With about 8 seconds left in the game the Raptors elected to inbound the ball to Lou Williams in the backcourt who then dribbled it up in iso and drained the step back 3 against Avery Bradley with 0.6 seconds left on the clock to give the Raptors a 92-89 win. Baller stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoprAeCWQS8
Last season the NBA rolled out a new format for the dunk contest that pitted the 3 Eastern Conference players against the 3 Western Conference players. These east vs west competitions started with a freestyle round where each conference had 90 seconds to throw down as many impressive dunks as possible. The winning team was then allowed to choose the dunking order for the battle round. In the battle round 1 player from each conference faced off in traditional dunk contest fashion with the loser being eliminated from the competition. Surprisingly though the east won each of their first battle round match ups leading to a situation where the dunk contest was as short as possible. Granted nobody expected the east to dominate the battle round and the thought of one player from the west having to then win two more battle rounds against the east can lead to a really exciting narrative where one player carried their entire conference proving across 3 rounds that he is better than the 3 best dunkers the other conference could throw at him. I hope they give this format one more shot because in theory this format can be really exciting, it just had it's least interesting scenario play out last year.
East:
1. John Wall (Washington Wizards)
2. Terrence Ross (Toronto Raptors)
3. Andre Drummond (Detroit Pistons)
West:
1. Andrew Wiggins (Minnesota Timberwolves)
2. Eric Griffin (Dallas Mavericks)
3. Kenneth Faried (Denver Nuggets)
