Gerard Anderson Highlight Dunk - CSUF vs CSUN

[Hitman2316]

didn't the assist man travel too?

[jdawg350]

oh blah blah who cares if he taunts awesome dunk just enjoy:)

[Ravensguru52]

where's the technical for taunting??? I would have T'ed him up

[Emil308]

Shocked he didn't get a Tech for taunting with the staredown. Sick dunk tho

[jaredsw032]

not to take away from this play because its obviously a great show of athleticism but when the defender isnt even contesting the shot its hard to say it was all that. now if the defender goes up against him right there can he still finish with that type of power and explosiveness.

[fghkjh]

There is no restricted area in college, so a no call was the right call. the defender was planted and easily coulda got the call.

[emncaity]

Just to be clear, again, it's a good dunk.  Could do without the taunt, but good dunk, great leap. And I don't mind seeing some facial nuts on a guy who gives up on defense and just tries to take a charge where they're not going to give it to him.

[ChiNigATL]

@emncaity

Actually this IS what you call "posterized" but I'm pretty sure you didn't know that being the dunking aficionado you are. He set himself up to be dunked on by trying to "take a charge" while standing almost directly under the basket. He added himself to the basketball card. He is, in fact, posterized.

[emncaity]

ChiNig--

Already answered. Just have to agree to disagree. I'm not disrespecting, and he's an unbelievable leaper (def. worth a look at his other vids), I'm just saying this one isn't quite top-shelf, for reasons cited in two previous posts. Gotta be something more to getting in the top-top group than jumping into/partially over a stationary guy on a fast break, with no preceding move of any distinction and nobody doing anything to play any real defense on him.

[mambochief]

the intensity that produced the dunk, produced the taunt. Live with it.

[emncaity]

Nice excuse, all worked out for any player who taunts. Works with Tiger Woods and others in golf, various tennis players, etc., too. As if today's players were "more intense" or "more competitive" than guys like Russell, Erving, et al.

It's classless behavior however you want to make excuses for it, and it's too bad the standard allows for it now. You can be unbelievably intense and still show self-restraint. Too bad. Still a good dunk, but it'd be nice to see him buck the trend.

[willbabyboi1988]

definitely not a charge, he was on his way down when they made contact. dude just got victimized, it happens lol

[SrustinLim]

he was already in the air buy the time he initiated contact. that is NOT a charge.

[snareman08]

NASTY!

[blacklite911]

Bottom line is, College needs to take the guessing game out of it and add a restricted area, while you're at it, push back the three point line.

[emncaity]

blacklite--

Not a bad idea. Or pair of ideas.

[fetalpigg]

There is a restricted area, they just don't have a line showing exactly what it is. He was definitely in it because it is the space in between the backboard and the front of the rim. So a blocking foul should have actually been called as well.

[JBright9939]

Great highlight reel and athleticism but what are the refs looking at, thats a charge (although not in the NBA).

[domestic556]

Eat that cock boy... ha! He dunked his nut's on that dudes face, haha nut's to the face

[domestic556]

Slam in your fucking face with nut's on his head... And-1

[yourstupidyouknowtha]

ummm chipeckmd, you can draw a charge from anywhere on a COLLEGE court. Can you be posterized if you draw a charge? plus he shuffled his foot at the last second trying to get directly in his way, which probably ruined any chance of getting a call.

[smith8762]

people have a clue and this could have gone either way if a call would have been made. ther correct call should have been a blocking foul. the defender never came set until the anderson was well in the air. at that time he is endanginering the players safety by basically getting underneath him in a vulnerable position. i agree that he was posterized though. anderson has some serious hops.

[chippeckmd]

OK, noone writing comments here has a clue. First of all, there was no call because the defender was under the rim, where you can't draw a charge. He was set, by the way.

And, another thing-- he was posterized. emncaity, you are lost, son. Freeze the frame at 17 seconds. That, my friend, is a poster; one that I would put on my wall, in fact. When another man's genitals are in your face as he dunks on you, you've been posterized. Period. Go back to dunk class.

[emncaity]

chippeck--

No argument on the charge. Relatively close (at live-action speed), but good no-call.

Still no go on "posterized." Great leaping ability, awesome athleticism, OK dunk. When the junk's in your face, that means you didn't even try. When you're Patrick Ewing and you get "Spalding" (or "Wilson" or whoever the NBA was using then) backwards on your face, that's posterized.

[egarcia6387]

Always a possibility of the play being called a charge given how bad college refs are. But if you look closely, the defender is shufling his feet and moving forward. If anything it should have been a blocking foul. good tough call though, could have gone either way

[charlesreilly]

I agree. To be "posterized" you gotta be up at the rim, defending the dunk. And this WOULD have been a charge if the CSUN dude hadn't been shuffling his feet. Plus, there's no semi-circle in college ball. A charge/block can happen anywhere on the court. That said, Anderson is still a helluva dunker.

