Best dunk I've ever seen

Is it just me or does it seem like AI2 was saying "What happened?" He looks like he has no idea what's going on and totally lost.
 
The only reason I even watched was to see Iggy win and he was robbed. That behind the backboard dunk was awesome. He almost knocked himself out doing it and they give it to the short guy? Overall I think Iggy was better and more creative but the fact that he had to wait so long for his last attempt didn't help him. There really should be a limit to how mnay times they can try. I give credit to nate for the Webb dunk but if he'd been over 6'0, Iggy would have won. At least he got MVP for the soph. which is more important and I wouldn't blame him if he never participated again which is a shame because he is a great dunker.
I'm still trying to figure out what Josh was doing with the tape.:confused:
 
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I missed the Igoudala dunk --- but saw Lil Nate on a replay last night during the All-Star Game ...

Nobody's gotta clip of the AI'la dunk, heh ... I'll look around ... :cool:
 
I agree that a case certainly can be made that Iggy was robbed as I personally felt that Nate's million attempts should have hurt his score more. However, this year...the dunk contest had a new rule that there are unlimited attempts and that a dunk should be judged for its creativity/degree of difficulty independently of the number of attempts. In that sense, the judges deserve credit for scoring the dunk more for its difficulty than that of the overall negative impression it gave after so many previous attempts. I also felt that Iguodala really ran out of creativity in the bonus round and did practically the same thing he did in the second dunk of the second round.
 
acisking said:
... In that sense, the judges deserve credit for scoring the dunk more for its difficulty than that of the overall negative impression it gave after so many previous attempts...
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I disagree, and if the judges didn't penalize Robinson for taking nine attempts on his 2-1 dunk, they certainly appeared to penalize Iguodala for only taking three attempts on his 2-2 dunk; that might not have been worth a 50, or even a 48, but it was definitely higher than a 44.

You could conceivably make the argument that Iguodala was penalized for repeating dunks (which isn't technically accurate: his 2-2 dunk was done, right hand-to-left hand, while moving in front of the basket, and his 3-1 dunk, while similar, was done left hand-to-right hand, while moving underneath the basket), but I can't see that argument as possibly being a very strong one. And, besides which, that argument is moot because Iguodala should have won outright in regulation: there should never have been a "sudden death" in the first place.
 
Wasn't too impressed with the entire contest. I thought last year the dunk contest took a big leap forward with some dazzling and innovative dunks from Josh Smith and Amare Stoudamire.... however, this year was lacking.

Iguadala should have saved that off- the back of the backboard dunk as one of his last dunks.... it was truly spectacular. And Nate flying over Spudd Webb was pretty special. I'm still trying ot figure out what Josh Smith was actually doing (or thinking) when he stuck that tape down a good 20ft from the basket. All in all, it wasn't too shabby, the judges were awful and it lacked the spunk in general from the previous year.
 
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