14:20 Really once a player is in the motion of dunking the only way to stop them is to try and swat the ball out of their hands during their motion. Must be 100% all ball contact other wise it's a foul. Also what the defenders can do is try and gamble and try to draw a charge (which is a rare foul onto the offense and hard to do correctly). Basically the defender has to be able to get infront of the player driving to the basket and have their feet and stance firmly planted in place and to be NOT moving. Then if the opposing player doesn't try to maneuver around them and ends up forcing their way through the player, thus knocking them down, then the ref may call a foul for charging. In which case the play stops and possession of the ball gets turned over. It's risky because it's hard for the defending players to usually get enough time for a proper plant infront and they're also sacrificing their body a bit to take the hit. If the defender doesn't have a firm plant and can't draw the charge, the ref may actually call the foul onto the defending player who took the hit (interference, sort of). Trying to draw charges really makes you sacrifice your body, as seen with the force of these players, and most of the time is not worth for these players to risk injury. Also once a player gets 6 personal fouls for the NBA , they're out of the game :)
Genuine reactions are always the best man, when I watch them myself I've always preferred the people who say how they really feel and don't put on an act 🙌 glad you appreciate bro
Lavish Luka But some of them were fast breaks cause of turnovers. When a team is running to the other end with the ball and it’s pretty fast paced. That’s called a fast break. Which is usually caused by a turnover.. When one team loses the ball that’s a turnover. It can be from a steal, a bad pass that goes out of bounds, a block that ends up in the other teams hands, Or a guy just losing the ball period.
C Cab no I know I’m saying yes Donovan Mitchell’s wingspan is insane for his height but even tho Giannis’ is more proportional the fact it’s 7’3 is fucking INSANE
So here are some terms Turnover is when a team loses the ball and the possession is given to the other team Counter attack is a "fastbreak" Instead of ally oop you can say "lob" which is more modern and up to date When a player passes to himself and then dunks it is a "self lob" or "self ally oop" Sledgehammer is a name for a dunk Love your vids man keep it going
I would say alley oop isn't really an out of date term. Everyone i know uses it and even those who don't use it will understand it. For me, lob specifically means the pass itself but not the dunk.
Players you need to react to - Lebron James - Kobe Bryant - Anthony Davis - James Harden - Russell Westbrook - Steph Curry - Kyrie Irving EDIT - Derrick Rose - Shaq - Kevin Durant - Blake Griffin
While I agree, he might be well served to do a little research on some background of specific tournaments and games. Without knowing circumstances and context, a March Madness compilation will look like any other highlight reel.
6:27 - To answer your question, yes his arms are abnormally long even for a Basketball player. They literally call him the Greek Freak because his body type is so incredible that he's basically a freak of nature. Not just his arms being long, but his legs, and just in general it's so rare to see someone who's 6'11 with his guard-like skillset.
Yo the reason your channel is blowing up is bc YOU ACTUALLY SEEM TO CARE ABOUT OUR SPORTS AND LEARNING. It’s great, some channels like this seem like they are just using American sports fans for views but you are a real one
The dunks you called “swishes” are called windmills, keep the basketball videos tho. It’s great watching someone fall in love with a sport you care a lot about
Hey man. I hope you're enjoying your journey through the NBA landscape. Don't let the people in the comments dictate what you like or don't like! Keep finding your own videos, and the views will find you. Be weary of those comments that demand you look at stuff in a certain order. I truly love the joy of you finding the joy and beauty in this sport. I hope you have a great year, Luka.
The NBA is sick, very satisfying to see someone new reacting to it. By the way, start paying attention to who shows up in the highlights. You will realize that theres a few guys that show up a lot and thats because they are either some of the best, or some of the most entertaining players. So thats means those are names and faces you should try to memorize as they are the superstars of the sport.
I saw #91 in person, I stood and cheered for 10 solid minutes. One thing the clip doesn't show is after the putback dunk, Donovan Mitchell stole the ball back and immediately hit a 3 pointer, and then immediately took a charge after that. It was that moment that I realized how good he truly was.
