There are thousands of incredible highlight compilations on Youtube, but not many as spectacular and well put together as this one. I suppose you could say this two-minute T-Mac reel is a bit short, but goddamn is it sweet! I love the inclusion of the original audio, and the “rare” clips are in fact rare. I’d never gawked at that monstrous two-handed slam on the Sixers at the 26-second mark, nor had I been blown away by the dunk-attempt-turned-finger-roll at 1:06 (holy mother of basketball god, that was insane!). There are a few commonly-seen plays thrown in there, such as the opening dunk and the off-glass alley, but I don’t think anyone’s complaining about seeing those again.
I can’t get over that finger roll against LeBron’s Cavaliers. He f@cking two-foot lept from near the dotted line with intentions of throwing down, got hit outside of the restricted area, and was actually able to change his agenda and flip the ball into the hole. That’s ridiculous, folks. I was going to say something along the lines of “imagine if he’d actually dunked it?”, but I’m not sure it was any less amazing as a layup.
Curse you, father time.
