Dave – The REDSKINS!?! HA! Not a chance!

Yup, you’re right, the announcing was horrible, but for a reason! Because they’re missing Barkley this year (due to his DUI arrest, he took time off and will be back this week actually), Kenny Smith was trying way too hard. He was over the top, and it wasn’t pretty. Plus you have to remember, they were all trying to have fun instead of be good at what they were doing, but it did end up sucking majorly. I agree!

I really hope you give the NBA a chance. It’s not the same league in a lot of ways. Last season was so good, and this year is even better. There’s great basketball being played, but the main change is the new generation that’s come in. Guys like Howard, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Kevin Durant, Brandon Roy, and the like. They’re all good kids that did college ball, and when clubs were drafting them, all were thought of as “high class and character” guys. It shows because we stopped having the random NBA player arrest every year. Oh and speaking of announcing, try to catch the rare ABC games (ABC shows the Playoffs and the Finals, but also on rare occasions throughout the year, the biggest games of the season) since they mostly always guarantee good basketball and they have the trio of Mark Breen-Mark Jackson-Jeff Van Gundy doing the announcing. These guys are awesome!!! They’re the J.R./Jerry Lawler of basketball. It works perfect because they have strong chemistry (Van Gundy has coached Jackson before), and we have a great play-by-play (Breen) matches up with a great former player (Jackson), and an entertaining guy who’s coached for a while and ended his coaching stint recently (Van Gundy), so we get three awesome perspectives while their chemistry is strong. I am sure you’ll get a kick of them! I often times tune in for non-Lakers games because of them! That’s saying something!

And I agree that Dwight’s arrangement of dunks definitely hurt his chances at winning. And yes, I thought the Fernandez dunk was ridiculous – it’s a shame he didn’t get further.

But was it just me or did the announcing absolutely suck? I mean it was HORRIBLE!

What’s even scarier is that since I watched the dunk contest, I’ve thought about possibly watching a game or two…

Here’s the deal. Dwight should have used his “12-foot basket” (which wasn’t even 11′ tall everyone is reporting) dunk as his last dunk, but he couldn’t rearrange the order of the dunks because there are certain rules for the different rounds (when you must use a teammate, when you must use a prop, etc).

The only reason Howard lost wasn’t so much Nate’s dunk over him, it was Howard’s poor attempt at dunking from the free throw line. It’s been done so many times and so much better by others, that it probably turned voters off. Nate’s other dunks were very creative in my opinion and he deserved it. The whole contest was nowhere as entertaining as last year’s though! The one dunk Howard did (off the glass) was spectacular and probably would have won him the competition had it not been in the first round. But speaking of first round, didn’t you think that Rudy Fernandez dunk (with Pau Gasol) was amazing? I mean it took them 24054 attempts to get it which is what killed it, but for me it was by far the most impressive one!

Spades – I’m just about done clearing out my DVR of the last SIX episodes of Impact. I still like TNA, but I could smack the shit out of Mike Tenay at this point!

Nathan – The fan voting system should be looked at again because Howard was robbed. It’s a shame.

JR – I hear ya! I’m pulling for Howard again next year!