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Another Great Honor for Walt Lemon, Jr.

tornado

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he will also be a participant in the Dunk Contest
https://twitter.com/BPtheBrave/status/450650197711151105

"The 26th annual State Farm College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships will begin at 8 p.m. Thursday night at SMU’s Moody
Coliseum. The 2-hour event will feature 24 of the nation’s top dunkers and long-range shooters and will air live on ESPN. Lemon
becomes the third Bradley participant in the Denny’s Slam Dunk Championship, following Lawrence Wright in 2006 and Chris
Roberts in 2010. Roberts advanced to the finals of the 2010 event."

(and CRob probably actually won the event but.... ;))
 
Good for Walter.....should have a chance to go far, just don't try too hard a dunk to keep from advancing!
 
Tonight is the State Farm College Slam Dunk and 3-Point Championships at the Moody Coliseum on the campus of SMU in Dallas. It will be televised on ESPN at 8:00 PM tonight.

Here are the participants-
http://www.collegeslam.com/participants-2/

As noted above, Walt Lemon is among the slam dunk participants, and though he is the shortest participant, he impressed some of those who were watching the practices yesterday-
https://twitter.com/teamflightbros/status/451584215377645568

@WLemon25 is the shortest kid in the Dunk contest and has some serious bounce!
 
ESPN has covered the 3-point contest from 8 PM to the present (9:10 PM), so the Slam Dunk contest with Walt Lemon will be coming on very shortly.

I have to think Walt is the real longshot in the contest. He does not get very far above the rim, which gives him a small margin of error on dunks. Plus, with multiple rounds, fatigue will affect Walt much more than the bigger guys.
 
Walt's first dunk was a perfect score of 40.0 (10's from all 4 judges). Two other competitors, Marcus Lewis of Eastern Kentucky, and Adeian Payne of Michigan State also scored perfect 40.0's. So after the first round, Walt is tied with Lewis and Payne for lead the Slam Dunk contest.
 
Walt muffs his second dunk attempt and settles for a generic dunk before the clock ran out. He gets a low score of 32, while the other 3 semifinalists all get perfect scores of 40.0 again. That will effectively take Walt out of any chance to win.
 
His big mistake was not incorporating Kaboom! for round 2 as well. That dude has some serious intimidation coming from his tiny wings
 
I had not watched a slam dunk contest in some time and had forgotten how easily these are "judged". I don't think Walt deserved to be a finalist but through the second round he wasn't far behind those who beat him out. He acquited himself quite well.
 
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Good job Walt! He represented BU quite well..I am sure it was not Walts idea to bring Kaboom to the competition! That was a complete joke! My 13 year old son said Dad why is Kaboom there? That is terrible! It is just another example of the administration controlling every aspect of the athletic department. The powers that be obviously are feeling the pressure to do something positive with BU.
 
tornado said:
if Walt Lemon's vertical is 47", it ranks among the best ever
http://www.topendsports.com/testing/records/vertical-jump.htm
Click to expand...

Here are all the measurements from last month's NBA draft combine-
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba/news/20140519/nba-draft-combine-measurements/

Note that the top vertical was only 43.5" (accomplished by only 2 athletes Markel Brown & Jahii Carson).

Sports Illustrated and many other sources were wowed by this 46" vertical by one of the potential draftees when he worked out for the Lakers-
http://nba.si.com/2014/06/04/zach-lavine-46-inch-vertical-jump-nba-draft-workout-photo/
 
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