Every George Mikan fadeaway we have footage of.
Never realized how much it looks like a hook shot
I was going to say the same thing. Almost like a “proto-hook”.
For real
2nd one is Dirk’s one legged fadeaway.
I wonder if his normal junpshot looked like this.
Love seeing stuff like that, you can really see how so much of it is foundational to moves developed decades later
Same the dribbling between now and then is so fun to see the differences in
They would get called for carrying every possesion if they dribbled like today
For sure. They’d get nailed for traveling and double dribbling too
Back then, if your hand so much as touched the side of the ball it was a violation. Then that became acceptable, and the next big evolution was Iverson. Hand fully under the ball on a crossover, but rule of cool and all. Every kid born in the 90s (myself included) wanted Iverson’s crossover and Kobe’s jumper lol.
The crazy one to me that makes me think “okay we’ve gone too far” is the current meta of hesitation moves. Dudes fully put their hand under the ball, pause, and then even sometimes take multiple steps before dribbling again. I hate it when a dude picks up like that, defender obviously closes out because the handler must pass or shoot now, and but then the handler just puts it back on the floor and blows by them. I feel like that Nick Young meme every time I see that.
Tim Duncan
These are the type of shots that won us World War 2
Coincidentally, the start of the NBA pretty much perfectly lines up with the realization that really, really tall people were good at basketball, since people over 6’6 were exempt from military service during World War II
For the first 50 years basketball was around, people just sort of assumed that guys who are big man height now would be too uncoordinated
So Mikan’s success is sort of a product of World War II
Another unintended consequence of the Treaty of Versailles
The *first* treaty of Versailles 🤦🏼♂️
Prehistoric Dirk
Dirkasaurus
Back in the day it’s greatness but when I watch Julius Randle do it I throw my remote at the tv
No one has ever mistaken Julius Randle for George Mikan.
The bullshit he puts up looks exactly like this
Yeah except it doesn’t go down so there’s a big difference lol
To be fair, Mikan has a FG% around 40% so his shots weren’t going in that often either.
Ya that’s an era thing though if you adjust for that he’s actually great compared to the people he played against being something like a third of all offense played lol dude is the reason the FT lane is wider and why the shot clock exists now. A modern day person getting similar stats for our era would have to basically average 40 its one of those things that surprises people because basketball changed so much that his stats look weird out of context
The game has changed a lot. Great piece of basketball history here.
Looks like Shaq’s old move over the right shoulder
Good eye. Kinda his FT shot too
The second shot looked like he was doing the Dirk fall away
crazy for a big man in the 50’s to have such a soft touch lol
Nah tons of soft touches around the rim in the early days of the game. With no 3 line it was the main shot to practice, I’d argue touch around the rim seems to have gone down some for big men. Dunking was even disallowed for a bit in college
Well and these are just the makes. He shot 40% from the field despite only shooting pretty close to the basket.
DePaul’s finest
This is dope af
Interesting how the Mikan drill is used as a way to teach players to use both hands around the rim, yet in every shot here he’s using the right hand no matter what.
but we still dont have THAT footage…..
Pretty impressive.
Bro got a hitch in his shot, he’ll never make it at the pro level 🤓
Mr. Basketball!
I want to see video of him scoring with the Mikan drill.
So tuff bro
Wow. Didn’t think there would be this much footage from 40s basketball. Crazy.
Was he Nike or Reebok?
This your hero lakers?
So wierd seeing how much the game has changed, Mikan was out there doing 180 mid air one handed fadeaways lol
A more agile Hartenstein?
50s Barkley
happy cake day
And people swear guys like this would average 40 in today’s game because the nba is “soft” now 😂 ace Bailey is averaging 50 in the 90s
I swear the NBA is the only league where fans shit on it’s pioneers/legends.
Without Mikan there is no Russell/Wilt, without Russell/Wilt there is no Kareem, without Kareem there is no Magic/Bird, etc.
Because people pretend these guys are better than modern nba player
Nobody says players from the 40s are better than modern players.
Nobody says they are better lmao
People just give respect to them because it was a completely different era of basketball.
That argument really only seems to be for the 90s forward but it’s still a dumb argument. Anytime anyone brings up past phenoms and compares how they’d play in the modern era they usually are talking about genetic freaks like Wilt and consider how he’d play with modern training and equipment not “if you literally plucked this player out of time and put them in a game today they’d dominate”.
This isn’t from the 90s.
bro your username and profile picture lmfao
there’s being a fan, then there’s straight up bouncing up and down on it
You got upvoted so that means your wrong
lmao coming from “darryn peterson fan page”, yikes.
especially hilarious coming from a fan page for an upcoming bust.
0 correlation
darryn peterson stray???
nice shots, but Kevin Garnett or Charles Barkley or Rick Mahorn or Kevin McHale (or any modern physical PF) would have dismantled this guy
why? those are pretty fucking hard shots to guard and this is not a little guy. his touch looks beyond impressive from the limited we can see.
100% agree. Certain players in that time have incredible stats because their competition was absolute trash. The pioneers of this sport would get absolutely destroyed by any modern NBA player. Wilt is not averaging what he averaged in a league that actually had good players lmao