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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
I have made this statement before. Folks act as if your body will just magically stop going forward after running full speed just because the balls goes through the basket.
There is a big difference between dunking the ball off 2 feet, and dunking off 1 foot while going at a high speed.
Some refs are just looking for "got ya" violations.
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The player doesn't need benefit of using the rim to stop if they don't unnecessarily grab it to start with. The body only goes that horizontal because of the grab. Without it, he'd have stayed upright.
There are far too many high speed and athletic dunks where the player doesn't find the need to swing around like it was a gymnastics meet that prove it is not necessary to do as was done in this dunk.
But, as I said earlier, I see this one at the 50/50 point. I could see it called or not.