LAS VEGAS – Practice?
Did someone say practice?
Well, Blake Griffin shows you why the cameras have to keep rolling at USA Basketball’s training camp practices until the last player has stopped bouncing the ball.
His off the wall dunk after Saturday’s session was crazy, from every angle. Just as entertaining as the dunk itself was the reaction of the teenage campers lucky enough to be in gym at UNLV to catch the post-practice dunkfest.
For another view, check out this perspective from a friend of HT, our main man Poor Man’s Commish, who was on the scene (and smart enough to be filming the festivities). The reaction of former Suns and Knicks coach, and U.S. Team assistant coach Mike D’Antoni, fits right in with the campers:
Beast.
LOVE IT!!!! Amazing dunks, lucky kids to see that up close
nicee
I guess people have never seen a du.k before…..
Dont act like you see this everyday.
Sick I can’t wait until he gets really goo!
He is so overated it’s not even funny.
Then don’t watch Blake. Why waste your time?
To all the haters, you are just envious that he is not on your teams! Clipper fans love him as do all the owners in the league because when he is in town it is a guaranteed sellout no matter who the other team is!
He’s going into his 3rd season, he’ll probably be in the next All-Star line-up (FOR A 3RD TIME) and he’s been hyped up by the press not himself so give the guy a break.
You have no idea who this young man is………..he is blessed with a special talent that will take
him plaes you couldn’t even dream of.
Blake comes from a wonderful family with Christian values. He offers the youths encouragement and
dreams, he doesn’t cause problems, you never see him in trouble.
Re-think your negative comments.
Wow!!! those were pretty amazing dunks.
Those are the sort of dunks you only see in video games.
werwerw
he dosent have a go to move but people want to see ducks so i guess its ok
Hes actually a good post up player and can shoot a jumpshot, so he has enough go to moves to score 20+ ppg, just dunking isn’t gonna get you 20+ pts.
thank you… people say dwight and blake have no post moves? yet both of them ave over 20 a game.. there not getting 10 dunks a game.. and there both terrible from the FT line so its not like there making there money there lol
blake and dwight have WEAK post moves. not none. at least they are trying to work on it (although dwight beens around for 8 years already) and no, blake does not have a jumpshot.
quack…quack….quack….
Blame average 22 and 12.. As a ROOKIE..numbers bout the same in his 2nd I REPEAT 2nd year.. He must be doing something other than dunking… And Coach K don’t care about dunks, yet Blake made the Team… So obviously u need to watch more clippers game, cus he has some pretty good face up moves in the post
Blake is the man! A better version of Dwight Howard!!
HAAHA better than Dwight. Blake cannot D for squat.
Dude can dunk, but he can’t shoot for nothing
You obviously don’t know what you are talking about. You simply listen to haters and think you have a point. His shot is equal to almost any power forward in their second year. Furthermore, with his post up moves and athletic ability to get by any double team the NBA has to offer, he doesn’t need the jump shot. Nevertheless is jump shot is basically 35%, not bad, not bad considering he’s in his second year.
remember Amare…. drive right and dunk on your head was his only offense as a rook and still got ROY honors. Guess who can shoot the long ball now as good as any big in the game. Give Blake a chance to become the pro player he has the potential to be. Is he over rated now… yes, but not by much, he works hard and has a potential as high as he can jump
cant wait to see him against ibaka in Olympics
Great dunk. Blake could TKO a player with a dunk. Do you guys remember the referee counting up to 10 on paul gasol daunk lol the referee had to ask gasoll if he know were he is and what year is it lol I cant wait to see team USA dunk festival. Balke , james, kobe, durant and west
The thing about Blake is he knows he needs to improve, players like dominique wilkins, carmello, shaq and even barkley, never improved their whole careers. Look at blakes rookie year and then his next year and you can see his improvement tremendously. He played hurt in the play-offs. Many players like carmello or stoudamire wouldn’t of played. This Summer he will only get better because of who he is practicing with. Once/If he gets a jumper and can dribble with left hand. Look out folks. Its an “if” though.
Those players never improved? Wow
Agreed. Those players absolutely improved. It’s unfortunate because you made a great point and then followed it with that. Griffin, knows he needs to improve, but he absolutely is improving. As Chris Kaman said, He doesn’t know anyone in the league that trains as hard as he does. He’ll be a great.
the offensive foul machine ..
Fouls are only fouls if they are called. Stop hating!
The only player that was followed more than Blake is Shaq. Stop hating!
Griffin can dunk but there are many other NBA players who can make the big shots.
i love the look on dantoni’s face. it’s the: “wow, remember when amare could do that” face
he’s more like” heh, Amare COULD do that too.”
Griffin is a good player, it’s true, he’s not a good shooter but I’m sure he will improve his jumpshot. He’s still young so he has still a lot of time to earn experience.
