[Highlight] 18-year-old Miikka Muurinen levitates to slam one home against Great Britain
Why everyone in these comments hating that was a nice dunk
It was a nice dunk. That forward lean is just sick looking. Jordan and Dwight immediately flashed back in my mind. Not saying it was as good as those, but that lean definitely made me think of those.
every highlight i’ve seen today has had a bizarrely negative comment section haha
Sorry I’m in a bad mood
Because irrational hate is what r/nba does best!
Because the title oversold it. “Nice dunk in transition” would be getting less hate than “levitate to slam one home”.
Thats still a weird reason to hate
Don’t tell me why to hate.
To “levitate” you need to pull some Vince Carter shit. This was just a dunk.
I mean you’re just being pedantic at this point. Is the title really so egregious that you need to hyper analyze it
I don’t think it’s hyper-analyzing to say that “levitating” was hyperbolic. It’s not even analyzing. Lol
It’s quite literally analyzing my guy
I’m just saying no one is breaking out a ruler or examining the play. It’s just noting that “levitating” is usually used for something like Zach Lavine appearing to float or Ja just continuing to rise. Like if someone said he did a windmill, it’s not hyper analyzing or hating to say “that’s not a windmill.” It’s really not a big deal at all.
If its not a big deal why hate in the first place lol. The title is a slight exaggeration. Seems odd to get titled over that
It’s not “hate” to acknowledge an odd word choice. OP is going to be okay. It’s not a big deal.
Dude would’ve flown out of the building if not for the rim, that did not look like he was going to stop
It’s a ways away, but Miikka is being projected as around a top 10 guy for the 2027 NBA draft.
Crazy athleticism and length, we’ll see if he can put it all together
Chet 2.0?
Moves better and more fluidly than Chet
Nowhere near as talented
Most likely…they are both very different players. Mika is much more of a huge wing, don’t ever see him playing 5 like Chet does a lot. Also Chet has a slight size advantage over him.
More fluid athlete, Chet a better shooter and defender
He looks WAY more athletic than Chet, and that’s as a Thunder fan
Way closer to Lauri M
Jan Vesely 2.0
Bum ass Brits
they should be better tbh
Basketball has just zero appeal in the UK. No grassroots for it at all, it has literally never had any cultural appeal. Only in the last 10 years has it really started to become big here, but it isn’t surprising we’re ass at it.
The fact that we’re shit at all the other sports is the real problem lol. Can’t put together a competent cricket team, can’t win a trophy in football (i guess i should say soccer here?) (men anyway), not contending in rugby, its a damn shame.
Kinda surprised OG Anunoby didn’t play for you guys this summer
But is there not at least like streetball there? Even if it’s not as big as football you must still at least have a few basketball hoops
ive been once and can confirm there was not a single basketball hoop to be found outdoors in bolton, liverpool or manchester. i was with a soccer team and we all kept talking about it. we also lost our minds at the adidas store at the theatre of dreams mall. 🤣 mind you this was 2001.
We do have some concrete courts around where I live (south coast) but it’s not really a popular organised sport here. There are some semi pro teams but you can see what the talent level is from these games.
If I was OG I wouldn’t risk an injury playing for GB when they aren’t getting anywhere with or without him. He’s much better off making the most of playing in the NBA.
Lol i mean there are netball hoops pretty much everywhere but no basketball. Weirdly my village does have basketball hoops and a court but its all getting replaced by padel courts because nobody, and I mean nobody, uses them.
and sochan chose to play for poland
Makes sense, he comes from a long line of Polish athletes
He’s not on the roster I don’t think, got injured like a week before it started
There are usually some in every town/village but most of the time people use it to play street football anyway Mostly have no nets at all or double rim
OG said… ‘maybe another time’
I mean in London there are a fair few but I would say most of the time, at least in the ones I go past, it’s Chinese or other international students playing
England won the cwc in 2019, not too bad
Huh? How are we shit ? Yes we aren’t dominant
But we do pretty well in cricket football Olympics rugby atleast consistently seen as one of the better teams even if not the ones to get top billing n win it all . Won quite a lot in cricket the last decade it feels like too
We really suck at ball tho
Shout out to the heavyweight division though
Their best guy isn’t even playing, but yeah I agree
Probably 4 of the best 5 players aren’t there, I was bored the other day and made a 10 man rotation of players not there who I think would easily be better than the guys who have gone
Incredibly disappointing situation
What do you expect from a league called the BBL
That was pretty cool but he is so lankey that it really looked like he didn’t haven’t to go high at all lmao.
I guess it’s hard too look really dynamic when your arms are so long
Because he didn’t. “Levitation” from the title is the nicest way to put it. He didn’t get really high at all, but it was a nice powerful dunk in transition.
Slim Jesus
The backwards bend made the dunk pretty nice!
How tall is this kid?
210 cm. No idea what that is in freedom units.
A lot of feet
Roughly 6’10”
That’s like 3.7797e-4 nautical leagues
That was a really good pass too
He needs to be in the league (NBA).
He’s a projected 5th pick right now iirc
Dude could play on the Olympic volleyball team as well… elite athleticism.
Even good defense leads to even better offense
Hatsune Miikka, first digital basketball star
Im just happy my country made it🇬🇧
Tall ass vikings
Idk if I’d call this levitation. Ordinary transition dunk
That’s not what levitation looks like. Can we stop with the hyperbolic everything?
18 years old and basically a sleeve is very confusing for me not going to lie. I wish the dude the best though
you’re not gonna believe this but shockingly 18 year olds get tattoos
Yes, 18 year olds get tattoos they shouldn’t
Why buddy try so hard to look like a demon
I think that’s just his face lol
I guess jumping 12 inches can be ‘levitating’ but that was pretty garden-variety.
Am I jaded, or is that a rim-grazer from a 6’10” dude getting called “levitating”?
definitely jaded
Jaded. Rim-grazer when he jumped from outside the restricted zone and dunked with authority?
he jumped from pretty far out lol. it wasn’t levitating but you’re underselling it