What Does "Skill" REALLY Mean In The NBA? | NBA Deep Dive
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Leveled up bro! Looks great! Watch out for the top of your head clipping in some green screen shots of you want the next level.
Also, your background should have something representing what your talking about. Maybe a transparent basketball in a lower corner or something like that.
Love it
Amazing I love it keep it up.
Also kinda relating to this video I think Anthony Davis has the best skillset in the league he just isn't aggressive enough or has the mindset to use all of his skills.
another difference between good and bad NBA players is the IQ that helps them utilize their skills to a different degree
Love that jacket, you should use ist on your tinderprofile
Rusty got the jacket on. He on the mic like a stand up comedian. He's a professional so I know he has pants on. I like this new direction.
Rusty got a long ass neck
@@anthonyfuscellaro233 the candice flynn neck
Are you sure he's wearing pants?
i think he's standing up specifically so he doesn't have to wear pants
he about to do the next one with no pants just for the meme
I actually have a lot in common with NBA All Stars: I’m as tall as Isaiah Thomas, as fast as Jokic, can shoot like Yoachim Noah, defend like Trae Young, have handles like JJ Redick and possess the basketball IQ of JR Smith.
So u basically trash😂
@@spammed6764 Pretty much, yeah
😂😂😂😂
Hilarious!!
Get this man a contract 😂🤝
As a D1 hooper myself I can say that even a guy struggling to make the g league is still ridiculously good at basketball
You at Dartmouth?
I don't think people realize how good the average NBA player is.
@@chrissullivan6572 even bench warmers are really underestimated like people call them bums when they would 100-0 them
@@clutchproductions1401 I've played guys who couldn't even crack their DII teams rotation and they were the best player in the gym. I hate how some people talk about basketball players sometimes.
@@chrissullivan6572 exactly I look at it like this, even if your a g league guy your a top 800 player in the world. I look at any professional sport like football. I went to a nfl camp a while back and those guys even tho there not that tall they are insanely ripped. I met Khalil Mack at a bulls game and dude legit looks like a brick. Nba players are insane like just look at the guys who can dunk from the free throw line. I didn’t realize how f ing far that is.
My mom described watching Jordan as when he would jump in the air, the crowd would stand in their seats, but everyone would sit down and he’d still be in the air😂😂
Lol
They called him Air Jordan for a reason. Swoosh 🏀
Look at rusty’s quality man so inspirational 😩
This still feels sus
This still feels sus
@@Applezz. VERY SUS
@@Buokik Please win tonight I don’t like the kd
@@iangonzago8296 KD finna torch yall
When my mans caught Kelly Oubres kiss i lost it 😂
ARE YOU PROUD ABOUT THIS VID MR BUCKETS
What kind of question is that lol
Ofc lol
Just more verified users farming attention with random comments that get hella likes cuz TH-cam puts their comments first
@@sticky9400 Rusty made a video about how he wants to make higher quality videos he can be "proud of" on Fridays. This is his first
@@quentinthernize6678 I know but if he’s not happy with the video why would he post it lol
Back watching this after “no-skill” Giannis just won fmvp and “dribble dribble dribble man” James Harden is getting fat with Lil Baby
That Karl Malone joke 😂😭
Karl
Karl Malone slander is always welcome
@@JeffersonSteelflexx Facts.All my homies hate karl malone.
As a Utah Jazz fan, I second that Karl Malone slander is always welcome. His two trips to the nba finals does not excuse him from being a trash human being
@Harry Engel Omg those are hilarious 😂😂😂
I wish I could tell you how good Malone was as a player, but I was born in '97... The only memories I have of him growing up are ads for his shady car dealers here in Utah. However, I can tell you how great Deron Williams, Boozer, Okur, AK47, Hayward were since I grew up watching them 😅
Sidenote: If the nba expands, Seattle better get back the SuperSonics. The move to OKC did y'all dirty
in my mind, a player with a “lack of skill” is simply a player that has an over reliance on leveraging their physical gifts. shaq is an obvious example of this because his entire game revolved around simply being bigger and stronger than everyone around him. it is so clear cut and dry that shaq became even more dominant when he got fatter because good luck boxing out a 330lbs monster that was over 7’ tall. if you put shaq’s skill set into a smaller player, he pans out to be tristan thompson.
if you take away kevin durants height, he still pans out to be on the level of like mitch richmond because the skills he cultivated still translate despite taking away his physical gifts.
but i agree there are no NBA players that aren’t skilled and that “less skilled players” doesn’t mean that those players aren’t great for maximizing their game around their physical gifts.
