The Story of the Shammgod
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2012
- God Shammgod, a college basketball player for Providence and briefly with the Wizards in the NBA, is well known for his unique dribble move. The move is known as "The Shammgod" in the US.
However, the move has been dated all the way back to 1980 by Danko "El Killer del Perimetro" Cvjeticanin. A former player from Croatia. Yugoslavian forward Dejan Bodiroga is credited with popularizing the move. Bodiroga's version is called "El Latigo", which is Spanish for "The Whip".
The video tells the story of the Shammgod and features the following players:
Dejan Bodiroga, God Shammgod, Manu Ginobili, Danilo Gallinari, Chris Paul, Tyreke Evans, Brandon Jennings, Uncle Drew/Kyrie Irving, and Aquille Carr. 
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I definitely see a lot of Luka's handles in Bodrioga and Shammgod (works w/Luka). Glad I watched this vid to get a backround of Sham and learn about Bodrioga
A common quip about basketball in former Yugoslavia was: "The Americans invented it, the Yugoslavs perfected it." There were 3 major schools of basketball - American, which was based on athleticism, Soviet, which relied on a dominant center and a Yugoslav, which put improvisation at the forefront, the so-called organized chaos. It's no coincidence that most basketball players from the former Yugoslavia (Dončić, Jokić, both Bogdanović, Šarić, Nurkić, etc...) are very good at two things - they know how to shoot and pass the ball
What's cool about Ginobli is that he is a lefty but initiates the move with his right hand like a right handed player. That means that the ball whips back into his dominant hand. It seems that most other players start the move with the dominant hand putting the ball to their weak side hand.
It's actually easier to do it that way. (At least I've found it to be) The initiation dribble is easy, you're mostly just throwing it out in front of you. The reach into the shammgod takes the extra coordination so it's easier to do that part with your dominant hand.
I remember when I was playing 15 and under AAU against CP3. He asked his coach out loud while he was bringing the ball up the court if he could sham our point guard. He did it, brought it back and crossed my man again and he fell down in slow motion. Chris made an and 1 jumper, and got a tech for laughing at my point. Classic
What a great memory to have. Dominant players are so fun to watch young. In highschool we had a wrestler that went his whole career without losing a high school match it was insane.
@@Bigmonto angel cejudo?
Shammgod has been doing that move since in HS from 91-95. I went to Grady , he played for La Salle. Two names was the talk my freshman year , his and Marbury. In my junior year I learned about AI at Georgetown. Those was the years.
Yeah, right ruclips.net/video/v6fARNx8yTk/видео.html
Way before Danko Cvjeticanin there was another player that used (you can say invented) the whip move and thats Serbian/Yugoslavian, and one of best ever players from Europe - Dragan Kicanovic... That was way back in the 70`s and early 80`s. Bodiroga, however, did it best and with more style and grace... And also there is slight difference between Lasso and Shammgod, very similar moves but the secret is in the leg work and point of direction... Both are killer moves tho ;)
Yes
Bodiroga was unstopable with this move, but on much higher level than a college basketball. This move made his teams a champions many many times. He sold this move over and over again in 15 years on a pro level. Jedi Master of basketball for many many others, not just those named on this video clip (with all due respect to Uncle Drew, a great player). Just those few moves against USA shows how he used to finish things against NBA quality.
Let's be pretty clear here. He went by the second worst defender on a really bad national team and Richard Jefferson. The worst defender on that team was Stephon Marbury, but teen melo was a damn close second.
Bodiroga learned this move from watching a older Serbian player Dragan Kicanovic doing it in the 1970's.
Yeah its trur
True*
And Kicanovic learned of it as a young boy when he and his father took a pilgrimage to Hong Kong. There, in a run-down antique shop, he met an ancient Chinese man who passed on to him the way of the shamgod. And indeed one day Manu Ginobili will be that old man, entrusting the secret footwork to one he deems worthy. If not, it will be lost to the mists of time.
@@michaelwayneterry Show me a Shamgod before this ruclips.net/video/v6fARNx8yTk/видео.html noob.
@@vucemlevu T/he first time the ancient shamgod was captured on film
Such a deadly move.
lol it’s gohan
GOHAN!?
