kali4nikated wrote:
...a meaningless player on a meaningless team does a cool dunk in one of their meaningless games in their meaningless season is more exciting than anything Kobe Bryant has done in recent years....
i just lost my will to continue typing :/
I will keep my will to type but I agree with you that dunks are overrated. I think that watching 48 minutes of badly played and/or uncompetitive basketball just to see a couple of break away dunks and maybe one power slam in traffic is not a good trade off in my view.
Maybe it is because I used to play ball back in HS and my coach was big on fundamentals, maybe it is because I am a bit of a nerd (even when it comes to sports) or maybe it because I am older than many of the people on NT, but I like close, well played games by savvy players.
Even if I were not a Laker fan, the 2010 finals were a display of grit, will, defense, Ray Allen's stretch of shooting and making all those threes, phenomonal point guard play by Rondo (as a Laker fan I would quietly groan in despair when he got in transition or semi transition because he would always get himself or a teammate of his bucket every time), great high post play by Gasol, Some great flashes of low post moves by Garnett, great mid range scoring from Kobe, outstanding man on man defense by Artest and almost every game being decided by either a display of soft touch on the ball and/or offensive rebounding.
If you want dunks, play some Xbox, watch the dunk contest, sports center and just turn off your TV's when the NBA is on in June because the two teams left usually will both be old, slow and "boring."