C.J. Fair's Dunk: A Retrospective
by Sean Keeley on Jan 17, 2012 4:22 PM EST
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PrintIn case you live under a rock, don't care about Syracuse Orange basketball or care just enough to look only at the boxscore before deciding that SU doesn't have what it takes, here's C.J. Fair's ESPN Top Plays-making, groin-shaking dunk from the win over the Pittsburgh Panthers (via Cuse Country).
Now, you and I felt the effects of that dunk but what might it have been like to feel that dunk right next to you? According to Baye Moussa Keita's face, it was extremely loud and incredibly close. (via Kevin Colton/FingerLakes1)
And the effects of the dunk rippled so quickly through the world that C.J. has already earned his first magazine cover because of it:
C.J. dunked it but in a way you could say that Scoop Jardine got the assist.
"I remember I circled around from the high post. I took one dribble and I just rose on the guy," Fair said. "It was a good play because throughout the whole season Scoop has been giving me a hard time, saying I lost my leaping abilities. So this is a good play to show him I still got it."
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My favorite thing about this dunk is
that CJ stands all tough after he hammers it home … and then as he’s walking back through his teammates before his free throw, it almost looks like he’s giggling – like he surprised himself even.
I've been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower. But you make more money as a leader.
It prob did shock him,
he hasn’t dunked like that since last year. When it comes to dunking the kid is Warrick v2.0 but better.
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by theNYsportsguy on Jan 17, 2012 5:01 PM EST up reply actions
Better, damn
I have said a few times that CJ reminds me of Hak, and I love watching them both… By come on man, I’m not ready to say better quite yet
by PickleTJohnstone on Jan 17, 2012 6:15 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
CJ is better
In terms of athleticism and ferocity of his dunks. He throws down like be means it, where 85% of Hak’s dunks were where he just slipped one lanky arm through the D and got a dunk out of it. That being said, if Hak got the ball anywhere within 8 feet of the rim, he was going to attempt to dunk over whomever was in his way, and he often succeeded.
"If I ain't gonna be part of the greatest, I gotta be the greatest myself." Busta Rhymes
by FeloniousPhunk on Jan 17, 2012 6:23 PM EST up reply actions
Hak didn't mean to teabag Ivory?
That was as ferocious a dunk as they come…..To say CJ and Hak are equal, sure, I’ll buy that at this point in CJ’s career….but to say he’s better, I’d respectfully disagree…..And we have (hopefully) two plus more years for me to change my mind, which is a sick, sick thought……
From my memory the reason I say he is better
is because he’s doing things I remember Hak doing his So/Jr years, that CJ has been doing his Fr/So years. I don’t think anyone will attack the rim like Hak did in traffic, but as far as leaping ability and dunking ability goes I think CJ’s a step ahead.
(hopefully) two plus more years for me to change my mind, which is a sick, sick thought……
Couldn’t agree more, just imagine if kids HAD to stay for all 4 years of school. Dion, CJ, Fab, BMK as seniors and MCW/Cooney….
A Georgetown degree is life's technical foul. - H/T HoyaSuxa
Jim Boeheim is Mick Jagger of college basketball. He gets cooler as he gets older. - Jay Wright
by theNYsportsguy on Jan 17, 2012 7:49 PM EST up reply actions
When cj gets his own dunk tally going for one season, like hak, then and only then can you compare him to hak
Hak’s junior season he had something like 47 dunks thru the first 20 games.
You keep chanting one more year, I thought college was four years
by PointBlankPeriodPeriod on Jan 17, 2012 6:18 PM EST up reply actions
CJ's just not as much of a volume dunker
I don’t know that he’s any less SKILLED of a dunker – that’s just not as much of his game. Warrick’s junior and senior year he could really post up and kill you, either with that fallaway jumper or a strong move to the hoop.
CJ’s more of a rebound/put-back, 10-to-19-foot jumper kind of player, he doesn’t get too many looks like he had last night… but he makes the most of them when he does.
It's the most bullshit thing I've seen in thirty years.
by Girardi Party on Jan 17, 2012 11:14 PM EST up reply actions
I don't think he meant to dunk it at first
The way he went up, it looks like he was expecting a contest and having to finish a layup over contact. Once Zanna decided not to jump, CJ was just like, “F it” and threw down a monster.
"If I ain't gonna be part of the greatest, I gotta be the greatest myself." Busta Rhymes
by FeloniousPhunk on Jan 17, 2012 5:58 PM EST up reply actions
You can hear in the video
I think someone on the court yells, “Dunk!” as CJ is going up.
"If I ain't gonna be part of the greatest, I gotta be the greatest myself." Busta Rhymes
by FeloniousPhunk on Jan 17, 2012 6:44 PM EST up reply actions
That was me yelling from my couch.....
Impressed that you could hear me all the way from the Dome…..
The BMK pic
may also be the best “Jim Boeheim staring at things” pic ever. Doing his best DJ Rony Seikaly impression on his invisible turntables, as CJ makes Zanna look all sorts of stupid on the dance floor.
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Anybody watch Sportscenter today?
This was #1 top play, yet the anchors said it wasn’t deserving of number one. Sound familiar?
Andy Katz complained that it wasn’t a true road dunk
by The Invisible Swordsman on Jan 18, 2012 12:12 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Been waiting all day to do this
"If I ain't gonna be part of the greatest, I gotta be the greatest myself." Busta Rhymes
BTW
If this doesn’t win “Poster of the Year” over at Ballin’ is a Habit, I’m putting them on the black list.
"If I ain't gonna be part of the greatest, I gotta be the greatest myself." Busta Rhymes
this dunk almost got me slapped
I was at a bar in New Orleans watching the game with a buddy on one side and two German girls on the other who were total strangers. CJ threw this down, and even though I’m a pretty mild mannered 40 year old, I did one of those involuntary freak-out-and-“stop-short” moves every benchwarmer does when there’s a dunk involved. Well, my right-side “stop short” pretty much turned out to be an incidental breast grab on the poor unsuspecting German lass. I spent the rest of the half apologizing…let’s just say the Ottoman empire is a little less fond of the Otto-man empire thanks to CJ!
by The Invisible Swordsman on Jan 18, 2012 12:22 AM EST via mobile reply actions
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