Kansas Forward Julian Wright

[Deeper_Background]

Kansas forward Julian Wright has it all. The quick hands and anticipation on defense, the speed to get a breakaway dunk, and then, unfortunately, the spontaneous onset of quadriplegia during said dunk attempt.

Ouch. As the ESPN guy said, you hate to laugh at him ... but fortunately, the game was at home, and it was a game they won.
http://deadspin.com/sports/college-basketball/in-hindsight-a-lay-up-might-have-been-a-better-idea-232056.php

 

[Norman Stansfield]

That was weird. It was like he was practicing for the dunk contest, took off wrong and decided to stop and try it again.

 

[spnited]

Maybe if the idiot had just gone straight up for as dunk instead of being a showboating asshole and wouldn't have made a fool of himself.

If I'm his coach I tell him one thing, the next time you pull crap like that, your ass is on the bench for the rest of the game.

Just throw the thing down and forget about the SC highlight bull****.

 

[Deeper_Background]

It's still funny as heck to watch.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

Like spnited said, bench the ****er.

Go up with two hands, don't pull yourself up, don't slap the backboard on the way up or down, don't thump your chest ... score your two ****in' point and get back on defense.

 

[markvid]

It's still funny as heck to watch.

You go try it, but land on your head.
Maybe you'll stop posting stupid **** here.

 

[spnited]

Post of the day, Markvid!

 

[kingcreole]

Like spnited said, bench the ****er.

Self immediately took Wright out and didn't put him back in until the second half.

 

[Oz]

Like spnited said, bench the ****er.

Self immediately took Wright out and didn't put him back in until the second half.

Yep. Fortunately, Julian Wright -- despite what you saw in that clip -- isn't someone who commands the spotlight. He's a versatile big man who loves to collect assists. Just a fluke/bad luck there.

 

[shotglass]

I gotta love how D_B wrote the stuff after the link as if it was his own, when he just copied the Deadspin teaser.

 

[Oz]

I gotta love how D_B wrote the stuff after the link as if it was his own, when he just copied the Deadspin teaser.

He does that all the time, really.

 

[FishHack76]

Maybe he'll do that again when Kansas chokes in the tournament once again ... I'm guessing Southern Illinois takes the Chickenhawks down in the first round.

 

[D-3 Fan]

My H.S. basketball coach is a lot like Bob Knight in mannerisms (probably because they are the same age). In my sophomore year, we were playing our crosstown rivals in a post-season district game in front of a standing room partisan crowd. Our point guard stole the ball, the other guard and the center starts the 3-on-1 fastbreak down the floor. The PG flips it to the center, who was uncertain whether or not he was going to dunk it or lay it up, proceeded to do both as he went up in the air.

He went up, tried to dunk the ball, but the ball hit the front end of the rim, the ball goes flying in the air over to the other end of the court and he slams flat on his back on the court. Coach went into his Bob Knight mode, benched the kid, cursing him out as he got up off the floor, calling him mother****er and the like.

The following day, my cousin tells me what it sounded like on radio with the announcer calling it:

"...steal by Robinson, Galloway and Bonefas heading down the court, Robinson flips it to Bonefas for the dun....OH MY GOD!!! HE BROKE HIS BACK!!!!!!"

 

[Shaggy]

Yeah, because Kansas is the only team that "chokes" in the NCAA tournament...

 

[Deeper_Background]

Maybe he'll do that again when Kansas chokes in the tournament once again ... I'm guessing Southern Illinois takes the Chickenhawks down in the first round.

Bradley maybe?

 

[Oz]

Maybe he'll do that again when Kansas chokes in the tournament once again ... I'm guessing Southern Illinois takes the Chickenhawks down in the first round.

Except KU's choked recently to the Bradley Braves and Bucknell Bison. Last I checked, Southern Illinois doesn't have the double-B thing going for it.

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

Saw something very similar the other day with the low-major team I cover. Kid went to windmill from the side and by the time it was over, the ball had clanked off the front of the rim and he was lying on the ground.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Without having gone back to the game-day stories, does anybody know if Wright talked about what exactly happened on that play?

I'm curious as to his explanation.

 

[Oz]

Bill Self made him off-limits, according to this sidebar dedicated to the missed dunk on the Lawrence Journal-World Web site.

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2007/jan/28/wrights_misslam_symbolic/?sports_columns

 

[Shaggy]

I hope that's a column and not a sidebar.