Imagine how shit Shaqs career would have been if zone defense wasn't illegal for the first 13 years of his career.
@@octopus8420 imagine how many points KD would average if teams could only defend him man to man
@@visno about the same I imagine
@@octopus8420 KD would be more dominant
@@sheldonhollis5258 why?
When someone says a nba player is “trash” it’s supposed to be compared to other nba players not to you or your average basketball player
Thank you.
Every body knows that ... people only pretend they dont when their losing a debate.
I agree, but you'd be surprised how many people genuinely believe they're better than some NBA players. When those kinds of people call and NBA player trash, they're not keeping it in the context of just in the NBA. They're talking about among everyone including street ballers.
@@davidmartinez52420 Mmm, idk about all that. You're making a huge leap by claiming that many people actually believe they could beat an NBA player.
As the OP said, when you refer to someone as trash, it's trash in relation to other people in that profession.
@@THE_BEAR_JEW I clearly stated that I agree with calling an NBA player trash should be relative to other NBA players. I've known plenty of people though that don't see it as relative to strictly NBA players but rather anyone that's ever picked up a basketball. They'll literally say things like "How did this guy even get on a college team let alone an NBA team?". Just because you might not have met people that think stupid shit like that doesn't mean those people don't exist.
Problem is people think having athleticism play a huge part in your game disqualifies you from being called skilled
Skill to causals means anything that’s guard related.
Well ur comment just proved ur a casual. Casual🤪
@@ikemikekpeazu5076 I don’t talk to kids. Learn the game. Stfu forever.
Not even ... It means shooting 3's and nothing else .
This will always be a BIG mans game
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Rusty pulled out his dad's Michael Jackson jacket for this and went straight to the basement. I like it. Great breakdown.
Damn lmao
Rusty had some deep-rooted agenda going after the Scal-memers
They need to be Exterminated from this blue green earth. They are not funny yet act like they are
@@goattier7728 Nah, it' was funny for a while but as with everything, it gets old and overused. Much like the "he protecc he attacc" and "I took it personal."
@@THE_BEAR_JEW over using jokes ruins the comment section for me so i dont usually scroll
like at least update your shit and make those jokes about alex caruso like the cool kids
@@THE_BEAR_JEW
He protect
He attacc
He give this meme major flacc
🤣🤣 sorry. Had to.
James Harden’s vertical is like how bumblebees fly, they’re both so big the laws of gravity say they wouldn’t be able to but they don’t give a fuck😂
Rusty just had to flex his Minecraft house
Calling Westbrook “unskilled” is just outrageous, the dude was an MVP who can dunk at 6’3 with a near 37” vertical. It’s not like he can’t shoot because he is definitely capable of shooting on his day and his passing ability is top notch.
Ok he’s not unskilled by any means but Athleticism is not a skill. 37 inch vertical is just athletic ability.
@@lilbeanrc8588 I agree, but nobody comes out the womb with a 37 inch vertical. Lotta ppl criticize jacked nba players who rely on strength as part of their game but ignore the work spent in the weight room that could've been spent developing a better jumper etc
@@1taejoon True that’s a very good point. Not a lot of players put in the amount of work to perfect their body like Westbrook.
Not top notch but good
Hes skilled but it doesn't take any skill to be 6'3 n be able to dunk
This is already my favorite series on TH-cam and it’s only episode 1
i was gonna like but i want you to stay at 69
This series rules
You saying “basically my point is I’m a bitch” at that moment I had the like the video 😂
Same😂
We need to make rusty vs Cristino Felecio a thing
Holy shit this video was great I watched this whole video being entertained and its 26 minutes long.
When he said Shaq is a better shooter than YOU... I felt that..
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... Really felt that brick on my head
Bruh this green screen fun is so uplifting.
I'm watching this vid about a year after its release, as the topic of "skill" has resurfaced in recent media topics concerning Kyrie and KD's "skills".
The right way to approach this is to first use the term "offensive skills", and to then clearly list the skills of interest:
- dribbling
- shooting
- post moves
- footwork
- passing
- finishing (layups, dunks)
- driving
- ability to create space
Also, one needs to differentiate between "being really good at one thing" and "being really good at several variations of one thing" (e.g. compare Kawhi's signature tomahawk dunk to the arsenal of dunks of a young Iguodola).
Man I almost dropped my food laughing at the Karl Malone jab
This was really fucking good, I didn't like the idea of the format change and the new channel but now that I've seen both I'm really excited for what's to come!
