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Anyone here SHAQ say on the 3pt contest "It's all about making shots"?

Barkley was like "that's some great A commentary there SHAQ". The guy might be the worst announcer I've ever heard. His analysis is staggeringly awful

Sunsfan4life wrote:Anyone here SHAQ say on the 3pt contest "It's all about making shots"?

Barkley was like "that's some great A commentary there SHAQ". The guy might be the worst announcer I've ever heard. His analysis is staggeringly awful

Yes but the unintentionally high comedy factor is off the charts. He's been an amazing addition.

His humor is cheesy as hell. He just isn't funny IMO. The laughs he does get usually is when Kenny and Charles are teasing him about his nickames. Much rather have a good basketball mind like Kobe as the 4th member of that set.

Sunsfan4life wrote:Much rather have a good basketball mind like Kobe as the 4th member of that set.

PLEASE tell me that's a joke!

Watching the dunks as a whole, it was obvious that Gordon was the winner. The scoring process is suspect. It would have been better to make them co-champions. If you had to pick one, it was Gordon.

TheOriginalOriginal wrote:

Mori Chu wrote:Kevin Hart was on the broadcast and you're complaining about Kenny Smith?

Yes. 100% yes.

The difference is that Kevin Hart doesn't take himself seriously and proclaim to be an "expert" on basketball like Kenny Smith.

one of these days, somebody is going to do a 360 dunk (vertical) without a trampoline.

iLLmatic wrote:That seated dunk by Aaron Gordon has to be one of the best I've ever seen. Wow.

Best dunk I have ever seen period. Did he push down on the ball to elevate? He was up so high.

Superbone wrote:

Sunsfan4life wrote:Much rather have a good basketball mind like Kobe as the 4th member of that set.

PLEASE tell me that's a joke!

You don't think it would be HILARIOUS if Kobe replaced Shaq on Inside the NBA? The irony would be off the charts.

JCSunsfan wrote:

iLLmatic wrote:That seated dunk by Aaron Gordon has to be one of the best I've ever seen. Wow.

Best dunk I have ever seen period. Did he push down on the ball to elevate? He was up so high.

You gotta think Aaron Gordon would make quite the high jumper. Give him some technique training and he'd go over 7 foot easy. He looked like he jumped about 7 feet Saturday night.

Did anybody watch the actual game itself? Any comments? 192 points ... with the increasing popularity of the 3 point shot, the ASG has taken no-defense to new levels. I have to say, I simply cannot work up the nerve to watch these things. Like Mori said, the dunk contest is about 58 minutes of meaningless production and 2 minutes of showmanship. There's some value to watching the dunks live, but I'll opt for the highlights.

Any thoughts on how the ASG itself could be improved? The rising stars game already does what hockey does, and I guess they won't do the baseball version of determining Finals home court advantage through the ASG... any other options to make it more compelling or meaningful?

Have they ever done a horse game in ASG Saturday before?

Have they ever done a horse game in ASG Saturday before?

Yes. I am not sure when it stopped, but I am sure Bob or DC can tell us.

They tried H-O-R-S-E like 5-6 years ago with Durant and a few other guys. I think if I recall correctly it was really surprisingly dull. It just turned into Kevin Durant battling Rajon Rondo (!) in the final and they just took turns shooting 3s from the top of the key. They made like 10 in a row each so they had to just do some kind of sudden-death to end it. It was sadly quite bad.

Mori Chu wrote:They tried H-O-R-S-E like 5-6 years ago with Durant and a few other guys. I think if I recall correctly it was really surprisingly dull. It just turned into Kevin Durant battling Rajon Rondo (!) in the final and they just took turns shooting 3s from the top of the key. They made like 10 in a row each so they had to just do some kind of sudden-death to end it. It was sadly quite bad.

I think they did it quite a while ago too, and I didn't think it was bad. I think the format is key. There needs to be a couple rounds of weeding out, though. Then they can have people go at it. There also needs to be a couple set rules/options (like off-hand, seated, etc).

Way back in the Paul Westphal days they did it but not at all-star weekend.

When did they do it?

Indy wrote:When did they do it?

Various times throughout the season.

i'd like to see a dunk contest for non-nba celebrities and sports athletes.

SDC wrote:i'd like to see a layup contest for non-nba celebrities and sports athletes.

FTFY.

iLLmatic wrote:

SDC wrote:i'd like to see a layup contest for non-nba celebrities and sports athletes.

FTFY.

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