The All Star weekend is upon us, well this weekend its upon us and it use to be something I would look forward to in past years, but not so much anymore. The game itself is kind of boring now, an over glorified pick up game, where the guys are just messing around, not as serious as it use to be. The 3 point competition is still pretty cool, h.o.r.s.e ( doesn't even come on tv), rookie game...yaawwwn....you guys get my drift, its really lost its flare. I can say its attributed to one reason and one reason alone, the dunk off.
The dunk off which in the past was the staple of the weekend, has become watered down, repetitive, and I don't care what anyone says, but after VC in 2000, and maybe J-Rich, they should have maybe just retired it because those dunks from the prior mentioned just set standards.
So how can we change this? How can the dunk off be the showcase of the weekend once again ? The players understood over recent years and realized they can't just dunk anymore they need to put on a show. Case in point: bringing a telephone booth to the court and changing into a cape, placing cupcakes on the rim and blowing out a candle placed within it, or my personal favorite; placing a taped marker near the 3 point line and not taking off anywhere near it. JSmith, honestly bro, what was the purpose of that?!!
The one thing that gets the fans and people going though in the dunk off is the nostalgia factor. Throwing on that retro wilkins, or webb jersey. Emulating a jordan or dee brown jam from back in the day, gets the crowd going crazy. With that being said, myself along with this other guy who writes on this blog once a month sunder, had talked about this and I'm gonna ink it. I actually talked about it and he started talking about how Seattle should still have a team....
Demar Derozan, you wanna win the dunk off this year and be the highlight of the weekend....??
"Yah big kev I do, help me" derozan talking...
"Ok, son, let big kev help you"
Take it back to 2000, and get out the #1 raptors jersey that says "McGrady" and the #15 jersey that says "Carter" out of the closet. And because every dunk since those two were in the competition have been pretty lame, just dub Tracy and Vince's slams from that year. How crazy would that be !!???
Imagine it for a second, Derozan comes out his first dunk is something of his own and he impresses the judges (the dude can slam. no doubt). I mean he can't completely copyright infringe the 2000 competition so he does this to let the peeps know, yah I'm foreal son. For his second dunk, he takes of his jersey and puts on the T-Mac, and does the 360 tomahawk windmill jam, like tracy did in 2000 as his first, but Demar you refine it a bit and throw it down with authority. Crowd goes nuts, Derozan moves to the next round and puts on the Carter, he then proceeds to either (a) stick his elbow in the cylinder or (b) go behind the rim, 360 windmill and blows the entire roof off Dallas. He now moves to the finals and has the crowd in the palm of his hands (much like vince did). He now invites Tracy from the crowd to throw him the bounce pass from heaven, goes in between the legs, windmill jam, lands, two fingers pointing to the sky and looks at the crowd, waves both hands in opposite directions and says its over. People begin to faint, I break another television converter at my house cause I'm going nuts and the dunk off becomes relevant again for this one night.
Derozan, you've won the dunk off, you've put on a show and will be remembered. This scenario is as unlikely as me becoming the head coach of the team, but I can dream can't I !!???? Oh not to mention, you bring Toronto back to relevance in the NBA again, and we start making some of that TV money once again....
Let's just hope he wins the "dunk in" on friday, otherwise Ill look like a jackass for writing this, hahaha. Derozan better make it! I mean Chris doesn't get voted in and now are legit dunking rookie has to "auditon" for the dunk off. Eh last time I checked we were 5th in the east foo's! Like Rodney Dangerfield, we get no respect.
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