Man the shift into this kind of content is so welcome and it makes me way more excited to view your content at a consistent clip
I look back on how Dwight Howard was attempting to develop a jumper back in Orlando and was basically told to stop by almost everyone.
Then later in his career his lack of shooting is one of the things we went on to criticize him about. So coaching matters too when it comes to skill.
I think every argument made for Brian Scalabrini could apply to Jared Dudley, though Dudley had a pretty significant role as an enforcer.
And he’s the general of that evil lakers benchmob srsly they talk more shit and step onto the court more than anybody else
Actually didn't watched his career in suns?
He could make more threes than all his critiques combined.
I think ballhandling should have probably been mentioned more often because I think the ability to handle the ball and be flashy has a lot of impact on what people see as skill. I.e. the take Kyrie is the most skilled NBA player etc. Even though he obviously has other skills lets be real people who say this are talking about his dribbling
People saying that Giannis is unskilled. If you were in Giannis shoe's you would be no where near as good as him. He has better IQ on offense and defense thats why he is a 2x MVP
Well.. skill set includes using your body at his fullest potential. Giannis may not be a guy that has a lot of handle, but he sure knows how to use his explosive and arm spawn to good use. But giannis needs a mid range, for god's sake
@@lucasmonteiro600 Whenever I hear about Giannis being "unskilled", I always take that to mean that he doesn't have a diverse or versatile offensive game, not even just 3s, but you always hear people talk about how he just runs at the basket. Whether that's true or not, that is the narrative
@@lucasmonteiro600 when I hear Giannis doesn't have a handle I LAUGH. He came in the league with 2 guard handles and they got TIGHTER lol. Watch actual clips of him playing
The category you were looking for with hustle is intangibles.
2:45 “hello there”
Hey guys, vsauce here
I read this in obi wan kenobis voice
This was a really refreshing addition on to the channel. Interesting in depth breakdown, different visual dynamic, I liked it. Definitely looking forward to more of these.
Hell yeah I was so excited for this all week
I didn’t know he had the ability to stand
I DIED when Oubre blew a kiss to him 😭😭😭
This was so great! This felt like I was listening to a philosophy course on basketball.
And your point is very valid. Giannis, while being severely underdeveloped in arguably the most important skill in basketball (shooting) is still very skilled. You could be even bigger stronger and faster than Giannis and you're not going to put up 30ppg in the NBA if you're not also skilled. Giannis just focused on developing his dribbling and ability to finish at the rim because that is what his physical gifts could leverage the most.
Believe it or not, but aside from fade aways, shooting benefits very little from height and raw athleticism. Like yeah being taller helps you shoot over guys like KD, but there's a reason why the best shooters at the Y are the old men with knee braces.
Giannis is skilled, he's just not a skilled shooter.
As an English NBA fan I really appreciate this channel! Great way to keep up to date with games I often can't watch
Y’all got playgrounds with courts over in Britain ? How do u know abt hoops ?
@@voiceofreason2674 yea we do, football (soccer) is way more popular but you see courts with hoops everywhere. Basketball is worldwide man. I got into it watching euroleague at first but the NBA is way more interesting
@@james18paice damn I bet they like the wizards over there cuz y’all think it’s Merlin
@@voiceofreason2674 no idea what Merlin is haha
@@james18paice the lil dude who hangs w King Arthur. Harry Potter then, my point is I bet the British hoopers love anything w wizards, but maybe I’m wrong
Man I love to see Rusty collabing with people Nick, man is a legend in the community.
Guys stop saying ai is 6'1. My dawg is 5'10 and not inch taller
He at least 6’0
@@jamaalyoung5971 CAP
yeah he’s like 5’10-5’11
“Now Karl Malone is behind me, I’d be worried about what he’s gonna do to me back there but luckily I am too old for him” 😂😂😂 I’m dead
“When you are the second slowest person on Earth second to me”😂😂😂
Lmao “I caught it.”💀
Yo. The dude he’s interviewing, the movie actually seems really interesting
I agree with the premise of this video but you’re 100% wrong about Ben Simmons.
They’re are absolutely better shooters in rec leagues than Ben Simmons.
alway loved your vids and thought they were pretty high quality so when you said you were gonna take a step back and make them better I was confused. then the 808 hit me. this was fye keep it up big man.
If u play pick at the Y or random gyms you'll catch a few guys who played overseas and they end up dominating. That always gave me perspective on how good guys who make an nba roster are
I played against Antonio Blakeney before lol. The dude completely toasted my homie who was like 6 foot. I’m 5’7 but a lot smarter and a better defender and while I did a much better job against him the dude was on another level. I never thought I would stop him and the fact I didn’t get obliterated like my boy surprised even me 😂 This was like a young Blakeney though like he hadn’t even transferred to a prep school he was still attending Cardinal Mooney. Every now and then you randomly come across a basketball Demi-god!
