Dunking during Warm Ups?

The rule obviously exists for two primary reasons:
  1. To minimize unnecessary wear and tear on equipment.
  2. To reduce the risk of injury.
There is a third reason......

This is a proactive way to shut down any sort of "one-upmanship" circus during the pregame.

It's interscholastic athletics...... If you want to go to the circus, go to some silly "showcase" with people walking around with microphones hyping up the crowd.
 
There is a third reason......

This is a proactive way to shut down any sort of "one-upmanship" circus during the pregame.

It's interscholastic athletics...... If you want to go to the circus, go to some silly "showcase" with people walking around with microphones hyping up the crowd.
Don’t you think that’s a little extreme analogy? Dunking in warm ups is akin to a circus……really?
 
The rule obviously exists for two primary reasons:
  1. To minimize unnecessary wear and tear on equipment.
  2. To reduce the risk of injury.
Whether you view these as significant concerns is subjective.

High schools often lack replacement rims and backboards, and many may not have the budget to replace damaged equipment in a timely manner. During pregame warmups, players dunking uncontested are often doing so for show, attempting to dunk with more force than they would in a game situation, where dunks are typically contested or occur on fast breaks.

That said, as others have pointed out, modern equipment design has improved. Many rims are now mounted to the frame or stanchion rather than the glass backboard, significantly reducing the risk of damage — even from the most aggressive dunks.

Is the rule based on outdated technology and standards? Yes.
Can we confidently say that all schools have upgraded equipment, making the rule unnecessary? Not yet.
So why is it not outlawed during games? I dunked with much more power and vigor during a game than I ever would in warmups.
 
I'l go further back, Remember Darrell Dawkins, back up center for the Sixers in the late 70's and 80's. Broke two backboards in a season. Weird dude, named his dunks, claimed he was from the planet Lovetron? NBA was pretty drugged up back then though. :ROFLMAO:
Funny because now all you hear is Magic and Bird saved the NBA. Not really. David Stern and the owners knew the league had a major drug problem and it kept them from maximizing profits and paying players. Once they convinced the players being dopeheads were bad for business, BOOM, the league took off and Johnson and Bird just happened to be there, along with Jordan. Remember when players wore suits and ties to roadtrips and pressers? They got it. Most of the NBA's paying fans were corporate white America.
In Dr. Dunkinstiens day there was no break away rims and thinner plexiglass.
 
I've seen 10x as many kids get hurt in warm-ups compared to the number of broken rims I've seen over the years. Not even close. Should we make a rule to eliminate warm-ups because kids might get hurt?

I once saw a ball shatter the possession arrow in warm-ups too. Those warm-ups are way too dangerous!!!

Literally any random event could occur to delay a game with more frequency than someone breaking the goal in a high school game. How many times have we seen things spilled on the floor that cause a delay?

Again, it's a stupid rule.
 
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In Dr. Dunkinstiens day there was no break away rims and thinner plexiglass.
Yes, and cars are build to sustain crashes more today, but we don't raise the speed limit to 90 MPH just because?? Who even cares about dunking in warmups, the kids can dunk all day in practices all week. It's really a silly debate.
 
In Dr. Dunkinstiens day there was no break away rims and thinner plexiglass.
Dawkins broke the backboards in 79. NBA started with breakaway rims in 81 so you're right about that.......though NBA & college backboards have never been plexiglass. They started using plate glass in the early 1900's and then moved on to tempered glass
 
I was at a game this weekend that started with a team shooting technical foul shots because one of the kids on the other team dunked during the layup line. What is the reason why this is a technical foul? Unless the kids are hanging on the rim (which is a technical during the game as well), what harm is this causing? Seems like a rule that serves no real purpose to me.
BC some big kid will throw one down too hard and f up the rim .game cancelled . this isnt the NBA where they can wheel out a new hoop in 5 minutes
 
BC some big kid will throw one down too hard and f up the rim .game cancelled . this isnt the NBA where they can wheel out a new hoop in 5 minutes
Or the sprinkler system goes off and douses the floor and cancels the game (which I've also seen).

These things are literally just as uncommon as a HS kid shattering a backboard lol. Guess we have to take the sprinkler system out. It's literally the dumbest argument of all time.

You can name any one of a thousands things that could happen to cancel a game. Doesn't mean a rule is needed.

That damn snow!!! Snow can cancel games!!! Snow is now outlawed!!! How dare mother nature let it snow!!!

Ignorance.
 
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I would say many of the kids trying to dunk in warmups will fail and just grab and hold on to the rim. I saw this at a showcase event last month. There is no need to dunk in warmups except to try and impress someone in the stands. If you are able to dunk then throw it down in warmups without touching the rim.
 
Yes, and cars are build to sustain crashes more today, but we don't raise the speed limit to 90 MPH just because?? Who even cares about dunking in warmups, the kids can dunk all day in practices all week. It's really a silly debate.
That is exactly my point!
 
Are you asking me to quantitate that??
I am asking you how many dunks would you get in a game? 1? Maybe 2?

If you dunked during warm-ups what would that be? 10 or more?

Since we were talking about wear & tear on HS equipment the dunks during warm-ups would create more wear & tear.
 
I'l go further back, Remember Darrell Dawkins, back up center for the Sixers in the late 70's and 80's. Broke two backboards in a season. Weird dude, named his dunks, claimed he was from the planet Lovetron? NBA was pretty drugged up back then though. :ROFLMAO:
Funny because now all you hear is Magic and Bird saved the NBA. Not really. David Stern and the owners knew the league had a major drug problem and it kept them from maximizing profits and paying players. Once they convinced the players being dopeheads were bad for business, BOOM, the league took off and Johnson and Bird just happened to be there, along with Jordan. Remember when players wore suits and ties to roadtrips and pressers? They got it. Most of the NBA's paying fans were corporate white America.
Except pot use isn't even looked at any longer in the NBA. Just sayin'
 
Or the sprinkler system goes off and douses the floor and cancels the game (which I've also seen).

These things are literally just as uncommon as a HS kid shattering a backboard lol. Guess we have to take the sprinkler system out. It's literally the dumbest argument of all time.

You can name any one of a thousands things that could happen to cancel a game. Doesn't mean a rule is needed.

That damn snow!!! Snow can cancel games!!! Snow is now outlawed!!! How dare mother nature let it snow!!!

Ignorance.
You would be amusing with your very long reaches except it's all the time and really annoying.
 
Except pot use isn't even looked at any longer in the NBA. Just sayin'
That's 100% true, but that doesn't mean it's right. The league decided they didn't want to deal with it anymore. They probably had 400-50% or more that would fail drug tests so they decided it wasn't worth it. Again part of the reason many fans have walked away from the NBA.
 

You would be amusing with your very long reaches except it's all the time and really annoying.
As opposed to the long reach of a bunch of HS kids breaking backboards :rolleyes:

As usual, it's ok for everyone else to have some stupid long reach, but when I react to that idiocy, I'm the one who's reaching?

A HS kid breaking a backboard happens way less than a kid getting hurt during regular warmups. It's a freak thing, the same as the scenarios I proposed. You can't mitigate everything with a rule.

It's a stupid rule.
 
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