The NBA Player Who Invented the Spin Move
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Meet the man who brought the spin move into the NBA and forever changed the game of basketball. He paved the way for today's great ball handlers like Steph Curry, Kyrie Irving, and Chris Paul. Introducing Earl the Pearl.
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The most underrated player EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Earl MONROE!
Help me understand how a No. 2 pick, a 4x all-star, a member of the NBA 50th Anniversary Team, a rookie of the year and a player who has his number retired by two teams is the most underrated player ever? He is considered an all-time NBA great.
@@Russ_Hoops i will help you. earl's name never comes up when people talk about great players. in fact, most people who watch basketball today, have probably never heard of him. player's legacies continue to evolve long after they retire. for example, when they were both playing, ray nitchske was the number 1 middle linebacker, dick butkus was number 2. most current fans have never heard of ray nitchske, but butkus is a household name. that is one of many reasons why players cant be compared, over generations. and i have to chuckle at people trying to talk about who was the best, when they never even saw the player play - LOL. if you did not grow up, watching the player, then you simply dont know. that is why i only talk about players that i grew up with. i would pick walt frazier as my number one guard. over robertson, west, earl the pearl, or anyone else. he was the best defensive guard out there, and was just as good on offense. it was wonderful seeing clyde and pearl on the same team, together !!
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CORRECT! Earl Monroe did it off the spin to shoot and SCORE. It’s VERY difficult to do that .
I spent my summers practicing the spin move in my backyard. I can still do it at 66 years old. Earl the Pearl was the best.
Not only did Earl distribute the spin move, but HE DID IT LEGALLY! No carrying of the basketball like today.
*_Earl the Pearl_* was our hero in the early 70s. Now we loved Pete Maravich and almost all of us wore the *_Pistol's_* floppy socks; but many teens all over Detroit were wearing number 10 - Earl Monroe. "Clyde" Frazier also wore #10 but *_The Pearl_* was the man.
Looking back I remember once we had an organized game in some type of tournament somewhere in Detroit. I had the ball and I came down Court a-spinnin'! 3 guys tried to take the ball from me and I spun away from all three of them, one at a time; had the crowd going wild! I could hear the other team yelling at the ref "he's carrying! "he's carrying!" Sure enough on on my last spin the ref called carrying on me. Ruined my second 15 minutes of fame! Haha.
I had one other moment when we played against a JV team from Kettering High. I went down the left side of the lane and faked a jump shot right in front of the center. He jumped to block it and I scooped it up under his arms and laid it in. I had never did that before or again after that. Yeah thats about as high as my skills ever rose, playing a junior varsity team. To this day I live on those 2 memories. At any rate that 3rd spin move still bothers me to this day. If I hadn't been called for carrying I might have went to the pros. Ok. Maybe not. LOL!
Great job. For me it was always about more than the basket. How you get there matters. Earl was one of the true gems.
Wilt Chamberlain was doing one legged fade away before Dirk was born. Norm van lier was doing crossover before Ai was born
The Pearl was cold...
I was a partial season ticket holder for the baltimore bullets back in 1969 - 1971. Earl was amazing. We had great seats and sometimes you couldn't believe what he did and it was so fast that you almost couldn't see it! I vividly recall one time when he almost magically managed to dribble through 3 defenders to the basket. He was amazing. And so was Gus Johnson!!!
Earl was poetry in motion!
His hang time was amazing suprised it's not mentioned more 🔥
Never thought of Pearl as having "hang time" as he did nothing above rim level but, to be fair, he would jump, shot fake, kick his legs up, and seem to be in the air long. If you blocked his access to the rim, he brought it down and banked it in.
Earl changed the game. Thanks for pointing that out.
Definitely the most "unique" player ever. The guy could barely jump over a piece of paper, yet with his "spin move" and "misdirection" could get his shot pretty much whenever he wanted it.
He had some classic head to head matchups with Walt Frazier before he ended up going to the Knicks. He gave Frazier absolute fits, Frazier really didn't know what to do with him, although that hardly made him unique. Pearl was a handful and then some.
That double pump was nasty !
I had a high school teacher in early 70's who attended Norfolk State back when the Pearl was playing and watched a game Norfolk State vs Winston-Salem State. He told me in the first half of one game Monroe could not miss he said he hit EVERYTHING! and scored 40 in the first half then twisted an ankle early on second half. 40 in a half in college is stupid !
In New York (and Philadelphia) in the end of the '60s thru the early '70s, you HAD to do the spin move if you were planning to go one-on-one and make your rep. But Earl had the ball on a yo-yo string. A rubber band. It just stayed in fluid motion.
The words of Magic Johnson, "On the playground, Everybody wanted to do the Earl The Pearl Spin"
Videos- Lou Hudson - smooth jump shot, Pete Maravich, Rick Barry, Early Wes Unsel - An early edition of Charles Barkley, Tiny Archibald
Outstanding content.
I remember a game he played against the Bullets about a month or so after he was traded to Knicks its a 2 on one with Monroe with ball and Frazier Phil Chenier was defending Monroe. The pearl goes around the back through his legs perfect bounce pass to Frazier for the layup. Phil Chenier picked up his jock and then put his socks back on and continued with the game. Phil Chenier was a very good NBA guard. the Pearl was one of a kind
I tried to model my game in HS and college after Earl Monroe's Spin Move and Pete Maravich passing and driving and shooting, spent 6 hours a day in Summer and Fall working on them.
