2000. Will Carlton throws the ball up in the air, does a cartwheel, catches the ball out of the air and slams it home and shatters the backboard. Game was supposed to start at 2:00. Maintenance went to get the replacement. Happy bought pizza for everyone in the crowd. While taking the backboard down, asst AD tries to help. He is bald. Ends up with at least 10 cuts on top of his head from glass coming off as they take it down. Game tipped off around 5.

 

Of the 5000 or so games I have seen in my life this is the only incident. I think the rule is dumb and should be removed from the rule book.

I did my best scoring while the band played "Brown Eyed Girl", "Eye of the Tiger" and "Tequila". Not one dunk though.

 

That's right. :thumb:

 

During some songs, not only could I hit a layup, but a reverse layup too.

 

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, rules committee.

Senior Day at Georgetown College in 2000. Will Carlton throws the ball up in the air, does a cartwheel, catches the ball out of the air and slams it home and shatters the backboard. Game was supposed to start at 2:00. Maintenance went to get the replacement. Happy bought pizza for everyone in the crowd. While taking the backboard down, asst AD tries to help. He is bald. Ends up with at least 10 cuts on top of his head from glass coming off as they take it down. Game tipped off around 5.

 

:lol:

 

Great story, Plato! :thumb:

 

You don't see Socrates & Aristotle giving us that kind of information.

If they see you, they will "T" you, if you dunk prior to the game. :eyeonyou:

 

I believe that as one poster stated, you have a lot of kids trying to dunk in warm-ups that would never try it in the game!

 

 

But how many try it in practice or when they are out playing with their friends (sometimes on blacktop) before they try it in warm ups before lots of people (with no trainers, coaches, etc.)?

 

I think a short period of time where the kids are able to (at worst) show off for a bit before going through the rest of their warm-up routine is fine.

 

From an injury/safety perspective, I've seen far more players getting hurt trying to take charges, but I'd venture a guess that lots of those who wish to deemphasize dunking would not want to do away with charges (I could be wrong on that one though). Most kids in this age who try to dunk in front of a crowd of people has probably tried it hundreds of time on their own. I'm guessing the biggest deterrent for most current high schoolers is knowing that in the back of their mind, they could be "the kid that got hurt trying to dunk in warm-ups when they shouldn't have been trying".

 

There’s also a practical advantage to making sure your lift, timing, hand-eye coordination, etc. are in sync considering you may be able to dunk in the game. Even if those dunks aren’t necessary (i.e., an uncontested lay-up versus an uncontested dunk), there are some where the player’s best chance of scoring is actually dunking the ball—one example of this would be a “tip dunk” where the player grabs a rebound (that is off the cylinder) and flushes it in traffic.

 

Besides getting the crowd excited, players and their teammates also psyche themselves up. I don’t think anyone would argue that dunks in high school games often really swing momentum and/or the crowd in one team’s favor as well. To the same extent, it can really rattle or intimidate the other team in the way that a lay-up just can’t. Growing up (and even today, to a lesser degree) my favorite part of going to some high school games was seeing players dunk in warm-ups. I couldn’t count the number of times I’ve seen a crowd of younger children standing along the baseline or at the edge of the bleachers, staring in awe of a team dunking.

An honest question for those of you who think that the fascination with dunking deemphasizes fundamentals (for reasoning somewhere along the lines of players concentrating more of their practice time on attempting to dunk instead of honing another skill):

 

Do you feel as though you proportionally watch at least as much (or even more) women’s basketball as your peers? I propose this question as an honest and well-intentioned one that could possibly confirm or deny my intuition on viewing preferences of the sport.

 

There are alternatives where very few, if any, players dunk though, take the WNBA or NCAA Women's Basketball for instance. This isn't a knock on their organizations, but I think it's safe to say that a significant portion of casual viewers don't watch nearly as much of these leagues as they do ones where players dunk regularly, with the fact that dunking does not occur being one of the primary reasons why.

 

I think that the excitement of the dunk would probably be one of the most significant factors in explaining why many otherwise unbiased people (both males and females who aren't watching because they have a familiar relation to someone playing) watch significantly more men's basketball than women's. By the same token, I would think that the fundamentally sound nature of women's basketball is why many otherwise unbiased people (both males and females who aren't watching because they have a familiar relation to someone playing) might watch as much or more women's basketball than men's. Agree, disagree, or do you watch each for the same or different reasons?

So ban the dunk all together? No dunking ever again so the kids can stay safe? That's the solution?

 

Should we ban layups for all the kids that have sprained ankles shooting layups?

 

Should we ban rebounding for all the injuries that have occurred rebounding the basketball?

 

Better yet. Let's keep them real safe and just make the play play H-O-R-S-E. Games would be safer and money would be saved since we wouldn't have to buy uniforms and shoes anymore. You may be on to something.

 

This just reminded me of an episode of South Park I just watched. Sarcastaball. If you haven't seen it, you'd probably get a good laugh from it.

Let em dunk. I've always thought it was silly that the dunking stops at 15:00 when the refs come out. Everyone in the gym knows it's not supposed to happen and the refs know it's going on before they come out.

 

This silly rule kept me from dunking in front of a full house. That and the fact I'm only 5' 10" with and average vertical.