http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...arranges-Rudy-Fernandez-s-face?urn=nba,146362 Just sick... best blocked shot of the year.
the ball went out of bounds, that automatically takes it out of the running. Furthermore, its not that great, its just that hes so energetic in doing it so its eye-catching.
It was nice, but by no means the block of the year. And oh yeah, I wish we had pursued Andersen when he was on the come back trail. He would be an awesome big to run with the second unit.
Certainly the most embarrassing block I've seen this year... I'd need to see a compilation of other good blocks this season to see if this really was the best of the best. I have to imagine Howard, Camby, Josh Smith and LeBron, among others, have delivered some pretty sick ones.
It's pretty embarrassing when you receive a facial from your own shot. The fact Birdman swatted the ball so hard straight back into Rudy's face is what made it a monster block. The humiliation element overcomes the fact it wasn't such an athletic block. Stuff like this happens on the hardtop and in rec league, not the NBA.
yeah i don't know about best since rudy lost it on the way up and made it easy to block, but getting it spiked extremely hard off your face and out of bounds to the other team is pretty bad.
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ah. I did not know that the ball went off of Rudy's face. That makes it even better However, I think he makes it look better than it really was because of his exuberance.
he blocked bosh from the side though, bosh never saw it coming. it was nice and all but I liked von wafer's better -- that was face up defense with the clock running down. I realize that is probably partial homerism, but it was still a sick block.
Screw them all.(Well Wafers was nice). But i prefer all the ones my boy Dj Mbenga got in his block party against the grizzlies. <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z8ETKTuNz5I&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/z8ETKTuNz5I&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>
Assuming you're talking about Chris Andersen, he is good. He's second in the league in blocks (2.3) and does it in just 19.5 minutes a game. If you look at it as per 48 minutes, he's comfortably in first place at 5.73 (second place is Turiaf with 5.16, followed by Joel Anthony with 4.15, then Dwight Howard at 3.78). If I were him, I'd pose after that block too.
It took them 5 minutes to find the ball. When they found it, it was hiding in the corner of the Rockets' locker room crying from the b****slap it took in front of 18,000 fans.
