getting posterized vs getting stuffed on a dunk attempt

[Mass Debator]

I'm gonna go with the catch block on a dunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVFSfRVzQ8s

[FKAri]

In the public view it seems getting posterized is more embarrassing because the public is rooting for the little guy over the towering big men. Also, the public is dumb. In reality it is much harder to stuff a dunk attempt than to posterize somebody.

[Bernkastel]

It's called a poster for a reason

you didn't have a poster of a blocked dunk on your wall in the 90s...

This right here. When someone blocks a guy's dunk, the blocker gets most of the attention for doing a good play. Whereas a guy dunking on another is getting celebrated for embarrassing the player who was dunked on.

[HurricaneKid]

Put it this way, every man and their child knows the Pippen dunk on Ewing.

Now if Ewing did block it, it would be another block, it will fade into obscurity much like Noel's block on Harden will in the coming weeks/days.

But he didn't, he got dunked on, and now everyone knows it, has seen it, and it's up there as one of the greatest facial dunks ever.

VC over that French dude is still my fav dunk of all time though.

I'll agree with all this (esp that VC dunk).

But thats exactly the problem. It leads bigs to not defend. Anytime a big defends the dunk they make it a lower % play. It NEEDS to be contested ALL the time.

If I'm coaching and I see a big get out of the way their butt is next to me. I think there is a certain courage to it and it makes no sense that people think its a bad thing a defender was in there to contest it.

Clean blocks at the rim are incredible to me.