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.
Are you just being dense purposely?
