Great highlights but this is really just post footwork - specifically pivots, step throughs, and up and unders. There’s a lot more footwork that could’ve been spotlighted especially things that start and finish drives - ex. Jab step, Euro step, Spins. A lot more fascinating footwork than the subsection that was spotlighted.
Whenever I see highlights of today's players using finesse despite the lack of athleticism, I get pissed about fans saying the previous generations were plumbers and scrubs. Like you think everyone will have the vision of Magic and Pistol Pete? The finesse, swagger, and clutch Ness of Bird? 48 inch vert and micro adjustments in the air like MJ? The speed and stamina of multi sport athletes like Wilt and Bill Rusell? Some things are timeless.
I have a question and I promise I’m not one of those fans that complain about referees or traveling in the NBA all the time but what’s the rule on establishing a pivot foot? On first watch and again after replaying them, I think Barrett in the first clip, Joker around 6:20 mark, and some other dude at 8:25, are all switching their pivot foot giving them an unfair advantage getting their shot off uncontested. I know the difference between these three moves and all the others in this video are very subtle but in my opinion it was an uncalled traveling violation. Either way, great clip.
Once you establish your pivot and you lift it, you can do anything before you put it back down. So you are not "changing" pivots if your pivot is the left foot and you take an extra step with your right. Think about layups, you first step establish your pivot foot (not really, but bare with me for the comparison), and then you follow that with an extra step with the other foot. For the rules to stay consistent, either layups become illegal or all the fancy moves (fadeaways, skyhooks, step-throughs...) stay legal. Otherwise it seems a bit arbitrary.
This is what i would say to younger fans to let then know just how great MJ was, has layup packge like Kyrie, Footwork like Kobe, mid range assassin like KD, quickness like Iverson, can you imagine a 6f6 as quick as someone like iverson Dunks like Ja, post up like any of best big men in todays game, when he needs to he can Pass like any of the best passer in todays game, his handle may not come with all the fancy moves but technically his handle is probably be second only to Kyrie, body control in the air like Kyrie with the highest vertical in NBA history hence he is called Air Jordan, Durability like Lebron, the explosiveness of Westbrook, the work ethics like Kobe, the Tenacity like Kobe, the competitiveness like no other, can elevate his game to Next level in playoff, think Jimmy butler, can defend, think about Kawhi, Marcus smart, Jru Holiday and Finally he is has the highest level of clutch and killer instinct second to non imagine all skill wrapped in single player who tf you conpare him to.
First highlight of RJ is a travel tho 😅 his pivot foot (left foot) left the ground way before his right foot. He basically took an extra step and jumped after stopping with the ball. It was still a good move and he got Russ with the shoulder fake, but I wouldn’t encourage players to do that with their footwork. The nba let’s things like that slide so they can create highlight content, but it won’t get overlooked in other settings
nah, fam, its not a travel, look at this bballbreakdown video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UUgRw8JeSwk.html at 4:00 mark. As long as his ball released before his pivot foot landed, its all good.
I stand corrected! Guess you can’t trust everything you hear in pickup 😂 while it may not apply in this case, I still stand by my comment about the league not making calls to get content tho lol
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