Meralco is calling this the Meralco High Voltage Slam Dunk Contest.
That’s a cool name. The Bolts is a
good moniker. Whoever thought of the name must help Rain or Shine pick a better nickname.
Elasto Painters?
Eww.
Speaking
of Rain or Shine, I’m not going to choose Josh
Vanlandingham as my top pick because that right is reserved for Kelly Williams. Gabe Norwood and Jay
Washington pulled out of the contest at the last minute.
Elmer Espiritu has been traded by the Alaska Aces to the Air21 Express for Wesley
Gonzales.
Espiritu
must be so happy right now.
Wesley?
Hopefully.
Mico Halili and Jason Webb are toying with Dominic
Uy. It all started with Dondon
Hontiveros joining the panel for the skills contest while Willie Miller made the three-point
contest a laugh trip! By the way, Jonas
Villanueva emerged victorious in the skills event while Mark Macapagal was able to successfully
defend his 3-Point title.
This is by the way the first time the PBA has ever held a game at Boracay and with the influx of players standing 5'8 and up, the fans are loving the 2011 PBA All-Star Extravaganza.
The
commentating here is superb and funny by the way.
ROUND 1:
ELMER ESPIRITU – Just had henna. Missed a
jack knife dunk and had to settle with a double pump. 36 POINTS!
RONALD TUBID – Tubid just went for a silly
dunk. He laughed at himself. It sucked and he knows it.
JC INTAL – He brought LA Tenorio as a jumping pad. After several
attempts he made it. I think LA was sabotaging JC. Yes, Ginebra fans... blame him.
REY GUEVARRA – He made a reverse 360 dunk!
It was cool! It was like mid-air ballet. That dunk is good for 49 points.
JOSH
VANLANDINGHAM –
He had the right idea but his timing is off. It did a tolerable dunk but that
dunk shouldn’t be in a dunk contest. Dominic Uy is getting owned by Mico and
Jason right now.
Dominic Uy to Jason Webb: Eh tapboard na nga lang,
tuwang-tuwa ka na eh!
Funny
line!
KELLY WILLIAMS – Williams charged in and
nailed a sick dunk! With Williams in the competition, that instantly gave the
contest credibility. Williams’ dunk was good for 49 points.
At the
end of the first round, Guevarra and Williams are leading the contest. Guevarra
is starting to have fans by this point.
ROUND 2:
ESPIRITU – Espiritu scored 45 points by
nailing a slightly low 360 shot that ended it with a pump dunk.
TUBID – Dammit! Tubid got put on a
snorkel... and threw a 360 dunk! A SNORKEL AND BERMUDA SHORTS! It would have
been 50 if he wore flippers! 48 POINTS!
INTAL – Yeah. Intal got 50 points by
nailing a decent 180 dunk! Intal wanted a re-dunk but the judges gave him a 50.
The judges have the word “CHARITY” written in their foreheads. Oh well.
GUEVARRA – The guy is doing
extraordinary things. He did an Andre Igoudala-type baseline dunk. Despite the
weak finish, he scored 47 points.
VANLANDINGHAM – Sean Anthony is with
Vanlandingham while Shawn Weinstein is in the bleachers. Anthony was bumped off
to have directly Weinstein throw the ball to Vanlandingham. Then after one
attempt, Vanlandingham ditched Weinstein to score with a basic two-hander.
They
build your anticipation but you end up disgusted.
It’s
just like “chickless” Sucker Punch!
WILLIAMS – Kelly brought in Jimmy
Alapag to do something sick and twisted. Alapag got threw a bounce pass from
the bleachers in which Williams finishes it with a seriously insane power dunk!
Definitely, the anticipation for the dunk as well as Kelly’s showboating made
this dunk the Dunk of the Night.
Guevarra
and Williams will compete for the Finals! They should have made the contest a
three-way dance because JC Intal would have made crunch time awesome.
FINALS:
Alapag
just yanked Uy out of the commentator’s booth! Uy got mangled by Jason and
Mico!
FIRST ROUND:
GUEVARRA – Missed his first dunk. Jimmy
is biased but again, Guevarra failed to finish the dunk strong so his biasness
was slightly unreasonable. Still he scored 46 points.
WILLIAMS – He missed also his first
dunk. And his second. But then Williams hit an explosive back to the basket
pump dunk!
SECOND ROUND:
GUEVARRA – He threw the ball but
continuous missed dunk messed his chances of winning. He settled for a
one-hander but even with that miniscule effort, you can see him soar awesomely.
Give him time and he’ll rock the contest with gusto!
WILLIAMS – Williams is trying to do a
between the legs dunk. Any dunk Williams do with an explosive finish is more
than enough for him to cream Guevarra in this competition. The dunk worked and
Machine Gun Kelly was named the winner!
WINNER: KELLY
WILLIAMS
K-Will
thanked KG Canaleta and Gabe Norwood for missing the contest.
But I
don’t.
This
was one of the weaker dunk contests I have seen. It rivalled the days when Vic Pablo was winning Slam Dunk Contests by nailing one-hand
dunks. I do not care what mumbo-jumbo they could do to spice this contest up
but I hope they could do something with this.
Also,
what the hell were those judges watching? Was this the first time they saw a
dunk contest? Just like the Intal second dunk, they were just handing their 9’s
and 10’s on less than stellar dunks.
At
least they should ask the participants to have one dunk to showcase their
skills and a dunk where they need to use props. I hate the usage of props in
the NBA dunking contests but in the PBA, you have no choice. I think they need
to have it as a mandatory thing.
Or
maybe, they can do that H-O-R-S-E
game they did a couple of years back with Willie, Ronald, and Wesley because
that was such a fun game. Perhaps they can have the slam dunkers do that
type-of-game to refresh the event because it has become insanely stale.
But
anyway, it was a superb effort for K-Will.
He was
a class on his own and hopefully he’ll come back to defend his crown against
bigger and badder opponents.
For
Guevarra, this is a great way for him to showcase his abilities in front of the
PBA faithful and hopefully what he did was enough for him to succeed in his PBA
career.
Game
over.
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