You don't fully appreciate DeRazor til you see him in that super slow mow! My goodness he's a bad, bad man!
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Next year's dunk: two girls, two ladders, each with a KFC leg. Dunker will jump, takes a bite from each leg and then dunks the ball. The new era of product placement is here!
If that doesn't work, the two girls will use an Old Spice stick instead, apply to each dunker's armpits in mid-air, then dunk.
“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.” - Martin Luther King
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Arsenalist wrote: View PostThe score on DD's second was fair and he got a deserved 50. I'm not sold on his first. It was technically more difficult than Griffin's second, and took about the same number of tries. Problem was that the finish wasn't hard and the crowd didn't respond to it as well, maybe it being the first dunk and all. Judges get influenced by the crowd and that's why it was a 44.
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ESPN's Hollingers thoughts on the Dunk Comp
"In truth, McGee should have been facing DeMar DeRozan in the final instead of Griffin, but the hometown Los Angeles crowd swayed the judges heavily in Griffin's favor. In particular, Griffin received 46 points on a first-round dunk from a pass off the side of the backboard. DeRozan did the same thing, except he passed the ball between his legs after the catch -- a far more difficult maneuver. Nonetheless, he only got 44 points for his effort. Given that Griffin beat out DeRozan by a point for entry into the final, it was a grievous judging error.
DeRozan's other jam, titled the "Show Stopper," was spectacular enough to earn a perfect score of 50 without any props. He threw a bounced alley-oop on the right side the court, caught it one hand, swooped the ball under the hoop and reversed it one motion without ever bringing it back into his left hand.
Serge Ibaka came in fourth despite also submitting two fairly strong dunks. He might have fared better if he'd thrown it down more emphatically on his first, where he took off from the free throw line and juuuuuuust nudged it over the rim. This wasn't one of those fake free throw line dunks we've seen in past contests; he legitimately took off from the foul line, but he got only 45 points.
Between Ibaka's free throw line dunk, the DeRozan swoop, the DeRozan between-the-legs dunk and the McGee dunks with two rims and three balls, there were five iconic dunks in the first round.
None of those, you'll notice, were by the winner. Griffin had two misses on what would have been spectacular windmill dunks on his first try and ended up settling for a less emphatic jam on the one he actually made. Nonetheless, he received an incredibly generous score of 49 for that one. Nonetheless, I'm not sure the excitement in the arena every time Griffin walked up could be accurately conveyed on television. It's not necessarily fair, but it's the reason he won."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/allsta...contest-110220 - sourceBuschfire
Raptors fan since day 1.
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glad somebody besides us realizes this derozans difficulty level on both his dunks were way higher then griffins and his second dunk was absolutely flawless.
guarentee you if he was playing on a team with more media coverage in the states he would of deffinately been in the finals and if not won it all.
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Demar's dunks were better than Blake's.....BUT...Demar knows it is all a gimmick/novelty contest now. He should've thrown out one novelty dunk in the first round to "wow" the crowd. He knew what he was getting into, the uneducated fans don't care about pure dunks, just stupid props. Plus, he went first, and Amir couldn't set him up to save his life.
Kinda Demar's fault people. I realize that 44 was too low compared to Blake's 46 later, but the dunk contest is a big stage show know, no way you gonna win it without some stupid prop unfortunately. Dunk contest officially jumped the shark the minute that superman cape came into play a couple years ago.
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