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Dunk contest gets booed!

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JXC

JXC

17-4 since 2001
Did anybody see the dunk contest? It went into a dunk off because it was a tie after the finals between Andre Iguodala and Nate Robinson. Nate Robinson went first...and it took him about 14 tries before he made his dunk (which was pretty impressive, but not that great, and got a 47) then Nate Robinson went...with a pretty sweet dunk himself, made it on the 2nd try and got at first a 47...then a judge changed the score from a 10 to a 9 so he got a 46.

Everybody was kind of confused, but then they announced Nate Robinson the winner...and then the lady (i dont' know her name) went to center court with Nate and announced him the winner and then said, "Let's here it everybody for a great slam dunk contest" and everybody in the crowd started booing!

The contest was exciting. Robinson did this dunk over Spud Webb that was a 50 and should have been more. And Iguodala did a dunk that was passed to him off the backboard...the BACK OF THE BACKBOARD. He did it from the back, almost hit his head...it was quite amazing. Two of the best dunks ever.
 
All I know is that AI should have won off of the greatness of that off the back of the backboard reverse dunk + the bounce around the back dunk. Nate's dunks were good (even though he clipped Spud on that dunk), but I don'[t know if he should have won. Too much controversy; should have just sent it into another dunk-off; what's the harm?
 
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Nate's dunk over Spud Webb was amazing, and Iguadala made some pretty nasty dunks, but that entire contest was a big pile of horseshit. i guess they give you 15 tries when only FOUR freaking guys enter the contest. what a load of crap. there were about 5 times more bricks and flat out misses than there were dunks, and that alone made the entire thing sucked balls.

i want my 30 minutes back.
 
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I haven't been interested in the slam dunk contest for many years. I think the last one I watched was when Dee Brown of the Celtics kept pumping up his Reebok Pump shoes and then won it on that dunk there he tucked his head in his arm so that he couldn't see the hoop while dunking. I thought that one was pretty boring, and I haven't watched since.
 
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buckeyeboy said:
I haven't been interested in the slam dunk contest for many years. I think the last one I watched was when Dee Brown of the Celtics kept pumping up his Reebok Pump shoes and then won it on that dunk there he tucked his head in his arm so that he couldn't see the hoop while dunking. I thought that one was pretty boring, and I haven't watched since.
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Then you missed a hell of a show in 2000 when VC, T-Mac, and Steve Francis went buckwild in what is, IMO, the best slam dunk contest ever. None of the dunkers now could even touch any of those 3...although JRich's off the backboard between the legs was quite disgusting...

BTW, has anyone else realized that JRich only does variations of two basic dunks, the windmill and the between the legs?
 
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I think it was Josh Smith that put down a piece of tape at what was equal to the college 3-point line. Although he never tried the dunk from there. As a matter of a fact, I don't think he was even behind the foul line when he dunked it.

Wasn't there a rule before that you only had 2 attempts per dunk. With one make up per round?
 
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WyoBuck said:
I've got to give it to Robinson. To be that size and pull off the dunks he did was AMAZING. Even After 13 attempts...I don't care, if you are 5'9 and can do that? He deserves it. Congrats Nate.
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I was rooting for Robinson at first, but it took him about 20 tries to complete two of his dunks in the finals. AI took 2 tries on the final one, and basically two tries on the backboard one (which got screwed up b/c of the backboard camera panning to capture the action).
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Then you missed a hell of a show in 2000 when VC, T-Mac, and Steve Francis went buckwild in what is, IMO, the best slam dunk contest ever. None of the dunkers now could even touch any of those 3...although JRich's off the backboard between the legs was quite disgusting...
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as shown during the 'best dunk ever' contest, there were probably only a couple of dunks in any competition that would have stacked up to that 2000 competition. That one was incredible.
tedginn05 said:
Wasn't there a rule before that you only had 2 attempts per dunk. With one make up per round?
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given what happened yesterday, I'd say no
 
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scarletngrey77 said:
Josh Smiths dunk was retarded. Everyone was all pumped because he put the tape so far away, then he just completely ignored it and dunkes 3 feet inside the free throw line.
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People are saying he was going to attempt it from the tape...but after bobbling the dribble on his work-up to get to the line, he had a brainfart (he IS only a 2nd year player straight out of HS) and forgot about the line completely. A 2-handed FT dunk is still pretty impressive (Dr. J and MJs were one handed; VC did a 2-hander, IIRC) and deserved better than a 41 IF HE HADN'T WORKED THE CROWD UP by putting down that tape...

Warrick's dunks were nice, but definitely not on caliber with any of the creativity/flair the other dunkers had.

As for the rules, I believe there was no penalty for missed dunks this time, which is why Nate got so many tries. Theoretically, they weren't supposed to take into account his MANY misses at all...

Next year, someone needs to put down a $2 Million purse, winner take all...and don't have it limited to freaking 4 "rising stars." Maybe a round by round dunk-off, where each contestant is matched up against another, and the crowd's decibal level determines the winner....
 
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2002AGAIN said:
People are saying he was going to attempt it from the tape...but after bobbling the dribble on his work-up to get to the line, he had a brainfart (he IS only a 2nd year player straight out of HS) and forgot about the line completely. A 2-handed FT dunk is still pretty impressive (Dr. J and MJs were one handed; VC did a 2-hander, IIRC) and deserved better than a 41 IF HE HADN'T WORKED THE CROWD UP by putting down that tape...

Warrick's dunks were nice, but definitely not on caliber with any of the creativity/flair the other dunkers had.

As for the rules, I believe there was no penalty for missed dunks this time, which is why Nate got so many tries. Theoretically, they weren't supposed to take into account his MANY misses at all...

Next year, someone needs to put down a $2 Million purse, winner take all...and don't have it limited to freaking 4 "rising stars." Maybe a round by round dunk-off, where each contestant is matched up against another, and the crowd's decibal level determines the winner....
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He did that dunk like 3 feet pass the FT line.
 
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tedginn05 said:
He did that dunk like 3 feet pass the FT line.
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He had about half of his foot inside the free throw line. The dunk was very impressive with two hands and I thought he should of recieved more for it, but the tape was there, so the refs didnt give it to him.

My theory on the tape is that he put it there for where to try and take another step b4 taking off, so he could try and get from behind the foul line.
 
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