Tomahawk, not windmill
January 22nd, 2010
By dreardon
By dreardon
I described Roderick Flemings’ tremendous dunk last night as a windmill slam. Actually, he caught the ball high behind his head and threw it down. So, in the Official Lexicon of Dunkology, it should be termed a tomahawk. Thank you to Brian McInnis for the clarification. (BMac saw the replay, I didn’t.)
At any rate, it was spectacular. He was so far from the basket when he caught the ball, no one expected him to throw it down. But he did. It was stunning. Bobby Curran said it’s one of the best he’s seen in about 50 years of playing and broadcasting basketball. I can’t remember seeing a more brilliant dunk during a game in about 40 years of following the game, going back to Dr. J’s peak.
Any good dunk stories out there?
-Dave Reardon
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January 23rd, 2010 at 5:29 pm
As a connoisseur of dunkology I must preface this by saying that I give much more credit for dunks that are done in live games vice the articial atmosphere of dunk contests. (It’s a lot harder to dunk if someone is trying to stop you) With that being said….the 3rd best dunk I ever saw was Dr. J’s now ubiquitous take off from the free throw line dunk which was done during a slam dunk contest. But the top two best dunks that I ever saw came in live game action. The runner up for best dunk was the amazing Dr. Dunkenstein Darrell Griffith of Louisville when he nailed the first 360 ever done in a game. It might be pretty tame by todays standards but at the time it was ground breaking. But the best dunk ever, and this one has withstood the test of time, came from Double D, Chocolate Thunder, aka Darryl Dawkins. He even had a name for it “The Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Robinzine-Crying, Teeth-Shaking, Glass-Breaking, Rump-Roasting, Bun-Toasting, Wham-Bam, Glass-Breaker-I-Am-Jam.” is still the greatest dunk ever.
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Courtesy of Chawancut on YouTube, here’s the replay:
http://www.youtube.com/user/chawancut&rclk=pc
January 24th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
KW … I loved Dawkins; people forget about him, but he had a Shaq-like personality, and was a pretty decent player, too.
The original Sky Walker, David Thompson, had an incredible number of great dunks, and when he was right, was an unstoppable scoring machine. One of the handful of greats of the 70s who would also be superstars today.