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Definitely one of the worst dunk contest in the recent crop of mediocre ones. Actually, I think this is the worst I have seen.

I enjoyed the Rising stars game, 3 pt contest, and skills challenge. The shooting stars one was all right too. Celebrity game was boring this year and Dunk contest was very bad IMO

is it too much to ask to have one single allstar weekend that isn't tipping the scales of awkardness? every single year...

Yea these just have been really boring. You could get rid of the dunk contest and I wouldn't blink. It has been surviving from the rep of past contests for a while now.

Mattya wrote:Yea these just have been really boring. You could get rid of the dunk contest and I wouldn't blink. It has been surviving from the rep of past contests for a while now.

There's a lot of things they could (and should) get rid of to make the entire weekend way better. Things like the musical performances, the side interviews (especially the "coach" interviews), the award ceremonies (still have them but not televised), etc. The entire thing could be cut down by an hour or two and they'd still be able to increase time spent on actual basketball.

i thought the dunk contest would be better, i liked the roster for once. Started out great w/ Green's first dunk, but White didnt add much

Well the first round of the dunk contest was cringe worthy, but the final wasn't bad. I thought the 3 pt shootout was pretty good.

They need to get more names in the events. They need to add some new events that are exciting whether that's 2 on 2 challenge or something. They have been trying to add stuff but its not interesting.

Lets just get Vince Carter with his 35 years and his prime already being fossilized on dunk contest to see what his knees might still do, seriously.

Sounds like I didn't miss much?

Klomp wrote:Sounds like I didn't miss much?

2 teams of an nba player, wnba player, and an old guy bricked half court shots, some PGs threw passes through a hoop, bunch of guys shot threes, then some other guys did a couple cool dunks and missed the rest. In between there were some bands playing feedback with some music in the background.

Devilzsidewalk wrote:

Klomp wrote:Sounds like I didn't miss much?

2 teams of an nba player, wnba player, and an old guy bricked half court shots, some PGs threw passes through a hoop, bunch of guys shot threes, then some other guys did a couple cool dunks and missed the rest. In between there were some bands playing feedback with some music in the background.

+ Superstar Point Guards bricking long 2s contest.

I watched this instead

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBl3I1SRSGs[/youtube]

If you look past the missed attempts, Saturday's dunk contest was actually pretty good. Better than last year, that's for certain.

Torcher wrote:If you look past the missed attempts, Saturday's dunk contest was actually pretty good. Better than last year, that's for certain.

Not sure I agree. Both were awful, and they've been awful ever since they started focusing more on the buildup and pageantry than the dunks.

the East vs. West competition was lame and unnecessary. Saturday Night should be about individual players, no one cares about this conference stuff.

Tirion wrote:the East vs. West competition was lame and unnecessary. Saturday Night should be about individual players, no one cares about this conference stuff.

It still was about the individuals. Next year I guarantee you that more people would know that Terrence Ross won the dunk contest than know that the West won the conference thing.

Lame? Maybe. Unnecessary? Maybe. But I don't think the concept was too terrible. Then again, I wasn't able to watch any of it last night, so I'm not sure how it and across during the event.

LordBaldric wrote:They should rename this game "The Guys Kahn should have Drafted instead of D Will Game."

that feel when should've drafted Kanter and Faried in 2011.

Too bad all the real fans get priced out at these and we get these crap crowdes.

For your commercials/halftime entertainment:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qGk40wrjbE[/youtube]

People basically just wanna see the "name" guys do stuff on Saturday night, specifically the dunk contest. Blake Griffin just did a simple power dunk and they're like "Oh, that woulda won last night". Give me a break haha. No one cares how good the actual dunks are, they just wanna see LeBron or Blake throw down a tomahawk dunk and give him a 50.

The dunk contest was weak cause of all the misses, no doubt, but it wasn't the quality of dunks that were completed that was turning people off, it's cause no one they care about was in it. But of course, when you have guys who aren't used to the spotlight, you're gonna get more misses cause they're likely far more nervous than a superstar would be.