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Donovan Mitchell All Star Weekend Thread

LOL .. it really makes me wonder what a guy has to do to impress some of you guys? I mean, he did the best he can do given his God given gifts. He isn't the tallest/fastest/most athletic, but he tries hard and did the best he could. And considering the short notice he had to work with, he really stopped just short of pulling a monkey out of his ***.

Give the guy some props... geez.
ONE LOVE said:
Thats really lovely to see.

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Great to see Greg Miller and even Denis' Wife there as well to give support. It really gives it that 'family' feel that I really love about the team and its ownership.

Love it.
 
Quin's Murderface said:
I gotta agree with Cy and the others with similar opinions. I wouldn't say this was a bad dunk contest, but it was kind of nondescript. Mitchell was the most consistently good which is why he won. While his dunks weren't incredibly innovative he does have a really flashy style when dunking them makes most of them look better at full speed. He had a couple interesting wrinkles that gave him just enough flash to carry some scores that were probably a little inflated.

DSJ and Nance really have no room to complain at all. DSJ choked badly on his first dunk and took himself out of the competition almost as badly as Oladipo. Nance got an inflated 49 on his second dunk, and his first one took like 3 tries amd was a worse version of his own father's dunk (the disrespect!). My only questionable moment for Spida was that last dunk. He should have gone with something more original, imo. Still a nice performance and we will take that W.
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You might want to delete this or some people will think you hate Donovan Mitchell and want to see him fail.
 
themanknownassting said:
Yea it was a weak dunk contest. But Mitchell was the best out of all of them. And you can’t give 10s if a guy misses. I think that should deduct points.


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Saint Cy of JFC said:
I enjoyed it man.

Can one not enjoy something and also contextualize something? Or am I suppose to hoop and holler over dunks we have seen in past dunk contest?

Not every dunk contest is equal. This one was extremely mediocre. I think Donovan had the best overall set of dunks and deserved to win by the scoring system they use. I also don't think he had the best overall dunk of the night.

But I guess that is being a hater?
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Humans are weird. They want you to like something they like or see it their way and if you don't, it upsets them. These people probably have issues with being selfish and controlling tbh.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
They did it that way (or very similar). It was the year John Wall was in it. It was a terrible format. It was the worst contest in recent memory iirc.

I think you want to limit the total dunks. It's already hard enough as is to create new dunks or creative variations on former dunks. Adding more dunks would just water it down further.
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Honestly you can make a rule to that the first dunk had to be a tribute dunk. There's been enough variations now that that could actually be interesting part of the process. I also think they should mic the judges instead of lispy McMiller.
 
♪alt13 said:
Honestly you can make a rule to that the first dunk had to be a tribute dunk. There's been enough variations now that that could actually be interesting part of the process. I also think they should mike the judges instead of lispy McMiller.
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Do you remember the Tribute Dunk wheel?
 
ONE LOVE said:
LOL .. it really makes me wonder what a guy has to do to impress some of you guys? I mean, he did the best he can do given his God given gifts. He isn't the tallest/fastest/most athletic, but he tries hard and did the best he could. And considering the short notice he had to work with, he really stopped just short of pulling a monkey out of his ***.

Give the guy some props... geez.


Great to see Greg Miller and even Denis' Wife there as well to give support. It really gives it that 'family' feel that I really love about the team and its ownership.

Love it.
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Mitchell impressed me tonight, for sure. His first dunk got me on my feet. I was so nervous he would miss it, but threw it down in the clutch. I think the people that are saying it was a weak dunk contest are not saying that Mitchell sucked. We're saying it cause we've seen much better and had different expectations. Mitchell did great. He had nice dunks and didn't choke. It was a B dunk contest though.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
*I dont think anyone they have is qualified because there isnt any rubric or criteria for scoring other than an incomplete dunk gets a 6.*
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It doesn't have any criteria because it's a sports event, a show, not a discipline. If the contest were serious, they wold need to separate the dunkers in different categories, by height, weight and so on, and assign a difficulty to each dunk, and that would be boring as hell.

So yeah, without the criteria, I think being a Dunk contest champion just qualifies Dr. J as a judge in a dunk contest.
 
Tak said:
It doesn't have any criteria because it's a sports event, a show, not a discipline. If the contest were serious, they wold need to separate the dunkers in different categories, by height, weight and so on, and assign a difficulty to each dunk, and that would be boring as hell.

So yeah, without the criteria, I think being a Dunk contest champion just qualifies Dr. J as a judge in a dunk contest.
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I think if you are using a scoring system to eliminate people, then you should have a better scoring system, that's all.

You dont have to have any of that extra stuff to make it a more legitimately scored and judged event.
 
Generally, I thought the contest was okay. Average or slightly better. Oladipo took himself out on the first dunk. DSJ got a low score on his first dunk and might've deserved better. His 360 between the legs was groundbreaking. All of Nance's dunks were decent, just the second from behind the backboard was uninspired. Mitchell covered a lot of ground, showed his ability to jump and **** it back. He finished all his dunks with power and did enough to keep the crowd into it. He basically pulled off the Vince dunk, just didn't get nearly as high as Vince did. Mitchell deserved to win overall.
 
Calm down about Donovan? I’ve got all the faith in the world this kid will take this team to the conference finals with Rudy in the coming years....I loved the DWill, Booze, Okur days. As an individual player Donovan came at the right time, had the right attitude, and was the perfect gift to this fanbase and organization and has had the largest affect on both this quickly in his career. Full faith in Donovan, and he will never cease to impress me.


Here’s his post dunk contest press conference
 
Catchall said:
Generally, I thought the contest was okay. Average or slightly better. Oladipo took himself out on the first dunk. DSJ got a low score on his first dunk and might've deserved better. His 360 between the legs was groundbreaking. All of Nance's dunks were decent, just the second from behind the backboard was uninspired. Mitchell covered a lot of ground, showed his ability to jump and **** it back. He finished all his dunks with power and did enough to keep the crowd into it. He basically pulled off the Vince dunk, just didn't get nearly as high as Vince did. Mitchell deserved to win overall.
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One thing that confuses me about the praise of the DSJ dunk is the whole "switching hands" thing. Has anyone done a between the legs dunk without switching hands?
 
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