MUBB players reminisce about their first time...

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

dunking.

Sean and Zaide's moms posted clips.

https://x.com/MarquetteMBB/status/1970490377191751980?t=Q-QlJh7y6J_uI1DDk4li-g&s=19

[MuMark]

Shaka was a surprise...........never knew he had those kind of hops at his height!

I never could quite do it.......5'11 .......hitting the rim was best I could do. Lol

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Shaka was a surprise...........never knew he had those kind of hops at his height!

I never could quite do it.......5'11 .......hitting the rim was best I could do. Lol

For sure, Shaka's was the most surprising for me. 

Best I've done is dunk on an 8 foot rim.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Paging Ners....

I never could quite do it.......5'11 .......hitting the rim was best I could do. Lol

Best I've done is dunk on an 8 foot rim.

[muwarrior69]

I dunk my donut every morning with my coffee.

[wadesworld]

You guys haven't seen the picture of Shaka's jumping fist pump in the locker room? The guy has 🐰🐰s

[Mu8891]

Shaka (at what 5' 8" ) dunked ?

And " threw the ball up there " ?

LOL. I'm calling BS on that

[Billy Hoyle]

Shaka was a surprise...........never knew he had those kind of hops at his height!

I never could quite do it.......5'11 .......hitting the rim was best I could do. Lol

my first time dunking on a 10 foot rim (Rec Center, sophomore year) is a memory that will be forever etched in my memory. For years I could get high enough using one hand but could not hold on to the ball to throw it through, so I tried two-handed for the first time and sure enough...

[wadesworld]

my first time dunking on a 10 foot rim (Rec Center, sophomore year) is a memory that will be forever etched in my memory. For years I could get high enough using one hand but could not hold on to the ball to throw it through, so I tried two-handed for the first time and sure enough...

So for years you were getting up there but never thought, "Maybe I should try this with 2 hands so I can hold onto the ball?"

[TallTitan34]

my first time dunking on a 10 foot rim (Rec Center, sophomore year) is a memory that will be forever etched in my memory. For years I could get high enough using one hand but could not hold on to the ball to throw it through, so I tried two-handed for the first time and sure enough...

I could get my hand above the rim, but not enough to get the ball over.  Had to kinda push/lob it over the rim then hang on the rim to pretend I did something. 

Can't even get rim these days.

[Billy Hoyle]

So for years you were getting up there but never thought, "Maybe I should try this with 2 hands so I can hold onto the ball?"

I didn't have the vertical or coordination to do that. However, I was playing a lot of street hockey the summer between freshman and sophomore year, and training on in-line skates (1995) built up my quads and increased my vertical enough to pull off the two-handed dunk when challenged.

I could get my hand above the rim, but not enough to get the ball over.  Had to kinda push/lob it over the rim then hang on the rim to pretend I did something. 

Can't even get rim these days.

A kid I was training a few years ago asked me if I could still grab the rim, so I tried. My patella tendon basically told me to never try that again!

[BrewCity83]

my first time dunking on a 10 foot rim (Rec Center, sophomore year) is a memory that will be forever etched in my memory. For years I could get high enough using one hand but could not hold on to the ball to throw it through, so I tried two-handed for the first time and sure enough...

Ha!  The Rec Center!  That was the only place I (at 6-foot even) ever dunked a volleyball on a 10' rim, and I credit the floor with being just a little bit springy.  I also could never dunk a basketball one-handed.

[ATL MU Warrior]

Rec center was the only place where I ever successfully completed an alley oop. Only while horsing around and not in a game. Does it count?

[Billy Hoyle]

Rec center was the only place where I ever successfully completed an alley oop. Only while horsing around and not in a game. Does it count?

absolutely!

I remember some alley-oop layups I finished playing at the Rec Center, but never a dunk. That would have been sick!

[Shaka Shart]

My first time I jumped super early and made a mess of things. Super embarrassing