Larry Bird - 1986 Three-Point Contest (his best performance)

[Round Mound]

Minute 4:00 :roll: :bowdown: :applause: :rockon: :cheers: :pimp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVpClp0xiAk

[Rake2204]

I know the preemptive finger in the air is Larry's legend in the three-point shootout, but that 4:00 moment was pretty great too, ha.

http://gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/Larry-Goes-Glass-543c81c413709.gif

Also weird to see Dale Ellis wearing a double digit number. I don't think I've ever seen a video of him in Dallas before.

[SHAQisGOAT]

"I'm just looking to see who's going to finish 2nd." :lol

Off the glass :bowdown: You can see he was having fun out there.

4th most points in the final round (22)
2nd most consecutive shots made (11)
(no money-ball rack)
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That's great, especially for a player who didn't come up with the 3pt line...
Just this past year only 2 players reached the 20-point mark (in 12 "tries"), and only 1 had more than 22 points, and that's WITH the money-ball rack.

Got 3 all-time great 3pt shooters there, in Bird, Ellis and Hodges. Also one of the very 1st 3pt-specialists in NBA history, Trent Tucker, 40.8% career shooter on 2 attempts per game, playing 20 min.

Craig Hodges with 25 in that 1st round is still the record for most points (tied with Kapono), and he still has the record for most consecutive shots made, in 1991, with 19 :eek: That man could really shoot them 3's, he spent too much energy before the final round there though (including the tie-breaker with Ellis), he was too tired at the end, while Larry paced himself and could shoot/make 3's without breaking too much of a sweat.

And speaking of Hodges:

After Craig Hodges won the NBA All-Star Game Three-Point contest in Bird's absence, Hodges was asked if the victory was tainted because Bird hadn't participated. "He knows where he can find me," was Hodges retort. Told of Hodges' challenge, Bird replied, "Yeah, at the end of the Bulls' bench."
:oldlol: vintage Larry

[SHAQisGOAT]

I know the preemptive finger in the air is Larry's legend in the three-point shootout, but that 4:00 moment was pretty great too, ha.

http://gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/Larry-Goes-Glass-543c81c413709.gif

Also weird to see Dale Ellis wearing a double digit number. I don't think I've ever seen a video of him in Dallas before.

:lol :applause:



Yea, he spent his 1st years there but wasn't used much. Few highlights of him with the Mavs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6cpQlHmzE

He then got traded to the Sonics where he spent his best years, as a 1st option, later on becoming somewhat of a journeyman as a 2nd-option/3rd-option/3pt-specialist.

And speaking of Dallas, here's Ellis leading Seattle in an upset over them, just after getting traded by them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO4KBGEPM2E

Dale's a very underrated player, especially when talking about GOAT shooters... At his best, he was an athletic and smart 6'7 SG, elite shooter from everywhere but the FT line, great without the ball, could post-up and take it to the cup, plus stayed active on the offensive glass.
27.5 PPG on 50.1 / 47.8 / 81.6, with 4 3PA's, in his best year :bowdown:

[AboutBuckets]

Yeah, at the end of the Bull's bench

:lebronamazed: Roasted.

[Angel Face]

After Craig Hodges won the NBA All-Star Game Three-Point contest in Bird's absence, Hodges was asked if the victory was tainted because Bird hadn't participated. "He knows where he can find me," was Hodges retort. Told of Hodges' challenge, Bird replied, "Yeah, at the end of the Bulls' bench."

:oldlol: vintage Larry


:oldlol: Dude's badass.

[jstern]

Did he call backboard?

[Round Mound]

Did he call backboard?

The Dude Was Having Fun :bowdown:

[oarabbus]

Did he call backboard?


Have you heard of Larry Bird? :lol

[305Baller]

No way Bird banked that on purpose. He got lucky.

[russwest0]

:oldlol: vintage Larry


Yep.

[jstern]

No way Bird banked that on purpose. He got lucky.

From what I've seen of Larry Bird, I would be more likely to believe that he banked it on purpose than completely shooting it way off.

Look at the shots he makes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oACRt-Qp-s

Jk, on the video.

[Rake2204]

No way Bird banked that on purpose. He got lucky.I actually believe it was on purpose for three reasons:

1) His opponent's low final round score (12) meant that Larry had clinched the title by the third rack (he nearly hit every shot on the first two racks alone). So by the fourth rack, he had the opportunity to put on a little show.

2) He tried another trick shot in the fifth rack (super rainbow on his very last shot), suggesting he was shooting normal racks for the last two but with tricks as his money balls.

3) It's Larry Bird.

[SHAQisGOAT]

No way Bird banked that on purpose. He got lucky.

No way? I can't confirm if he did or didn't but no way?? :rolleyes: It's Larry Bird we're talking about here... he made more difficult shots than that throughout his career (even when having "fun", even when trash-talking and telling what he was gonna do), I can't believe he would "miss"(actually went in) a shot by that much, the contest was already won and he was enjoying himself...

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

And speaking of Hodges:

:oldlol: vintage Larry


Ether laced with an extra dose of anesthetic. :oldlol:

But, real rap, Larry sucked - and here's why. He never left Boston to form voltron w/ Magic and MJ in Miami, only to later return and become a sympathy figure. The 80s = weak era filled w/ jamokes trying to promote the game. Pssh.

[Rake2204]

Ether laced with an extra dose of anesthetic. :oldlol:

But, real rap, Larry sucked - and here's why. He never left Boston to form voltron w/ Magic and MJ in Miami, only to later return and become a sympathy figure. The 80s = weak era filled w/ jamokes trying to promote the game. Pssh.Had the Miami super team actually been dubbed Voltron, I may have hated that situation just a little less.

[Round Mound]

1st The Patrick Ewing Underrating and Now This :confusedshrug:

Larry Bird was a Master of the Bank Shot....From Pretty Much Every Angle Existant.

Also, Notice How In The 1st Rounds of Three Point Contest He Is Wearing His Warm Up Jacket and In The Final Round He Takes It Off. Pure Intimidation and Mind Games :bowdown:

McHale Used To Do His Routine "In The Torture Chamber" After Every Score and Foul He Would Go And Dry His Hands With The Towel Before His Free Throws . :bowdown: