What I always love about those sick fast break passes is that it seems like it gives the guy who catches the pass EXTRA hops when he finishes. There's one pass Magic gives to Byron Scott that's in a ton of youtube vids where Scott jumps like 8 feet in the air and throws down like a sledgehammer.
To anyone still watching this video, note that the NBA essentially changed the travel rule in 2009 (after this season was over) to where the "gather step" makes this legal. Honestly I hated the change then and I still do now.
People are confused to what a gather step actually is. Most guys use it to be defined as the step immediately after the player picks up his dribble but that step still counts in relation to a travel being called. The only time the step doesn't count is when it is taken simultaneously with the player picking up his dribble. Then he may take 2 steps before bouncing the ball again. The gather step
@addycorp2 there is a crab dribble...look it up. but he was doing it wrong. in the crab dribble you move sideways...like a crab while dribbling . but he was packing his bags for some traveling on that one.
The Crab Dribble is a move that's used to move post players for an easy dunk. Lebron can do it some times, but, if you even put pressure infront of him, he's going to travel to get out of the way
No you should watch carefully. He passes the ball before his foot touches the ground. Just watch it carefully. His first step is after he picks the ball up and then that is counted as a half step. Just read about it and also watch it carefully. Maybe you will understand if not I don't care. I don't feel like arguing with you.
Not only is it a travel but it's on offensive foul with the off hand. He hooks the defenders thigh which should invalidate the need to call a travel. My man is the travelling queen as well anyway
It's the same thing as Steve Kerr not knowing about Kevin McHale's "Slippery Eel", while C-Webb knew it. NBA is so all over with it's names, it's crazy. Lebron's crab dribble is just a agressive Euro-step. Post players do a form of it two where they just try to get separation if anything. It's a real move, just named wierdly.
So true....I'm not even an LA fan and i have been saying that for years. People will always throw the blame on Pau, but fail to realize he is probably the glue that keeps that team together.
GP is from Oakland,Ca. Not Chicago. Webber kept saying Chicago. Just wanted to give tru info. Thats all. Big up to Chi-Town though. Big up to Oak Town. Big up to Detriot Webber's home town also.
@yahschild87 Nah its Sun Yue. He was on the squad in 2009.. played in the DLeague a lil bit also & he plays for China. If you remember in Beijing Olympics 2008, in the first game China vs USA, he's the no. 9 guy Kobe was guarding a lot because he knew he was coming to the Lakers. He's a PG/SG & he's 6'9". A lot of info but what the heck lol
I didnt get it then an dont get it now. He literally dribbled into a hoo seo gather and went up, the same every wing and big did in the 90's an early 00's. Hell Webber made a living of it😂😂
Every team still had a guy who was 6 foot 11 or so, mind you, there was elgin baylor, bill russel. Wilt chamberlain grabbed 55 rebounds in one game against bill russel, one of the greatest rebounders of all time. Wilt also played all but 10 minutes in that entire season. HE PLAYED 48.5 MINUTES A GAME. No guy will ever be athletic enough to do that ever again
Jeremy Lin went to Harvard from 2006-2010. His first contract was with the Warriors. It's stereotyping because people assume that any asian guy in the NBA not named Yao or Yi is Jeremy Lin.
Pau was trying to show Kobe what he could do. And look at Kobe, he was like "Are you kidding me? just give me the damn ball. it ain't no allstar game fool."
