Wilt Chamberlain Slam Dunk on Willis Reed

[PHILA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC3KfhYRtG4

[fpliii]

Very nice, so the downloads worked?

:cheers:

[RoundMoundOfReb]

Thanks for posting that pixel. :applause:

[Psileas]

I initially thought that's a dunk that had been shown again, but taken from a camera next to the basket (and always on slow motion, of course).
But now it seems that's another play.
And it's from the famous 1973 Game 5.

[PHILA]

Very nice, so the downloads worked?

:cheers:

:cheers:

[PHILA]

But now it seems that's another play.

Yes, I had never seen this one before.

[Rake2204]

What a giant basketball playing dude. Not a lot can be done to stop that.

[Rolando]

He dunks a lot like Shaq on that play.

[Round Mound]

[B]Not Impressed He Was Guarded By a 6

[senelcoolidge]

Chamberlain was huge and that wingspan. Just grace with strength. Wow.

[PHILA]

[quote=Round Mound][B]Not Impressed He Was Guarded By a 6

[CavaliersFTW]

Freakishly fast, long, agile and powerful for a guy who's 36 years old and over 300lbs, he lands on his feet perfectly poised and balanced after going over top of Willis. Outside of Wilt, Willis was one of the strongest guys in the league at that time. One man is not enough to get between Wilt and the hoop. He was double and triple teamed that entire game to try and prevent plays like that.

[Psileas]

The dunking and landing phase reminded me of D.Dawkins' dunks.
Waiting eagerly to watch the whole game. This was Wilt's worst Finals' series and arguably his career's worst rebounding playoff series, but this was either his best or 2nd best (to Game #1) game of that series.

[CavaliersFTW]

The dunking and landing phase reminded me of D.Dawkins' dunks.
Waiting eagerly to watch the whole game. This was Wilt's worst Finals' series and arguably his career's worst rebounding playoff series, but this was either his best or 2nd best (to Game #1) game of that series.
I made a thread about it earlier, it's up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mw9cvuiytI

[Psileas]

Sorry, missed it. Thanks.

[PHILA]

The dunking and landing phase reminded me of D.Dawkins' dunks.

Yes he had a huge stride. In one step he could cover a lot of ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UShBN1POkwY&t=44s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnu5vMfPtbw&t=3m33s



Imagine the video of this driving move.


http://i.imgur.com/18mSEq9.png

[LAZERUSS]

I'm sure that most fans here are not aware of the fact that Chamberlain "cushioned" his "slam dunks" from the late 60's on because he was afraid that he might injure someone, as well as preventing unnecessary exertion. There were no Sport Center highlights back then, so most players scored as easily as they could.

[CavaliersFTW]

Phila, this dunk has actually been seen before on the GSL documentary on Wilt as a highlight from a different angle, I've been editing the footage of this game and swore I saw several of these plays before from this game at least a few times before and I was right, the GSL special on Wilt contains several plays from the game, all from different angles than the original ABC broadcast but def the same plays.

[PHILA]

Phila, this dunk has actually been seen before on the GSL documentary on Wilt as a highlight from a different angle, I've been editing the footage of this game and swore I saw several of these plays before from this game at least a few times before and I was right, the GSL special on Wilt contains several plays from the game, all from different angles than the original ABC broadcast but def the same plays.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O3kE95tBZU&t=19m46s


Also the fastbreak dunk at the 19:39 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O3kE95tBZU&t=19m39s) mark.

[Psileas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O3kE95tBZU&t=19m46s

The dunk against Reed at 19:50 is what I had in mind when I watched this one.
And now it seems to me that it actually is the same dunk.

[jongib369]

:bowdown: