LOL. This. The step back is effective only if you can hit the shot on a high percentage. Griffin needs to work on his jump shot first before he learn the moves to get space. Like other said, what he needs most right now is the footwork in the post. If he had to bulldoze his way to the basket against the slow and flat footed Scola, he ain't gonna cut it as a post up player.
Something tells me Melo did that double step-back instinctively during a live game ... "we're not talking about practice." Then later said, wow, what did I do? I'll have to remember that. As for Blake, I wonder if Melo was teaching him that because he was teaching what he knows, or was he teaching that because he doesn't think Blake can play low post so he needs to try to learn something else. Blake needs to practice with Dream and learn low post moves. How many PFs shoot a step back? The midrange J is open to big men who have a freaking low post game, because they are afraid of you down low. He can get many open mid-range Js from PnRs and threatening a low-post move. but it starts with a low-post game.
it just shows how Blake hasn't be thought some of the fundamentals.. him trying to replicate the move looks like he just started basketball
You have to reach away from the defense, with your foot, on the second step back to create separation. Griffin isn't getting that. Not sure he'll be able to. The problem with blake is that he doesn't play vertical at any time, except for when he dunks. That's why he's such a poor shot blocker, despite his size and athleticism. If he can't shake that, then he's not going to succeed copying other vertical players. Melo tells Paul that Blake said he's working on his dribbles too. So, it sounds like Griffin is the one who's trying to learn perimeter moves, told them about it, and is asking them for pointers.
+1. That was the shot the opponents wanted him to take, but like Kenny Smith said, Hakeem wanted that shot. IT doesn't matter what moves you develop, but you MUST have at least 2-3 go to moves where they are almost unstoppable. Great players have that. Melo doesn't have any, so I don't know what he is talking about.
Its true that great players need go to moves, but I dont see how that relates to or degrades melo in terms of scoring. In my opinion he is easily one of the top three scorers in the lague in terms of how versatile he is. Melo can post you up, take you off the dribble or shoot.
As Chris Webber said, Hakeem could do the dream shake because he had all of the other basic moves mastered and his defenders had to respect his basic moves--baby hook over either shoulder, spin baseline, pull up, drive, etc. Robinson had to bite on every single move Hakeem put into his dream shake because he was a legit threat any time he moved. If Griffin tried to do a dream shake, his defender would just stand there wondering what the hell he was flailing around for because his defender wouldn't need to bite on any of the basic moves in the dream shake. Dream shake doesn't work out of context without the other moves already set up.