So did I! I also idolized Gus Johnson, but I was not able to practice windmill dunks or shattering backboards!
Great job! He was jazz in motion. Thanks for posting
Great video. Elgin Baylor also had a spin move in his arsenal before Earl Monroe. Though it was the Pearl's primary weapon in comparison to Baylor who had many moves.
I loved Elgin Baylor but a turnaround jump shot is not a spin move. Search his highlights and you will not find any. Earl was the first to weaponize that move.
@@jerryde2861my Pa-in-law, Bud(RIP) watched Elgin at Seattle University and told me that Baylor used a spin move and it was the first time he had ever seen the like used as a intentional move. Huge fan of both, just putting that out there.
My all time favorite basketball player alone with the Big O.
Earl the Pearl was awesome. I wanted to be like Earl the Pearl on the court growing up.The Dr. J came along!🤣
Great video Man :D
Awesome stuff! Do the 🐐 Allen Iverson next
Earl!
The Monroe pivot!
Of course, of course, of course I love Earl the Pearl, us kids on the play ground in the 70s tried our best to emulate Earl, Pistol, Tiny and all the fancy Dan cats of our era because they were a rare breed back then . I wasn't a Dr. Jay guy because I couldn't jump like that. But I could do some of the things those guys that I mentioned could do because it didn't involve jumping. It was more a skill set of dribbling and passing. And they had that rough drive to the basket at any cost school yard game that we played back then. But one thing I think was a little inaccurate regarding this video was saying that Earl the Pearl was the one that basically originated the spin move which is not true. The Pearl revolutionized the spin move, the Pearl modernized the spin move and made it his own. The Pearl had the coolest smoothies spin move that I've ever seen. But he wasn't the first one that I ever saw use it as a "weapon" to maneuver around defenders. The first one that I ever saw use the spin move in that context was none other than Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics from the 1950s. And later on I witnessed Jerry West of the Los Angeles Lakers use a version of it to get around defenders. But no one bar none ever had more variations or did it as smooth as the Pearl,, no one!!!!!
The Philadelphia basketball pundits tell me that Guy Rogers invented the spin move. The spin move became Earl's go to move. The rest is history obviously.
I was just thinking about a game that I saw on tv between the Knicks and the Bullets before The Pearl was traded to New York. I never will forget it. The reason being was at one point when Clyde was checking The Pearl he fouled him. Frazier never really showed much emotions on any call when he played one way or the other.
However, it was apparent that Frazier disagreed with the foul because after being either knocked down in the lane or falling down in it he just sat there. The referee waited for him to move but he didn't. So he gave the ball to Pearl for the FT and he still didn't move. I don't remember how many extra shots Monroe got at the line, probably one or two more, before Clyde finally got up. I don't remember ever seeing that happening on any level again since then.
I remember that bro
@@mattveteska8559 Cool! It's a small world for such a big earth.
The PEARL WAS THE MAN ,TOP 50 PLAYER .
The Pearl!!!!
I knew it!!! It's Him!!! The original "Blk Jesus"
The pearls washing machine!!
how about Connie Hawkins and John Brisker?
In his present day looks like he came from the future the way he moves
Earl the Pearl
Earl the pearl.
JESUS!
Earl Monroe
Black Jesus!
Earl monroe
It’s called Pearling!!!!
Kyrie is the closest to the Pearl than anything out there without the spin
Bullets/Wizards retired his #10 as well
A white boy played in the late 60s we learned that spin move from Earl The Pearl and don't get it twisted these young guys didn't come out with the crossover we did add a New York is a guy named pee wee Kirkland an Archie Clark and I invented my own crossover I play with buffalo in the 70s we did everything in these young guys are reaping the benefits but that's the way it's supposed to be!!!
Just like everybody said Michael Jordan and Kobe should get the logo I said Earl Monroe should get it because everybody does the spin move without that there's not much of a game can you light my man I said that 13 years ago and I said it when Kobe passed away everybody does the spin move!!!
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I THOUGHT THIS VIDEO WAS GOING TO TELL ME SOMETHING I DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW, EVERY BLACK REAL FAN OVER 50 YRS OLD, ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT EARL THE PEARL
Wasn't he also known as Earl the Twirl?
Black Jesus, The Saviour, Magic, The Pearl.
That dirk move is Reggie move lol
It's called a "Reverse Dribble"
I was trying to tell these knuckleheads that Monroe was more dominant than pistol pete but they think I am nuts. Monroe was a superior player in every way and he kept improving. Maravich plateaued and was a ball hog.
The crossover is Isaiahs bro
What about Tim Hardaway.
@@russelturner5771 Isaiah Thomas did it first
@@codybirchfieeld1447 Not only did Hardaway cross Isaiah & left him standing like he was stuck in mud but he also use the term crossover before anyone else.
Archie Clark invented the cross over/ shake and bake.
Invented the spin move? You are stretching it just to have a likes.
To say that an nba player invented a movement seems like a fallacy to me, by the time he invented that there were already thousands of good players all over the world.
the title is very yellowish and pretentious
Earl the pearl is actually my great aunt
Earl Monroe
Guy Rogers invented the spin move. The spin move became Earl's go to move. The rest is history.