Saturday, February 14, 2009

Horse...and why is Kevin Durant boring?

The NBA finally wised up and put (supposedly) an exciting event to accompany the dunk contest in all star weekend. Everything about the horse game was good, except for the winner. All things set aside, it was really cool that Kevin Durant went down four letters to both O.J. Mayo and Joe Johnson, and he came back and won. That was cool. What wasn't cool, was his shot selections. Horse is meant to be played for our entertainment, which is how Joe Johnson and O.J. Mayo were playing...whereas Kevin Durant was seemingly playing to win, and he did. Joe Johnson had some cool shot selections, such as spinning the ball of his finger and shooting like that, a free throw with his eyes closed, between the legs lay-ups, and a shot from the broadcast booth behind the hoop. O.J. also had some sweet shot attempts, he shot from behind the hoop, he tried to shoot sitting down, he did fancy lay-ups, and he took the longest shot of the day, which he made. While Durant tried some good shots, everything he did seemed unoriginal because it was some variation of Johnson's or Mayo's shots before. After Johnson got eliminated, the game turned extra boring with Durant just taking three-point jumpers. By doing this he turned a potentially exciting horse game into a game of horse that would be played by middle schoolers. Too bad.

2 comments:

  1. Nate Robinson is a freak of nature. I thought it was pretty sweet when D-Howard was dunking on a 12-foot rim and all, but what 5'8" Robinson was doing was just sick nasty. When he dunked over Howard, I literally jumped out of my seat. I never thought I would vote/cheer for a NY Knicks guard (my hatred for the Knicks goes back, like most Bulls fans, to the 1990's).

    ReplyDelete
  2. Yes, but we have already seen him jump over someone and dunk, he was just a little taller, and his first dunk was identical to JR Smith's first dunk. When Spud Webb won the dunk contest, his dunks were far better than Robinson's and those two are about the same height. Don't get me wrong, it's cool to watch him dunk, but he shouldn't be rewarded for mediocrity just because he is small.

    ReplyDelete