Does it look like he doesn’t jump high? How does he get stuffed by the rim so often. It look cool with the speed of the arm swing for dunk and I know how leads nation in dunks but I’ve never seen someone specifically get stuffed by rim as opposed to just missing dunk. Thoughts?
Cliffs Dunks?
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I think today he was too far under the basket. If he had gone up vertically like he usually does, he'd have hit the bottom of the rim - so he had to reach out around the rim, and misjudged.
Cliff doesn't have his feet under him a lot of times and is just trying to dunk too quickly. Just needs to gather himself for a half second or take a quick power dribble to shuffle his feet if he's not in traffic and then dunk
He is trying to dunk every time he gets it that low even when he is off balance or under the rim
So he can get the quick basket.
I have said often that sometimes he needs to
Look to lay it in instead knowing where he is in context if the rim
So he can get the quick basket.
I have said often that sometimes he needs to
Look to lay it in instead knowing where he is in context if the rim
Does not jump high at all, most of us could do this:
He is tied leading the entire nation in dunks.
There are certainly some winning threads started on this board. This thread is not one of them.
He looked like he was about two feet above the rim on one lob today. When he hits the rim its because he's bad position or...he gets pushed from the back.
It's usually after a lob that doesn't turn into a dunk. He then has the ball in an awkward position and is off balance when he tries to dunk.
Said it when we signed him. He's a dunking machine.
I'll say this too. He's going to turn into a rejection machine.
I'll say this too. He's going to turn into a rejection machine.
For every time he tries to dunk it instead of laying it in there are 3x trying to lay in in instead of dunking would cost us more baskets.
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You shouldn’t. Cliff still learning. I am ok with him attempting dunks where he is comfortable dunking. But seriously if he is right position is there anyone in the country who could stop him ? What he did to Eddy was awesome
“Laying it in” isn’t at easy as it sounds. If you watch a lot of college basketball big men constantly miss “lay ins “. Stick with dunking it Cliff. It’s incredibly effective and efficient. The once every other game he misses is ok.
Funny I’ve thought the sane thing. Some of his misses make no sense to me. Doesn’t elevate great when directly under the rim it seems.
Cliff gets caught to Deep under the basket at times which causes him to miss some shots.
I like how we adjusted to all their help D on Cliff... they were throwing bodies at him on his way to the rim... Paul going in slowly just tipped our intention to maybe go to Cliff.. they had time to compact and help on him.. cut him off.
What we should have done as pop it out for an open 3.
HOWEVER.. we then adjusted on that highlight above... Cliff started from farther away and the ball moved fast into the lane so no one had time to find him and cut him off.
What we should have done as pop it out for an open 3.
HOWEVER.. we then adjusted on that highlight above... Cliff started from farther away and the ball moved fast into the lane so no one had time to find him and cut him off.
As a longtime knicks fan, I say go for the dunk every time and never go for the lay-in/finger-roll
