Chris Paul embarrasses the Mavericks with this special dribble move
The master of the yo-yo dribble claimed another victim. Learn all about the move here.
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Chris Paul is a wizard with the ball. We all know this. He's among the best ball-handlers in the league and can get to wherever he wants to on the court. Not only can he perform all the type of common dribble moves -- crossovers, hesitations, in-and-outs -- but he has also mastered the yo-yo dribble, a streetball move that has taken the NBA by storm. (There are many other names for the move, most notably the "cut dribble," but we're using "yo-yo dribble" for now).
Paul puts back spin on the ball, throws it far away and it returns to him. The move freezes Mavericks big man Dwight Powell and he gets an easy reverse layup.
The yo-yo dribble was common in streetball, but it wasn’t an often-used move in the NBA until recently. Paul mastered it after the material for the game ball changed.
“They were switching the balls to a different material, where I could actually throw it out away, really far from me and it can still come back,” Paul told SB Nation in February.
Since Paul first used it, the move has now become popular among the league's best ball-handlers. John Wall, Jeff Teague and Kyrie Irving, among others, have adopted it as part of their game. You can read all about it, with testimony from the players themselves, here.
The yo-yo dribble is effective and aesthetically pleasing, so it’s not going anywhere. Big men better get used to it or they will continue to be fooled by it, just like poor Powell up there.
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