[parpar1192]

Great dunk. 75%of the time, it would have been called charging.

[emncaity]

Getting a grip here: First of all, what's great about a dunk is almost never the dunk itself (which is proven in dunk contests) but the move that got you there. Like, for instance (with youtube stem):

/watch?v=TkEVn1VUBlE

[emncaity]

Also what can make a "posterizing": Smaller guy goes over taller guy who's actually athletic, airborne, and making an effort. Like this (last angle is best): /watch?v=CZ_PsJplxaQ

And : /watch?v=dSpvx6Gvzc8&feature=r­elated

Also, dunking on guy who has rep as great defender, is in position the whole way, and still can't stop you: /watch?v=-0v1SQ0QCSc&feature=r­elated

Anderson's was good. But THAT sh$% (above) is "posterized."

School's out, chippeck. And you're welcome. ;-)

[1uff3y]

that dude got rocked

[IamAchelous]

Forget the dunk. What an A**hole for standing over the defender and trash talking in his face.

[rypergola]

@IamAchelous if that's how you're going to defend, you deserve all the trash that's spit your way.

[stylemasterrr]

@IamAchelous

you have never played a contact sport have you?

and i KNOW you have never dunked on someone before.

so.shut.up.k?thx.bye

[emncaity]

Anybody with the name stylemasterrrr...please.

Were you talking to me, or somebody else?

[jrhandyman]

@stylemasterrr - basketball is a contact sport? HA HA HA HA You are a funny guy!!! I have a Franklin that says you have never dunked.....

[emncaity]

It's a contact sport if you play in the right league. You're really not saying it isn't, are you?

[stylemasterrr]

@jrhandyman

i been dunking since i was in the 8th grade. and i'm 33 now. if i post a vid of me dunking will you drop that franklin in my paypal?

[TheZog13]

FULLERTON!

i hate basketball but i love my city so ill root for the titans basketball.

DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!.­........

[sagy2hotie]

you don't mess with the titans!!

[headymoe]

DAAAAAMN!!!

[SuperK9111]

no.. i could give a shit if he was green

[liflyguy]

most posters occur wen sum1 is tryin to take a charge, thats what their dumb ass gets

[DavidF330]

As for the guy being "posterized"....he was. While dunking on a defender trying to block the shot is a more spectacular form of posterizing, dunking on a defender trying to take a charge is still posterizing. The bottom line is, the defender blocked the path between the guy with the ball and the basket, and the player went through the defender to dunk the ball. Posterize...

[emncaity]

Respectfully disagree. THIS is posterizing:

/watch?v=TkEVn1VUBlE

(with the youtube stem)

I mean, when that's the standard, you can't call it "posterizing" when you go over a stationary defender trying to take a charge. Please.

But I'm NOT saying it wasn't an emphatic dunk, or that the guy isn't a helluva leaper. He obviously is.

[92bDad]

If you watch the video, he takes 5 steps after catching the ball...isn't that a travel?

[keepdigginprod]

he takes a really quick dribble right after the first two, then he does a hop step.

[tharpey]

@92bDad - uh....he dribbled the ball then took a power skip step and jump. don't know what you're seeing here :)

[headymoe]

wasnt even close to a travel dude.

[DavidF330]

Emncaity-

If you read my post from earlier, I was saying that it was not a charge, just as you have said. The defender is by no means outside of the imaginary half circle. The half circle has a four foot radius from the center of the basket and the defender is only 1-2 feet away from the basket at most. And yes, there is a question to whether the defender got planted in time. I believe he did, but because he was in the imaginary half circle, it is definitely a foul by the defender. A

[emncaity]

His front foot is more like 2 feet, but I'll concede that, had this been a pro game, it almost certainly wouldn't have been called a charge. I don't have any sympathy for the defender, don't get me wrong; he should've made a play on the guy rather than giving up and trying to take a charge where it probably wasn't going to be called.

[DavidF330]

Ok, listen up people. This was by NO means a charge. IF any of you have played basketball on the collegiate level like I have you would know that the defender was almost directly under the basket, thus making it a foul. One has to envision an imaginary half circle, known as the restricted area in the pros, around the basket where the defender cannot be standing if he is to take a charge. I'm the 6'7 white guy who got dunked on plenty of times so I think I know a little about this sort of thing

[emncaity]

DavidF--

I think you're too extreme here. I did play, and I was also an SID responsible for stat crews (and was involved heavily with NCAA rules, etc.). The thing that might make this not a charge, though, is not only that he's probably within the pro half-circle, but also that it's a pretty close call as to whether the guy was planted before the last opportunity Anderson had to change directions. It's close.

[emncaity]

Point is, though, the guy was _trying_ to take a charge, which makes it not quite a "posterize."

