Why is hanging on the rim a technical?
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Completely off topic but did you know you can play snake on Youtube videos? This has as much win as Charlie Sheen.
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+1, then again, i think penalties for 'excessive celebration' in football are a bad idea too, provided theyre not delaying the game.
Its a game, let em have fun.
I'm sorry you read it that way, but your lysdexia is getting in the way. A dunk in which a player hangs on the rim has authority. Does it mean it is the only dunk that has authority, NO! but if you want to spin my words that way have at it. Seems pretty common around here.
All I'm saying is I've seen plenty of injuries from dunks and I've seen plenty of excitement from dunks. In both cases, the game wouldn't have been harmed if a player hung on the rim. At times, the crowd would have gotten MORE excited and at times, guys careers or seasons or game wouldn't have been ended if he hung on the rim.
What are you talking about?
Did you get dunked on too?
Awww, I'm sorry. Those big mean players hung on the rim didn't they. Don't worry, I'm sure mommy has a big hug waiting for you at home.
I'm not new, I just have a life and usually don't bother with all the Jackasses on this site with hundreds of defensive posts that make me hate this site at times. I wish I didn't have to filter through all the BS and the back and forth and the newbie lol posts to find insightful information from Cyclones fans half the time, but then again, decent Basketball discussion has been near impossible lately. Did you hear, CFH is now better than Orr?
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Go watch those replays you posted again - on every injury, the player's hands slipped off the rim due to their momentum. If they held on long enough to regain body control and then came down, it's not an issue. Hanging on the rim became a problem when guys were doing chinups while there was clearly no reason to remain on the rim other than to be a ******.
Thats what I'm saying. I'm not in their head to assume anything, but it is clear the guys grasped enough knowing they were headed with a lot of momentum towards the basket, and none held on strong enough (whether it was because they were thinking about the hanging on the rim call or not I don't know) to actually hang and swing back. I've seen a couple broken wrists, a fractured elbow and tail bone from similar situations. Only one of the kids I knew and it was a broken wrist. He said he didn't hold on strong because he didn't want to get a T. Now take the T out of the equation, does it help or hurt the game, does it cause or prevent injury?
I don't think it was a bad call overall, but I think at that time in the game they should have let it go. It was basically the dagger. But its over and we won so who cares.
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It was just on Sportscenter. It was a pretty clear technical.
I think it would be fine to let that one go given the point in the game, but I don't have a problem with making the obvious call. It's pretty indisputable on this one.
I think it would be fine to let that one go given the point in the game, but I don't have a problem with making the obvious call. It's pretty indisputable on this one.
Yeah... i dont think theres any argument on the actual call. Fair to argue whether it should be the rule, but as long as it is, its the right call.
Actually, it finally worked. I'm a little tired of the newbie references, and the childish posts and twisting words and all the typical message board BS. I play their game and fight back, I get reputation points and they shut up. lol. I don't play their game, they run the thread until its dead and continue to trash me. I've been curious who the mods on this board were. Nice.
I got it on Youtube but it was uploaded via mobile phone, but is fairly clear.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STiGK35XKDg]YouTube - Calvin Godfrey Dunk[/ame]
I am glad it is a rule. If we saw guys hanging on the rim over and over, it would be pretty boring to watch.
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It's really straightforward to me why they call a technical for hanging on the rim. Other than the rare safety reason, it's done just to showboat and taunt.
The rims and standards are designed for someone occasionally hanging on the rim for protection, not for players continually hanging on the rim and doing pull-ups as a regular part of the game. And hanging would become normal practice if a technical foul was not assessed for it, and one rim/standard would fail prematurely, and someone would get hurt, and there would be lawsuits, equipment would have to be upgraded/replaced more often etc.
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