They don't have to move to teleport. Or he could dribble once, just teleport above the basket and dunk.
Then again, technically, Reed could just stretch his body as soon as he gets the ball and automatically dunk it with the ball having never left his hands. That would be legal and fair too.
But, NC could just teleport and snatch it out of his hands. If they got tied up fighting for it, it would make for a lot of jump balls.
Nightcrawler in a close game with about 98% field goal percentage for each of them....
Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Reed would win. Teleportation isn't going to help if Reed is permanently poised to defend.
But he wouldn't be. His legs might be on one side of the court and his hands might be on the other, but he'd still have to get his hands from the side where he scored to the side where he'd have to defend against NC. He can't defend with his feet. As soon as NC gets the ball, he can just appear over the basket and just drop it in. If Reed tried to block the ball from going in, he'd get called for goal tending.
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Nightcrawler can't do anything defensively other than keep teleporting past, which is less effective than jumping probably. [/QUOTE]
He could teleport to the ball, grab it, teleport back to his basket.