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Originally posted by: redgtxdi
Actually, the *over* part is a little misconstrued!!
There have already been quite a few basketball players with higher vertical leap than Carter. IIRC, they measure Vince Carter's vertical leap at 42". That's the exact same vertical leap as a little guy named Spud Webb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (anybody remember him?)
Not to mention that back in the 70's & 80's, Tony Thompson used to take dollar bills off the top of the backboard with HIS..........FORTY-EIGHT INCH vertical leap!!!
Imagine sticking another half a foot of air under anything you've seen Vince Carter do!!!
Plus..........as we all know..........a sometimes more impressive feat.............would be watching the actual defiance of gravity that Michael Jordan used to have when he was able to hold his mass in mid-air longer than anybody to date!!!!
While perhaps only a true 42" vertical himself, Michael could carry the length of an averaged-out 36" vertical leap farther and/or longer than anybody else in the NBA. It'll be a while before we see another one of those.
(i.e. "Hangtime" Compare Michael Jordan to Kobe Bryant and you'll see that Kobe cannot hold his elevation for neeeeeeearly as long as Michael used to)
Originally posted by: simms
Originally posted by: redgtxdi
Actually, the *over* part is a little misconstrued!!
There have already been quite a few basketball players with higher vertical leap than Carter. IIRC, they measure Vince Carter's vertical leap at 42". That's the exact same vertical leap as a little guy named Spud Webb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (anybody remember him?)
Not to mention that back in the 70's & 80's, Tony Thompson used to take dollar bills off the top of the backboard with HIS..........FORTY-EIGHT INCH vertical leap!!!
Imagine sticking another half a foot of air under anything you've seen Vince Carter do!!!
Plus..........as we all know..........a sometimes more impressive feat.............would be watching the actual defiance of gravity that Michael Jordan used to have when he was able to hold his mass in mid-air longer than anybody to date!!!!
While perhaps only a true 42" vertical himself, Michael could carry the length of an averaged-out 36" vertical leap farther and/or longer than anybody else in the NBA. It'll be a while before we see another one of those.
(i.e. "Hangtime" Compare Michael Jordan to Kobe Bryant and you'll see that Kobe cannot hold his elevation for neeeeeeearly as long as Michael used to)
How can you really hold elevation? Gravity is constant, so the only thing that would extend "airtime" is the acceleration of the body upward or the distance travelled upward.
Originally posted by: cliftonite
That 7'2" guy is Fredric Wiess whom the Knicks drafted instead of Ron Artest..
Originally posted by: mariok2006
how is it that black guys have such ups? i wanna know
Originally posted by: Amplifier
Originally posted by: mariok2006
how is it that black guys have such ups? i wanna know
Same reason white guys lift so much. Different muscle types.
Originally posted by: mariok2006
is that the scientific explanation?
Originally posted by: Future Shock
P.S. - and Vince isn't, ultimately, a wuss. He WAS doggin' it up in Toronto, that's a fact - hated his situation, wanted out, and didn't play hurt.