2009 NBA all star skills competition

While watching this year’s all star game, I decided to write my own opinions down. I grabbed my laptop, and started typing at about 1 ½ hours in.

First off, the shooting stars. Well, congratulations to Detroit for winning. I was rather surprised that phoenix got 5 in a row and then took a minute to score, allowing Detroit to win. I enjoyed watching this; however it’s hard to critique so I'll move on to the next event.

So, here we are at the point guard one. Passing, shooting, dribbling, things a guard would do. This went pretty smooth, not to much to say here either. One thing I didn’t like was how to ball boy got in the way and in my opinion cost that player (forgot name) one second and possibly the title as this one second would have made a difference. Other than that, no problems with this event. Oh, yeah, derrick rose won =p

The 3 point shooting. The scores this year were slightly better on average than last year (in the first round); Steve Nash only got 9 when he did this event in 2008. D. Cook, R. Lewis and J. Kapono made it to the final round, with Kapono scoring 14, Lewis scoring 15 and Cook scoring 15. The second round was close in the end, which made it exciting for about 5-10 seconds. Otherwise, this year sucked. Last year was way better, which scores in the 20s (J. Kapono). In the tiebreaker, only 7 points were scored by Lewis. Fail. Cook did much better with a score in the high teens. Good job Cook.

Next, the “Sprite Slam Dunk” contest. There I just got some extra exposure for you, you should thank me. Dwight Howard didn’t dunk last year. Ok, yes, hand above the rim yada yada yada. Not a dunk in my books. So, my thoughts on this years’ dunks:

Round 1

1. Fernandez: Double bounce, good timing. 45 points.

2. Smith: Not exciting to me, 40 points.

3. Nate Robinson: Not bad, however nothing to good. 42 points.

4. Dwight Howard: Fail. But anyway, he made two bounces, and then on the third he missed! Dunk wasn’t to bad though, I give him 44 points. The judges gave him 50. FAIL! I was online on that Facebook app and most people gave between 42-45.

Round 2

5. Fernandez: Stolen idea from DW last year, couldn’t do it within two minutes anyway. When he eventually got it right though, 47 points.

6. Smith: Another difficult one, however I liked this one (When it eventually went in). 46 points.

7. Nate Robinson: Not bad, creative. 44 points.

8: Dwight Howard: One thing he has is creativity (except the cape, that’s a repeat). A higher net, 12 feet. Not that good of a dunk, just has height. 48 points (40. but + because I’ve never seen anyone jump that high)

Final round:

1. Robinson: Liked it, especially the dancing and the kryptonite was a nice added touch. 49 points.

2. Howard: Uh.. Not that great. Ok, but not great. 45 points.

3. Robinson: Nice. I liked the jumping over Howard, but there wasn’t much else. 44 points.

4. Howard: No good, just a long jump. 45 points again

I’d like to compliment the sportsmanship. Excellent job. My winner would be Robinson, however Dwight didn’t do that bad either. Good effort (I bet you though I hated the man. I don’t, I just hated that not-dunk last year, and the favoritism early on.) Robinson won by a VERY small margin. Dwight Howard did a very good thing letting him jump over for his second dunk.

Thanks for reading this, hope you enjoyed. Feel free (and please do) comment.