See also: Slam dunk (homonymy)

The slam dunk , more usually called dunk , is an action of play to the Basket-ball which consists in marking while clinging to the arch, with one or two hands. The dunk is one in the most spectacular ways to mark a Panier.

Dunk is a term English. The word was invented by Chick Hearn, commentator of the Los Angeles Lakers. In others Sport S (Tennis, Volley ball…), one speaks about Smash for a type of action similar to the dunk .

A dunk is worth two points, like a normal basket, but it is an action very difficult to realize, for several reasons:

• the regulatory height of the baskets of basketball being of 3,05 m, one thus needs a good relaxation to manage to reach the basket in this manner, especially for the leaders of small size;
• in situation of match, it is generally very hard to approach the unfavourable basket because of the defenders; so dunker (to carry out a dunk ) represents a means of demoralizing the opposing team, and in particular that which defends on the dunkor .

On the other hand, it is rather frequent that a Contre-attaque brought by a interception ends in a dunk , the carrier of the balloon which can attack the basket without possible dispute of the defenders who did not have time to fold up themselves.

Although being one of the preferred actions of the general public, and one of the actions most represented in “Signal 10” (clips presenting the 10 most spectacular actions), many players capable of dunker abstain from doing it in match, even without opposition: the dunk request of the physical resources (in particular a sufficient impulse to reach the basket) that certain players prefer to preserve for the other compartments of the play. In the same way, simple a Double-not is surer to mark.

Among the most famous dunkeurs , Julius “Dr. appear J” Erving (which was one of the first to practice this gesture), Dominique Wilkins, Vince Carter, and especially Michael Jordan, which was most spectacular. These players are or were all the more with their ease in NBA, that with the the United States the culture of the tennis shoe is particularly centered on the spectacle (the show ) and that and the gestures as the dunk are current there.

Apart from the matches

There exist many contests of dunks . These contests are most often integrated into the All-Star Range of each league. The most known contest of dunk is certainly that of the NBA, called Slam Dunk Contest , which takes place during the NBA All Star Week End .

There exist troops specialized in the dunk , which intervene at the time of spectacles or at the half-time of matches of basketball. One of most known is the Slam Nation with notemment Kadour Ziani and its 1m45 of relaxation or Abdoulaye Bamba of which some dunks were taken again by participants in the Slam Dunk Contest of the NBA (the sequence: coil followed by a dunk , was taken again by Michael Finley).

See too

An alternative of the dunk , the alley-oop , consists in taking again a master key in flight to go dunker . The action is spectacular in the direction where she asks an excellent synchronization between the frontier runner and the dunkor.

In the contests of slam dunks, the players wanting to carry out a alley-oop or " claquette" can ask for the assistance of a frontier runner (example: the master key of Allen Iverson on the back of the board for its fellow-member Andre Iguodala with the slam dunk contest 2006).

The dunkers do not hesitate either to launch the ball against the board or the giant screens in order to be able to carry out to them alley-oop .

It should be known that, at the time of Slam Dunk Contest NBA, that Ci is open only to the players of the league. Even if some dunks appear really spectacular lasting this contest, these dunks of a great technicality and often of a real need of relaxation is often already carried out by " amateurs" specialized in the dunk. A certain Air Up There, troop And1 returns regularly of the dunks almost impossibles for the majority of players NBA (360 to wrinkle, 720degres dunk…)

External bond

• Slamnation.net

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