I really hope you are noticing how many of these highlights are Blake Griffin. His first like 5 years in the league before the injuries started to add up he was an absolute monster
9:53 this dunk move is called a "Windmill dunk" And for the switch, there's another dunk called "Switch-hand dunk" is when u jump with your either hand and switch to another hand in the midair for the finish
A swish is when a player shoots the ball and it goes in while only hitting the net a common phrase used when describing a swish shot is that it was "nothing but net" which is kind of self explanatory, and a very powerful dunk is described as "bringing down the sledge hammer". number 54 is a self ally-oop
Heres like a crash course to every position in Basketball, what they do and their famous players. Most players can play at least 2 positions also* 1. Point Guard (PG) - 6ft-6'4 typically. Main handler of the ball and get the most assists, set up plays and pass. (Steph Curry, kyrie irving, Damien Lillard) 2. Shooting guard (SG) - 6'4 - 6'6 typically. Usually the best at scoring and are typically interchangeable with PG and SF. (Kobe, Michael Jordan, James Harden, Dwayne Wade) 3. Small Forward (SF) - 6'6 - 6'8 Also really good at scoring, spacing the floors, can rebound better than guards, the all around position (Lebron, Durant, Kawhi) 4. Power Forward (PF) - 6'8-6'9 Great at rebounding, typically good floor spacers who can shoot well and score in the paint (Kevin Garnett, Anthony Davis, Kevin Love) 5. Center (C) - 6'9 + the tallest on the court, great at rebounding and dunking under the goal, worst at shooting due to muscle typically (Shaq, Demarcus Cousins, Joel Embiid)
14:25 they can stop the players from dunking by blocking the shot! You should react to the top 100 blocks, sometimes they are even more exciting than the dunk.
5:33 is a called a jump ball where both teams jump for the ball. It happens when on the previous play players from both teams are grappling for the ball for three seconds
Trivia- its called basketball because it originally used a peach basket.Then someone get the great idea to put a hole in the bottom of it.Actually invented by a Canadian.
Bro. Blake Griffin is sick with dunks. I remember when I was a kid and he was playing for University of Oklahoma. Used to go to those games with my dad and when Blake hit a dunk, which was fairly often, the place would go insane. Basketball is so much fun to play and watch. Glad to see you enjoying it. You should try NBA Live 19 on The One mode. Awesome time.
This series is absolutely what I have been looking for. Someone -completely- new to basketball. Basketball is officially "non contact" but it's actually partial contact. Constant bumping and there are plenty ways to play more physical than the rules allow. Check out "Rip Hamilton" He used to sharpen his nails so he could claw people on defense back in the day.
9:52 is called a windmill ,a switch is when you switch hand when you dunk or a switch is a thing where if a player looses his opponent and a nother player comes to defend him
The dunk by Aaron Gordon at 9:55 is called a windmill dunk, a swish is where a player shoots a jump shot and makes it and the only thing the ball makes contact with is the net, it is called a swish because of the sound the ball makes when it hits nothing but net
Another great vid, man! I been here since 1k subs, just happy to be along for the ride. Keep it up! (Maybe some UFC reactions? Justin Gaethje and Tony Ferguson in particular. Those dudes are savages.)
We don't call them the substitute players we call them as a collective the bench. Or it can be used as in he is coming off the bench. A stat that is heavily followed by coaches is bench stats, points they score, rebounds, assist, steals, blocks ect. In a typical NBA basketball game reserves or as it as they are known bench players or backups will sub out the starters. Usually starters are subbed out at the end of the 1st and 3rd to halfway through the next period, but substituting not a set thing it's at the coaches desecration. Top starters usually play 30-40 mins a game, games are 4 quarters that are 15 mins meaning the entire game is 60 mins. Hope you see this and it helps.
The three options you have defend against some of these dunks: 1) try to get in the way and block the shot or disrupt the dunker without fouling 2) intentionally foul the player to keep him from dunking/scoring and force him to make free throws 3) set your feet in position and hold your ground. By setting yourself and not jumping you force the offensive player to knock you over and commit an offensive foul. This third option is considered the smart and defensively pure option, and it is quite common, especially when an offensive player is over-aggressive or out of control. But as you can see, some of these players are so explosive and fast ... there is little time to get set defensively; and even then, it takes a tough, strong-willed player to allow themselves to essentially be run over by a 6’7” 250 lb. player that has close to Olympic sprinting level speed. That said, good defensive players do it all the time. You could probably do a good reaction to players causing a “charge” or a “charging foul”, which is what it’s called. So to answer your question, yes there is a way to defend against these dunks. But with 82 games in a regular season, and with players sometimes playing 2 or 3 nights in a row in different cities, or 4 out of 7 nights across the country, played don’t exactly give their maximum effort on every play. Thus, you can see some these highlight reel dunks where it doesn’t really seem like a lot of effort was put in to stopping it. In a playoff game, some of those dunks where a player is running from a long way away from the basket into the painted area would be negated by a player stepping in to impede the progress of the dunker and force them to commit an offensive foul.