This style of video is sooo great!
Started with the Kobe tribute, now this. Keep it up!
YO THAT KARL MALONE JOKE WAS OUT OF POCKET LMAOOO
I think people forget that Giannis also grew a few inches after he entered the league so that effects things
First deep dives boys
I feel like shooting is a skill that ages well while your athleticism tapers off so its essential to have multiple facets to your skillset if you wanna last longer in the nba
the comparison in the beginning is kinda weird. Giannis is clearly much more athletic than Javale.
Cap. Young javale was a monster athlete.
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Harden's comment on Giannis holds true, in the playoffs when teams crowded the paint, Giannis had no other ways of scoring or helping his team, lacking the "skills" necessary to play at an MVP level
We don’t appreciate the Javale slander
Love the vid Rusty, here’s some tips to further improve the video.
-Headspace on your green screen scene
-J and L cuts for smoother pace
Nevertheless, keep ‘em comin’ 🔥🔥 this is the Rusty we needed.
Giannis is now being compared to javale.
How the mighty have fallen
More like how the new goat McGee has finally fulfilled his potential
you obviously didnt understand the point of the video. damn ppl really stupid
Yet he is 2 wins away from leading his team to the finals averaging 30ppg 13rpg
I'd love to fall that far
@@c.l.freeman7654 hes gonna win it all!!
This dude missed the entire point of the video
Hustle is a choice that you make. It’s not a skill necessary bc everyone could do it but only a few make the choice to out effort everyone
I'm so hyped for the first high quality video
Damn that was kinda cold. He has other high quality vids
@@jamesghaffari6045 yeah I didn't mean it like that I just meant that this is supposed to be the Extremely High quality vid
"Or you could something else entirely because no one has read a newspaper in an entire decade."
My Dad:
And I took that personally
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Rusty meant it when he said “Quality over quantity”💯
I like the interview part, adds like an investigative journalism feel to the vid
The start of a good series!!
Wait I thought Javale had a 35-38 inch vertical. WHEN DID HE HAVE A 43INCH VERTICAL. No hate actually I am happy since he’s my favorite player
He wasn’t lying when he said we was bringing that high quality
rusty man this video great. excited to see more deep dives
damn we getting these quality vids every week? sign me tf up
I got some stories about family members playing against pro athletes, my brother played against a NBA guy at the end of the bench at a local gym, he said it was like a 5 year old playing against a 15 year old. But I have some better examples my other Brother's Brother in law played against Marc Gasol in high school. My second Brother played soccer on a high level and played against one the best US soccer players of all time Clint Dempsey, that Brother was good enough to play in the MLS but he had some injuries that forced him to stop playing.
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That’s genius! Why didn’t I think of that?
What is skill to me
Skill is IQ
Leadership
Shot IQ (knowing when and where to shoot based on your ability)
Court vision
(Positioning) Knowing where to be on the court and when
On ball and off ball IQ (offense and defense)
Knowing how to use your physicality to create space and or block off routes
Ball handling and ball security
Pass vision and pass IQ
Dunking, layups, short ranging finishing
Post up IQ
And of course Jump shooting
Just because you don’t have one of them doesn’t make you unskilled. Basketball isn’t just black and white, there is a lot of nuance that makes you skilled
This is dope. I always thought about this
Also, defense requires skill. We’ve seen a lot of players who have the right physicals to be a great defender (Andrew Wiggins) who turned out to be horrible on that side of the ball. Giannis is dominant on that side of the ball, so he must have at least some skill.
Bro this is such a good video. Great start to the deep dive series
Rusty have been watching your for over a year and love the new directon
Keep up the good work
Love how rusty just playing his green screen
I will never understand, some are just vehement that slashing requires less skill than shooting. Being an elite slasher at the NBA level requires very good ball handling with both hands, and you have to be able to switch hands quickly and often every single game because the other team will quickly notice if you can't. You also have to be good at protecting the ball from multiple defenders trying to swipe it away, since you are actively seeking contact with them and are in more danger of turning it over. There is no way it's less skillful. Anyone who's actually tried it knows that trying to keep the dribble going through crowd after crowd of defenders without losing the ball even once, is extremely challenging and exhausting.
“Pretty clear grey area”. Oxymoron.