If u know how to use it, yes
The last Account I expected to see here
Mr.Bodiroga for all of them!
he should've played in the league, i wish he did
Juice_803 respect.
I used to do a move like this 20 something years ago in school. Never knew it had a name, always thought of it as a 1 handed crossover. Broke my left arm playing ball in middle school so I tried to learn all the moves 1 handed, this was the closest I could get to a crossover with my arm in a cast. These boys do it way cleaner then I could though.
Russell Westbrook just did this, shit was nasty🔥
Dávid Nagy Bro I just came here to say the same thing haha. If anyone is interested go on XimoPierto's channel and watch the OKCvSuns highlights.
+Brian Byrnes same I just searched this vid cos of what Russell just did lol
Yeah that's why I searched Shammgod cause Russell pulled off a nasty one!!!
Dávid Nagy gfbx
Yeah, he was watching Dejan and learning.
It's pretty much like a reverse crossover. So you're bringing it back the opposite way that you would a normal crossover.
I see this video borrowed clips of Bodiroga from my video about him, and I am glad it did lol... anyway... When it comes about this MOVE Bodiroga was really and truly the best, but the move itself was invented by Dragan Kicanovic back in 70's and than used by Danko Cvijeticanin in 80's, and trust me... He used it very very very well... I have tons of clips of Danko Cvijeticanin I just never made a video about him lol... he played alongside great Drazen Petrovic back in 80's in Cibona (before Drazen went to Real Madrid and NBA), and Danko never managed to be a star alongside Drazen ofcourse... but Danko was really really great with this move, he would USE IT 10 to 15 times in one game... and it would always work... I am not sure, but I think Bodiroga got from him this move, ofcourse... because Bodiroga was a generation after Cvijeticanin (Bodiroga was 90's star), they even played in the same time, when Bodiroga was in early days of his career... anyway... It's a great move, and it looks easy... but It's not... :) Anyway people, if you wanna check up my video of Bodiroga, the newest, just type: dejan bodiroga :) My channel dedicated to NBA & Basketball in general is CroPETROforeverNBA, this one is more about History etc... lol
shammgod was better at it. bodiroga can only do it one way, shammgod can do it in multiple variations. you euros crack me up tho, always pretending like your players can compete with ours lol.
msherwood69 pay respect son. This story is about the genesis and evolution of the move.
what, i recognize that god shammgod wasn't the first to do it, but anyone who says he isn't the best is lying to themselves.
msherwood69 I agree with you on that.
dewy13newgen It is disrespectful, but realistically the NBA is the best basketball league in the world. The USA is not the best at everything, but there are more good players in the NBA than anywhere else, at least in this period of time. Fairly or unfairly, the feeling is that unless the player comes to the NBA, (which pays better than Europe), he has no chance to be considered among the best in the sport.
Let me give an example. There was an American player who never made an NBA club but had a fine career in Europe. During the last few years he would try out for an NBA team,and hope to be cut early. Why? Because European teams like players who could make an NBA club, it gives them added value. The guy just tried out with various NBA clubs so he could say that he just got cut to the Europeans, who will snap him up because he showed he was good enough to stick with an NBA team for awhile. He figured he wasn't good enough to make an NBA team for long, so if the NBA club waited too long to cut him, all the places on the European teams will be filled.
What a great video! Thank you!
Bodiroga does it the best he does it so smoothly and it's like he glides across the court.
Without a doubt the nastiest move in basketball.
But I bet you couldn't defend against it...
shel2185 that move is only done against scrubs who barely play basketball. Against a serious world class expert level noob killer defender like myself no one would even think of pullin that shit off
Malonge Shlong lol. No one who's any good at basketball would run their mouth like you. You're a definite troll.
Malonge Shlong You're definitely a troll.
Superboy Prime and you're a fuck boy
The first men who did this move was not Cvjeticanin it was Kicanovic in 70's :P
Great documentary!👏🏽👍🏽
Awesome mix! love the shammgod/snatchback/european cross etc.
Great video!
