Rudy's nominated for "NBA WTF Play Of The Year"

It was a memorable sequence against the Clippers that ended well.

about 1 year ago Bart King 41 comments 11 recs |

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Voted for Rudy

But I really think the KMart AK47 play should win.

"What we have here, is a failure to communicate."

by with_a_z on Apr 11, 2011 1:19 PM PDT reply actions

same

all of those were pretty good. The Lebron free throw miss was great… I don’t even know how that’s possible.

by In Walks Rudy on Apr 11, 2011 1:32 PM PDT reply actions

Agreed...

…LeBron’s was a corker. Rudy should get the “long-play action sequence” award.

by Bart King on Apr 11, 2011 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions

The LeBron play was by far the weirdest... my second pick would be Cousins' shotput

I still think Rudy’s play was overrated in the WTF department. It starts with a trademark Fernandez heads up steal. He played the break right, didn’t anticipate the collision, but recovered nicely and avoided trampling a teammate.

"So in a weird way, not getting an answer was the answer."
Brandon Roy 3/9/11

by jiminut on Apr 12, 2011 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions

only 3 real contenders in my book

Missed dunks are a dime a dozen, as are bad passes. The Ally Oop swish is funny, but not really unique, and nothing very interesing or exciting about accidentally handing a ball of early.

So that leaves Rudy, LeBron, and K-Mart/AK. The Rudy play is easily the most entertaining of the bunch, but the true “WTF?” moments have to be the other 2 plays. How do NINE other guys all not realize it was an and-one? sad part for the Wolve’s Wayne Ellington is that he actually is playing it like a live ball, runs in to box out LBJ. But then he sees no one else is moving and therefore he must have been wrong, so he stops too. I still wonder if the Ref didn’t signal 2 shots by mistake when he handed the ball to LeBron.

"I want to be traded to a contender" is almost always code-speak for "I'm a loser."
-Dave, 2/5/2010: http://www.blazersedge.com/2010/2/5/1297509/no-amore-for-amare

by douglast on Apr 11, 2011 1:46 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah, the miscommunication at the free-throw line is easily the most absurd moment of the group.

"They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory."

by AK1984 on Apr 12, 2011 1:52 AM PDT up reply actions

It's kind of dangerous watching those while eating lunch

The LeBron one made me inhale part of my sandwich. Out of loyalty I voted for Rudy. Props to the person who submitted it. :-)

Wiggada Wiggada Zers!

by Corvid on Apr 11, 2011 1:49 PM PDT reply actions

it was Roybot

by hoodieNation on Apr 11, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions

I like the Joel Anthony pass to no-where

Blazer’s D had every player covered so obviously the guy in the corner is open…oops I guess that’s why he’s open (he doesn’t exist). It’s okay to look silly (Rudy’s play) but in my opinion it’s better to make our opponent look silly.

by NWfan on Apr 11, 2011 2:23 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

I agree..

I laughed so hard that my wife told me to “get it together.”

by parkinglotj on Apr 11, 2011 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah I got to give it to LeBron

AK47 was partially stripped

by Kaanyr Vhok on Apr 11, 2011 2:57 PM PDT reply actions

by the rim

Jeff Pendergraph:
FGM - 3
FGA - 111
Min - 30
Reb - 10

by Tofu Anonymous on Apr 11, 2011 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Carmelo pokes the ball out of his hands while standing out of bounds

He’s trying to regain control as he goes up for the hoop, and there’s not enough time to recover.

Since Carmelo was out of bounds when he touched the ball, it should have been Utah ball with under a second left (but enough time to get off a shot). It was a clear referee error, but an easy mistake in the confusion and unexpectedness of that event.

by Timmay! on Apr 11, 2011 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions

Wasn't that KMart?

Rumor has it that Dos Equis first approached Aldridge, but Aldridge turned thrm down because the real 'most interesting man in the world' would not have to prove it in a commercial. - Canis Hoopus 1/7/11

by jamon51 on Apr 11, 2011 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Yep! My bad with Carmelo.

by Timmay! on Apr 11, 2011 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions

It's the K-Mart part that gets me

Utah is down 5 with 5 only seconds to go, hits a three to cut it to two, and then K-Mart literally just fumbles the ball right into Kirilenko’s hands…who airballs the layup as time expires! Credit to K-Mart for getting a finger on it from out of bounds, but to just fumble it away like that in that situation absolutely blows me away.

"If I had a dime for every basket I made today, you'd still suck!" - from the book 'John Dies @ the End'

by sammymohawk on Apr 11, 2011 5:30 PM PDT up reply actions

the announcers seemed to be saying

that KMart was purposely trying to get AK to accidentally touch the ball while Kmart was till holding it, which would be a technical on Utah. If KMart was trying to do this, it was a clever, but clearly risky, play that ultimately backfired on him bigtime. he got lucky to get just enough of the ball to cause AK to fumble it.

"I want to be traded to a contender" is almost always code-speak for "I'm a loser."
-Dave, 2/5/2010: http://www.blazersedge.com/2010/2/5/1297509/no-amore-for-amare

by douglast on Apr 11, 2011 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions