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Originally Posted by irishdenny
Really... Hmmm, Wags had enormous hands... I bet with his leaping ability, he could easily jam! I guess back then during the turn of the century, jamming wasn't really part of how they played the game, so it wasn't a "WoW" factor.
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I'm not certain of Basketball rules of the era, but a dunk may have been offensive goaltending. One of the rules movies they had us watch in Jr High during rain made a big deal of a players hands not entering a cylindrical area above the hoop.
Of course, they followed it with 15 minutes of Dr J.
Sort of a taunt for a roomful of kids who couldn't reach the rim without a ladder.
Many of the players then also worked at some sort of trade, farming, construction, stuff like that.
Steve B