Ginobili did not pick it up from Bodiroga in 2002. He picked it sometime in early 2000 while playing in Italy (Calbria or Bologna). It was a well known move in Europe by those days. I agree that Bodiroga popularized first in Europe.
True, he didn´t pick it up from Bodiroga as Bodiroga himself arrived at the move secondhand though Cvjeticanin (another great YUGO player), who had adopted it by watching yet another great YUGO player Kicanovic back in the 1970s. A propos Ginobili -. a truly masterful player, but had it not been for his premature and tragic death at only 28, Drazen Petrovic (again YUGO player) would´ve been the best non-American guard in the history of basketball and possibly one of the best guards anywhere anytime.
@@HybridCultures A common quip about basketball in former Yugoslavia was: "The Americans invented it, the Yugoslavs perfected it." There were 3 major schools of basketball - American, which was based on athleticism, Soviet, which relied on a dominant center and a Yugoslav, which put improvisation at the forefront, the so-called organized chaos. Dončić, Jokić, Dragić, Vučević, both Bojan and Bogdan Bogdanović, Šarić, Nurkić, Mirotić, etc... are all product of the Yugoslav basketball school. Dražen Petrović, Vlade Divac and Toni Kukoč paved the way for European players in the NBA. It's a shame that Toni Kukoč is still not in the Hall of Fame, but after watching "The Last Dance", it is a little clearer to me why he hasn't been admitted yet. Although Pippen and Jordan say today that he was a great teammate, you can see how vain they were. They couldn't say anything to their General Manager, so they decided to harass the kid at the '92 Olympic Games. Unfortunately, at that time, Yugoslavia had already fallen apart (and Yugoslavia was the biggest reason why the Dream Team was composed), and I am convinced that the Yugoslav team could seriously harm them. It's the biggest match that has never been played.
@@markomarkovic5729 Sve ok, samo ne znam zasto to meni pises kad je meni sve jasno. :) Pozdrav.
@@HybridCultures Pretpostavio sam da si sa ovih naših prostora, ali u principu sam se nadovezao na tvoj odgovor i više je bilo upućeno čoveku koji je napisao komentar iznad tvog. Mada sad vidim da je on to pisao još pre 5 godina😀 A mnogo me nervira to što Ameri ne žele da prihvate da tu fintu nije izumeo nikakav Shammgod i toliko su prepotentni da ne mogu da prihvate da još neko osim njih zna da igra basket. Ako ništa drugo, bar su se Luka, Jokić i Porzingis posrali u usta onom idiotu Stephen A. Smith-u
Nice, well researched.
Amazing video
nice video.. enjoyed this.!!
Sex, Drugs, Bodiroga.
Great video
nice video dude!!
great video
Great move. My favorite behind the shake and bake.
Uses the best dribble move, put's the defender on skates, misses the layup.
Word mans hot garbage
Such good ball control. Its got hardly anything to do with speed or dribbling. He has complete control of the ball and can get it to go wherever he needs it.
Nice video. Thank you.
Thanks for video and research ... didn't know there was an European player practicing the same move around the same time Shammgod was ... very cool
Best believe I'm in the gym tom morning practicing this!! This is NNAAASSSTTTYYY!!
top notch video
Ginobili was a monster back in the day
Shammgod didn't invent that move, European Boridiga did. Shammgod just made it popular in America
difference between the whip and Shammgod, very similar moves but the secret is in the leg work , point of direction, speed, as well as explosiveness in the handling also the "pullback" is more of an in & out but both effective moves
Nice vid!
A lot of people do the move but the name is The Shammgod because he undeniably does it the best
No not a fact..
I think the coolest thing about this whole story is the innovation. We talk now like "oh he stole that..." because we're used to a world where you can get on youtube or social media and see all of this stuff. I can't speak for european countries, but in the U.S., **nobody** was seeing these clips. This move came about not because of one person, but because of a group of people who were truly creative and had an innate ability to freestyle with the ball in their hands. Kept the ball on a string. One of the best things in basketball is watching a guy who has unbelievable handles and ball control. These guys are all top notch.
the move came about from Shammgod here in the states point, blank period. Even this video didn't have footage of someone before shammgod doing the move. The eurostep was done by Elgin baylor first but i digress.
