Spud Webb slices up the Lakers defense with dribble penetration. He had 32 points and 12 assists while Nick van Exel contributed 11 and 8. The 30-year-old took rookie van Exel to class. April 6, 1994.
Now you can just run straight into a defender or reach out your arm and hit them and go to the line... modern NBA rules and officiating make watching today's games really hard.
It's amazing because he didn't have great dribbling moves. No between the legs or crossover. But he was still quick and smart and enough to get to his spot. Then he used that old school push/jump shot to score.
He had no left and no crossover. Watch at 2:05, he is moving left for a few dribbles but keeps the ball in his right hand, VERY awkward. He is actually DRIVING/FADING left while dribbling with his right.
@@mcmerry2846 Dribbling with the right hand while moving left is a sign of poor left hand dribbling ability. I played ball at a high level as a point guard, kinda know what I am talking about on this one. Webb did not have great left hand skills, in fact they were pretty poor.
It was a very nice block. The guy's got some insane vertical. Although the player he blocked was 6'2, not 6'7+. Not trying to take away from the sheer skill it obviously takes to do something like that, especially at his height, but no need to blow it out of proportion.
ever notice how in the nba no matter how many people complain about isolation offense, or the lack of strategy(complete garbage) most assists and attempted shots outside of transition are kickouts, dump offs, drop offs either to dribble penetration or post kickouts off double teams? wonder why that is? maybe because those are the best options and primary threats to defenses and not running around like a chicken with your head cut off allowing the ball to be in the hands of less effective players
If he’s right hand dominant he can drive from the left and finish with reverses slice to the rim with an inside hand dribble (doesn’t really matter when your a pro as everything’s so fast and he can dribble with his left)
I think Spud Webb was the best long term backcourt partner that Mitch Richmond had throughout Richmond’s Kings tenure from 91-92 to 97-98. 4 of 7 seasons, as Bobby Hurley, Tyus Edney, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Anthony Johnson all flopped. Webb even led the NBA in FT% in the 94-95 season. And his best overall season was his first one with the Kings in 91-92 when he averaged 16 points. Too bad Spud Webb was stewing in anger over the Kings draft choice of Hurley in 1993 and was initially a backup in 93-94 before Hurley’s career altering car accident reinstated Webb in the starting lineup.
Yea, Richmond with Run TMC (Hardaway) woulda been the best point guard he played with. Webb was for sure better than all those you listed though except maybe Abdul-Rauf later in his career, but he was not a good set up guy for Richmond, he was more like a shooting guard in an undersized point guard body.
@@joebauers3746 Abdul-Rauf was a superb scoring point guard with Denver, but by the time he got to Sacramento in 1996, he dipped during his two seasons there and lasted no more than two seasons there, one as a starter and the next as a backup behind rookie Anthony Johnson. So he was Richmond’s backcourt partner for only one season, thus Spud Webb still counts as Richmond’s best long term Sacramento Kings’ backcourt partner.
Weak era! He averaged 16 pts with no left hand and as a 130 pound little man. Old head: "Curry couldnt survive if he played in the 90s". Nostalgia is hella of drug...
@@handlebucket6285 Kyrie,Prime Russell Westbrook,Cp3,Sam Cassell,AI,Maurberry,Steph Curry,Tony Parker,Penny Hardaway,Damion Lillard,Derrick Rose,Steve Nash,Luka,Jason Kid,Ja Morant, will cook the hell out spud he dont compare to anyone on that list 😂.
