it's funny, I was watching Hakeem's college highlights, even back then his footwork was miles above any modern day center. Same goes for Yao, even if you look at his Shanghai Shark days, his low post fundamentals and footwork are really solid. I am convinced sometimes people are just born with these instincts, sure you can improve on these by training your ass off, but there's always a ceiling
Yao was trained since he was a kid, Hakeem played soccer and was blessed with athleticism, while Giannis, as he grew quickly, basically was told to out-athletic everybody by galloping past them and dunking over them. Gotta agree with Gilbert that was a travel, but then so are a lot of the "hesi's" and crossovers you tend to see. I'm more offended by @NBACentral watching that and thinking..."Hakeem!" That's some gross-looking basketball. lol.
I actually think we should consider ourselves lucky that Giannis doesn't have the agility or fluidity to replicate what Dream can teach. Imagine how ridiculous he'd be if he could actually dreamshake?
I watched that clip a couple of times and that looked more like a Greek tragedy than a Dreamshake. The only pivoting move I've seen worse than that was Dikembe's, but most times Dikembe had no business doing anything other than dunking the ball.
Like I say, we're (and by that I mean all non-Bucks fans) lucky he's not cut out for them moves. Dude's hard enough to beat as it is without him being able to use cheat codes like the dreamshake.
Yep, the man has the refs/league on his side letting him barrel through traffic, I can't imagine how it would be if he had dreams assortment of moves and soft touch around the basket. We'd be talking about the GOAT.
