[Highlight] Jalen Brunson cooks Dyson Daniels with the dribble move and scores the And-1 floater over Nickeil Alexander-Walker to give him a 30-piece (with replays).
Carmelo Anthony is excited with popcorn in his mouth.
Brunson’s like that despite what this sub says 🤣
When he’s on? He’s on!
He just needs to be on the rest of the way.
And even when he’s not on you could do a hell of a lot worse.
Naw your not allowed to have an off night or your a bum
He is but he also plays hero ball way too much for someone his size. It’s not reason to still be chucking as much as he does with KAT on the floor against a mismatch.
Everyone is better then Brunson until it’s time to be better then Brunson
Bing bong.
What people will never understand is that in a playoff series he’s gonna figure it out by the end of it
that big brain should be quicker though lol
This man’s footwork makes the game beautiful. People want to compare him to SGA because of the fouls he draws but ignore that Brunson’s footwork is fine art compared to the slop you see from SGA at times. (He also gets a far less favorable whistle than casuals like to whine about)
He has one of the worst whistles in the league
Nah that’s KAT
I didn’t say worst. He has one of the worst. Kat legit has the worst one
this is like ballet to us new yorkers
damn 😭
Everyone is better than Brunson until it’s time to be better than Brunson.
Brunson highlight post fairly dead as usual 🤣
Any other player cooks one of the leagues top defenders like this and it clears 2k upvotes
Brunson finally started to solve this defense and counter what they’ve been throwing at him.
Melo just like me fr
Skipping work to watch a Knicks game?
His foot work is elite, he is only 6-1 and he is able to cook his defender who usually at least 4 inch taller than him.
The timing is insanely shifty
Nicce
dancing and prancing like michael jackson, hes backkkk
Game recognise game. That footwork is absurd.
Never seen a step-through like that. Love it.
Knicks decided to try today
Weird comment, bot
I know by rule that’s not considered a travel for whatever reason anymore…but it should 100% should be. It’s ridiculous with all the advantages the offense already gets that they can now also step through while lifting their pivot foot.
anymore
That has quite literally never been a travel in the history of basketball. Step-through off a pivot foot is a staple of coaching fundamentals.
Yeah no growing up it was you had to keep your pivot down and jump off both feet. That’s why Kobe was so strict about it on his pump fakes and reverse pivots. You probably remember his most famous example against the Knicks when he did the pump fake near the free throw line, reverse pivoted then jumped off both feet to hit the jumper.
Edit: since it seems all of you are too young: https://youtu.be/CMJU8_N-1OY?si=MA7pdyf7b12a3X8T
Unless you want to tell me Kobe was too humble to utilize such an advantageous step through move.
Compare the above to what players are doing today: https://youtu.be/xmLzf3AgLO4?si=eFbVOdyrFEyLP8k4
He pivots with his left foot, his left foot is the first foot that leaves the ground before he shoots. By your definition, that would be a travel.
Edit: since we’re using Kobe as an example…
https://youtube.com/shorts/hUnntpwm6-g?si=J-v-fl132kfCvJVe
https://youtu.be/3vKjStc_5BM?si=kKjGh_u7AsrjOZ1I
https://youtu.be/ypy43N1iXIA?si=TZ601slM2wOto0L1
And here’s Kobe literally breaking down the step through
https://youtu.be/rBT91K_bn-g?si=Ma3xzCE9ikv5D8vZ
https://youtube.com/shorts/bRoi8GqXIZQ?si=nT1JJQmPRNGhHO4_
I should rephrase, the stepping through is totally fine but we were taught that you cannot lift the pivot foot while your other foot is still on the ground. Every example you provided is Kobe stepping through then jumping off both feet. Stepping through but lifting the pivot is a more recent thing in the last 5 or so years
we were taught that you cannot lift the pivot foot while your other foot is still on the ground
This is a common misconception but it’s incorrect based on the universal rules of basketball. Emphasis added:
NBA Rulebook, Rule 10, Section XII, clause d:
If a player, with the ball in his possession, raises his pivot foot off the floor, he must pass or shoot before his pivot foot returns to the floor. If he drops the ball while in the air, he may not be the first to touch the ball.
