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Old Mon Aug 08, 2005, 07:07am
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Originally posted by lrpalmer3
Yeah, I'm being sarcastic. I just don't believe that the rule is there to prevent kids from "jumping as high as they can" during warm-up. Hanging on the rim is different than dunking, why bring that up?
Grabbing the rim, hanging on the rim, slapping the backboard and showing off while trying to dunk is what it's all about for a lot of these kids who attempt it during the game. Any intelligent person should be able to see that if it was allowed during warm-ups, it would only be worse.
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