The form. The follow-through. The focus. Tough to execute better than that on a basketball court and I mean that almost literally, as I'm not talking about the made 3-pointer but rather the sucker punch that damn near executed the kid who took it. Don't get me wrong, it's a massive scumbag move to premeditatedly cold-clock an opposing player for doing nothing more than beating you with shockingly sound fundamentals. Offering up the sturdiest of clothesline when asked to close-out on a shooter might be homophonically clean, but it's competitively dirty as all hell. Therefore, if we're judging this as an attempt at defense then it's probably more of a low D, as its effects won't be felt until later in the game when that deadeye shooteris clicking his jaw back into place as opposed to spotting up without hesitation. As an assault, however, it absolutely grades out as an A+. The timing that saw him arrive just as his target's feet had been planted? The attention to detail he showed in multi-tasking by winding up while in the process of contorting his body to check the eye-line of the official? The stiffness of the forearm? The inconspicuous casualness of the strut back down court? While none of it would help them improve as basketball players, the inmates playing full-contact street-ball in the prison yard could learn a lot from that kid.
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