Case of the Mondays: Tyrus Thomas and David Wesley - A juxtoposition in two Youtube videos

March 5th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

With college basketball heating up, it’s easy to overlook some of the more dreary months of the NBA season. The Mavs are running away with things, the Suns are close on their heels, the East is still pretty bad, and on and on. But we’re going to take this moment to take a look at the best and worst of the NBA this past weekend. First, Tyrus Thomas:

Yeah. Wow. Now, David Wesley.

Yeah. Wow.

Anyway, we’ll get to more pressing issues later, but I think that pretty much sums things up.

Dunk Contest ‘06: White got slammed

April 3rd, 2006 | Posted by Matt

James White is perhaps the greatest dunker that not many people have even heard of. His senior year, during the McDonald’s All-American weekend, he lost a dunk contest to David “Pretty Fly for a White Guy” Lee, the former Florida Gator standout. Yes, that’s right, David Lee - the same guy who looks like he should be catching air on a skateboard rather than catching air on a tomahawk jam.

White’s an incredible dunker, but he just can’t seem to win any of the contests he’s in. Most recently, White participated in the 2006 NCAA Dunk Contest against Memphis’ Rodney Carney, UNC’s David Noel and Michigan State’s Maurice Ager, among others. In the end though, his numerous free throw line dunks (including a two-handed monster jam and a windmill throwdown) were not enough for Noel’s cartwheel-into-a-backflip combo and other generic slams.

Here’s a video with highlights from the 2006 NCAA Dunk Contest, James White’s free throw line slams included.

James White is just an incredible dunker, but is he a great basketball player? No, not at all. White is in the same breed as guys like Ronnie Fields (former teammate of Kevin Garnett at Farragut Academy in Chicago and Illinois’ Mr. Basketball) and “Baby Jordan” Harold Miner. Yes they could all score, but they needed to be within dunking distance to do so. For most of these guys that just meant within the three-point line, which is still pretty impressive.

So basketball fans, just wait - I’m sure James White will be coming to a dunk contest near you sometime in the future.

Tennessee’s Candace Parker dunks?

March 19th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

We here at the Postmen aren’t sexist, but we will point out inaccuracies when we see them. No. 2 Tennessee destroyed No. 15 Army 102-54 in first round NCAA women’s tourney action. That much we know to be fact.

But what we aren’t so sure about was the report that Candace Parker dunked twice in the game. This was the first time any woman had dunked in a tourney game, the first time a woman had dunked twice in a game and was only the fourth dunk in NCAA women’s basketball history. We applaud her for that.

But after watching the video of it on ESPN, I would say the results are inconclusive at best. It looks more like she threw the ball over the rim, then grabbed onto it after the ball went in. It’s debatable. Take a look at the video and judge for yourselves.