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Basketball / Re: greatest crossover of all time?
« on: April 12, 2014, 02:25:09 pm »
not nearly as great a move, but this is brother-on-brother so i'm sticking it in here anyway.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9wFLMJL5lk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9wFLMJL5lk</a>
chris, raptor's opinion on this is settled, you're not going to argue him out of it. we've had the debate about the AI/jordan move before. it's just a question of what you value. i have no idea how raptor makes his judgments but to me context matters A LOT. the iguodala move is amazing in large part because he was on a fast break, in traffic, going against an NBA defender. quincy miller ain't much in the NBA but he's still one of the best ~400 basketball players in the world.
AI, as a rookie, crossed up michael jordan, one of the greatest defensive players of his generation at the peak of his powers.
the one recently where the streetball guy (forget who) crossed up some schlub and then did a little dance over him is relatively not as cool. it'd be like crossing me up. hurray, you made an unskilled player look bad in a meaningless game in front of 300 people. it was an amazing move but it doesn't compare.
context.
chris, raptor's opinion on this is settled, you're not going to argue him out of it. we've had the debate about the AI/jordan move before. it's just a question of what you value. i have no idea how raptor makes his judgments but to me context matters A LOT. the iguodala move is amazing in large part because he was on a fast break, in traffic, going against an NBA defender. quincy miller ain't much in the NBA but he's still one of the best ~400 basketball players in the world.
AI, as a rookie, crossed up michael jordan, one of the greatest defensive players of his generation at the peak of his powers.
the one recently where the streetball guy (forget who) crossed up some schlub and then did a little dance over him is relatively not as cool. it'd be like crossing me up. hurray, you made an unskilled player look bad in a meaningless game in front of 300 people. it was an amazing move but it doesn't compare.
context.
