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sports.espn.go.com/nba/allstar2011/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=hollingerdunkcontest-110220
Blake Griffin jumps over a car and dunks it with 2 hands.
So many ways that could have been a more spectacular dunk. Really it was more about the build-up by Kenny Smith and the choir they brought out on the court than anything else. A few things could have made the dunk better:
- put the car a foot or so farther from the basket...it seemed just about directly under the basket
- dunk over the roof of the car and not the hood of the car
- dunk with 1 hand or do a reverse slam or something.
In air Griffin seemed like he was catapaulting his body toward the basket and made the dunk a bit easier than most would have thought. Seemed to me if he had taken off a little farther back and allowed himself to float in the air a bit longer it would have looked more impressive.
Decent dunk contest overall and the 1st round was amazing....free throw line dunk, slam 2 balls into 2 baskets side by side, griffin's 360 dunk, etc.
Griffin's 1st 2 dunks were very good but the crowd got really excited by what he tried to do initially. He missed a few times on each attempt and each successive attempt he made the dunk a little easier. The 1st dunk was close to the original attempt but he did not have as much windmill motion as he did in the initial attempt....that would have been perhaps the best dunk ever he had made it. The second dunk was also very impressive as he took a bounce off the side of the basket and tried to do another catch in the air, 360, and dunk. But it didnt' happen. In the end he made a much more watered down version of that dunk, with no 360 but added a little bit of windmill to the sideways jam. But the crowd was eating up what he initially attemtped to do, but what also never happened.
In my mind the best dunk of the night was the last dunk by McGee. Coming from behind the basket and keeping his head from hitting the backboard he reverse jams it.
here are the highlights:
espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6140827
Blake Griffin jumps over a car and dunks it with 2 hands.
So many ways that could have been a more spectacular dunk. Really it was more about the build-up by Kenny Smith and the choir they brought out on the court than anything else. A few things could have made the dunk better:
- put the car a foot or so farther from the basket...it seemed just about directly under the basket
- dunk over the roof of the car and not the hood of the car
- dunk with 1 hand or do a reverse slam or something.
In air Griffin seemed like he was catapaulting his body toward the basket and made the dunk a bit easier than most would have thought. Seemed to me if he had taken off a little farther back and allowed himself to float in the air a bit longer it would have looked more impressive.
Decent dunk contest overall and the 1st round was amazing....free throw line dunk, slam 2 balls into 2 baskets side by side, griffin's 360 dunk, etc.
Griffin's 1st 2 dunks were very good but the crowd got really excited by what he tried to do initially. He missed a few times on each attempt and each successive attempt he made the dunk a little easier. The 1st dunk was close to the original attempt but he did not have as much windmill motion as he did in the initial attempt....that would have been perhaps the best dunk ever he had made it. The second dunk was also very impressive as he took a bounce off the side of the basket and tried to do another catch in the air, 360, and dunk. But it didnt' happen. In the end he made a much more watered down version of that dunk, with no 360 but added a little bit of windmill to the sideways jam. But the crowd was eating up what he initially attemtped to do, but what also never happened.
In my mind the best dunk of the night was the last dunk by McGee. Coming from behind the basket and keeping his head from hitting the backboard he reverse jams it.
here are the highlights:
espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6140827
