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  1. julius

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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    Dude, don't lie. That's Nikita Morgonov.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    LOL at conspiracy theories.



    Stop embarrassing yourselves.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    On the second dunk the two white guys (Chambers, Majerle), and KJ gave 8's and Cellabos and Nance gave 9's.

    The Nate Robinson jumping off the guys back dunk received way too high a score.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    I don't think it was a racism/xenophobia issue as much as the NBA wanted David vs Goliath in the finals. That is the only way I think one can reasonably explain why JR Smith's first dunk scored so low, and why Nate Robinson scored anything north of 35 on his "jumping off of the back of another player" dunk.

    Hell, if the players knew they could do that, Rudy should have asked to jump off of Pau's back, and accidentally kick Pau in the head in the process.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread


    I'm the furthest thing from a conspiracy chaser you'll find.


    I did like it though went Robinson ran off the floor before the round was over to change his clothes though. that was fresh. He was pretty convinced he was though with still 2 players to go.

    OMG! LOOK A PHONE BOOTH! I bet Howard paid for all that.

    A 50 for Howards first dunk!

    :Rollseyes:

    Haven't watched the All Star garbage (Saturday or the game itself) in about 7 or 8 years. Now I know why.


    To be honest had Rudy hit that 2nd dunk on his first or second try he probably would have gone though.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    One of the worst slam dunk competitions ever.

    Nate jumping off Chandler's back was retarded and lame, Dwight dunking on a 11ft hoop was lame, the whole thing was lame.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    Spot on in my opinion. It's not that big of a deal -- but pretty funny to me that Nate got such a high score on the "back" dunk.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    He WAS a replacement for Rudy Gay!!! WTF!!!!
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    you said...

    That's a conspiracy theory.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    JR Smith replaced Gay.

    barfo
     
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  11. julius

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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    Actually, JR Smith was the replacement for Rudy Gay. Rudy Fernandez was voted in by the fans (in a contest with Joe Alexander and Russell Westbrook). But thanks for playing.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    um... Rudy was a part of the 3 way vote for the 4th guy going to be in the dunk contest between Rudy, Westbrook and Alexander. Rudy ended up winning the vote.

    JR Smith was the replacement for Rudy Gay.
     
    JFizzleRaider, Feb 14, 2009
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  14. julius

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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    And on top of that, when the foul is called, the whistle stops the clock.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    The problem with Rudy Fernandez in the contest is that he didn't have any "great dunks".

    His first dunk was good, but pretty much any of the non-short dunkers could have done it pretty easily.

    His second dunk was nice, but he ran out of time there. They got done ripping Nate Robinson and Birdman prior to the contest, so repeated attempts weren't going to go over well. And it didn't help that Rudy was looking pretty poor in his attempts too. Yes, Gasol's passes weren't perfect, but Rudy wasn't gaining any semblance of control over the ball on that. If you land it on the first attempt, it has a wow factor. When you see a guy pathetically miss it 8 times in a row, there's no wow factor.

    I agree, that Nate Robinson's dunk deserved a bit lower score, but so did Rudy Fernandez on his last dunk, os that should have washed it out. I don't remember the scores, but maybe that gets JR Smith in the finals, and changes the entire component of the finals.

    And the off the back dunk isn't too hard. A kid did that during our 8th grade pep rally game, in game, and he has no where near the leaping ability of Nate Robinson. But what made Nate's dunk a little more difficult, is that Chandler was turned differently than usual. Usually their head is in line with the basket, giving the player more of a runway to leap off of, and a straighter area for the foot to be. Instead, Chandler was turned sideways, putting the curves on the sides into play...which did come into play on the first attempt.

    Overall, the dunk contest was a let down. Nate Robinson did well in the Finals, but Dwight Howard was a big let down.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    Wow you are slow. Do you not recall the national advertisements for Westbrook, Alexander and Fernandez that started running in December? The announcement of the four participants clearly read along the lines of:

    Participating in the dunk contest is 2008 champion Dwight Howard, 2006 champion Nate Robinson, 2008 participant Rudy Gay and for the first time ever selected from fan voting one of Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Joe Alexander of the Milwaukee Bucks, or Rudy Fernandez of the Portland Trailblazers. Voting ends at such and such a date.

    They had multiple commercials for all of them.

    JR Smith was not in the field until Rudy Gay pulled out a week and a half ago due to a hip flexor.

    Christ man.
     
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  18. julius

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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    Actually, you have it wrong. But I wouldn't expect anything less from you.

    Here is the NBA.com page showing the original dunk contestants. Rudy Gay, Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson. :dunno: Are you just being dense purposely?
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    FWIW, TNT corrected themselves, and said JR Smith was the replacement a little later.
     
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    Re: Official Rudy Got Screwed Thread

    You guys are just sore that Rudy soiled the dunk contest and Oden soiled the rookie game.
     
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