OJ's back!

[Mountaineer]

Originally Posted by MJT

Looking at the definition of a dunk, I don't think it qualifies if he does not touch the rim at all with his hand(s) or arm(s)? It will be interesting to get some others opinion on that.

Trust me, with the force he was using - it was a dunk. And he did get the rim on one . . .

[IREFU2]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer

Trust me, with the force he was using - it was a dunk. And he did get the rim on one . . .

Sounds like a T to me!!!!

[BigTex]

Were the officials on the court when he was dunking?

This brings up another question.....do you blow your whistle when you walk onto the court? I personally do not, and have had many discussions with partners about it. I do not like to bring extra attention to myself. Why should you have to announce your presence. I once had a coach not happy with a pregame T (his player was actually hanging on the rim after a dunk with about 10 min left on clock). His argument was that the player did not know we were on the court. I explained that it was not any less illegal wether he knew we were out here or not.

What do you guys do?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BigTex

Were the officials on the court when he was dunking?

This brings up another question.....do you blow your whistle when you walk onto the court? I personally do not, and have had many discussions with partners about it. I do not like to bring extra attention to myself. Why should you have to announce your presence. I once had a coach not happy with a pregame T (his player was actually hanging on the rim after a dunk with about 10 min left on clock). His argument was that the player did not know we were on the court. I explained that it was not any less illegal wether he knew we were out here or not.

What do you guys do?

I'm usually preceded by dancing girls and helium balloons.

I've never seen nor heard of officials who blow their whistle when entering the court area. That would be dorky.

[cmathews]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I'm usually proceeded by dancing girls and helium balloons.

I've never seen nor heard of officials who blow their whistle when entering the court area. That would be dorky.

are you saying you proceed onto the court like dancing girls or that dancing girls precede you (come in before you LOL)...In a gym where we work here the door from the officials locker room leads directly onto the court, some officials as they walk out give a tweet on the whistle so that they don't have to see anything inappropriate....

as for a post above about it being no less illegal whether officials are there or not....if the officials aren't there it isn't illegal, it is only illegal to dunk during intermissions and dead balls after the officials have assumed their jurisdiction over the game, which happens when they take the floor...

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by cmathews

are you saying you proceed onto the court like dancing girls or that dancing girls precede you (come in before you LOL

You got me ...of course I went back and fixed it.

[cmathews]

when someone quotes you and your fix appears in your post but not in the quote LOL.....