Anyone remember the old Jason Williams?

best handles in the NBA.

 

i thought you meant the shot gun guy

 

i remeber in college we would all look forward to sports center to see what JWill and CWebb did that day.

 

pistol pete maravich

 

i didnt forget...it was only like 4 years ago

 

I did like watching him pass, and that ELBOW pass behind the back....best pass I have ever seen.

DD

 

not quite.

flashy, yes, but to say he's more flashy than Jason Williams (in his crazy days) is to play his "legend" card way too hard. maravich paved the road and then JWill built a highway on top of it.

but while we're discussing him, i just wanted to ask if anyone ever feels like PG's with great handles/vision (Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, Baron Davis) have like a 6th sense that simply cannot be learned. some of the stuff they do is just...unreal.

 

i bet he gave Raef Lafrentz a throat punch in the locker room afterward for missing the dunk.

 

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Memphis didn't trade the draft rights to Mike Bibby for J-Dub. Bibby played a few years already in Vancouver. They had a nice group with Michael Dickerson (M&M connection!) and Shareef Abdur-Rahim. Too bad they had the worse bench in the league and were separated. (and let's not forget that dickerson retired due to injuries.)

/angry vancouver grizzlies fan

 

i thought you meant break your neck in a motorcycle accident J Williams

 

Great skills, great instinct.

Just not all that much going on upstairs.

 

This guy may beg to differ.

 

Not to discredit how crazy J Will was in his rookie days, but I remember seeing some footage of Pistol pete that was so unimaginable and jaw dropping that I was disillusioned about today's (at around the JWill time) flashy plays really being revolutionary. I dont think J will could have done what I saw on ESPN. But then in the few years since, all I could find on the internet were bs maravich clips that show his, to me, rather dull plays.

Dont know if someone here knows what im talking about ???

 

Skip has amazing handles but he does it against street ballers. JWill does it in the NBA finals.

 

I was going to say something similar, except that JWill hasn't been really flashy for a few years now, since Hubie Brown reeled him in a lot. He definitely did it against NBA talent night in and night out while in Sac-town though. Damn I loved watching that team play.

 

The problem with playing like that is that they look awesome and jaw-dropping on the highlight reels, but in reality a lot of those passes are picked off, or go out of bounds. J-Will's turnovers have gone down quite a bit recently from his early career.

 

Tim Hardaway in his Golden State and early Heat days was sick!