On February 20, Beijing time, the NBA's annual All-Star tournament continued, in the just-concluded dunk contest, Knicks youngster Topin won the championship with 47 points in the final, and O'Neal tweeted after the game to express his dissatisfaction with this dunk contest.
O'Neill updated his social media posting photos, writing: "I'd rather take a dip in the pool than watch a dunk contest here." What are these people doing in the dunk contest? It is worth mentioning that Madelyn Burke also posted O'Neal's emoji of watching Carter dunks in 2000 and Jaylen Green dunks this year.
So how bad is this dunk contest? We can enumerate one piece of data:
First: this dunk contest 4 dunks will continue to make mistakes, a total of 25 dunks, only 7 successes, dunk shooting rate of only 28, especially the Rockets list Jaylen Green, he only had 9 dunks in the first round of 2, continuous attempts, once triggered the dissatisfaction of the audience, O'Neal on the sidelines are almost asleep, and finally Green was eliminated in the first round.
Second: This dunk contest did not appear once with 50 points, the highest of which was Topin's 47 points in the final; instead, like Green and Cole Anthony, they only scored 30 basic points because of unsuccessful dunks.
Third: Even a "9-point" referee like Wade exchanged 9 points for 6 points at the end of the game, in short, 4 people had 7 dunks, and none of them could mobilize the audience atmosphere.
In addition, the father of Warriors player Thompson also mentioned this year's dunk contest in a social media post, he wrote: "Hey NBA, my idea is this, if you can't invite Morant, Edwards, Bridges and Collins or some street dunkster next year, then you should simply let the judges on the scene go up and dunk, because I'd rather watch the judges like Dr. J, Glider and Wilkins dunk." (Chinese grassroots dunk king Chen Dengxing posted his own dunk video and wrote: "I feel like I can win the NBA dunk contest.") ”）
To be honest, since the peak showdown between LaVine and Gordon in 2016, this dunk contest is definitely the most "dish" dunk performance I have ever seen, and really as Pierce said, he may also win the championship.