Is Gerald Green's "double dunk" the DUMBEST dunk in contest history?

[KungFuJoe]

If anything, it just proves the guy is a boneheaded idiot. Guy can leap like no other and he thinks cutting off a net and doing some lame ass dunk where you actually support yourself on the rim will get a 50? Whoever thought of that is an idiot and Green's an idiot for attempting it.

Even if he made it, it would have gotten a 43 MAYBE tops. I forgot which commentator mentioned it, but the fact that he had to pull himself up on the rim would be a major deduction.

What made it worse was he couldn't even DO IT! Until the very last attempt after time had long expired, which actually made him look even worse because it's like he went through all that trouble, failed miserably, then he actually did it and people were like "meh".

He should just just something where he jumped insanely high and dunked it with his arms nearly parallel to the floor or something. Yet he does something that even I probably could have done with enough practice...and FAILS.

Biggest disappointment in dunk contest history.

[DropStep]

This could of been posted in the five other dunk contest/ all star weekend threads. I thought it was a pretty impressive dunk, he didn't necessarily need to hold himself up either.

You gotta commend him for trying something new, he could of easily won this contest with a couple of windmills with his head above the rim. Atleast he didn't do a Shannon brown or Gerald Wallace.

[Dro]

If anything, it just proves the guy is a boneheaded idiot. Guy can leap like no other and he thinks cutting off a net and doing some lame ass dunk where you actually support yourself on the rim will get a 50? Whoever thought of that is an idiot and Green's an idiot for attempting it.

Even if he made it, it would have gotten a 43 MAYBE tops. I forgot which commentator mentioned it, but the fact that he had to pull himself up on the rim would be a major deduction.

What made it worse was he couldn't even DO IT! Until the very last attempt after time had long expired, which actually made him look even worse because it's like he went through all that trouble, failed miserably, then he actually did it and people were like "meh".

He should just just something where he jumped insanely high and dunked it with his arms nearly parallel to the floor or something. Yet he does something that even I probably could have done with enough practice...and FAILS.

Biggest disappointment in dunk contest history.
Apparently you've never heard of Earl "The Goat"....he was obviously trying to recreate the "alleged" double dunk that Earl did back in the day. I like the creativity and if he could've done it on the 1st or 2nd try, I would've given it a 50...

[no pun intended]

It always gives me high scores when I do it in 2K13.

[devin112]

Better then the time he dunked in socks and thought that was cool. Then the lame cupcake dunk.

[Myth]

the double dunk was bad, but not anywhere close to the dumbest. It was a real shame too, his first dunk of the night was great. Green is frustrating to watch in dunk contests. He is such an amazing dunker and has thrown down some great dunk contest dunks, but then he just does something stupid like the double dunk or the dunk in socks and leaves us wanting something else, even a simple windmill where he just elevates as high as he can.

[HardwoodLegend]

I think the dunk would be more impressive if done this way...

Drive from the baseline, do a dunk similar to MJ's Kiss the Rim but with the body facing out of bounds, grazing the hand on the rim (no holding on for support), pass it to the other hand, and dunk it on the other side of the rim.

[boozehound]

Better then the time he dunked in socks and thought that was cool. Then the lame cupcake dunk.
you are an idiot if you dont think the sock dunk was impressive. There are very few players who could do that. Next time you are on a hardwood court, go out and try and play in socks (not barefeet). Its ****ing way harder to do anything, let alone leap and dunk.

[Myth]

you are an idiot if you dont think the sock dunk was impressive. There are very few players who could do that. Next time you are on a hardwood court, go out and try and play in socks (not barefeet). Its ****ing way harder to do anything, let alone leap and dunk.

My problem with it is that I watch the dunk contest more for the aesthetically pleasing dunks. I'm aware that what he did was impressive, but unfortunately it doesn't look any better visually than any other between the legs dunk I've seen.

[KungFuJoe]

Oh crap I forgot that green did the cupcake dunk. That was another that I thought was massively lame.

Dunking in socks? I don't care how hard it is...it's hard to swim upstream in a suit of armor, doesn't mean I want to see someone do it.

Green is a waste of dunk contest talent. He clearly jumps higher than anyone else, but he just has no creativity. Or I should say his idea of creativity is dumb.

I would rate ceballos' dunk as the dumbest but at least he made it.

What makes Green's failure so monumental was he has insane leaping ability and yet he FAILED to perform a dunk that pretty much anyone could do given enough tries. What makes a dunk special is in the fact that very few people on the planet could pull it off...and when you get to Vince carter level, it's only ONE person. Green could have been on that level but he just has the dumbest ideas ever.

