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  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JK_Livin said:
    I'll watch zero seconds of All Star weekend.
    You sound like a good time!  Thanks for participating!!!
    I like a little competition with my sports. Every AS game is trash except for baseball. 
    Alright, alright, alright!
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    JK_Livin said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JK_Livin said:
    I'll watch zero seconds of All Star weekend.
    You sound like a good time!  Thanks for participating!!!
    I like a little competition with my sports. Every AS game is trash except for baseball. 
    The game itself is absolute trash. I might watch a little of the 3pt contest though. 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,451
    Markele Fultz missed the damn backboard on the dunk competition...

    That is a very Markele thing!
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    Aaron Gordon got screwed.  That was an amazing dunk contest tho
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Insane, I think the over the guy, alley oop, between the legs was very slightly the best but what a great contest. Seemed like the commentators were selling shutting it down for a few years. 

    3 pt finish was nice too.

    The telecast was an atrocity. The blond on court anchor seemed like a parody and the Dwayne Wade forced interactions were hilariously awkward, what a douche nozzle.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,234
    I agree  with the broadcasters, should have just been a tie fir the contest, both were great!
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,256
    I don’t understand why the free throw jump deserves a fifty like the announcers were saying.  No twisting, ball between the legs, erc... Just a jump.

    too many 50’s handed out.   Gotta leave room.  
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    bootlegger10 said:
    I don’t understand why the free throw jump deserves a fifty like the announcers were saying.  No twisting, ball between the legs, erc... Just a jump.

    too many 50’s handed out.   Gotta leave room.  
    One foot inside the free throw line as well...
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,451
    cp3iverson said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    I don’t understand why the free throw jump deserves a fifty like the announcers were saying.  No twisting, ball between the legs, erc... Just a jump.

    too many 50’s handed out.   Gotta leave room.  
    One foot inside the free throw line as well...
    I think Barry is the only one to actually do it from behind the line.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,451
    Aaron Gordon got robbed.
    Anybody see the 360 from the freethrow line?

    Something else I loved was the backboard tap and dunk by Connaughton.  His white men can't jump dunk was fun too.


  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    tempo_n_groove said:
    cp3iverson said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    I don’t understand why the free throw jump deserves a fifty like the announcers were saying.  No twisting, ball between the legs, erc... Just a jump.

    too many 50’s handed out.   Gotta leave room.  
    One foot inside the free throw line as well...
    I think Barry is the only one to actually do it from behind the line.
    Brent?   Man those were rough times
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Barry’s was the worst though. Just a 7’ white guy stretching with all his might to squeak it in. 

    Dude’s last night had a windmill and was the smoothest looking by far. Looked like a freaking super hero gliding through the air.


    Need to update the grading scale to something like 4 for creativity, 4 for execution and 2 bonus points for the overall. Once you miss a dunk, you shouldn’t be able to get a perfect score if you attempt the same thing again. Slight variations on the same dunk shouldn’t be rewarded more and more, even as the difficulty goes up. 
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,451
    DewieCox said:
    Barry’s was the worst though. Just a 7’ white guy stretching with all his might to squeak it in. 

    Dude’s last night had a windmill and was the smoothest looking by far. Looked like a freaking super hero gliding through the air.


    Need to update the grading scale to something like 4 for creativity, 4 for execution and 2 bonus points for the overall. Once you miss a dunk, you shouldn’t be able to get a perfect score if you attempt the same thing again. Slight variations on the same dunk shouldn’t be rewarded more and more, even as the difficulty goes up. 
    When they do the same dunk switchstanced though I would still grade them high.  Doing a dunk the opposite way is pretty impressive.

    Barry's dunk looked good though, y'all just hatin.
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited February 2020
    I was a nationally ranked athlete.  At my peak i could dunk on a 10ft rim....jumping from one particular spot, wearing one certain pair of tennis shoes.  Lol.  It blows my mind how these guys can do these creative dunks.  Even being taller they’re still doing things in mid air thats unheard of.  Last night was insane. Dunking gets better and better throughout the years. 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,451
    cp3iverson said:
    I was a nationally ranked athlete.  At my peak i could dunk on a 10ft rim....jumping from one particular spot, wearing one certain pair of tennis shoes.  Lol.  It blows my mind how these guys can do these creative dunks.  Even being taller they’re still doing things in mid air thats unheard of.  Last night was insane. Dunking gets better and better throughout the years. 
    There were a few years where it got stale but this years was really friggin good.
  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    DewieCox said:
    Barry’s was the worst though. Just a 7’ white guy stretching with all his might to squeak it in. 

    Dude’s last night had a windmill and was the smoothest looking by far. Looked like a freaking super hero gliding through the air.


    Need to update the grading scale to something like 4 for creativity, 4 for execution and 2 bonus points for the overall. Once you miss a dunk, you shouldn’t be able to get a perfect score if you attempt the same thing again. Slight variations on the same dunk shouldn’t be rewarded more and more, even as the difficulty goes up. 
    Gordon was robbed again, the off the back board one hand dunk was INCREDIBLE. Jones Jr also had some great dunks, so it's not like he was ordinary, but for me, Gordon was more inventice and creative, as he was against Lavine.

    The whole scoring system needs to be overhauled and the judges are always atrocious.  But at the end of the final, Gordon is 100% correct,  he had 4 x 50 dunks - competition over - he had the most points. The players plan to have their 4 best dunks done over the first rd then the final, they aren't leaving their best dunk in the bag in case it's a tie.

    Maybe instead of scoring individual dunks, they could score the dunkers per round at the end of the dunks. They would make it easier to compare and judge as a whole, because once you give someone a 50 dunk in the first round, there's no where to go for a more incredible dunk.
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,923
    only the nba could try to throw the contest and can’t count to 48. Idiots trying to fix a competition as the biggest sports stories going are two franchises in two different sports in two different contrived being penalized for cheating
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,855
    I miss East vs West

    these stupid player teams are ridiculous 

    NHL dumb as shit too

    only MLB is semi-watchable

    last night was the only thing worth watching 
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited February 2020
    Yeah i miss East vs West in a simple game.  Give a bigger $$$ prize and just make it competitive.  

    Edit:  i take it all back. That game was awesome after halftime. 
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,315
    Cosplay is almost as important as athletic skill in the dunk contest.
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    Party On, Dudes!

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