<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The dunk contest also implemented what amounts to the Nate Robinson Rule: that once you get the ball from the ref, you have two minutes to complete your dunk. If you don?t do it in those two minutes, you?ll have two more chances to dunk, but that?s it. So no more watching Nate try to do the double-between-the-legs lob 100 times like last year ?</div> http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/DimeMagazine Not an official source, but it's from the Dimesmack on Foxsports.
<div class="quote_poster">Brian Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Great. So now they enforce the rule</div> Well better now than never. They've seem to learn from their mistake (or choice of rules).
Thats plenty of time, thats like more time than the amount of attempts it took Chris Anderson in 2005.
Two minutes is an insane amount of time. By no means should a player typically take more than 30 seconds or so if they can land it in one try. But, we always have the Nate Robinson's and Chris Andersen's of the NBA that take forever...
<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Nate is The Man. I smell a REPEAT...</div> Yeah! A REPEAT of his every dunk! 'coz he can't get it the first time!
<div class="quote_poster">durvasa Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">2 minutes for one dunk? That's generous.</div> Wayyyy to much time. 2 minutes + 2 chances after that and "thats it." What happened to the 2 attempts and thats it? Watch them go back to that rule next year when Nate is out of the dunk contest. I bet if Bron Bron was in this dunk contest it would have been the same old rules. <div class="quote_poster">AMS_ice Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah! A REPEAT of his every dunk! 'coz he can't get it the first few times! </div> fixed
I still think 2 mins and an additional 2 attempts is too giving. I hope Nate cant complete any of them.
