You know what I can jam through a basketball hoop? Here's a hint: it has slightly less than two kidneys.
So that dunking persian was a girl all this time?
2: Given that the amount of kidney you're short is not an integer, I think Labs might be right. One kidney is fewer than two kidneys, but 1 and 2/3 kidneys sounds more like less than two kidneys
That's why I asked, rather than pounding him mercilessly into the ground. But his chagrin was really all I was after, and which is correct is of little consequence now.
Given that the amount of kidney you're short is not an integer, I think Labs might be right.
I had this same thought, but then who wants to help out a 6'6" guy who can't even dunk.
She started playing basketball last year.
She started playing basketball last year. Makes more sense if my link works. Sorry
Just don't depress yourself by reading the YouTube comments.
If you read YouTube comments when anyone in the video is anything other than white, you will hate the world.
This is the paradox of Web 2.0 ... connectivity and networking brings people together as never before and christ how did all these assholes get in here?
14: Biscuit!
I'm not so sure about that. Compare: if you look in the kitchen, you will find cookies. Maybe you'll find cookies anyway (in the hallway, say). But the truth of the consequent isn't independent of that of the antecedent.
Maybe DaveL is making a point about how deeply cynical Ogged is. The implication that 14 is a biscuit simultaneously implies that Ogged's worldview is bombed out and depleted.
Right, but I think there are tense problems.
Sometimes a pellucid sentence is just a pellucid sentence.
Where's Emerson when I need backup? Yes, I was attempting to be cynical.
Went right over Ben's head. He's getting old, you know.
We know you were attempting to be cynical.
Once again, w-lfs-n leaves me wondering what just happened. Somehow I cope.
I call shenanigans. That's a lowered hoop. Griner may be awesome independently, but Ben w-lfs-n could dunk on that rim.
How do you know it's lowered?
(I'm going to get a lesson in perspective now, aren't I?)
Smasher, please don't make me cry. Why must Generation Awesome consume its own?!!
I don't think the hoop is lowered, but I admit that Smasher's confident assertion has shaken me.
Six-foot-six, even with long arms—no way she can dunk that casually. She looks like Yao under the hoop, and she comes off the glass with that dunk as well as many taller, more athletic basketball players do.
The setup seems fake to me, too. If she can dunk that easily, why does everyone care? Maybe that's just one janky basketball team, and her teammates thrill over her each and every time she shows up to a shoot-around.
I don't think there's a good shot to pinpoint the perspective and get the height, but I took a screenshot and think it's lower by about a foot.
SI says she's dunked in one game, but posted seven triple-doubles this season. She's awesome. But she's not dunking this easily in the video on a regulation rim and restraining herself while she's scoring all day long during games.
I just watched the video and: doesn't she already play for Florida?
I'll watch it again, but let's consider. I'm six feet tall, with medium long arms. My reach is almost exactly eight feet. So, to dunk, I have to be able to jump two feet to the rim, and another 9.5 to clear the ball. 33.5 inches. Someone six six with long arms gets what, nine or ten inches off that, so 24 inches. That's really not much of a leap.
but I took a screenshot and think it's lower by about a foot.
Smasher is Fisking a fifteen year-old. Fucking art types.
Ok, I think you're right, Smasher. Check out around 52-53 seconds, where her head and the rim are in the frame at the same time--that's not a ten foot rim.
Dunks, lies, and videotape. She could touch the rim without leaving the ground and she's not even standing up straight.
I don't think she could touch the rim there, but the rim looks to be about 9-9.5 feet high.
And some old Jewish dude wrote all of MLK's speeches.
Well, this thread has not been a complete loss, because it proves that we should just quit having any sports posts at all, forever.
Yes, swimming is a sport, even though it's about as much fun to watch or to do as lawnmowing .
Also, Smasher is a racist and a sexist, and a homophobe too if the girl is gay.
If you read YouTube Unfogged comments when anyone in the video is anything other than white, you will hate the world.
I don't know, b, I've read all the comments on this thread and I don't hate the world.
Perhaps some editing is in order:
If you read YouTube Unfogged comments when anyone in the video is anything other than white, you will hate the world.
There, that's better.
I think Smasher's on to something. NCAA dunk contest for comparison. First three dunks are all guys who are 6'5 or 6'4, and check out how much air they're getting under them.
They're jumping higher than she was in relation to the rim, though. I'm no judge, but it's a fairly elaborate hoax if its a hoax (unless standard backboards have adjustable heights?).
unless standard backboards have adjustable heights
Many do. It doesn't have to be a hoax from the start: someone shot an innocent video that's now being passed off as something it's not.
But like Smasher says, she looks too casual. Not "she makes jumping that high look easy", more like she's doing it without having to hardly jump at all.
51: Oh, than I haven't got any opinion. If a normal hight-school gym would have a backboard that you could crank up and down, than it could be any height.
Next, Ogged is going to tell us that all the excitement about the Phelps records was just an 'innocent' mistake. Many pools in Melbourne have adjustable lengths -- doesn't everyone know that? It wasn't a hoax from the start, but then someone shot a video, dubbed a little breathless commentary in Spanish, posted it on YouTube, and the next thing you know...
Many pools in Melbourne have adjustable lengths
This is funny.
I thought the Spanish announcers were quite restrained and casual.
Mavs-Suns, bitches. I'm so excited.
