 What's the word y'all welcome back to the recap man it feels good to say those words who's been a minute it's been a minute but I'm here to talk about all-star day Not weekend unless you want to count the two on two between quavo and and two chains It was just an all-star day, and I don't know if I really really enjoyed it Or it was kind of bad and forgettable. It's one of the two leave a like subscribe if you're new Let's let's have that conversation I can say I did like the structure of this day starting off with the skills competition Going all the way down to the last buzzer of the all-star game I really like the idea of it being one day full of everything But me and you know that that's not going to be the case next year You know, hopefully things are a little bit more safe because the NBA loves that revenue three days of ad revenue Three days of ticket sales, you know, they breaking it back up But I do like that everything was right after each other until we got to the second half today I thought this was a whole W skills competition is what it is. It's like an appetizer little warm Nobody actually cares about the skills competition the people in the skills competition don't care about the skills competition So with that being said it was still enjoyable. I think I was rooting for robert covington Because it was just different to see a guy like him in that because he he has not showcased Like skill like dribbling ability passing ability throughout his entire career But I understand why he was there for the hbcu set out to them But I was rooting for him for that moment alone for that reason alone But obviously that didn't go with my boy cp missed the whole layup But he made up for it because he dunked the ball for that I think the second all-star game in the row So then we get to the three-point competition and man that this feel amazing step curry being back in the event Made everything just work out well We knew there was this guy this goliath of a shooter in this competition And I of course I love watching step curry shoot the ball is the purest looking jump shot because after he missed those first two In his first um first time around he was absolutely automatic He just had to recalibrate and he just found it. It's like it's so incredible to see people Not at the best of what they do whether this is sports whether this is music whatever it may be When you are the absolute best at something bar none There is no better shooter than stephen curry on this planet right now So to see him find that moment and lock in Is incredible and I think everybody was in all of it One thing I didn't like is of course the day me a little ahead to pull out for the rest reasons Because I think that those two players are the ones that we get in that final shout out to my colleague because he He definitely uh showed a lot of people wrong But I wanted to see day versus step and then once we got to the actual game And these dudes was literally pulling up from half court Made me want to see them go back and forth from three in the action three-point shootout even more So step curry kills it in in the three-point shootout coming down to the last possible shot And then we get to the first half of the all-star game and it was beautiful I I think that the mba I think we're gonna be comparing Last year's all-star game in chicago with the new elam ending in an end where anthony davis hitting that shot Basically being a close everybody's buckling in we're gonna compare that game to every single game in the near future Because that was the most competitive game that we've seen in a very long time And I think that the players are trying to find this balance of being competitive And also trying to show out for the fans right because you need a balance of both And I think last year was a perfect perfect example of that But the first half man, it was crazy to see step curry do everything he does It was crazy to see yannis dominate these are the type of games though that the big man the dominant force That's why shack has three finals mvps That's why anthony davis has a few because at the end of the day nobody's really guarding like a guy like yannis When he's in the paint so he could just run to the basket and dunk the ball But he showed a lot of different stuff like a step back three in the corner Girlfriend was like that's not him, right? And I was like no He's not doing that type of stuff in the regular season game That's not him and then he had a bank three pointer He was bringing out all the tricks and I think I saw a stat on twitter That he is the only player in mba history to go to an all-star game and shoot Perfect from the field with over 10 shot attempts. So that is an incredible stat line in itself I didn't even realize a dame had 32 Overall the first half of the game was well played from both sides, you know Of course the little team lebron was stacked by the end of you know, I'm saying when you got joel and bead You have devin booker and and of course the captain himself kevin arant not being there Of course, we knew that team lebron was going to win We was trying to see how dominant of a performance what it's gonna be and through the first half Of course team lebron was winning, but it wasn't like a dominant until like we got to the second half And that's when it kind of got boring um team direct kind of stayed in in this for the first half, but yeah It's very weird to have team direct missing them in i was i was saying this in our podcast Imagine they go through this drafter right team lebron versus team kevin arant you draft devin booker And then your devin booker drafty gets replaced by mike holly now That's not a knock at mike holly, but if you were trying to get devin booker You got mike holly as a substitute That's that is a downgrade and then we have this whole thing that was the the biggest The biggest concern when it comes to putting together this all-star game was like the covet thing and we saw that today With jollam beat and ben Simmons who of course bonafide all-stars should have been in the game today Due to contra contact tracing they could not perform And like jollam beat is an MVP candidate this year and he couldn't actually be in the all-star game And I know he's in atlanta. He's mad like he even tweeted He even tweeted mickey mouse all-star game which Is enabled on all of those guys that use that mickey mouse meme stuff to continue to do what they do Joelle we gotta be we gotta be better do not open that gate because it will not close Um, but then we get to the dunk contest and well the dunk contest was extremely underwhelming And you know what? I did not look at the three players that were into it and immediately thought that it was going to be a dud Um, when you compare it to some of the previous years, we know like bonafide Dunkers were in it bonafide like really really good players were in it And I didn't look at these three guys and immediately to say you this is gonna suck I gave this a legitimate chance and it just didn't live up to any expectation for me Not that the dunks were bad or anything like they were good dunks and they were impressive dunks There's no flair to it And maybe that's because there was not a lot of crowd or maybe the dunks just weren't Didn't have enough flair that the crowd to get into it You know because there were still 2,500 people there I think they said Something like that and then the players that were even on the sideline didn't react to these dunks Stop currying them reacting crazy to the actual game the whole time We got to the dunk contest and they were like nice dunk a little clap You know, nobody's really reacting Anthony simons put on some cool dunks the dunk that Cassius staley started with was dope But it was also something we've seen before so it didn't get a high grade and obi top and brought out something Zach Levine did a week ago and then like it was just some of the dunks were pretty basic but impressive Don't get me wrong impressive, but basic nothing was like something we've never seen before If Anthony Simon actually gave that the lips to the rim that would have been different Him jumping up 12 feet was kind of different But it didn't have that little flair to it to make like as a as a Person as a basketball fan jumping up 12 feet to get a ball and dunking it is impressive But I feel like to the casual fan that was just a dunk. Maybe I'm wrong here Overall not really impressive and then that same energy kind of carried on to the second half where we it just was happening It was just happening The only I think the only downside Of having everything in like one day's slate is that it felt like it was going on forever Like at the end of the third quarter they had the legend Anthony Hamilton come through and sing a song Which is dope for for the frontline workers, which is dope, but it definitely felt like We were going on for six hours already. You know what I'm saying? So, um, maybe the pacing or maybe starting a little bit earlier if we're gonna keep it one day would have been better I Still don't know if I really loved it or it was it like when we look back three years from now Are we gonna remember this game? Maybe we remember Steph Curry being dominant in the three-point shootout Maybe we remember that that Yanis didn't miss a shot But I think we're gonna keep comparing it to 2020 in Chicago. I just think we do. I think we do 2020 in Chicago I do love the idea of them naming the MVP award after Kobe. That is beautiful. That is a beautiful gesture Um, because of course, Kobe also destroyed all star games 2011 is the one that comes to mind because they they just retro the pro tropes six um Where he won all star game MVP in in LA at that and I wore them in the three point The shootout I was in a couple days ago that we will not talk about because I lost overall I don't regret watching obviously because it's basketball what I am going to to be really upset about or Kind of lost with is there's no basketball for the next with two three days. They get to a Wednesday night. So It's going to be rough Let me know what you think about all star man. Was it a w? Was it a l? Let me know comment section. Peace out