With two powerhouse dunkers like Aaron Gordon and Derrick Jones Jr., it was inevitable they would go to a dunk-off.
The judges’ inability to move the scale out and make a 50 a real amazing dunk rather than letting everything hover in the 48-50 range (the lowest scored dunk in Saturday’s contest was Dwight Howard‘s opening 41) inevitably meant everything the best dunks did would be a 50.
So Aaron Gordon needed a fresh idea.
This third time in the dunk contest came with much less planning. There were no props and no gimmicks.