Random Thoughts

by Craig Kwasniewski

Some random thoughts after All-Star Weekend:

-Extra props to Spud Webb for not flinching on the Nate Robinson dunk. How bad would that have been if Nate collided with Spud on the dunk? People would be saying, "I went to a dunk contest and midget wrestling broke out!"

-Robinson's dunk over Spud Webb was sweet!!! Not only did he pay tribute to the past (which all the old school guys love), but at 5'7" he jumped over Spud and dunked the ball... at 5'7"!!!

-Iguodala's dunk was truly unique as nobody else will ever attempt that again. Pulling out the thesaurus, sublime seems to fit description. NBA.com has a great photo sequence of dunk.

-The Magic Johnson Muumuu watch was on for All-Star Saturday. Every year that he partakes in the Shooting Stars competition, his jersey gets bigger and bigger. This year, he did not disappoint us.

-Andrea Bocelli sang at All-Star Saturday Night??? What audience were they shooting for, the 40-50 year old housewife? As the Winter Olympics shows, you can't make money unless you get THAT demographic. How long before we see NBA Cares adds talking about menopause? (Imagine LeBron on telling a room full of women the benefits of Premarin)

-Funniest moment of the All-Star Game broadcast goes to Steve Kerr and Doug Collins imitating Marv Albert's famous, "Jordan... a spectacular move!" call.

-The West lost the All-Star game simply because they spent the entire second half trying to get T-Mac the MVP award. So with the west down 2 with the ball, EVERYBODY knew that T-Mac was going to take the last shot. Why not give the ball to Kobe for the winner? If Kobe hits the shot, T-Mac still wins the MVP. Instead we get a bad fade-away three that ends in an airball. Like Houston needs to see another one of those.

-As we said, the dunk contest is competitive again. The only problem I had with the dunk contest was the unlimited amount of attempts. That just killed the momentum between dunks. After 10 misses, we were just rooting for ANY kind of dunk. Maybe limit each dunk to five attempts. There has to be some sort of gamesmanship involved.

Comments

[Jamie Mottram]

GREAT note regarding and pic of Magic's jersey. I love having him and Barkley being on the same telecast. One of them is hilarious and the other is unintentionally so.

[rem]

i agree the most impressive thing of the dunk contest was the fact that spudd did not flinch

iggy was robbed...only because of nate's numerous attempts, if he makes all those dunks on the first or second attempts i say give it to him otherwise it loses its effect but hey just like "the" game's MVP decision was predetermined by Stern (james over T-mac) so was the winner of the dunk contest...

like i said they should nix the whole thing and make the weekend a massive fan determined:

one on one or 2 v 2 tourney

(before the player's association cashes in on the idea)

[Sean]

Didn't Spud lean backwards a little when Nate was flying over him? That might just have been from the force of the wind from Nate.

[gari]

thank you!a

[jdfh]

Nice site!r

[lora]

very helpful, thanks!r