So I was watching this clip of Ricky Davis missing the under the leg dunk in a Celtics game and the announcer said something along the lines of Ricky Davis getting a rebound and a score since he missed the dunk and got his own rebound. I was wondering if some player kept just bouncing the ball off the RIM of the hoop if that would count as a rebound. It would be funny to see someone bounce the ball off the rim like 10 times and get the ball back 10 times and they would get a double-double. Just a thought , haha.
It's been done before. Bobby Sura intentionally missed a layup before so he can rebound his own miss and finish with a triple double (he was only 1 rebound away from getting a triple double). Later on the league erased the rebound. Ricky Davis also did the same thing, except he shot at his own hoop..... The league obviously erased that one too. However in the one dunk you're talking about, Ricky didn't actually try to miss it. I saw the dunk and I believe he genuinely missed the between the legs dunk in that breakaway. He got the rebound and jammed it home tomahawk style. For the record, he did make that same dunk back when he was in cleveland.
People like that are hypocrites. All they care about is statistics. They should be like Barry Sanders and winning the game being your number one priority. People like Ricky Davis, Bobby Sura, or whoever who try to get an extra rebound by doing it on purpose are unsportsmanlike. I remember when Davis missed a basket on his own hoop when every one else was on the other side of the court and he got fined a few thousand.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting All-Star:</div><div class="quote_post">People like that are hypocrites. All they care about is statistics. They should be like Barry Sanders and winning the game being your number one priority. People like Ricky Davis, Bobby Sura, or whoever who try to get an extra rebound by doing it on purpose are unsportsmanlike. I remember when Davis missed a basket on his own hoop when every one else was on the other side of the court and he got fined a few thousand.</div> Lot's of great players have padded their stats on purpose during a game. When Wilt scored his 100 points, his teammates were purposely fouling the other team and putitng them on the line so he could get more chances to score in the fourth quarter. Of course, by that time the game was already decided. And to be fair, the other team (Knicks, I believe) were purposely fouling Wilt's teammates to prevent him from getting the ball and scoring more, so I suppose it evens out. When Larry scored his career high against Atlanta (also a franchise record for most points - 60), his team purposely fouled Atlanta on the closing possessions so he could break the record. I don't think its that big a deal, if the game is already decided. Purposely missing a shot just to get a rebound is kind of dumb though, and it should be clear that intentional misses from the field should not count as shot attempts or rebounds.