[2swift4u]

You obviously dont know much about the history of basketball/streetball if you think this was the dumbest dunk ever!! It's a legendary dunk by earl the goat. I give Green credit for bringing it back and paying homage to the goat.

[tmacattack33]

This could of been posted in the five other dunk contest/ all star weekend threads. I thought it was a pretty impressive dunk, he didn't necessarily need to hold himself up either.

You gotta commend him for trying something new, he could of easily won this contest with a couple of windmills with his head above the rim. Atleast he didn't do a Shannon brown or Gerald Wallace.

I agree with the OP that this dunk by Green was so stupid that it deserves its own thread.

I mean Green is such a great athlete and he had such a great first dunk. And then he comes out and attempts a dunk that wouldn't even be impressive if he made it.

He was hanging on to the rim, so it would be hard to judge just how much the rim helped him. And so he would not get 10's. Might not have even gotten 9's.




These guys should have coaches or something who can suggest to them what dunks to do and stuff. You wouldn't think it was that hard to pick a dunk that is impressive, but apparently it is.

[KungFuJoe]

You obviously dont know much about the history of basketball/streetball if you think this was the dumbest dunk ever!! It's a legendary dunk by earl the goat. I give Green credit for bringing it back and paying homage to the goat.

I don't care how legendary it is/was...it's lame. You're pulling yourself up in the rim. That's straight up cheating. If he had done it without using the rim (which is probably impossible for anyone today to do it) then that would be something completely different.

I'm sure dunking two balls at the same time was considered legendary at some point. Now everyone and their grandma can do it.

[Myth]

You obviously dont know much about the history of basketball/streetball if you think this was the dumbest dunk ever!! It's a legendary dunk by earl the goat. I give Green credit for bringing it back and paying homage to the goat.

Paying homage is only cool if you can do it properly. This is like somebody re-creating Jordan's free throw line/logo dunk but jumping 3 feet in front of the free throw line and taking 12 times to complete it.

[Rake2204]

you are an idiot if you dont think the sock dunk was impressive. There are very few players who could do that. Next time you are on a hardwood court, go out and try and play in socks (not barefeet). Its ****ing way harder to do anything, let alone leap and dunk.Dunking in socks is very difficult indeed. I've always wondered if he at least was wearing a pair of those socks with the grippers on the bottom which would have still made the dunk difficult, but slightly less so.

Even if it was a dunk truly completed in just normal old socks, I thought he failed on just about every other level except the execution itself. For starters, he'd completed a between-the-legs dunk in the round just prior. Even if dunking sock is tougher (which I fully admit it is), it still looked like the same dunk. Even the commentators were left wondering, "But why he do the same dunk though?"

Further, his preparation for that slam bordered on pompous. If a player is looking for crowd and judge support, they probably should avoid taking off their shoes, signing them, and handing them to the panel of dunk greats such as Darryl Dawkins, all before the player actually dunks, as if to suggest what he was about to do was going to be absolutely legendary. At that point, if you just go out and repeat the same dunk, except doing so in a pair of green socks, the response is not going to be spectacular. I'm doubting Dawkins and company were flattered to have a young no-name fellow give them his signed shoes before dunking.

His 3rd dunk in 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmRkBFc87oM
His 4th dunk in 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDfXJYqrwE

[Nezty]

Dwight got a 50 for the shit Superman which wasn't even a dunk was more like a giant floater, so Green's dunk should have had a 50 had he hit it.

[ZenMaster]

Apparently you've never heard of Earl "The Goat"....he was obviously trying to recreate the "alleged" double dunk that Earl did back in the day. I like the creativity and if he could've done it on the 1st or 2nd try, I would've given it a 50...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HfHuKx4p4A

"That's two motherfkers!"

[2swift4u]

I don't care how legendary it is/was...it's lame. You're pulling yourself up in the rim. That's straight up cheating. If he had done it without using the rim (which is probably impossible for anyone today to do it) then that would be something completely different.

I'm sure dunking two balls at the same time was considered legendary at some point. Now everyone and their grandma can do it.
However it wasnt like he was hanging on the rim and dunking it for a second time. Watch it again and you will see His arm was bent and you cant really keep yourself up there like that with just one arm. Sure it helps to get a bit higher and get more hangtime but I'm quite sure it doesn't work unless you have incredible hops anyway. I think the dunk is a lot more difficult than it'looks! Go and try it on a 8 feet rim and you'll see. Also noone really knows how the goat did it except for the people who saw it with their own eyes.

