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bluegoose · 04-23-2008, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

I'm 5 10.

Also, it would increase my odds of ever dunking a ball, which are prety much minimal right now.

I could dunk a basketball at 5'9" (with shoes on). Of course that was 15 years and 10 pounds ago. Its one of the many things that a mission forever cured me of. Now I can't even touch the rim, but I can slap the backboard really loudly, which is practically as intimidating as dunking anyway.

Archaea · 04-23-2008, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by bluegoose

I could dunk a basketball at 5'9" (with shoes on). Of course that was 15 years and 10 pounds ago. Its one of the many things that a mission forever cured me of. Now I can't even touch the rim, but I can slap the backboard really loudly, which is practically as intimidating as dunking anyway.

I could never dunk but touch the rim. Now I'm happy I touch the net.

MikeWaters · 04-23-2008, 03:21 PM

I'm 5'10". I used to be able jum high enough to dunk, theoretically I think. Two-foot jumping an average-sized or slightly less-so, were factors that prevented me.

But.........I can still grab the rim here in my old age.

Sleeping in EQ · 04-23-2008, 03:29 PM

Yes, I can dunk a basketball.

Archaea · 04-23-2008, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

Yes, I can dunk a basketball.

Apologies for laughing, but a 6 foot 6 admitting he can dunk is like Angelie Jolie admitting she has curves.

Sleeping in EQ · 04-23-2008, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

Apologies for laughing, but a 6 foot 6 admitting he can dunk is like Angelie Jolie admitting she has curves.

As a known white guy, I felt the need to state the ability to jump.

Many of us have seen the tall, skinny white guy in ward ball who can't dunk, shoot, dribble, or rebound. He fouls alot, though.

I am not that guy, although my back prefers that I play tennis.

Archaea · 04-23-2008, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

As a known white guy, I felt the need to state the ability to jump.

Many of us have seen the tall, skinny white guy in ward ball who can't dunk, shoot, dribble, or rebound. He fouls alot, though.

I am not that guy, although my back prefers that I play tennis.

Well, at 5'8" and being able to grab the rim until 40, I would have hoped a 6'6" guy could dunk. So apologies extended. My 5'10" roommate my freshman year astounded me by doing spinning dunks out in front of Q Hall or wherever the nearest courts were. That you are athletic is a given.

I no longer work on exploding so I've lost any leaping ability. But then again you let me think about Jolie's curves, so I hope it's all good.

Spaz · 04-23-2008, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

Well, at 5'8" and being able to grab the rim until 40, I would have hoped a 6'6" guy could dunk. So apologies extended. My 5'10" roommate my freshman year astounded me by doing spinning dunks out in front of Q Hall or wherever the nearest courts were. That you are athletic is a given.

I no longer work on exploding so I've lost any leaping ability. But then again you let me think about Jolie's curves, so I hope it's all good.

Is there some reason you used 'exploding' and "Jolie's curves" in the same paragraph? Feel a need to see the bishop now?

SoCalCoug · 04-23-2008, 03:54 PM

5'11 7/8 to 6', so I put myself in the 6'0" to 6'1" range, because I measure at 6' even most often.

And when I was a little bit younger, I could dunk a basketball. Did a two-hander, once. Could dunk a volleyball pretty easily.

I was a high jumper in high school (not a great one, but I did 6' in practice once - my best in a meet was 5'10"), and I could routinely outjump the un-pasty guys.

Sleeping in EQ · 04-23-2008, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

Well, at 5'8" and being able to grab the rim until 40, I would have hoped a 6'6" guy could dunk. So apologies extended. My 5'10" roommate my freshman year astounded me by doing spinning dunks out in front of Q Hall or wherever the nearest courts were. That you are athletic is a given.

I no longer work on exploding so I've lost any leaping ability. But then again you let me think about Jolie's curves, so I hope it's all good.

I'm tempted to do a psychoanalytic interpretation of "dunk."

View Poll Results: How tall are you?
5'3" or under	0	0%
5'4" - 5'6"	2	3.51%
5'7" - 5'9"	9	15.79%
5'10" - 5'11"	16	28.07%
6'0" - 6'1"	11	19.30%
6'2" - 6'3"	15	26.32%
6'4" - 6'5"	2	3.51%
6'6" - 6'8"	2	3.51%
6'9" or over	0	0%
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04-23-2008, 03:29 PM	#14
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	Yes, I can dunk a basketball. __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

04-23-2008, 03:54 PM	#19
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	5'11 7/8 to 6', so I put myself in the 6'0" to 6'1" range, because I measure at 6' even most often. And when I was a little bit younger, I could dunk a basketball. Did a two-hander, once. Could dunk a volleyball pretty easily. I was a high jumper in high school (not a great one, but I did 6' in practice once - my best in a meet was 5'10"), and I could routinely outjump the un-pasty guys. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

04-23-2008, 03:21 PM	#13
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	I'm 5'10". I used to be able jum high enough to dunk, theoretically I think. Two-foot jumping an average-sized or slightly less-so, were factors that prevented me. But.........I can still grab the rim here in my old age.