[tharpey]

@emncaity - so when vince carter dunks over the head of a 7 foot ukrainian trying to take a charge....or tmac basically sits on bradley's shoulders dunking while bradly isn't trying to block him.....you wouldn't consider those "posterizations"?

the dude got slammed to the ground after the dunker's junk smacked him in the face. how is that not a poster?

[DavidF330]

@tharpey - Exactly. Finally a voice of reason

[emncaity]

I would not call them "posterizations," no. I would use the term to describe Carter dunking on a guy who's in position to stop him or to block the shot. He's certainly had more than his share of those, and it's no disrespect to call the one you describe an athletic, emphatic dunk that shows off leaping ability, rather than a "posterization." That's what I'd say about this one (in the vid).

[natesmom0724]

Shut up. Why watch the clip to criticize? Can you do it? Good dunk Gerard!

[emncaity]

What do you think the comment lists are for, just for fanboys like you to fall at the guy's feet? You think nobody can comment unless they love it as much as you do?

It's a good dunk. It is not a great dunk.

[gmoa87]

I agree it wasnt that 'awesome' of a play, but for someone who wasnt impressed by this clip, you sure are making alot of comments on it...

And that wasnt close to being a charge: not with the dude standing right in front of the rim. Good dunk, better no call.

[emncaity]

? The only way people would make a lot of comments is if they were "impressed by the clip"? Fact is, I posted a couple of things early--I think one or two responses to existing posts, plus one of my own--and everything since then has been a response to people filling up my inbox with what a f#$ktard I am for not worshiping the guy or agreeing that it's a "posterizing."

I'm not so upset about the no-call here. I'd say it was _somewhat_ close to a charge, but not close enough.

[emncaity]

Here's what'd really be impressive: Guy gets good pass, in rhythm, dunks over stationary guy trying to take the charge, gets lucky not to have the charge called him, and DOESN'T stand there with the taunt like he did something. No coach should ever allow it. And don't even come in here with how they're "just competitive and showing their fire" crap. It ain't like Bill Russell et al. weren't "competitive."

[guellion]

have you always been a scaredy cat?

[emncaity]

Now what would make you say a stupid thing like that?

[Flash1175]

I dont think it's a charge, b/c the defender was almost directly under the basket and there was no contact until after the ball was in the hoop. In any case though, I agree it's not a poster dunk at all...

[emncaity]

His front foot is actually 2-3 feet in front of the front portion of the rim--but I agree, it's pretty close.

[n7hmw]

Not that great, actually. The defender was doing what he was supposed to. Had charging been called, this clip wouldn't have been posted in the first place.

[emncaity]

Charging is called in about 10% of the instances where it actually occurs. Guy has great leaping ability, but there's a difference between that and a "posterizing" dunk.

[jcoberly]

charging. defender's feet were planted and he was straight up. plus it's a technical foul for taunting afterward.

[emncaity]

Yup.

[chitownref]

Exactly what I thought after seeing that!

[andresf2008]

in the words of Jim Ross "MAH GAWD!"

[SuperK9111]

csun white boy just got " served" lol that was off the hook

[emncaity]

Yes, it matters so much that he was white. To you, I guess.

[bobaprince99]

so sick

[jaswan]

It's not getting posterized when you're just standing there trying to take a foul. That was essentially an uncontested dunk, so please, let's move on to the next dunk.

[marcomariaz26]

@jaswan Amen. If the defender was jumping and trying to block it, that would be different, but this is a nice dunk, but not a poster shot at all.

[emncaity]

No kidding. Same for the one he just had in the Big West tournament. Some of the fanboys here need to get a grip. You're not "posterizing" somebody when you come in, with momentum, and/or with numbers, and the defender's only trying to take the foul. Nice athletic ability, no doubt, but still. (In the other dunk, the defender was only 6'0".) You want to see posterized, try that world-famous one where Jordan goes off on Ewing, after reversing directions off the dribble on the baseline.

[stickyickybee]

oh my GOD. who is that dude?? that dude can dunk like mike!!!!

[emncaity]

Oh, huh-uh. That isn't dunking like Mike. Please.

I'll post a "dunk like Mike" in a sec.

[stickyickybee]

lolz chill out.

i know gerard...and it was a joke.

he's done even better dunks since then. like the latest from the csuf vs ucd game.

still an awesome dunk though!! =D

[emncaity]

sticky--

I'm gonna say good dunk with awesome leaping ability. "Great" dunk takes a great move to get there. Just a personal standard. (Cf. MJ over Ewing.)

[fedec51]

My condolences to the posterized guy's family, your son got murdered like very few

[tonnazzo07]

OMG.. That's just UNBE-FUCKIN-LIVABLE!!

[uncmann]

wow!

this guy is crazy, seems he has a sensational dunk every game

[thejames08]

oh my god

what an insane dunk

nice nice