[Rake2204]

However it wasnt like he was hanging on the rim and dunking it for a second time. Watch it again and you will see His arm was bent and you cant really keep yourself up there like that with just one arm. Sure it helps to get a bit higher and get more hangtime but I'm quite sure it doesn't work unless you have incredible hops anyway. I think the dunk is a lot more difficult than it'looks! Go and try it on a 8 feet rim and you'll see. Also noone really knows how the goat did it except for the people who saw it with their own eyes.I agree that the hanging on the rim would have been minimal. It is quite difficult indeed.

However, I had an issue with the removal of the net. That was a little too much for me. A rim having a net is a part of basketball and a part of dunking. I feel like there should be some constants when it comes to dunking. The rim should stay at ten feet, the net should stay where it should, and players shouldn't use anything to propel them upward. Dunking in an NBA dunk contest without a net just wouldn't have felt like a legit dunk.

[hateraid]

I thought the Nate Robinson's multiple attempts with the double between the legs pass was the worst of all-time

[Cherry Picker]

He should have caught it with his feet and done a scorpion dunk

[DuMa]

He would have been a shoo-in for the Finals if he just did his KISS THE RIM dunk.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e-6jaeTZKks/UI_9m2rzTSI/AAAAAAAAAvs/-gKfBLdMPfA/s1600/gerald-green-practice1.jpg

[no pun intended]

He should have caught it with his feet and done a scorpion dunk
LOL dafuq

[upside24]

He would have been a shoo-in for the Finals if he just did his KISS THE RIM dunk.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e-6jaeTZKks/UI_9m2rzTSI/AAAAAAAAAvs/-gKfBLdMPfA/s1600/gerald-green-practice1.jpg
I agree. He should have quit trying the double dunk and made a dunk that displays how incredible his leaping ability is.

I expected much more from him and White.

[Dro]

I agree. He should have quit trying the double dunk and made a dunk that displays how incredible his leaping ability is.

I expected much more from him and White.
He tried that with the candle dunk but as we can see, people don't even appreciate that one...:confusedshrug:

[DMV2]

He tried that with the candle dunk but as we can see, people don't even appreciate that one...:confusedshrug:
That cupcake dunk is NOW considered one of the best non-winning dunks in Slam Dunk history. It wasn't appreciated at that time, but over time it's won over with a lot of people.

He should have won that contest but we all know a role players wouldn't win against a superstar like Dwight Howard.

[Myth]

He tried that with the candle dunk but as we can see, people don't even appreciate that one...:confusedshrug:

That is because he put no power behind the dunk because of being afraid of knocking over the candle. That dunk would have been better if substituted power in for the blowing on the candle.

[Cherry Picker]

The cupcake dunk would have been better if he bit the rim and held on after he blew out the candle

[9512]

I thought the Nate Robinson's multiple attempts with the double between the legs pass was the worst of all-time

And he won that contest with this dunk beating the more deserved Andre Iguoadala.

[KungFuJoe]

People don't wanna see gimmicks and kissing shit. They wanna see high flying, acrobatic, graceful and power.

Nique, Jordan and carter, considered the best dunkers ever didn't use lame gimmicks. It was all leaping ability grace and power.

[devin112]

you are an idiot if you dont think the sock dunk was impressive. There are very few players who could do that. Next time you are on a hardwood court, go out and try and play in socks (not barefeet). Its ****ing way harder to do anything, let alone leap and dunk.
he was sponsored by rbk at the time and it was a gimmick. He took his shoes off and placed them on the judges table next to Daryl Dawkins... Dawkins was not impressed and threw his shoes off the table.

I said he thought it was cool, i thought it was lame
never said it wasn't hard so there's no need for u to get b!tchy. If u thought that was cool maybe next time he can wear roller skates or grease the court.

[2swift4u]

I agree that the hanging on the rim would have been minimal. It is quite difficult indeed.

However, I had an issue with the removal of the net. That was a little too much for me. A rim having a net is a part of basketball and a part of dunking. I feel like there should be some constants when it comes to dunking. The rim should stay at ten feet, the net should stay where it should, and players shouldn't use anything to propel them upward. Dunking in an NBA dunk contest without a net just wouldn't have felt like a legit dunk.

well the dunk wouldn't have worked with a net. I guess when Earl the Goat did it there was no net either because it was on a streetball court where nets are often missing. So that's why for me it was ok to cut it off. But I guess that's a different argument whether players should be allowed to use props or change anything on the set up. But it's all about entertainment these days..