OT: Zach Lavine throws DOWN
Brent Petway says that's pretty cool for a young dude.
He's good at jumping.
He has some airtime there.
I just don't find this impressive anymore. I have seen so many videos of guys doing things like this for over ten years, same old shit. I am more impressed, especially these days, with just very solid, good basketball players.
Looks like Jamal Crawford was the host of the dunk contest (Not OT?). I think his foundation gets the proceeds from the Seattle Pro-Am events (assuming this was part of the pro-am).
Lavine doing all that makes some sense. There were NBA scout tweets all over the place about how insane he was in workouts. If GRIII makes the NBA roster, they'll have two top level athletes running around cleaning up Ricky Rubio misses.
Every single one of his jumpers in the tape was an airball.
Best Michigan dunker I ever saw was guy named Alan Hardy who played from 76-79. In the 79 game against State Hardy came in from the wing and dunked so freaking hard over Greg Kelser I thought he was going to bring Kelser and the entire backboard down with him.
If that dunk is out there someplace it's absolutely amazing. It was 35 years ago and I can still remember it very clearly.
It's strange that you bring up this name, because I was talking to someone here in the conference room earlier about Michigan players that have played for the Pistons at some point or another and Hardy's name came up. I think Phil Hubbard played for Detroit for about 30 minutes (i.e., less than a season) in the early 1980s as well. In any case, I couldn't find any video clear enough to post, but bits and pieces of Hardy's dunking prowess were on YouTube as well as enshrined in scanned copies of the Daily from the late 1970s. If I find gold later, I can post it.
Best Michigan dunker I ever saw was Derek Alexander at the CCRB taking alley oops from Desmond Howard back when Dez was a nobody freshman. Alexander would launch from the free throw line, take the alley oop and dunk so violently his entire body would disappear horizontally on the other side of the backboard while he held onto the rim... He appeared to be 10 times the athlete that Dez was. Funny how that all worked out.
Just because because.
That was more funny then it was impressive. I was laughing the whole time watching it. That mught just be because im high though