Yeah I watched it live with whole fam
@Bruckle it was AMAZING! Last years was good and brought back energy with Lavine but no one was suspecting he'd have competition this year! ... I wonder if he will even go for a third? ... It would be very nice to see him do so with Aaron Gordon again as I think then AG will get it and it'd be a good passing of torch almost.
@TheStixter tagging this foolio as he's a huge magic fan. haha.
My summmary ... Zach has GREAT posture and thus his dunks just look so perfect/pretty ... I agree that all those OT dunks were still credible enough to be 50's compared to past stuff etc. I think AG's stuff just happens so fast its almost hard to appreciate some of them. Like that last dunk he did the behind the nick then under over I thought was killer as its crazy hang time and thought that he might have won with that. But when it happened fast I didnt think much of it ... slow-mo you really appreciate it.
No matter what tho the more MEMORABLE dunks came from AG and it's his that make me really remember this year's. What was absolutely amazing and what I love was we actually had a year with 2 dudes capable of winning and competing and it made it magical.
besides the last 2 years ... what made the past ones suck for like 7-8 years is guys needing like 10 tries to do their dunk. Last years had that "Zach shut sh!t down" feel cause he was doing them off one try. Nothing beats the 1 (2max) tries to complete a dunk. All about the impact in the arena.....
I would also say that had Zach not had won or competed last year I bet AG would have won this year. So many people made sure to tune in this year cause of Zach ... I'd say like 99% of the all stars who predicted their winners all circled him too. Kinda like movies when you go into see a movie having heard CRAZY "BEST EVER" hype sometimes that hurts the affect it has on you ... you expect so much more. And people EXPECTED Zach to win.