"What is that?! I've never seen anything like it," that, sir, is the Tmac (Tracy McGrady the inventor) where you throw the ball off the backboard when the defense isnt looking for the rebound
To determine how “important” a shot is, 4th quarter with 2 or less minutes is always clutch, and sometimes the display will show if it is a playoffs/conference/finals game
A turnover is when a player from the offensive side(the team bringing up the ball and passing)of the ball passes the ball and a person from the defensive side(players moving around trying to get the ball back)of the ball grabs it in the air from the pass. Another instance of a turnover is say an offensive player passes the ball but it is a bad pass and it goes out of bounds. Love the vids, keep it up.👍
One of my best friends is a basketball coach and I've spent a lot of time next to him on the bench, assisting where I could. I keep hearing two things shouted over and over in my mind. 1) What are you doing? Step up, plant your feet and take the charge! 2) Come on ref! That was a travel! If he'd held that ball any longer, it would be filing assault charges! Good times.
At 5:32 what the did at the beginning of the play is called a jump ball, they only do that to start the game and when two players from the opposite team both have control of the ball and they can’t take away from each other, the ref then blows the whistle, calls a jumpball and then the two players who were fighting for possession of the ball line up across from one another and the ref throws the ball in the air and the two players jump up and try to slap it to their teammates. And the two players are also not allowed to grab the ball in the air, they have to slap it
Also just so you know, when you dunk on somebody, or I guess I should say when they try to defend you while you dunk and they fail and you "dunk on them", it's called a posterizer.
13:08 it’s called a self ally when a player throws the ball to himself catches it in the air and scores. Not something that’s usually done in regular season games. Usually just the all star game.
A little help with terminologies of which I have not seen here The dunk in which the player sort of winds it up is not a swish it is a windmill. Swish is when you score the basket without the ball hitting the rim so it is clean through and the name swish comes from the sound it makes when it happens. Turnover is when one team loses the ball and the other team gets it. Fastbreak is basically basketballs term of a counter attack in soccer so it is a fast paced attack off of a turnover. When a player is fouled on a two point shot and does not score the basket he is awarded with two free throws, if he scores he gets the two points plus one free throw. When a player is fouled shooting a three and does not make the shot he gets three free throws, but if he makes it he gets the three points plus the free throw. When a player collects the ball after a miss it is called a rebound. When a player rejects the player shooting or dunking it is called a block. When a player takes the ball away from the other teams player that is called a steal. Obviously there are loads and loads more like crossovers, ankle breakers, reverse dunks, reverse layups, jellys and so on and on. Much love from Estonia mate!!!
Also When a player dunks on another player while the defender whom he is dunking on is trying to block it, that is called a poster. For some reason it wasnt gonna let me edit the previous comment and I could not be bothered to write it all again.
The "turnover" is the act of taking the ball, or losing the ball. Offensive players that lose the ball get credited with that in their statistics, they are the ones that commit a turnover. Defensive players can force a turnover in various ways, either by blocking a shot or a dunk, or by stealing it from an opponent by swiping it from them. Blocks and steals are each their own statistic. The part after a turnover can either be a normal possession, or if the team has players down court, a rapid play can occur. That quick run down the court for a slam is known as a "fast break" Also worth pointing out that a missed shot isn't counted as a turnover, and recovery of a missed shot is called a "rebound". You can have an offensive rebound if the shooting team gets it back, or a defensive rebound if the defending team does. Hope this helps!
also yes those are turnovers, but the more correct term is fastbreak, when describing the offensive team taking advantage of the defense not having a chance to get set up
When the offensive team loses possession of the ball, it's called a turnover. When the other team takes the ball and is running down the court in a counterattack, it's called a fast break
Giannis is 6 foot 11 inches and his arms wingspan is 7 foot 3 inches. He also dunks more than anyone in the nba cuz he’s such a freak, that’s why he’s in these clips so much
