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When Basketball was GREAT
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When Basketball was GREAT


Apr 13, 2022, 4:56 PM

-- no double dribble
-- no palming
-- no walking (or running)
-- no dunking
-- no $$ to refs (except at UNC).



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Re: When Basketball was GREAT


Apr 24, 2021, 1:45 PM

You dont like dunking?

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Apr 13, 2022, 5:08 PM

Are you aware that players like David Thompson, and Randy Mahaffey, and Wilt Chamberlain never dunked in college?

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Kareem couldn't dunk in college, but Wilt could


Apr 13, 2022, 6:32 PM

NCAA got rid of dunking in 1967 (thru 1977), as Lew Alcindor was starting at UCLA...

one of the results of the ban was Kareem perfecting his sky hook

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Kareem


Apr 13, 2022, 6:34 PM

Bill Walton also did not dunk.

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Yea, but what about that


Apr 13, 2022, 9:25 PM

finger-roll?

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Walton


Apr 14, 2022, 9:14 AM [ in reply to Kareem ]

had that cool move where he would go up above the rim with two hands on the ball and just drop it in

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Apr 13, 2022, 9:00 PM [ in reply to Re: When Basketball was GREAT ]

I am aware but why not put the peach basket back on the pole and we can all wear pro keds and have a 4 corners 18-12 ballgame.

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Marvin Dickerson dunked (illegally, back then) on a


Apr 14, 2022, 10:33 AM [ in reply to Re: When Basketball was GREAT ]

breakaway in the last home game of the season in Littlejohn one year while I was there. The ovation was so thunderous, I literally thought the roof was coming off the place. Great memory from a time when Clemson was just beginning to be competitive in the ACC. This was immediately following the era when Tates Locke brought in some of the best players money could buy.

:)

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Apr 13, 2022, 8:53 PM [ in reply to Re: When Basketball was GREAT ]

dunking is great for donuts.

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Re: When Basketball was GREAT


Apr 13, 2022, 5:54 PM

And no 3 point line!

Yeah, I'm old!

Go Tigers

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Bill was the GOAT. This is from his college days at Univ. of


Apr 14, 2022, 10:38 AM

SF:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWelUNrJUMM

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