good lookin’ for the links, will get the aba one up next week!
]]>Here’s a clip of Headache in the ABA recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k4kOrE2Mpk&feature=related
Also, here’s a mix of Headache killin cats elsewhere:
]]>did anyone see derrick rose make andre miller trip over his own feet last night? the illest cross in the last few years. and it was so basic. just a quick move the right then to the left.
matter of fact here it is…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAA8mLz8aJ0
]]>when he does that chest roll, it reminds me of the first time him and i ever played against each other in the mid-’90s, way before the and 1 tour and dvd. his team was blowing mine out in the ray diaz tournament on 101st St. and Amsterdam, and he did that move on me. it became so embarrassing that the refs called the game! there was still two or three minutes left. funny thing is that years later, i heard him give me a credit in an interview as being someone he watched when he was younger and got inspiration from. that reallly bugged me out and i don’t even know if i deserved that, but nonetheless shows you the level of class he has that he’s not often credited for having.
as for the i’ll be right back move, definite shout out to little irv. when and 1 shot the game in linden, new jersey, for what would become the AND 1 mixtape vol. II, i remember distinctly being invited to dj and suit up to play if i so choosed. i was considering it since i knew pretty much all the players and had their respect, but when i saw ‘i’ll be right back’ do that inside hand change behind his back . . . whaaaat?!!! people have gone nutty with freestyle in the last couple of years, but you have to remember the time frame and what that move represented. it was unseen and unheard of. i had seen Future’s homeboy trying it unsuccessfully in a celebrity game we had played in at canarsie hs, but when i saw irv pull that out, i felt unworthy to run. i didn’t have anything in my repertoire at that point as fresh as that, and i considered myself flashy for that era. i regretted for years not playing, who knows what would’ve become of my career had i caught a highlight or two that early in the game . . . they put a clip of me doing a pass on vol. 7, then i played in the first mixtape tour visit to puerto rico in 2006, but by then it was different. still satisfying, but different. headache, shane, i’ll be right back, skip, alimoe, etc. — they all changed the way the world looked at dribbling. massive props to all they did, and still do.
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