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  1. #41
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Santa Clara, CA
    There are awesome, athletic dunks. And there are awesome, athletic dunks in meaningful games. So to me, highlight dunks in the tournament outweigh your highlight dunks in the regular season. And dunks in the Elite 8 or FF outweigh ones against some poor low seed on the first day of the tourney. So that being said, these three dunks already named are tops on my list, in no particular order:

    1. Henderson into and over Alonzo Mourning, '89. The sheer power, speed and audacity to go against the premier shot blocker of that era and throw it down in his face cannot be overemphasized. People might forget that Duke was the underdog in this Elite 8 game... which of course they won.
    2. Dawkins' breakaway reverse jam, putting his butt in some poor Navy guy's face trying to take a charge, '86. Duke's first Elite 8 in the K era. A culmination of years of frustration pouring out in a blowout win. "Johnny Dawkins, Johnny Dawkins. Rock me Johnny Dawkins", credit to Monday Monday.
    3. GHill over everybody and everything in Indianapolis, '91. After that, there was no question who was going to win that game, Duke's first NCAAMB natty ever. Let's not forget who the opposing coach was...

    (That being said, some of Zion's dunks were pretty incredible. But I will probably remember his block against UVA longer than anything else).

    9F
    I will never talk about That Game. GTHC.

  2. #42
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Raleigh, NC

    Jammin

    Nobody stuffed it like Bagley. Nobody. I saw many of them up close. He was incredible.

  3. #43
    No one going with Trevon Duval to himself off the backboard in the Blue White game?

  4. #44
    Best dunkers in rank order - season body of work:

    1. Zion
    2. Bagley
    3. Grant Hill
    4. Mason Plumlee
    5. Corey Maggette
    6. Johnny Dawkins
    7. Robert Brickey
    8. Dayntay Jones
    9. Carlos Boozer
    10. Gerald Henderson

    Shout out to Grayson, DeMarcus Nelson and Wendell Carter.

    Note - post Gene Banks era

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