Dunking The Ball - Show Off Time

Have you ever watched a basketball game and listened to the announcer praise (like Dickie V - yuk!) a player cause he can "slam dunk" the ball? I think it is rather silly myself! Sure, look at it this way, for most of these players dunking a ball is no big deal - no really. When Mr. Naismith developed (invented, etc) the game (1891) the average height of an American male was around 67 to 69 inches (5' 7" to 5' 8"). For years that seemed to be the way the game was and dunking wasn't even thought of because in many cases it takes "steps" to accomplish this and that, in my day, would have been traveling. (Street basketball changed that!) Anyway, even though the average height is still around the same today basketball teams are not made up of average height men. We import them from all over the world so we can get the tallest men and forget that some of the best players were average height. Wojciechowski, Duke Blue Devils, was an acception to this rule, but then he was over 5' 9" (5' 11").
Here's a quote for you from Ken Pomeroy (basketballprospectus.com) "Only two percent of college basketball players seeing minutes this season are 5’9” or less." Think of that, talk about prejudice there it is for you in "black" and "white". So what is my point? Simple, if we have changed the rules of the games (carrying the ball, running three steps before dunking, etc), why not raise the height of the basket, make them work for the points. If the average height (check it out) is around 6' 7" and with a reach of around 30+" above the head, they are only 12 inches or less from the basket rim. So raise it to 11 feet and then dunking will really be an art rather than a show-off. I was just thinking...