Official All Star Saturday Night (Skills Challenge!!) Game Thread 2/16/2013

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  1. VanillaGorilla

    VanillaGorilla Well-Known Member

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    Who would you say is a more "creative" dunker than LeBron?
     
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    One of friends is at the events in HOU this year. He paid over $400 for tix to tonight's events, and says game tix are in the $1000 range. Not worth it.
     
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    I remember having the same problem when the All-Star game was in New Orleans. The tickets for these things tend to largely be purchased in packages by corporations. I've got a friend in Houston as well who was saying they want $500 bucks for nosebleeds... yeah, nosebleeds. I'd rather pay that sort of money to see a couple of actual NBA games.
     
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    Lillard IS "etc" and that's 4 guards who will make the team next year.
     
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    LeBron is not that creative when it comes to his dunks.
     
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    ...so far, J. Evans signing a huge oil panting of himself performing the dunk he just made flaying over the top of it as if it was an instant photograph is probably one of the most "creative" dunks that I have ever seen [especially if he painted it himself, did they confirm this?]
     
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    Vince Carter was, Ross is, the guy who won it last year was, lots of players were.

    but provide a link showing that LeBron is such a fantastic dunker.

    I bet a big reason why he's never done it is because he wouldn't be that impressive.
     
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    That's just ridiculous. Terrence Ross is not a better dunker than LeBron in any way. Do you really think LeBron couldn't do every dunk Ross did? Not only could he, they'd all be better.
     
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    based on what? that he can jump high and is strong?

    where is the evidence that he's super creative?

    jumping high and being strong does not a creative dunker make.
     
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    There's no evidence Ross is super creative either. How many of the dunks you saw yesterday would you consider creative? For me, it's none.
     
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    Like I said earlier on in this thread, LeBron already was in a dunk contest - McDonald's 2003. He won, but he was still out-dunked by a better dunker, Shannon Brown. Even in Ohio, Brown would have been the hands-down favorite if he were just able to make his final dunk.
     
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    Ross was born in Portland, high school in Jefferson between Salem and Corvallis, college at UW. I'm for Ross.
     
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    Jefferson High School is not between Salem and Corvallis.
     
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    I would give up Mathews in a trade to get Ross without even blinking once.
     
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    He's being funny. He's talking about Jefferson, the town.
     
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    I'll put down a $10 bill right here that says Jefferson is wherever I say he is.
     
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    Yeah, same thing when it was in Oakland. Fans were only allowed in the upper balcony, all the other seats were for various 1%-ers. If memory serves, they had to pay a deposit and enter a drawing. It cost a fortune, more than a World Series or Finals ticket. I'd like to see Portland have an ASG because it sucks they never have, and I refuse to believe Portland's winter weather is worse than Chicago, but face it, the game is not for fans.
     
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    [video=youtube;JOLodVriieI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLodVriieI[/video]

    [video=youtube;LXl462Iba3w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXl462Iba3w[/video]

    [video=youtube;EP0_mDhn2RA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP0_mDhn2RA[/video]
     
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    dont have time to watch that 3rd video, but none of those warm up dunks would get him past the first round. Unless you get bonus points for throwing it hard. Not saying he wouldn't do well in the contest, just that those dunks wouldn't win anything.
     
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