2000 smaç şampiyonasının finaline kalan 3lü:
(the 3plet of S-Dunk Final)
Vince #15
Steve Francis (Houston)
Vince'in kuzeni Tracy Mcgrady
(Toronto'dan Orlando'ya gidiyordu en son)
Şampiyon olunca Carter şu açıklamayı yaptı:
(Carter's comments)
"I didn't feel any pressure. I approached it
as just an opportunity to participate and
have a little funwith my cousin (McGrady) and
some guys that I've played with. Just have some fun
and just showthe world some of my talents, and
some of the dunks that I didn't really know that
I could do. Honestly, I made some of these dunks
up on the fly, before I actually did them."
İŞTE VINCE'İN YETENEKLERİ:
(S-Dunk 2000)
(nba.com linkleri oldukları için artık kırık olabilirler...)
Şampiyonanın NBA.com Anlatımı
(NBA.com report on S-Dunk Contest 2000)
The night belonged to Carter from the outset.
Eager to prove himself a complete player
and to distance himself from the Jordan
legend, Carter nonetheless walked on rare air in the final contest
of a thrilling All-Star Saturday program. Carter began the first
round -- which consisted of three dunks for each of the six participants
-- with a beautiful 360-degree spin from left to right resulting in a powerful
jam on the right side of the rim. The Arena in Oakland erupted. NBA players
jumped
off the benches in celebration. Carter celebrated with McGrady,
at the same time a rival and his closest friend.
The judges awarded the first perfect score of
the night, a nice, round 50.
McGrady and Francis quickly established they
would be joining Carter in the three-man final round.
McGrady's first dunk, which earned a 45, was
comprised of a bounce from the foul line, a catch
at waist level and a resounding two-hander with
a pump to the right as polish. Francis began his debut dunk with a lead-ahead
bounce from halfcourt, a catch where he cupped the ball and viciously crammed
in a right hand smash. Francis' first effort earned a 45, setting the tone
that it was a three-man contest right from the start.Ricky Davis of Charlotte
had the highest scoring dunk of the first round among the three competitors
who did not advance. Davis started at the three-point line on the right
side, brought the ball cleanly between his legs and finished with a nasty
two-handed slam, earning a 48. But Davis (88) Jerry Stackhouse of Detroit
(83) and LarryHughes of Philadelphia (67) were eliminated after the first
round.
Carter's second dunk of the first round
earned a 49. He began under the basket out
of bounds, took two steps to get out from under
the rim, and sent down a gorgeous vertical hammer, cupping the ball
in his right hand.Francis came up with his own perfect score of 50 with
his second dunk. He started from the left hash mark, bounced the ball just
outside the free throw lane, caught the ball and leaned in diagonally with
plenty of airspace and rocked the rim with a right hand putdown. Rockets
teammate Cuttino Mobley stood and faced the crowd with a smile that said,
yes, he's got a 50.
Carter's third dunk of the first round
was the showstopper. Using a simple low bounce
provided by McGradyjust in front of the rim,
Carter
caught the ball, passed it quickly between his legs with the left hand
and pounded a two-hander with his right hand following the ball for emphasis.
Pandemonium ensued in the arena as Carter mouthed for the camera:
"It's over."
"And it just came to mind," McGrady said. "He told me to bounce the ball a certain height, and in thecenter of the paint. I already knew what he was going to do. I've never seen that done before.""That was probably by far the hardest, because you have to have a good bounce, but you have to catch the ball and be able to put it between your legs, and at the same time still be able to make the dunk," Carter explained. "So that was probably my favorite right now. I thought of it right before."And so it was. McGrady and Francis both recorded impressive dunks in the final round, with McGrady drawing a 45 for a two-handed power dunk from the left side and Francis notching a 48 for a startling reverse, back-to-the-basket, two-hand, over-the-head job.
But Carter took the crown with two of his
simplest, athletic dunks of the evening.
First, he swooped to the basket straight on and
delivered a powerful right-hand throw-through that was over in a nanosecond,
but Carter added some creativity to it by sticking his arm
through the rimfor effect. It earned the third 50 of the night for the
former North Carolina star. He closed it out with a floating, straigh-on
two-hander which began with a runout from the left corner of the backcourt,
and featured a takeoff from a spot just before the dotted line well inside
the foul line. That dunk earned a 48, clinching the title.
"I've been in a few dunk contests in my young
career as a basketball player,
and now I do it on a professional level," Carter
said. "I do it with some of the best leapers in the
world. I'm sure there are others out there. But
today is my day."
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