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    fuckyeanba: I remember hearing about this pass before actually seeing it. Jason said he’d practiced a fake behind-the-back in some interview during NBA Inside Stuff or something, but instead of Rondo’s cup-the-ball feint, Williams uses his opposite elbow to bounce the ball to the side he was initially dribbling from. It wasn’t that effective on this play, and I only saw him do it one other time in his career, but the sheer ingenuity of the fake is dazzling. It’s something you’d have to be a gym rat to invent and a superior ball-handling virtuoso to actually pull off in an NBA game. It wasn’t like his earlier ball fakes and wrap-arounds, but a more nuanced level of deception that escaped  the defender’s notice. It was like Jason was too cunning and too fast with the concotion to be effective. Plus, it was a behind-the-back fake, which is really two fakes, and because the ball actually left the hand he’s faking with, there’s no holding on to the ball for a longer period of time, or trying to lay the ball in; it’s a pass, from the moment of its inception. Whether it was at another level or it was superficial to the moment, it always appears more amazing than its efficiency and frequency realized. 

    fuckyeanba:

    I remember hearing about this pass before actually seeing it. Jason said he’d practiced a fake behind-the-back in some interview during NBA Inside Stuff or something, but instead of Rondo’s cup-the-ball feint, Williams uses his opposite elbow to bounce the ball to the side he was initially dribbling from. It wasn’t that effective on this play, and I only saw him do it one other time in his career, but the sheer ingenuity of the fake is dazzling. It’s something you’d have to be a gym rat to invent and a superior ball-handling virtuoso to actually pull off in an NBA game. It wasn’t like his earlier ball fakes and wrap-arounds, but a more nuanced level of deception that escaped  the defender’s notice. It was like Jason was too cunning and too fast with the concotion to be effective. Plus, it was a behind-the-back fake, which is really two fakes, and because the ball actually left the hand he’s faking with, there’s no holding on to the ball for a longer period of time, or trying to lay the ball in; it’s a pass, from the moment of its inception. Whether it was at another level or it was superficial to the moment, it always appears more amazing than its efficiency and frequency realized. 







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