For the 1st round they had Green go last, which I think the TV producers originally was hoping the best for last. The NFT, assist thing didn't work at all. McMenamin was fine to write that blurb. Not a lot of people watch Rocket games, still was expecting more from ESPN. KPJ sure looks different.
Ah, it was a live recording. I almost fell for the "KPort and Green in Houston practicing dunks" video stuff.
Well, just because Jalen Green failed to do as well in the dunk contest as former Rockets Chase Budinger doesn't mean that he won't bounce back and one day fulfil his dream of winning a dunk contest.
Say what you want about Green, but Cole Anthony definitely had the worst performance in the dunk contest.
That’s a great idea - let players be scored on quantity and quality of cool dunks - give them a minute and a half and score them on how entertaining the minute and a half is. It a player wants to spend the full time doing one impossible dunk, so be it. It is ultimately about entertainment at this point more than dunks. That’s really the problem here - the dunks are cool but we spend wayyy too much time trying to set them up. 12 total dunks in an like an hour and a half isn’t entertainment because part of what makes them so cool is they happen so quickly- they force you to watch exciting players on the fast break.
I might be remembering wrong and don’t care to try and look back, but didn’t they do something similar to that for the John Wall-Paul George dunk contest? There was some sort of free style type thing?
I'm sure that dipshit writer who said we should just waive KPJ will add this fictitious incident to his rationale: "Can't even throw a simple pass to a teammate at a crucial moment! Purposely derailed his teammate's shot at a dunk contest title because he was jealous!"
