2011 All-Star Saturday Prediction/Discussion

[Doobie]

Shooting Stars - Team Texas
Skills Challenge - Derrick Rose
3 point shootout - Ray Allen
Dunk Contest - Blake Griffin

[Lamrock]

I got Texas, Rose, Boobie and DeRozan winning tonight.

[Martti.]

Texas, Rose, Jones, Blake.

[Oznogrd]

Definitely Texas on shooting stars, good god thats some unbalanced teams

Skills- I think wall will be too out of control and lose it and pauls knee will affect his cuts. D-Rose is who my head tells me to pick, but Westbrook gets his shots to fall i think he could take it.

3 pt-Im just gonna be an idiot and pick allen. Cant justify it, but cant NOT justify it.

Dunk-As long as its better than last year's i dont care, but go Blake

EDIT: HOLY FUCK...Kenny smith's wife is hot. Why am i so surprised?

[airBerlin]

Chicago
Westbrook
Boobie
DeRozan

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[Doobie]

That all-star draft thing on ESPN was pretty funny. So many quotables. My favorite was...

"I had Pete Maravich on my list... It came down to picking myself or The Pistol" - Kenny Smith

[Martti.]

Didn't catch the start, why did Chuck pick Iverson with the #1 pick?

[Doobie]

Cause he thought it was greatest all-star perfomers, not putting together the greatest team of all-stars.

[Andrew]

Same picks as Doobie. Team Texas seems best equipped to win the Shooting Stars, I'll of course be pulling for Chicago but I don't think it's happening. Rose is a bit of a homer pick but he's won the contest before and it seems only fitting that Allen win the contest in the same season that he breaks the all-time record for threes made. With fan voting in the Finals, I think NBA fans at large have been conditioned to vote for Griffin but at the same time I reckon he'll have a strong showing and be worthy of the crown.

[Doobie]

Anyone think Westbrook looks like cam newton?

[Andrew]

Team Texas blew it in the final, they had a lot of time to make that halfcourt shot. Ah well, 0/1 so far.

[Doobie]

0/2 so far Andrew. Chris Paul missing that first lay up was hilarious.

[Andrew]

Yeah, Rose was a little slow on the last station and a couple of those passes cost him. Paul's missed layup completely messed him up, I believe that's the first time someone's missed that first layup. If not, it hasn't happened very often.

Great performance by Curry, actually improving on his first round time.

[Lamrock]

Glad to see Curry win the skills challenge. Love his game. He looked half creepy and half natural with those two young girls between him.

[Doobie]

I was thinking that to Lam, he had his arms around them and everything, yet looked like he belonged with there age group.

[JaoSming]

missed the first two contests, but I got Paul and McGee

[Andrew]

Allen's looking good in the three point shootout, even though he didn't get the last two shots off in time. Gibson's performance pretty much sums up the Cavs' season to date.

[Martti.]

Got one right, James Jones delivered!

[Andrew]

0/3, fine shooting by Jones in the final round. Pierce had a much better finals after just squeaking by in the first round, I still thought Allen was going to top them both with at least 21 but it wasn't to be. First round was a little ugly with Gibson and Durant, Wright wasn't much better.

[Martti.]

The first round was ugly, if Pierce hadn't made the final 3 for 4 points, he would have been in single-digits too.

[airBerlin]

Just to clarify, my prior post was predicting who wasn't going to win.

+3 for airBerlin

[Alpha_]

James Jones!

[Andrew]

I don't entirely agree with all of the scores so far, but this dunk contest is miles ahead of last year and probably one of the best in a while.

[Doobie]

My mouth is open wide. I'm in awe.

[Alpha_]

Ibaka had two awesome dunks. I don't get why he got low scores.