What you make of that Honkey La Vine, Neel :dunno: Also the way they treated Win Butler............ fucking hell that was Newton-esque.
Yeah, I am sometimes amused at the attention a dunk gets. Especially when ESPN does their Top 10 plays of the night and 6 of the Top 10 plays are dunks...generally one of the easiest things to do in all of sports if you're simply tall enough. Steph Curry hitting a three from just inside the half court line is about 100 times higher degree of difficulty then most of the rudimentary dunks they show. That said, while what LaVine and Gordon were doing last night had almost zero to do with how the game of basketball is actually played in a game situation...it was kind of fun watching them do specific things that most athletes in the NBA could never dream of doing on a practice court or anywhere else. It's still a matter of debate whether either guy ever actually becomes a relevant NBA player (though they both have a fairly high ceiling still), or end up playing out their days on some AND 1 highlight circuit somewhere.
The reason dunks get highlight attention is because of the degree and beauty of athleticism it conveys. It may be easy for the average NBA player to pull off but not the average Joe, even most tall people can't dunk at the same level as your average NBA player, especially if they weren't athletes their whole lives like these guys. You got guys in high school dunking, little kids doing it on 8 foot rims but the reason the NBA and even college for that matter makes the highlights is because nobody does it on that level as there is a reason these guys are professional athletes. It's easy to feel that the dunk is overexposed and maybe overrated when making sport show highlights but really it's no more different then when an NFL player's athletic touchdown catch makes the highlight reel.
Dumb Kobe highlight show IMO. If you're honoring him at the Allstar Game it should have been highlights from his Allstar Games not the regular season and playoffs. That was just lazy. Anyway I expect the West to beat the East by double digits.
It's a lot different IMO. A highlight reel TD catch is just that, because there was no other way to make that catch. A guy dunks a ball because it's the most efficient way to score a basket if he's left unimpeded to the rim. It's a aesthetically pleasing move, but a Tim Duncan dunk counts the same as a Vince Carter dunk and 90% of the time it's created under the same circumstances. It's the athlete that chooses to make it more difficult then it otherwise might be. Calvin Johnson doesn't just choose to drag his right foot as his being pulled out of bounds by a pass from Matthew Stafford. He's doing it because that the only way to make the catch. Now the exception to me is a perfectly choreographed Alley-Oop dunk. That shit's fucking beautiful to me.
Los Angeles clearly has the best hoopers on the planet. look at todays game: George, Westbrook, Derozan, Harden, Leonard, Thompson. all from LA
the dunk that gringo did during a time out in the all star game was pretty fuckin impressive as well blob:https%3A//vine.co/1ca0236e-2d4a-4cc8-8d44-76e5647f5645
I still don't see the difference. If a football player takes a run into the end zone and makes the highlights, it isn't something we haven't seen a hundred times. It's the same thing with dunks, we may have seen it a hundred times but we love it just as much when we see it for the one hundred and second. It's the same damn thing as a touchdown it's just a different sport. You could make the same argument about guys shooting threes, why is it such a big deal when they're the same every time? But that's just it, it isn't the same and that's why they don't get old, that's why they keep making the highlights.
Man that Allstar game was unwatchable. They used to at least kind of play defense but the crap these guys were doing just looked like pregame warmups with all the matador defense. I stopped watching by the second quarter since it wasn't very competitive.
It's a Case of Golden State TOYING w/the Opposition, in REED's Opinion...No, They Don't WANT to Blow Big Leads, but 1nce they Get a Lead, they Tend to Go to their Bench Guys, Who Don't Always Bring the Same Intensity, Game to Game... Instead of BURYing a Team Altogether, the Warriors SIT Steph After they've Accumulated a 12-15 Point Margin...Then they Sub him Back In If/When the Lead Evaporates.... REED:hammert:
To REED, The Biggest Plus is Steph Has MISSED like 15 4th Quarters, in the 1st Half of the Season...@ That Rate, he'll Be FRESH Come Playoff Time... REED:hammert:
REED Usually Tivo's and Rewatches it w/the Family... The Celebrity Game is Usually Cool for a HALF, When the Former Players and Scrub Ass Celebs Usually FATIGUE...REED Could Usually Take or Leave the Skills Challenge, but Adding Big Men to the Mix Made it Interesting... REED:hammert:
agREED... There's Enough ELITE Level "World" Talent and the US Players are Still PRIDEFUL Enough to Want to WIN, Even if it Means Playing HARD in the 4th Quarter... REED:hammert:
Look at that guys instagram he has clips of all his dunks, several of which lavine and Gordon did in the contest
Bosh's career might be in jeopardy if he's in fact suffering from another blood clot. Manny Pacquiao claps, as fags deserve to die from blood clots.
