Vinsanity Scale: Warriors' Juan Toscano-Anderson posterizes JaVale McGee with vicious dunk

Scott Rafferty

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Vinsanity Scale: Warriors' Juan Toscano-Anderson posterizes JaVale McGee with vicious dunk image

Welcome to the Vinsanity Scale! In honour of one of the greatest in-game dunkers in NBA history, the Vinsanity Scale rates dunks on a scale of 1-4. Similar to the Horry Scale, the dunk in question is graded on the game situation, difficulty and celebration to answer one question: Would it make Half Man, Half Amazing proud?

In the second matchup of the week between Golden State and Phoenix, Warriors forward Juan Toscano-Anderson got the crowd going early with a dunk on JaVale McGee.

The dunk

Game situation

Toscano-Anderson checked into the game with 2:33 remaining in the first quarter. 21 seconds later, he put McGee on a poster. His dunk sparked a 7-0 run for the Warriors, helping them build a 28-21 lead going into the second quarter. The Warriors never looked back.

Difficulty

Pretty dang difficult. I mean, look where he takes off from. Then, look at how far he cocks the ball back.

Also, we can't ignore the fact that Toscano-Anderson is giving up six inches to McGee. McGee has been dunked on a fair amount of times in his career, but that comes with the territory when you try to block everything in sight.

This has some Baron-Davis-on-Andrei-Kirilenko vibes to it.

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Reaction

Perfect on both sides. McGee immediately made his way down the other end of the court as if nothing happened while Toscano-Anderson soaked in the moment.

Golden State's bench was pretty excited as well.

Vinsanity Scale

Not to be a prisoner of the moment, but it doesn't get much better than this, right? This is an early Dunk of the Year candidate. Four Vinsanitys.

Vinsanity Scale

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Scott Rafferty is an experienced NBA journalist who first started writing for The Sporting News in 2017. There are few things he appreciates more than a Nikola Jokic no-look pass, Klay Thompson heat check or Giannis Antetokounmpo eurostep. He's a member of the NBA Global team.