Re: NBA hall of famer Sarunas Marciulionis blames Kyle Lowry for JVs poor play Post #84 » by Harcore Fenton Mun » Sun Jun 4, 2017 3:15 am He's making 15 mill and and the coach can't figure out how to … In fact, talking isn't enough, so he extends his famously long limbs and mimics dribbling a basketball on the patterned gray carpet. Personne ne faisait l’eurostep aussi bien que lui. "So Bowen and Brickley run through a series of combo moves together: inside-out dribble into a Eurostep; behind-the-back dribble into a Euro with a leaning finish.Ginobili shakes his head when considering the move's evolution. "I grew up in Oakland, and Marciulionis was the first guy I can remember seeing use that move," says Phil Handy, who worked as the Cavaliers' director of player development from 2013 through last season and helped Kyrie Irving develop his Eurostep. First, he uses a sneaky technique that makes it appear as if he's taking an extra stride. These moves aren't just effective ways to change direction or draw fouls, though. Sarunas Marciulionis, the widely credited inventor of the Eurostep, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, though not because he invented the Eurostep. Zhang knows exactly what she would do. Simultaneously, Cvetkovic lifts his left leg for what seems an eternity, balancing on his right leg while waiting for his defender to commit to one side. "We had it in our domestic league," Durovic says. "College refs weren't the only ones who thought Durovic was nuts. Try that next time. He takes a long step into the middle of the paint, and the big guy, desperate to keep the southpaw from going left, slides over to block his path. "Still, James Naismith never could've envisioned two steps like Antetokounmpo's. They also eliminate risk.In basketball, every dribble is dangerous. "Dwyane Wade, a member of that Team USA squad, had just added the Euro to his game. '"Kukoc joined the Bulls in 1993 and initially struggled to use the move as effectively as Marciulionis had. Tony Ronzone, the Mavericks' director of player personnel and the then-head of USA Basketball's international scouting efforts, recalls helping Team USA prepare to play Argentina in 2008 and asking Kobe Bryant how to stop Ginobili. " Saves us the energy. Two steps that cover 15 feet. Suddenly, he was Eurostepping on national TV, with He developed moves and countermoves. So when Harden attacks the rim, he often pushes the ball far out in front of him and waits as long as possible to gather it while shuffling his feet.Once Harden collects the ball, he manipulates its placement. This is Chris Brickley's office. Now 70 and retired after a successful career playing and coaching in Europe, Durovic has seen versions of that move for nearly 60 years but never thought much of it. He could set up the Eurostep with a crossover or a hesitation dribble and protect the ball by covering it or wrapping it around his back. Petrovic joined the Trail Blazers in the 1989-90 season, but it was a fellow rookie that year who would become known for bringing the move into the NBA.The Warriors drafted him in the sixth round in 1987; by the time he joined them for the 1989-90 season, the Lithuanian lefty had perfected the art of taking two steps in any direction on his way to the basket. Sometimes he'll extend his arms fully, almost forcing the defense to swipe across his wrists. One by one, the boys dribble toward the basket, where a coach is waiting on the block.When they reach him, they jab their right foot to his side, rip the ball across his chest and take a second step into the middle of the lane. Petrovic had grown up playing for Durovic at a smaller club called Sibenka, but Durovic never taught him the Eurostep. Add that to his 7-foot-3 wingspan and he can start his Eurostep from the 3-point line.
Surprise! He's fast, he's athletic, but he always changes directions before he gets to his layups. "Still, the Eurostep continued to flourish overseas-and at the end of the 1980s, when the NBA began to see an influx of international players, the Eurostep finally gained a foothold in basketball's highest league.
"Every game, 10 times they called us travel, travel," Durovic says. Traveling, man! Layup lines now end with Eurosteps.As the drill concludes, Tai Turnage makes his way toward the sideline. "But if Antetokounmpo represents the final phase of the move's evolution, understanding its prominence requires a voyage of discovery. The retired Hall of Famer invited Durovic to play pickup ball with some of his friends and, well, you can guess what happened next. The 32-year-old trainer has gained recent notoriety for working with a host of basketball's biggest stars -- "It's such a popular move that these players are teaching themselves," Brickley says.
"Υπήρξα συμπαίκτης με τον Sarunas Marciulionis. 'You can't,' " Ronzone recalls Bryant saying. " In doing so, they have fundamentally changed the way basketball is played and how we see it.That would not have happened without Manu Ginobili.Close your eyes, think of Ginobili and some version of this scene might appear: Ginobili, coming off a ball screen to the right of the lane, taking a left-handed dribble at the elbow and closing in on a backpedaling big man.
"All the guys were asking me to teach them my Euro in practice one day," Wade recalls. "Either you're gonna do two forward steps, or you're gonna do zigzag, or you're gonna do forth and back; it's the same thing. That it would lead to thousands of highlights on YouTube.But as he looks back on those early days in South America, where he developed a move that would become his signature, he can't help but feel a pang of regret.