Blake Griffin has the nicest dunks!! no one can beat him…. don’t hate
his dunks are just so crazy. he’s a hell of a player
gotta love d’antoni’s smiling about that…
ok so they show a video of us about this and telling us that his athleticism was a huge factor of him getting selected to the USA team and then people are hating? if ur not american then i would understand. congrats blake m sure caoch K. knows what he’s doing. go USA
Wait, some people think Blake isn’t a good player? Yeah, that 22 points a game and 11.5 rebs career total so far really stinks, huh?
Wow.
They are Laker fans. Laker fans hate Blake because he’s loved in LA. They make excuse after excuse for Kobe and then make up stories and focus on false data for Blake. And most of them haven’t watched a Clipper game unless they were playing the Lakers. And it’s funny, because if you asked Kobe what he thought, he’d tell you, and Laker fans would not like his take on Griffin. He’s a beast, and he’s improving. His second year rivals Barkley’s third year and beats his second year.
But ima Heat fan and dont like him
and how would u know if there all laker fans do u have magical powers or something.
I’m a Thunder fan and I don’t think he’s that great besides his dunking abilities. It was a disappointment to watch the Clippers’ performance against the Spurs in the playoffs. I hope he plays well for the USA though!
simply AMAZING!
Whoooaaaah. Great dunk!
I am a big big Blake Griffin even when he is wasn’t still in the NBA and I like the L.A. Clippers when it was still a BRAND era.
When the clippers get BG,i was so so excited.
But when i was watching when he post up,i was frustrated.
He was really just making extreme shots;those 2 m fade away shots,turn around hook shots.
I thought he was lazy defensively too like when on transition defense.
He needs to simplify his post up game like baby hook and of course,JUMPSHOT.
And he needs to be active on defense too because he might guarding Duncan,Nowitski,Lee,Boozer,Garnett and other PFs because it’s tough on that position right now.
But i know he is still his 2nd yr in the league and he improves well.
In the Olympics,he might just cleaning all those misses and Has to be on the defensive mode so he might imrove those areas.
hey guys, after watching heated debates from you all, I found this
(Blake Griffin Post Moves)
why u think this video exist? because ppl are trying to defend the perception of him not having a post move. well u know the percentage is not very high, it just showcases the times he makes it. any team would let blake take those fade away jumpers all day long. needs to work on his low post moves, u don’t want him taking those shots in the high post.
I agree on that,but i’m not saying he is not a good in the Low post.
He just have to simplify his post moves,hit those jumpshots consistently and be active defensively.
He bangs and gets in the paint quick that opponents have to trap them inside and they will live working his mid range game.
If he wants to get a basket then he to be shooting extremely which may cause low percentage shots.
That’s why he needs to be better in the low post and simplify his game.
spin left banking j… spin right running hook or up and under… thats it dude. Just showed the whole world all he has… he made USA team for his ability to run the floor and suits the up tempo style USAB has been playing under Coach K
My momma always said that if it looks like a lowpost move,acts like a lowpost move and walks like a lowpost move….then it must be a lowpost move…..and son …dem’s some lowpost moves!!!
case closed.
awesome low post player, though I would like to see him try left hand layups that will make him very hard to stop in the paint.
he’s on the USA team, there are some guys maybe better than him but he’s the one the coaches has chosen so just the f up you haters.
lets make a guess….. which country’s big man will get “Mosgov-ed” this summer?? =)
I may there will be leap of death 2,like Vince did 12 yrs ago.
Blake was pick by coach K with his athletic ability to rebound. there’s no other big players for US except for chandler and love. so he basically got the selection by his physicality not by his dunks.
He’s the second to VC on dunking. And will probably end up the same way,,,, ringless. He’s got too much ego for his age and thinks he’s got it all……Dunks great though, thats about it.
Let me ask all you guys this is he gonna be able to do this in a game???? PATHETIC
yes
hahaha I guess you have not been watching he does dunk epic IN GAME.
no hate i’m sure the whole world wanna watch Blake Griffin DUNKS and do the show….
I think PFs and Cs dunks 30-40% of their score,10% on free throw and 60% on lay-ups and jumpshots.
Blake Griffin can dunks x4 a game,hit free throws much because he gets inside almost of the time and rarely shoot some jumpshots.
If he dunks x4 which is 8 pts,4-6 pts on free throws,14-16 pts on lay-ups and open jumpshots,what those stats tell you?
If he can get those,championships will pile up on his hands.
if there’s a dream team…now its called griffin team…
BEAST!!!!
Melo is the Best …..Griffin is the beast……!!!xD!!!
The guy at the end wants to say WHAT THE F….
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SIMPLY THE BEST(****)
To whoever says this man is overrated… Maybe his dunks outshine his solid game, which I get, because it’s what the people are hooting for and get his jerseys for, but he can be a solid 20 and 10 player or better if he keeps improving for a very long time, even after he loses a bit of that vert. So give the rookie of the year and olympic athlete some credit alriiight instead of criticizing him for being a freak athletically
a between the legs dunk by 6’10″ man? Holy cow. Nearly impossible but he did
RiDUNKulous!!
Blake Griffin in like a Charles Barkley. He is still young and Like Lebron Last year. He will improve as he grows. Lebron came back with a post game this year and Dominated… Everyone. Blake can do the same.