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Harvs
06-15-15, 03:32 AM
Awesome shot

https://youtu.be/H9SF2YIKRY8
Eichhörnchen
06-15-15, 07:52 AM
http://i.imgur.com/wdysotR.jpg "Pretty clever, I suppose. But I can produce something much more impressive than that..."
Jimbuna
06-15-15, 11:10 AM
A sensible post would be nice :know:
Eichhörnchen
06-15-15, 12:53 PM
There's not really much to say about a bloke dropping a ball 400 feet into a little net...:hmmm:

http://i.imgur.com/ecSbBzx.jpg But here's a sensible post anyway
Platapus
06-15-15, 05:40 PM
I wonder how many times they had to do that before recording that one shot?
Harvs
06-15-15, 07:17 PM
he only did it once in the video, bloody long walk to get it on the first try :haha:
Platapus
06-15-15, 07:26 PM
I wonder if it is faked. From the casual and non-repeatable way he threw that ball, I really can't imagine he was able to compensate for thermals and wind like that. :nope:

Unfortunately it is so easy to fake videos these days, you really can't trust what you see any more.

Also I have seen players break backboards like that just by jumping-shotting. I wonder what the kinetic energy would be. Especially with that camera being there it was in the last bit. I would imagine that there would be more kinetic force transferred.

But then to quote from the movie The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera "I'm a scientist, I don't believe in anything. "

:)
Wolferz
06-17-15, 11:32 AM
You would think that the basketball's terminal velocity would be enough to either bend the rim or break the backboard or both. Though it did swish the net, it's still a tad preposterous and possibly faked due to the lack of bounce when it struck the ground. I think the ball should have bounced much higher, even after being slowed by friction from the net. It was travelling at @ 120 MPH after all.:hmmm:
Buddahaid
06-17-15, 01:32 PM
This is a silly record stunt that pretty much anyone could do with enough time. I'm not impressed at all.
Dowly
06-17-15, 01:41 PM
It's real.
Sailor Steve
06-17-15, 03:50 PM
You would think that the basketball's terminal velocity would be enough to either bend the rim or break the backboard or both.
According to this site (http://whs.wsd.wednet.edu/faculty/busse/mathhomepage/busseclasses/apphysics/studyguides/chapter4/apphysicsch4part15.html) the terminal velocity of a basketball is only 20 m/s, or 45 mph. I don't know how much force that would exert on a steel hoop or safety glass, but I'll bet the rubber-and-air ball weighing a whopping 22 ounces would give first.