Anonymous
Years ago

17-year old Zitina Aokusa dunks at ADC

Very solid, ball in hand above rim, dunk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTNRNbcuRnQ

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Seen this girl play for qld. Unbelievable prospect.
No doubt she'll make the team for u18 Oceanias..

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Anonymous  
Years ago

I've played on that court many times. I don't think the rims there are not 10 feet high.

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EDIT  
Years ago

I don't think the rims there are 10 feet high.

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Luuuc  
Years ago

My first thought looking at that was that the rims didn't quite look the full 10', though that was before I knew that she's 190cm tall (= 6'3).

If they aren't 10' they're not too far off I reckon.
Impressive leap either way.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

so she's turning 18 this year?
Which would make her 98 born?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Lol have a better look at the backboards, they look lowered, probably why the others are laughing, even at 190cm she would have to get higher off the ground to put it in like that...... But give a good hype

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Dazz  
Years ago

The backboards look to be fixed on angle-iron, I can't see any lowering mechanisms.
If you pause the footage just before she starts to leap, she's 6ft and there looks to be roughly 4ft short of the rim.

I suppose the rims could be 9.5ft, but why would anybody make rims that height?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

She's 6'3.
standing next to tolo, syhla heal and Miela goodchild in a photo.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Some old Gyms have standard backboard heights of 9'6.

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the don  
Years ago

Take a look at the video and tell me if its just my eyes or does the ring look slightly tilted downwards?

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Caps Fan  
Years ago

Yep the old Belconnen Basketball Centre , those rings will lower, don't know if they were for this

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The dunk was legit. If you can dunk does that make you a great baller?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

No. Why? Do you see people claiming it does?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

No just a pointless thread if the rim isn't 10'

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LV  
Years ago

If you can be bothered doing a freeze frame, then pause it at the moment when she actually dunks

If she's 6 foot 3 then the rings look too low to me. Just look at her feet and how close to the floor they are!

The majority of my teammates are 6’2 - 6’4. A few of them can throw down proper dunks – and they definitely get higher off the ground than that

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Anonymous  
Years ago

It is a regulation rim, it was all legit.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

No girls can't dunk, the rims must be lower!

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Bucketman  
Years ago

That's legit, give the girl some credit.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Props to zitina...

magbegor, mcspadden, pizzey, Cochrane or any other of the 6'3+ girls. Can they dunk?
Horvat comes close I'm pretty sure.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Not yet, but I've never seen LJ dunk and she went ok.

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