Amazing move always created by a legend basketball player !Appreciate it,"dont reach youngbloods"
eastern europeans can ball
Guys from ex-Yugoslavia, to be exact. Dončić, Jokić, Šarić, Mirotić, Dragić, Bogdanović (both Bogdan & Bojan), Vučević, Bjelica, Teodosić... all of them are product of the Yugoslavian school of basketball
that ussr influence
@@markomarkovic5729 fam you forgot Nurkić
@@haara1238 Nurkić, Teletović, and many others😀
@@Kensei872 Nope. A common quip about basketball in former Yugoslavia was: "The Americans invented it, the Yugoslavs perfected it." There were 3 major schools of basketball - American, which was based on athleticism, Soviet, which relied on a dominant center and a Yugoslav, which put improvisation at the forefront, the so-called organized chaos. It's no coincidence that most basketball players from the former Yugoslavia are very good at two things - they know how to shoot and pass the ball
Love this
Do it in game is an all other story ... No one will come close to Bodiroga. Gino is the closest but still not close ... :D
This vid needs 2,000,000 views. Dope
beautiful move.
0:55 op,op pa kaze desi poso :D
Thnx! now I know how to do this move!
I'm sorry, but I think Mark Price did this all the time when splitting the defense on the pick and roll. His famous "change of direction". Very similar to Manu's move. Anyways, the croatian player, Bodiroga's move is amazing, in one on ones he always tricks the defender. Sick.
+tonysly41 Bodiroga is Serbian, the guy mentioned before him is Croatian.
+Dusan Dragojlovic It seems I got it twisted, thanks for pointing that out.
Fun fact: Bodiroga was the second cousin of the late Drazen Petrovic. Drazen's mother is Croat, while his father is Serb, but he declared himself as a Croat. Bodiroga is Serb, but that was already mentioned.
We did this move growing up as well this move works well as displayed in the videos
All you youngbloods just now discovering this move cause Westbrook did it
TheRandomGamerDude no wtf
TheRandomGamerDude we got a badass over here
Viewing Now lol
Called it the body snatcher in 99.
tmac used it a lot
That move is so brutal. It creates SO much space. It's crazy.
This story is not true. This move was invented by the Serbian (Yugoslavian at that time) player Dragan Kicanovic during the '70's. Kicanovic is one of the greatest European basketball players of all time, and his natural successor was Drazen Petrovic. Danko Cvjeticanin copied this move during the '80's, while Bodiroga brought it to the perfection.
he said that in the description sir. check the description before commenting next time
DMVBaller362 Of course that I have red the description, and I'm saying that it is not truth. I'm from Serbia, former Yugoslavia, and I'm very well informed about our basketball heritage. Once again, Danko Cvjeticanin DID NOT INVENTED that move, it was Dragan Kicanovic during the '70's. Cvjetican saw that from him and used that move often, while Dejan Bodiroga brought it to the perfection, as I said before. So, I don't know what is your problem about my comment? Author of this video is clearly not from this area (where "whip" was invented) and he doesn't know the true and whole story about this move, so I wrote a comment in order to correct that mistake.
+Marko Marković Easy there Polack
+Marko Marković easy there commie
I never seen Petrovic use that move. he still remains one of the greatest two guards ever
nice vid. I might try to add "the whip" to my arsenal
The Pitter Patter shuffle gave the whole shit away when Shammgod Did it....
Related to Melo and Bodiroga... Yes it was Melo with the US in friendly game in Belgrade against Serbia. It was a traditional Belgrade tournament the Diamond ball.
Great piece. Of course you're gonna have to add Westbrook's one now!
Euro dude was crazyy but Sham put the sauce on it
Bodiroga was unstoppable with this move!
