Some Random Basketball Quotes

Kaede Rukawa

Year: 1st Year

Height/Weight: 187 cm, 75 kg

Jersey Number: #11

Position: Small Forward

I’m sure you knew this guy but only if you already watch slamdunk in anime or read it in manga. Kaede Rukawa is one of the main character in Slamdunk anime/manga series in japan. If you asked me about his basketball skill in the series, all I can say is that this guy is a beast in basketball. I think he is one the reason why I got fascinated in playing basketball. I think I’m just only 10 years old when I started watching slamdunk and I can still watch it over and over again because it’s really one of my favorite.

How To Do Crossover in Basketball

If you’re playing basketball I’m sure you already knew this move already. Crossover move is kind of dribble in basketball in which a player switches the ball rapidly fast from one hand to the other, to make a suddenly fast change of direction for you to get pass through your defender easily. This is my favorite move in basketball, I’m not saying I’m really good at it but at least I think I can do decent killer crossover just like what you are seeing in image gif on the right side . I’ve heard that the first nba player who do the crossover dribble is the nba legend Oscar Robertson but I’m not sure about that I just heard it from my friends. What I’m sure is that Tim Hardaway was the one who popularized the killer crossover in nba. But for me Allen Iverson is really the best in crossover dribble but that was just my opinion. Anyway I just created this post because I just want share some steps in how to do a crossover move just in case you want to learn how to do it.

Here it is :

1. First, while facing your defender you need to dribble the ball in your most dominant hand. let’s use your right hand for example

2. While dribbling using your right hand take a sudden step or a sudden wide step using your right foot. This is for the purpose of deceiving your defender faking him that you’re going to the right side direction. It will be much effective if you add it with a head fake.

3. Once your defender fall from your trap when he get to move to the right direction that you pretend to, Switch and dribble the ball rapidly to your left hand, you need to do it very quick and low in front of your defender.

4. While doing it take a fast step using also your right foot but going toward to the left side direction, this will make you change your direction from the right going to the left. This will totally surprise your defender because he thought your going to the right direction but actually going to the left side.

5. Doing all of that, you can now drive to the basket easily leaving your defender behind, And that’s all, now you can do the crossover dribble.

TIPS

It’s better if you can only do it twice in front of your defender inside the game because if you do it a lot of times in front of him the defender may predict it easily and intercept it and steal the ball from you.

Always remember that crossover dribble is just a one way to pass through your defender. It won’t guarantee you to score easily, coz the fact in basketball is that “THERE’S NO SCORE IN DRIBBLE” no matter how cool or fancy the way you dribble the ball you won’t get any score from it that’s why you need to learn everything about basketball starting from the basic if want to excel from it.

If everything else fails in trying to follow this step or you can’t just understand what I’m saying in this step LOL! you can try to search and watch Allen Iverson crossover, I’m very sure you will learn from him.

Aomine Daiki

If you already started watching Kuroko No Basket in anime and you want some spoiler, then it’s okay for you to continue reading this post but if you don’t want some spoiler then don’t read this post at all LOL!.

Daiki Aomine is one of the Five Generation of Miracles that mention in the series and he is the first light of kuroko tetsuya before Taiga Kagami. He is the former ace player of Teiko middle school basketball team which mean we can say that he is the top player among Generation of Miracles. Aomine is now the ace player of Too Gakuen High the first team who beat the team of tetsuya kuroko and kagami’s Seirin High. He is a good friend of Tetsuya Kuroko before because they both love to play basketball so much but later Aomine change his attitude in basketball that’s why Tetsuya decided to leave Teiko’s Basketball Team later in Championship Finals when they are in middle school. He was third member of Generation of Miracles that revealed in the series after Kise and Midorima.

 

Aomine’s personality is somehow complicated because at first as Tetsuya mentioned, he was a happy person before who love to play basketball so much and always smile while playing it. But Aomine became stronger and stronger every day while playing basketball, his improvement is very fast compare to his teammates because he is really a genius in basketball because of that he came to the point that he destroyed every teams opponent’s will to play because of how good he is when they play with him, That’s why he started to feel sad and feel bored in basketball because he can’t find any player and team to match with him and or a good rival that will makes him to play all out. He got tired of waiting and searching of some worthy opponent and he realized that he is simply the strongest and started to believed that “The only one who can defeat him, is only himself” and then he became very arrogant until he met Taiga Kagami later in the series.

 

If your wondering of how good he really is in playing basketball, I will say he is totally a beast! I can compare him to Slamdunk’s character Kaede Rukawa or Eiji Sawakita or maybe much better than them. He’s playing style is very unpredictable, he can play any position, His abilities can be described as extremely fast, extremely strong and extremely skillful. He got many weird shot that you don’t think will fall in basket. It is said that Aomine never has a non-changing movement, be it passing, dribbling or shooting. His play is described as limitless.

I won’t tell anything more about him here in this post, maybe you should watch Kuroko No Basket and wait him in anime or you can read it in manga. I’m sure you will enjoy it when you see it, Kuroko No Basket is really a great basketball series, no doubt about it.