Awesome video but Javale Mcgee did a BEHIND THE BACK, BETWEEN THE LEGS, CROSSING 2 PLAYERS, and DUNKING ON SOMEONE, while Giannis just dribbled right and dunked around/ on someone, HONESTLY, Giannis's highlight wasn't ANYWHERE near Javale's highlight tbh
MENTALITY IS SKILL!!!! Just because you can train to improve your physical attributes and you mentality doesn’t mean mentality is an attribute or in a grey area because most nba players train to get better at their skills too like shooting, dribbling, and IQ, they had to train for that but mentality is the most important skill because imagine if say Kobe didn’t have the mamba mentality, would he have the rings and the awards, HELL NAH HE WOULDNT
This video was fire bro I love this new format
Giannis is skilled. Shaq is skilled, but they are skilled on the two dimensional plane of basketball. They’re basically skilled “for their size.” The fact of the matter is they’re the type of skilled where if they aren’t who they are they won’t be dominant. If you take 6 inches off of Michael jordan, Lebron james, or Kevin Durant, they’re so skilled that they could still be stars
Rusty looking like jokers lol bro 12:05 xD great vid btw
1:57 let’s be real most people in the nba can’t run down the middle of the court and score with nba level defenders swiping at the ball or blocking you off. There is a lot of skill in that. It’s called ball security and court vision. Those are skill most people don’t have
Skill is easy to define when looking at certain players. I make this point with Lebron regularly: If everyone in the NBA had the same physical build as LeBron james, Lebron james would be riding the bench. The dude is 36 and just now he has the basketball IQ Jordan and Kobe had in their mid 20s.
He’s had basketball iq way before 36
Ok so in my opinion mindset is not a skill a skill is something you develop and mindset is something that is shaped by your surroundings okay for ex. Javale both parents we’re good enough to play basketball at the highest level and he probably grew up needing very little in life. But Giannis grew up an immigrant in a foreign country and had to struggle to survive and I mean struggle so for him it’s all or nothing he’s seen struggle he’s been down bad and he not going back. That’s why In my opinion Giannis is better he is willing develop parts of his game that mcgee never needed but Giannis did.
Great first Deep Drive, the interview parts were great, I'd say to move the camera abit higher, look forward to the next one
Also Boban doesnt belong in that group. It's actually physical limitations, and the way modern basketball works, what makes hard for him to play big minutes.
I knew Javale had hops and could jump but 43 inch vert...?! Damn.
Feels like a mini documentary. Really nice quality.
The skill thing encompasses the entire NBA game. Ability to control tempo, read the passing lanes, passing the ball, post game, etc. There are so many things in a sport that encompasses skill that you can't say most players are unskilled in any NBA era.
giannis doesnt have alot of basketball skill honestly he has great basketbal size, the epitome of basketball skill with good basketball size is people like dirk and kd who despite being large enough to use their height to just slam the ball down they actually worked on their craft and techniques to score other ways which takes skill. giannis and ben simmons arent good shooters because they never learned much basketball besides using their size their advantage
Giannis moving his body the way he does is way more skilful than anything chubby McHarden is doing. very weak comment.
i mean tbh it doesnt even matter if you are skilled if you are giannis. i mean yes you could complain about giannis running and dunking, but at the end of the day it doesnt matter at all cuz the man's scoring and winning awards and championships. no one should be criticised for being able to run and dunk the ball without any struggle if theyre getting the points and wins.
I really love that arrogant comment on Harden. All he learned was foul baiting and one rule change turned him from a top5/top10 player to a low top 30 player.
The part of OKC where the Thunder play home games is called Bricktown. That's real. I used to live there.
hey theres something i believe is also very important in all sports and could be very applicable to javales and ginnais case. sorry for butchering all the words, but i think that natural aptitude should be considered. What i mean by this is things like coordination inteligence reaction not related to the sport but overall. When I first started playing I joined with a friend who was much more athletic than me and would destroy me every time but when we started training i started to create sort of 2k animations. What i want to say is that i started doing sharp fluid and fast dribble moves layups and everything, while my friend who was much more athletic and had a nack for sports wouldnt be able to have these "animations". When watching giannis and javale you see that javales moves are much more janky and its not due to a lack of training as all of the players have thousands of hours put into the game, its due to thins natural inclination to certain things. I havent explained my point in the best way but i think its something rarely talked about
Dom2k Mentioned this once in his video on how Hedo Turkoglu ended a this guy's whole existence at his local college basketball court back in the day. Many people don't actually deep how these guys really are like the best players on the PLANET.
great video rusty! keep up the content!!