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GOAT Body Control in Sports. Period
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Captain Crunch
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Stop posting football players in here, everyone knows soccer and basketball require the most athleticism. Barry Sanders can't hold a candle to Rose or Kobe's body control.
Ocho back in the day was a magician with the body control. Dude made insane movements to get his feet down sometimes.
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DetroitEWarren
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Forget the accolades, the championships, the marketing, the shoes etc. Michael Jordan's body control was otherworldly. The things this guy did on the court is just. Just the way this dude played the game is crazy. The style, the grace, the double clutching
. Is it that no one can physically play like this or what?
You can straight up watch that shyt and just see that not many players have done things like that. The next 2 BEST EVER are in the game right now and are both from Chicago, Wade and Rose both have numerous layups that are so similar (I aint seen the no look flick from Rose though, Wade has a bunch of those). Them Chicago nikkas man
, I fukkin love watching Chi Town guards who got to study the God.
superunknown23
Superstar
Shaq was just a freak of nature, a glitch in the matrix.nikka please. U prolly think Shaq didn't have great body control because like mawse the were physically superior to their competion.
like it's a negative that they made it look so easy
A guy that huge shouldn't move the way he did
iceberg_is_on_fire
Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
A running back is a person that requires at least good body control, you are given a ball with 11 people trying to tackle you. Due to the level of physical nature of football, especially during Barry's era, neck down were fair game, with physically imposing people trying to piledrive you. To literally be THISCLOSE to a person and they not lay a hand on you is a majestic sight; to contort yourself in a way to not get hit or to absorb a hit, sometimes from the blindside, yet still remain upright? While you still have different people pulling you from different directions. That is the essence of this thread, body control. Barry is the GOAT of this. Derrick Rose, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and others have done some awesome things in the air. Not talking down on them, but a football player has to win this because they have the threat of people coming at them from 360 degrees while in basketball, your defender is typically in front of you. A 10 yard run from Barry might not look as sexy as a reverse layup from MJ but I'm sure the degree of difficulty is at least comparable or harder for the football player because while the basketball player is trying to score, the defender using isn't trying to hit the attacker so both are avoiding contact. It's not that way in football as the RB is trying not to get hit while the defense is trying to knock his head off.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
You must be mad to think Randy Moss or Lynn Swann didn't have sick body control along the lines of MJ other athletes that you have to move this to a "more athleticism" argument.
Lynn could contort his body better than MJ.
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DoubleClutch
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Monta Ellis, Nick Young and Paul George have great body control, just to name a few current nba players
OC's finest
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Gonna have to go wid sanders.
His combination of agility, speed, strength, and vision will be unrivaled ever. I'm positive he's the Greatest ill Ever see in my lifetime.
I miss watching his shimmys and jukes
His combination of agility, speed, strength, and vision will be unrivaled ever. I'm positive he's the Greatest ill Ever see in my lifetime.
I miss watching his shimmys and jukes
