Anyone staying up to watch the All Star Game?
Discussion
nervous said:
please tell me you taped it. please. i love the all star game.
I Sky+ it but a) it was actually one of the worst ASG in years so not really worth a copy and, b) I have no way of transferring onto tape/dvd
Even the dunk comp was disappointing this year because the winner took something like 15 goes at one dunk. The crowd were booing by the end.
You'd be better to watch highlights on NBA Action (Thursdays 6pm Sky Sports 3 iirc)
I watched it all live here and wished it hadn't bothered, like you guys I normally love the All Star Game, but this years was gash.
The 3 point shootout was pretty good on Saturday, but the dunk contest sucked. It went (was staged) to go to a dunk-off between 'crowd favourite' 5'9'' Nate Robinson and Andre Iguodala, the 6'6'' 76ers guard who had done one of the best dunks I've ever seen in the qualifiers where he'd started his run-up in the crowd behind the backboard, run up, Allen Iverson threw the ball off the BACK of the backboard, Iguodala caught it mid-air still behind the backboard and STILL had the hangtime to come under the backboard, under the hoop and reverse it in.
Anyway the contest was fixed as Iguodala needed 48 to equal Robinson. His last dunk was ok, but one of the judges put up a 9, looked at the others and then put down the 9 and lifted an 8. Robinson won.
The ASG itself was awful, all the West kept passing to McGrady who got 34 points, but they still lost. Flip Saunders just bought on his whole Detroit team bar Prince and ground it down. Yao Ming showed again what a complete donkey he was by getting in the way of everyone else. LeBron James was pretty good though.
The 3 point shootout was pretty good on Saturday, but the dunk contest sucked. It went (was staged) to go to a dunk-off between 'crowd favourite' 5'9'' Nate Robinson and Andre Iguodala, the 6'6'' 76ers guard who had done one of the best dunks I've ever seen in the qualifiers where he'd started his run-up in the crowd behind the backboard, run up, Allen Iverson threw the ball off the BACK of the backboard, Iguodala caught it mid-air still behind the backboard and STILL had the hangtime to come under the backboard, under the hoop and reverse it in.
Anyway the contest was fixed as Iguodala needed 48 to equal Robinson. His last dunk was ok, but one of the judges put up a 9, looked at the others and then put down the 9 and lifted an 8. Robinson won.
The ASG itself was awful, all the West kept passing to McGrady who got 34 points, but they still lost. Flip Saunders just bought on his whole Detroit team bar Prince and ground it down. Yao Ming showed again what a complete donkey he was by getting in the way of everyone else. LeBron James was pretty good though.
Joe Letaxi said:
Flip Saunders just bought on his whole Detroit team bar Prince and ground it down.
And ironically, of the Pistons team, Prince is probably the most exiting.
Joe Letaxi said:
Yao Ming showed again what a complete donkey he was by getting in the way of everyone else.
That guy is such a joke. He is 7'5'' and isn't even in the top 20 rebounders. Seriously man, jump!
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