An interesting side note is that Kurland's imposing size and skill at the rim helped prompt the NCAA to also add a rule against goaltending. From Oklahoma State's media guide: "It is probable that Kurland had more to do with the rule against goaltending than any player since he was the chief target of the rule. That stat line is reminiscent of Patrick Ewing's performance against North Carolina in the championship, where Ewing was repeatedly called for goaltending in the opening minutes of the game in an effort to intimidate the Tar Heels.
How many players have had a bigger impact on the strategy and rules of basketball than Kurland, who both introduced college basketball to the dunk which was later banned temporarily and was so good defensively that goaltending was outlawed?
In , the Sporting News National Player of the Year scored a game-high 23 points in the team's win over North Carolina in the national title game. His Louis in February is the school's single-game record by 13 points. Despite negative sentiment about the dunk extending into the s and s, some players continued to incorporate it into their offensive games.
In some instances, players showed their distaste for the act by deliberately taking out the legs of a dunker. The NCAA banned the slam before the college season for a couple of reasons. Their report cited 1, events where a player was hurt around the backboard during the previous year. Alcindor regularly dunked over his opponents his first year in college.
However, the officials did admit his name came up in discussions. But in these days the NBA ways on the ground, near the basket. There was no three point line, and the most shots were taken near the basket.
It was a small mans game as the likes of Bob Cousey, and George Yardley ruled the hardwood. By the s the big men had made their presance in the NBA felt. Guys like Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlin could dunk, but it was more of a force then finesse and style. In owners in many smaller cities that could not lure an NBA team, formed their own league.
But the ABA introduced no concepts to the game of basketball such as a three point line, and reinvented the Dunk. DR J as he become called could dunk like no one had ever seen. He could windmill, rock the ball, go behind his back, head, and other stuff thought that no human could ever do with a basketball. Erhat wasn't a basketball fan, but he knew how to fix things. He lived in central Illinois and operated a grain elevator, a job that called on his ingenuity quite often. So when his nephew, who was a basketball coach at St.
Louis University, complained about dangerous and impractical basketball hoops, Erhat went to his workshop and started to tinker.
That tinkering went on for 29 years. He eventually found his solution—ironically, in the middle of the NCAA's dunking ban. By rigging a spring from a John Deere cultivator into a hinged base, Erhat invented a rim that had give but immediately returned to its original position. Erhat filed a patent for this new mechanism in , and its existence helped bring the dunk back to college. A variation on Erhat's original rim is still being used today. Other tweaks like flexible stanchions were added, and modern-day hoops are nearly unbreakable although you do hear about the occasional outlier.
That's the only thing I wait for. For years, many people didn't believe that Georgeann Wells actually dunked. The 6'7" sophomore at West Virginia University threw it down against the University of Charleston in , and only about people were live witnesses to it—the first official dunk in the history of women's basketball. There was video of Wells' one-handed breakaway slam, but it was kept hidden for decades, fueling the arguments of any doubters. West Virginia University and members of the media made repeated requests to see the tape but, for whatever reason, Coach Francis refused to hand it over.
Perhaps his reticence was out of pride.
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