Actually Hakeem teaches fundamentally sound basketball. While his post moves are conventional, the way he uses them is not. They are actually more effective in today's NBA where there are less true centers and more big athletic guys. Conventional teaching is that to score in the post you back your man down as close as possible then use a contested post move against a post defender. People are trained ways to back down players and post moves to use from various positions. For faster athletic players, backing a man down negates speed, one of their biggest advantages. Hakeem teaches more of a guard mentality: how to use your speed advantage to get uncontested shots. Instead of trying to back down, just make a quick move and go around him. Then just like a fast guard, when they overplay your quick right hand move, fake right then cross over and go left. Instead of a crossover, hakeem teaches a reverse pivot and then a reverse reverse pivot for the advanced class. Yes, Hakeem had more god given talent than most NBA players, but guys like Kobe, Lebron, Dwight, Durant, and even Blake Griffin have plenty themselves. Some of those guys even have the ability to pick up and possibly use the Dream's footwork better because of their speed. Kobe is a prime example.
Seeing as I had never heard of this man in my life, I googled him. He's a beat writer for the Knicks who apparently is the most hated man at Madison Square Garden.
Hakeem's footwork was legendary and is absolutely teachable. I don't think he's teaching guys how to master his dream shake or anything.
wanna learn the footwork? well, learn how to play soccer bieetch! how does scola did it? well, he played soccer(i think)!
Don't know who he is... and I don't even remember his name as I'm typing this. Dude and his knicks are irrelevant.
Ah, the old chestnut, "Black athlete was born ready made to be a player". I bet he doesn't think Black people can learn to swim.
It's what you with what Olajuwon teaches that matters: "I wanted to get better," James said of his decision to work with Olajuwon. "I wanted to improve and I sought out someone who I thought was one of the greatest low-post players to ever play this game. I was grateful and happy that he welcomed me with open arms; I was able to go down to Houston for four and a half days; I worked out twice a day; he taught me a lot about the low post and being able to gain an advantage on your opponent. I used that the rest of the offseason, when I went back to my hometown. Every day in the gym I worked on one thing or I worked on two things and tried to improve each and every day." http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id...-game-become-highly-efficient-scoring-machine You still gotta put in the work. Some players do, some don't.
Leaving aside the part that Isola is a gigantic tool, should Dwight Howard spend time learning Hakeem's footwork and moves? He had already trained with Hakeem twice with little result shown. Sure, Howard is very agile, but he seems really clumsy with his feet and body movement in the post to employ the Dreamshake and its variants. Is there another big man with simpler and more effective style that Howard can imitate and put to good use?
