Wow Vince Carter is being insanely overrated itt. He was a great dunker but no way should he be winning the pole by this margin. Both Dominique and Drexler were at least as good and I'd argue they were even better in-game dunkers. VC was all flash but he didn't have the power to throw it down like Nique or Drexler, in fact the only memorable in-game dunk VC had in traffic that I can recall was over Zo Mourning (and it required an offensive foul for him to do it)
That's hogwash, Faust. This is why VC is the GOAT. He could do anything as a dunker. He could go off either foot, or both feet; the last capability in particular lent him the ability to overwhelm defenders with power. He could dunk with flashiness moving the ball like Jordan did fingerolls (sometimes jumping up on one side of the rim, then dropping the ball down and dunking it via reverse on the other side of the rim because he had so much freaking height that he was still high enough to dunk on that reverse side after traveling all that distance). He could just jump over the other guy and beat him with that sheer height. He also sometimes just went through defenders, sometimes multiple defenders, with his insane strength and ferocity.
I recall reading an article way back where his original Toronto S&C coach said he didn't have the best work ethic early in his career, but he would come in without ever doing his routines, and then just bench 340 due to sheer raw ability....fucking freak of the freaks.
Backwards, forwards, from a standstill, through the lane, off alley-oops, over people, under people, around people, through people; spinning left, spinning right, left-side forward, right-side forward. Like everybody else (right-handed), he didn't like going off his right foot or dunking with his left hand, but I remember my jaw dropping watching highlights where he would power dunk with his left hand, sometimes.
He even did to Dikembe what Jordan did to Ewing. He posterized
everybody. Shaq, Duncan, Big Ben, Garnett, Jermaine, Zo, Chandler...everybody.