Ive been using this "El Latigo" Move From the start of My Basketball Middle school CAREER...It is One of the deadly moves so far BASKETBALL
this is very interesting stuff...i'd say shammgod's move was an american variation, americans usually throw the ball out farther and exaggerate the running after of it before pulling it back...bodiroga seems to make it a more staccato move and also opens his hips both ways to really sell it whereas the american one seems more north/south. the one ginobili did is more the european shammgod :-p
For those who asking, song is: Ghostface Killah - New God Flow (feat. Pusha T and Kanye West)
Watched this a couple years ago because they talked about it on open court. Came back because of Westbrook and just wanted to appreciate how well shammgod did the move
When I was playing basketball, I tried to perform this dribble that we called Bodiroga move , but it never looked as fluid and graceful as our God Bodiroga did. Ask "Dream Team 2002" how does it feel's to lose in a midle of States from this guy,who by the way, never want to play in NBA and he was Euroleague MVP many times 😁🤔😏💪🏀🏅🏆🏀
I'm just starting to do that move as long as I been playing basketball and I gotten better in my game because of the shammgod
Damn Dejan is like Manu Ginobili on steroids. Definitely up there with Nikos Galis as one of the best to never play in the NBA
He was much better player than Stojakovic, who had very good NBA career. He looks clumsy, but he had an amazing technique and basketball IQ. All-Round player like Toni Kukoc, I think that they are on the same level.
@@markomarkovic5729 that's crazy ~ Stojakovic was great.
Oh well, living in Europe makes a lot of sense if you are European.
His gain, NBA fan's loss!
brat moji, Dejan
instant sub
Yooooo did yall see that "whip" wtf!¡! That move is special!!!
my go to move
I never knew it to be named after shamgod...When I was coming up it was called the snatch & roll or roll & snatch... & I remember god from when I was younger bc of his handle. It was always a playground move u never saw in real games which is really had people going crazy back then. But if u notice...Sham did absolutely nothing w/ the move in the footage. The big white boy was killin w/ the move. Ginobli too...
people have been doing this for a long time, when i was young in the 90s we called the move the "easy glide" in my neighborhood in South Philly
First time the " shammgod " was seen was in He Got Game .. Ray Allen did it in Coney Island Projects court ... That was EPIC ...
that was a 19 year old carmelo in his first USA basketball appearance and a Veteran who was drafted 8 years before carmelo was even a Syracuse Orange
I am Panathinaikos fan and Bodiroga was player of our team ,when we watched this move first time,only by him in every game...fantastic player.that time the best player in the world,except Michael Jordan.
I admire anyone who can dribble between their legs with so much confidence. My hand eye coordination would never allow me to do that. 😂
A few years back some dude in our league put that move on me, left me breakdancing, needless to say it was a couple of nights after I first watched this video.
I am sooo subing you
Who's coming here after Russell Westbrook did this??
Frank Lotion me lmao
Frank Lotion me
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Frank Lotion me😂😂😂
Frank Lotion me nigga
Man thats an impressive move
the filthiest crossover ever. going to the Lab on this one
Good shit
This move was on the Streets of NY long before it made it to the NBA or even college. Steve Francis used to do it on the Rockets. Tracy Mcgrady on the Magic, and And 1 guys have been doing it forever.
Manu cold with that euro step also.
Anyone knows the beat(with trumpet) that plays in the background from 1:52
Whats the instrumental in the beginning of the video?
New God Flow [feat. Kanye West & Pusha T] by G.O.O.D. Music
I saw a young Ginobli do it on MVP Steve Nash. Then followed it up with a slam! It was one of them Friday night late joints on ESPN. I was kickin' it at a sista friend's house, and we was like, "Daaaaaaaaamn!"
Just saw Westbrook's version earlier
Westbrooks move was the sickest one I've seen in a long time
I remember i watched this move when sebastian telfair pulled it off in his through the fire documentary
i do this crossover to mu friends when i play basketball and they always fall for it the sickest move ever made
cool! another move i'll never do!
Only Bodiroga used to do it naturaly.
What does that mean?
This is the sexiest move in basketball imo... i remember i saw the chris paul crossover and the uncle drew video years ago
Sebastian Segovia no. no look behind the back alley OOP is. Jay will
That first guy had some tough footwork
Shammgod does the same exact move, except he adds footwork into it. Its just a variation, that doesn't make it a completely new move.
How do you do this on nba 2k17?
God Shammgod may be the most badass name of all-time.
hell no, the move started in the streets of Harlem, Sham perfected it and made it famous