Video / Sep 1, 2010 / 10:30 am
Rudy Fernandez Gets Savagely Posterized
If you weren’t watching Spain take on Lithuania yesterday, then chances are you missed this savage posterization of Spain’s Rudy Fernandez by Lithuania’s Jonas Mačiulis. If I’m Rudy, I quit my complaining and stay in Portland, because it appears there’s a lot more where that came from overseas.
What’s the worst posterization you’ve ever seen?
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September 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am
mike says:
not savage at all.
No body contact and he pulled his hand away from trying to block it.
September 1st, 2010 at 10:49 am
jesus shuttlesworth says:
weakest “posterization” i’ve ever seen. He gave up and didn’t even swat at it
September 1st, 2010 at 10:53 am
marian says:
come on dime, it is ridiculous to call that savagely or posterized or whatever. fastbreakdunk with rudy being only next to the guy.
What is the agenda?
September 1st, 2010 at 10:54 am
bily says:
really? nothing savage about it…
September 1st, 2010 at 10:59 am
celtics10 says:
Jordan on Ewing 91, Vince Carter on well….EVERYBODY, Young Kobe on Ben Wallace….Shaq on well EVERY CENTER HE FACED LOL. Too hard to answer, Imma go with Vince over Frederick Weis is the olympics, that was so damn disrespectful!!!!!!!!!!
September 1st, 2010 at 11:03 am
Trey bing bay says:
Chill out numbers 1 and 2. Sometimes:
“Our business is prone to over-exaggeration: It was the best dunk ever, the worst trade ever, the sickest pair of sneakers ever, etc. We have to grab your attention and we have to get advertisers and, well, that’s just how it goes.”
September 1st, 2010 at 11:06 am
Kevin says:
Yeah I agree above, I’d still call it dunking on Rudy “Cry Baby” Fernandez, but not savage at all.
Young Kobe on Ben Wallace was pretty nasty. But you gotta give it to Vince over Frederick Weis in the Olympics. Still, in my opinion, the best dunk of all time.
September 1st, 2010 at 11:17 am
Chicagorilla says:
I love how the Foreign players just don’t give a f^k about being dunked on. Even when I play them in my local gym, they just don’t care about getting crossed up or dunked on. Except for the Asian kids. They seem to be aware of the AND1 mixtape culture and refuse to play any real defense. But everyone else just don’t care and I love it.
September 1st, 2010 at 11:36 am
ianny b says:
That’s how you throw down, Rudy never stood a chance. Now he’s gonna ask to me traded from the Spanish National team
September 1st, 2010 at 11:46 am
knicks4ever says:
“Rudy Fernandez Gets Savagely Posterized!” Yo! Aron Phillips, C’MON SON get outta here with “BULL”…….
September 1st, 2010 at 11:54 am
F says:
I hate this culture of playing first and foremost for ridiculizing your opponent, and of discrediting guys who have the balls to play defense.
In Europe we would talk of the great play of this Lithuanian dude. Here in the States, it’s about a who-cares never-happened posterizing…
Play for your team, play for the win, not for this stupid posturing and muscle flexing and trash-talking and you know it…
Booh
September 1st, 2010 at 12:01 pm
thenatural says:
wow. pussy pass by rubio and then rudy fernandez gets posterized. this is coming from two guys who evidently think they are TOO GOOD for the nba…
September 1st, 2010 at 12:04 pm
M Intellect says:
Just as they mentioned hyperbole in smack…
September 1st, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Chicagorilla says:
@F,
I think it’s because here in the states we have grown bored with the same old highlights. Kids in highschool and cats on the street are doing stuff like this so its nothing new to us. I know I personally see it a lot. It almost HAS to be dramatic or embrassing to get pub. just because it’s so frequent. I agree with you that its not necessary for all the ish talking but that’s just the way it is my man.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:17 pm
dagwaller says:
Eh. That’s what happens when you actually challenge a breakaway. It SEEMS savage because you would never see such a thing in the NBA haha
September 1st, 2010 at 12:19 pm
chris says:
Word, Mike. Does Dime have editors? Those Spain unis are savagely ugly, though.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:59 pm
control says:
Rudy never even had a chance to block this, he was behind the play the entire time. Not sure how that is being posterized or anything. If he were in “american” mode, he would have just stopped running as soon as the guy got a step on him.
You see dunks like these, but without even the minimal defense that Rudy put up, all day in pickup games around where I live. All of the younger kids would rather just cherry pick and not play any defense, just so they can run ahead and squeek a weak ass dunk down then act all big and tough. The whole mentality, and glorifying plays like this as being something that Rudy should actually feel bad about, is exactly what is ruining the game in the usa.
September 1st, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Promoman says:
Overrated dunk. Rudy wound up on Sportscenter but at least he challenged the turnover and it wasn’t his assignment. Good effort on his part.
September 1st, 2010 at 5:19 pm
len says:
not even over rudy. he could drink a beer in the stands and it would be the same amount of being dunked on.
September 1st, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Hud says:
At least he got back and (sort of) contested the shot. Why pile on this guy?
September 1st, 2010 at 6:55 pm
jav says:
you’re a complete idiot if you think he got posterized. this is posterization:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNOYChVkvPs
damn i hate chris dudley
September 2nd, 2010 at 4:01 am
smoove chips says:
aron..u ever heard of shawn kemp ?
look him up sometime…then get back at us .
September 3rd, 2010 at 9:23 am
tom says:
What the hell? That was a poster? are you kidding me?