They both have good handles and jump shot at midrange. In defense Trey is 4 inches taller, so it is easy for him to block the way, but the rule is street rule. Professor can make a lot of fakes and once pass Trey, he can score. For Trey, it is easier if he use post move or focus on shooting not dribble.
As long as Professor faking Trey upset can happen since for NBA players, basketball is 5 on 5 not 1 on 1. The biggest difference between street players and NBA player is shooting ability.
He was one of the original AND1 Streetball players that helped the now nationwide tour catch fire around the basketball world. Alston, unlike most of his colleagues at AND1, actually made it to the NBA and changed the way the game is played today. Most of the appeal of streetball is all about ball-handling, dribbling and passing. Vince Carter is arguably the best dunker in NBA history. If that pick caught you off guard, now you know what it felt like to try and cover Jason Williams.
Williams played 12 years in the NBA for four different teams. He averaged The way he does things with the ball is incredible to me. It reminds me of, like, schoolyard street ball when I go to Chicago. Crawford has been freezing defenders for 12 years for six different teams.
In January , Jordan retired. All the while, the league was on strike. A window opened for AND1. And that wasn't just true in a basketball sense. Something was bubbling in American TV culture, too.
AND1, which had established its own authentic version of basketball, was, on some level, tailor-made for reality television. Cameras would follow the AND1 team from city to city to film not just how they played, but how they interacted off the court. Then with basketball, you had kids, mothers, grandmothers so fascinated. Each player had something unique he could do with the basketball.
Not long ago, in a Las Vegas casino, Alston came across a fan in Lillard. As much as players respected the AND1 Mixtapes—from the personalities to the style of play—many coaches felt differently.
I think the coaches had a hard time trying to blend the two, trying to incorporate the fundamentals and make sure these young men keep their God-given talents, some of the good things that they do. Alston's first coach when he entered the league in '98 was George Karl. It was good. Still, most nights early in his career, Alston was stuck behind Sam Cassell, a more established, balanced point guard. Alston and Karl developed a "love-hate relationship," in the coach's words. Karl had just wrapped up a six-plus-year tenure in Seattle, where his SuperSonics had reached the Finals behind the all-around excellence of point guard Gary Payton.
Alston wasn't Payton in sensibility or style, despite both having been molded by the rigors of the playground. The game has maybe gone to the playground a little more than back then. There were more set plays then—the point guard was more to be a mental mind on the court for the coach rather than a talented player as today.
AND1 played a big part in handling the ball. For everybody. It had a big impact on the stuff we see in peoples' games today—Terry Rozier. Boucher played a stint in the Continental Basketball Association—the unofficial predecessor to the G League—where, he recalls, "They'd say, 'Well, he's more of a novelty, he's streetball. Part of the problem was a misunderstanding about what AND1 players really could do and what they were already doing.
At times, he felt as though he were being judged for his streetball background. At one NBA tryout, he recalls the team's coach said, "What's a streetball player doing here? But if I get an outlet and my instinct is to throw it through his legs, I'm gonna fuckin' do it.
The only way to get past him without a turnover might be through his legs," he says. It was basketball. That's how Jason Williams looked at it, too. Williams, who arrived to the NBA as a highly touted point guard prospect, felt comfortable leaning on some flashy street elements. He didn't view his style of play as a novelty—not even his signature behind-the-back elbow pass. I watched [the AND1 mixtapes] growing up and loved it, but I didn't pattern my game after any of that.
I was just doing my own thing. Now eight years retired, Williams is amazed by how much the league has changed. And Shaquille O'Neal , too. My job was to get scorers the ball. Now their job is to score and get guys involved.
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