Pink Hankie

so yeah, this weekend was the all-star stuff. which is pretty fun, i haven't watched any of this stuff in a really long time. the last all-star game i actually saw was two years ago or something and i didn't know who anyone was anymore, but one of the sides was whopping the other side. anyway, i was pretty much really interested to see how this stuff would pan out.
on saturday night they had some specials. there was this one event which featured a current team member, an old team member and a member of the WNBA version of the team. they had to make all of these different shots in a time span of two minutes, and one of them was a half-court heave. i was sort of going for the pheonix line-up because it featured Old But Nasty Dan Marjele. there were only four teams i think that were in on this, but it went to the detroit team featuring Bill Lambier! man, haven't thought about this guy in a while:
so old Lamb took care of that one. they also had a skills challenge happen, and Derrick Rose was involved, so i'll let Emily take the lead there.
The 3-Point contest was aright. i wasn't too familiar with anyone in it. but i knew i didn't want the guy who had one two years in a row to win again. and he didn't, so that was good.
the slam dunk contest was what i was pretty interested in seeing. you know, it's flashy and classic. but for some reason, i was sort of under impressed with it all. in former years, they got really creative while they were in the air, like Dominique Wilkins, Cedric Ceballos, Vince Carter and of course Mike Jordan. but now it's just like, who can get an alley oop from a non traditional place? or who can do a normal dunk with a cape on? i dont' know, i like Dwight Howard, but i feel like he could do something really wild, and he's not doing really cool stuff, just like, "showy" types. i'm into the Trailblazers, and Rudy Fernandez was somehow in the contest and i feel like he got straight shafted. his first dunk was pretty wild, and didn't get him many points from the judges table. and then he made a bad choice of having Pau Gasol toss him an alley for the second one. and that guy was screwing him up. he took the entire two minutes to get the pass right, and then he finally got it, and the dunk was pretty nice, but again, no one cared about him. i'm glad that Nate Robinson won, though. first of all because it's nearly impossible that he can dunk in the first place, but also because Dwight Howard didn't deserve it this year. he tried for a foul liner, but he had a foot ahead, and it was boring. so, there's that.

(not from this year, but wild none the less)

the game itself was today. and i felt like the east were going to take it away. at least as far as starting line-ups were concerned, the east had it. from what i saw of the game, it was looking pretty close, but apparently the west went wild (wild) and won by 30 or so. i don't know how that really happened, unfortunately i read that it was mainly Shaq and Kobe Bryant. but Chris Webber said something pretty good when being asked "How do you feel about Shaq and Kobe being teammates for the first time since June 2004?" he answered by saying "I never wanted to see that again." true, C Webb.
so this was my first entry in a long time. but i don't have access to TNT here in my apartment, so i can't really get ahold of the games. that bulls thing took a lot out of me, but if i form some more opinions or comparisons about something, i'll do that of course. but Emily should be updating about this soon, so there'll be that to look forawrd to.