Too bad that DeRpzan lost 51-49% fan vote. Not crazy about fan voting, was better when comentators continued to vote for the finals. No more Nate please, seen that, enough already. Need more real NBA dunkers, Wallace and Brown a joke.

Absolute garbage. Huge disappointment. DeRozan’s first round was good but other than that everything sucks. What were Gerald Wallace and Shannon Brown thinking? I mean, Shannon’s second dunk was just a regular Alley-oop and he pretty much got as much as DeRozan’s first dunk…

DeRozan needs more showmanship. It was so boring. And what was with TNT showing Gerald Wallace During DeRozan’s first dunk of the final round. That was retarded… we never even got to see the dunk until the replay was played.

DeRozan needs to bulk up, get stronger, gain some showmanship, and start reading online about ideas to actually make the dunk contest creative. I heard the last dunk was supposed to have references to Michael Jackson, but they didn’t want props or something…

Derozan has enough creativity and hops. I think his dunks could have won it. He just lost on style points. His dunks look lazy sometimes. He needs to have more style. A lot of times he looks like he’s just throwing it in there. What Nate does well that Derozan didn’t is time it right so that he slams the ball in just at the apex of his jump. Derozan has too much forward momentum. If he could just hold on to the ball a second longer and then throw it in last minute then his style points would have been a lot higher.
Derozan’s dunk were good enough to win the competition but he needed to make his movements look bigger while dunking.

 A perfect example was…Gerard Wallace. His dunks were no less better than Nate’s dunk. But wallace barely moved the ball up and down his body in mid flight. No style whatsover. Nate has good timing. He slams the ball in right when he starts coming down from his flight.

At least this year’s dunk competition wasn’t gimmicky like the past couple of years. Kryptonight? Superman? Blowing a birthday cupcake while dunking? How the hell does any of those make them good dunkers? They had good showmanship though.

… make All-star Saturday night interesting? Involving some more god dammed All Stars! Seriously, from now on, the fields for the dunk and three point contests should consist of only All-Stars. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see a dunk contest with Wade and LeBron? And enough is enough, the league should start mandating performances (i.e. LeBron, you’re participating in the dunk contest, your playing for a charity so don’t be a dick, and if you don’t like it, you’re suspended for the next 5 games). What a novel idea, All-Stars at the All star weekend…

That would bring out some fire….

The reason that Pierce and Billups didn’t face off was because they were not suppose to. The announcers made an error as they said off the top of the competition that the top 3 advance (as they have every year since I can remember). Simple Mistake.

I am not sure why DD went soft on his second dunk. Maybe he mistimed it so it looked more lame then it was. Considering Nates first dunk was changed mid way through and he looked like he was just going to hand it to DD you have to wonder if DD though all he had to do was complete the dunk to win. I thought that if DD did even one Carter dunk he would have won in a landslide. It is just sad that the only person who got a 10 in the contest didn’t win.

As far as I’m concerned, the lack of crowd enthusiasm falls squarely on the shoulders of Lebron James. You had tens of thousands of people buying tickets to an event they were under the impression would feature “the best basket ball player in the world”. Then, at the eleventh hour (or a few weeks ago) he drops out. The crowd lost interest in the dunk competition before it even began. Derozan and co. didn’t stand a chance. Now, wether James punked out because he didn’t think the competition was worthy or because he didn’t want to run the risk of losing to a “lesser player” remains to be seen . I’m guessing it’s the latter as James is all about his legacy and wouldn’t want an embarrasment like that to tarnish it. But you just watch. James WILL enter the dunk contest next year and everyone will be screaming King James saved the dunk contest and it will only realistically be marginally better than what we saw on Saturday night. But Kenny Smith will make it sound like world peace had just been achieved. After all, it was Smith who said he should retire because he’ll never see a better dunk than a 7 foot Dwight Howard tapping the ball off the backboard to himself and slamming it with the other hand. Kenny Smith’s face should be in the dictionary next to hyperbole.

Over the last week or so Raptors TV has been replaying previous dunk competitions and I’ve watched just about all of them. They looked earily similar to what we saw last night. Nice dunks, no props. So don’t tell me this was one of the worst dunk offs ever because after the previous couple of years this was gold. Like I said in a previous post, this was the best dunk contest in three years. I hope Derozan gets another shot, because I don’t think he get a fair shake.