College Basketball Thread

Zion is ridiculous 

I fear Duke is the equivalent to Alabama this year - battle is for second place.  118 in regulation against Kentucky - that is ridiculous!

posted by slingshot4ever

I fear Duke is the equivalent to Alabama this year - battle is for second place.  118 in regulation against Kentucky - that is ridiculous!

lol--after one game?!?

Duke will not win the National Champioship

posted by wildcats20

Duke will not win the National Champioship

How much did you hate that game?

posted by vball10set

lol--after one game?!?

Given that the first game would show them at their most vulnerable before gelling as a team, yeah....doesn't look good for everyone else

posted by slingshot4ever

Given that the first game would show them at their most vulnerable before gelling as a team, yeah....doesn't look good for everyone else

I have no doubt they will be in the mix and a 2 seed at worst. But they also played a team who had no clue what they were doing. Offensively or defensively. That’s the other side of a reload for these coaches...

A team like Virginia (upper class men who know how to play college basketball) might’ve beaten Duke in that game, and then nobody would be talking this nonsense of undefeated and give them the title. 

posted by Ironman92

How much did you hate that game?

 

Didn’t watch 1 second of it. 

posted by wildcats20

Didn’t watch 1 second of it. 

Solid

Zion...on a fast break jumped off of 2 feet around 11 feet from the rim, threw down alley oop with head at the rim and landed out of bounds.

Ok

posted by Ironman92

Zion...on a fast break jumped off of 2 feet around 11 feet from the rim, threw down alley oop with head at the rim and landed out of bounds.

Ok

link

posted by ernest_t_bass

link

https://twitter.com/Ballislife/status/1060012548421046272?s=19

posted by superman

https://twitter.com/Ballislife/status/1060012548421046272?s=19

That was UK game

posted by ernest_t_bass

link

video not great angle as live

https://nypost.com/2018/11/11/zion-williamson-drops-more-jaws-in-his-duke-encore/

you can slow mo it and see his ridiculous gather, take off, rim kiss and land OB

Who the hell jumps off of two feet on a fast break like that? Lol

Wait wait wait...THAT is what you are impressed by? Of all the things this kid does? A. He wasn’t 11’ away. He was like 6’ maybe. The semi circle extends 4’ from the middle of the rim and he was about 2 feet from that. And landing on the baseline under the basket is about the most common place for anyone who dunks. Hell, that’s where you want on a breakaway layup.

Jumping off 2 feet is always impressive to me though. 

Looks to me like he leapt from half court...

posted by Laley23

Wait wait wait...THAT is what you are impressed by? Of all the things this kid does? A. He wasn’t 11’ away. He was like 6’ maybe. The semi circle extends 4’ from the middle of the rim and he was about 2 feet from that. And landing on the baseline under the basket is about the most common place for anyone who dunks. Hell, that’s where you want on a breakaway layup.

Jumping off 2 feet is always impressive to me though. 

Yeah jumping off of one foot they might land there commonly....not a lot of folks long jump off of two feet though

posted by Ironman92

 

Yeah jumping off of one foot they might land there commonly....not a lot of folks long jump off of two feet though

Disagree. But that’s fine. I’ve seen 10 plays this year that were more awe inspiring and the season is 5 days old.

Justin Smith had a similar dunk to this for Indiana, but only like a foot outside the circle. He would’ve landed well beyond the end line, but used the rim to spin back around.

It takes a special kind of athlete to get that kind of hop and acceleration off two feet, and Zion (and Smith) are 2 of the most gifted in basketball. But both have done way more incredible things on the court.

I can do it.

posted by ernest_t_bass

I can do it.

Pics or it didn’t happen.