I'm really really wondering why the Sports Media, Basketball Fans and Tards who play basketball everywhere make such a huge deal out people getting "dunked on." A play in which the offensive player is a tall guy with great leaping ability dunking on another tall guy with leaping ability but if the defending tall guy touches the other guy or tries to use any force to stop this "embarassment" then he is called for a foul, technical foul or flagerant foul. Which takes away all the coolness of the dunk in my mind. I mean why is a play that is so easy for the offensive player to complete over a handcuffed defender so emasculating? Really people? Really?
I mean I could see the play being a lot cooler if you had to avoid getting checked or tackled. Like in football when a player goes over the middle he risks getting crushed by a linebacker. Or a wing in hockey player risking taking a massive check on the open ice going against a defense man 1 on 1. Or better yet if the defender was allowed to hit you with a Street Fighter 2 Ryu style Au Juken then dunking on people would be bad ass. But again the wussified rules of basketball do not allow the defender to do anything to stop this except put his hand up and attempt a block or sit still and try to take a stupid ass charge that the refs will call if they feel like it unless it's Kobe or Lebron, in which case the ref will forget that charging is a rule and call a block no matter what.
If ESPN continues to glorify a basic play that really doesn't mean anything. I'm hoping they at least start doing the same for other basic plays in sports and we can add the emasculating references too. Here is overeacting to simple basic plays in other sports similar to what the media does for dunking in baskteball.
Football - "Dam Reggie Wayne explodes all over the defensive back by catching that pass. That defensive backs manhood has been threatened! (terrible announcer) I've never seen anyone get catched on like that, dam!!"
Golf - "Tiger sinks a 9 foot put all over Phil Mikelsons ass! Phil just got putted up Putterized!"
Baseball - "Dam the hitter just made contact with that ball, look out pitcher you just got wooded!"(I even got the sexual innuendo in that they use with dunking on that one)
Get the point! Glorifying the dunk looks really lame to people who follow sports where force can be used or applied. Until you change the rules and make it so Lebron has to avoid Dwight Howards flying forearm to his throat when he's trying to dunk I really don't want to hear about how "awesome" dunking is.
I agree that during a game a Dunk can seem pretty lame especially since like you said the defender can't really do anything, but the Slam Dunk Contest is pretty awesome when you get some inspirational out of the box dunkers involved. Great Rant!!
ReplyDeleteYeah the slam dunk was cool until reality set in around 2008 and people began to realize unless players learn to fly like a superhero then their is only a finite amount of ways to dunk a basketball Lol
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