NCAA Rules Book, Rule 9, Section 5, Article 5, clause a:
Art. 5. After coming to a stop and establishing the pivot foot: a. The pivot foot may be lifted, but not returned to the playing court, before the ball is released on a pass or try for goal;
NHFS (high school) Rule Book - Rule 4, Section 44, Article 5, clause a:
[same as NCAA rule]
I’m not going to bother looking up the FIBA rule but it is almost certainly the same. Also this wasn’t a rule change made in the last five years or whatever (by any or all levels of basketball)
Another explanation which might help explain: practically every layup you’ve ever taken or watched involves a step through.
For a right handed layup using the basic fundamental footwork everyone is taught -
Before you say in #2 that’s not your pivot foot - the various rules of basketball also explain how this is the pivot foot. If you were to fake a layup and dream shake, that foot would be your pivot foot.
If it were true you couldn’t step through/lift your pivot foot, layups would be very awkward. Eurosteps would not exist.
That’s awesome man thanks for pulling up the rule book and I agree. Again, I am not stating that it’s a travel according to the rules. I am stating that is how it was taught in all levels of hoops and how it was enforced at all levels when I was growing up. I understand that it was taught and enforced incorrectly by the letter of the rule book but imo the offense already has a big advantage. I’m not sure why this became such a long back and forth and I wasn’t trying to be rude, appreciate your input.
It’s the same move. Kobe’s variation of the move (in the clip you shared) ends with both of his feet leaving the ground eventually, but the setup for that (in many examples of using this move) involves the pivot foot leaving the ground first. How quickly the second foot leaves the ground (if at all) on the follow through is irrelevant. It’s only a travel if you lift the pivot foot and bring it back to the ground before passing or shooting.
I mean if you’re talking about the actual spinning on the pivot that his foot slightly lifts off the ground then sure yeah but then you can call pretty much every pivot in today’s league a travel as players feet lift and slide every time. By letter of the rule book what you state is correct and that’s why players started doing it in the last few years. Again, I’m not saying the ref missed a call I’m stating my opinion that it should be as it a ridiculous advantage for the offense.
Kobe or Brunson? Kobe pivots on his left foot then jumps off both
I mean, I literally provided you a video of Kobe breaking down word for word how a step through is legal lol
The stepping through has always been taught and legal. It’s more recently that players are stepping through but lifting their pivot. You can see in the over head that Brunsons left pivot foot is completely off the floor once he steps through with his right and goes into the floater. Shai does it too. It’s a more recent thing and imo should be enforced as a travel, along with stricter carrying rules as the offense already has too big an advantage on the defense.
Lifting the pivot foot has always been allowed as long as you release the ball before the pivot foot comes down.
https://youtu.be/3vKjStc_5BM?si=ewv2T5MDpmRXgxVs
He steps through then jumps off BOTH feet. He doesn’t lift his pivot foot then shift his entire weight on his other foot that’s still planted.
Growing up you played wrong, is that so hard to understand?
It’s not hard to understand…I’m saying that’s how it was taught at the high school level AND enforced throughout the league before like 2015. You won’t find examples of it before then. And if you were playing pickup it was called a travel 100% of the time until recently and even then I’ve seen it called.
The video of Kobe breaking down the step through that he considered a staple of the footwork that carried him throughout his career is from 2008, and it’s been a staple since essentially the origin of professional basketball.
Bro lol are you being obtuse on purpose? I’m talking about this variation of the step through which is SUPER recent…https://youtu.be/xmLzf3AgLO4?si=eFbVOdyrFEyLP8k4
Lots of non-super recent examples here: https://youtu.be/C3w5U7vC0w4
Garland was drafted in 2019. I’m talking about 2000-2015ish
Watch a little longer. There are tons of clips from the 90s and before.